The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-14
By GEO. N. FALCONER.

the grand cure foA poverty was for
the robbers to quit robbing the pro-
ducer. Soap boxefs have grown
hoarse bawling oJt this big idea.
But the idea wa} so big that a
majority up to NdV. 5, 1920 in the
United States werd not able to see
it. 1t is SO simplet that only few
have. been able to understand it. It |
is so true that but a few believe
it. The solution Of Ithe poverty prob.
lem was solved by the Bolsheviks
who said: Here, YOU big thieves, you
have got to quit robbing the work.
ers. From now on you have got to
work or starve. Beginning to-day
Nov. 7, 1917 youl respectable rob-
bers, parasites all, have your choice;
work, go to prison, or be shot.
Which? This to By sure was not
nice thing, but it WAS sure thing,
and the BolsheviAs prefer a sure
thing to nice thing. Don't you?
You ought to.
"Without training or experience,
amid war, civil war, and blockade,
sometimes half STARVED, often with
out cotton for long months, Crap
pling with every imaginable difficult
| ty, material and moral, this COM
munity had striven, as it's own mas
ter, to lay the foundations of a
human and autonomous life" How
nobler it is to be a live rebel than a
| dead hero.
In the last two years the eco
nomic life of Vladimir has not only
been reconstructed; the workers have
installed electric lights in the bar
rack dwellings,, have introduced a
drainage system, created creches and
kindergartens- simple indeed, but
clean and kindly-under qualified
nurses and teachers for all the
!, younger children. What do you think
of this, you American villagers-ye
Gomperites and Spargoites? You
who glory in and pride yourselves
on your blessed democracy. Schools
for old and young have been estab'
lished: theatre, "novie" and fine
library of 900 volumes were crea
tions that surprised and pleased oui
traveller. In u word Vladimir with
|, its working popuiton have literal
! ly been "born again" and by thu
way, not from any aid of the Hol!
Ghost, but through the joint part
+, nership Of head and hand, backed b!
force, physical and spiritual of Rus
sia's workers. Everywhere Brailsfor'
went he was confronted with th'
. twill to create"
I The social will of thousands wit
before the revolution had been tn
passive and submissive tools of tn
, boss, the owner of the factory-wa
!, and is to-day stirring Throughout
, every nook and corner of the Re-
. Empire. True history, romance AM
epich poetry are being lived in SO
Wet Russia these glorious days o
unemployment, starvation, hopeless
: ness and death in so-called demo
a cratic England and America.
r Out of the night the day appears
n in Red Russia.
S In this factory in the forest nea
: Vladimir, the battling problem o
revolutionary Russia is alread
n started. Started, not finished,
r you please. Russia has hardly ye
s begun Communist economy. She ha
0 only struggled to survive amid wal
4 civil war and blockade. One thin
= she has done tglory be)--she ha
!, broken the power Of autocrati
s wealth to order the lives Of men.
= Let's have more Of it.
II Right here / find only the firs
4 chapter has been reviewed and ther
e are nine more, as follows: "Clot
a From Corn" "a Provincial Admin:
IS tration"; Education and Art; 18th
e Communist Party; "At the Front
d THE Armed Doctrine; "The Tw
: Revolutions; "The Creative Will
n | should like very much to say som'
= thing about chapters vi and--"Tf
Y. Communist Party" and "The Cre'
= tive Will', but the editor Of "Tl
a Toiler", says, says he to me;
Is you've any thing on your mind ser
Y, 1t in. Especially If it's short. Gs
/ help US, everybody wants It short.
d. As the Dictatorship Of the edit
Il is equal to the Dictatorship Of Il
A. Proletariat", and as discipline is n
ID cessary to all good Bolsheviks,
T. stop right here. Get the book, ho,
'yl ever, II you have to steal It. tt
1t Toiler sells Il.
$ best sons into death-deallng fire