The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-25

know what Il win mean for you, fellow
railrad workers Do you know what il
will mean for the eoapon.cutters who
exploit youi
For them, insared-sbsolutely insured
profits The government buys their
watered stock, and pays for all the
water. Fine.
! Then the government has to borrow
money to pay for the stock. 1t issues
bonds. Who buys the bonds. Why the
fellows who sell the railroads, and with
the same money. Aagin fine. And the
profits on the railroads 60 to the same
fellows, now government bondhlders,
ONLY THAT NOW THEY ARE GUAR
ANTEED, and if the roads run at a
deficit, the interest Of the bonds is
made up by taxation. Again fine.
And your strikes9 They don't have
to make the pretense of passing anti
strike laws under government capital
ism. They don't have to go to the ex-
pense of getting out injunctions. They
don t have to prate in their papers
about the public (Which is their pro-
fits) being made to suffer. You II be
working for that mythical scarecrow
which is neither fish nor flesh, neither
workers nor those who live on the
workers, you'll be working for that
marvellous fiction, "The Public"
Take it from one who has been there,
brother, when they try to talk estate
Socialism" to you, tell them they re
talking State Capitalism, State Guar
anteed Profits, the open use of the army
without any pretense of preventing
violence" tell them THEY ARE TRY
ING TO RIvET UPON YOU THE
CHAINS OF STATE SLAVERY.
You Of the railroads and you of the
mines and you my fellow workers in the
Post Office, if you have in you spark
of proletarian manhood, if you have the
courage to rebel against the degrading
slavery that is capitalism, if you arc
willing to risk your chains 1--WE have
nothing else to lose) in struggle to
guarantee freedom to the generations
to come upon earth, if you want to
hasten that day so that you may live
to see it, the place to BEGIN is with
the capitalist government.
First let the workers take all power
into their hands, and then we can use
OUR GOVERNMENT, the workers
State, to take over the railroads and
the mines and the factories, and free
ourselves forever from the curse of class
rule and class slavery.
Workers Dictatorship will moi
have to buy the railroads. A Worker :
Dictatorship will not have to guarantee
profits and exploitation. A Workers
Dictatorship WILL HAVE NC
STPIKFS TO BREAK for we will no
have to strike against ourselves. A
;, Workers Dictatorship will have only
one object, to break forever the powe
of the masters. And having broken it
having put the whole crew of socia
parasites to work and having brough
I up their sons where free work is 10,
, and the lust for exploitation a crim
y and disgrace, that new generation O
the freedom-loving sons of men will
, need no dictatorship, neither capitals
I nor proletarian, neither armies nor pri
} sons, nor almshouses, nor lying press
J nor bought courts, nor any of the Who'll
. machinery Of enslavement and degra
r dation that class rule has visited upo,
, human society,
$ So now, all together, brothers W
I, slaves in the post office, and you slave
= on the railroads, and you fastened I,
the machines, and you down in tn
c mines:
= GALL POWER TO THE WORK
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