The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-19


Class" Well named are these Labor
Leaders. An English lordling's fun
key, however would be a better epi-
thet to apply to such a person as
the official head of the A. F. of L.
And there are others.
In the February (1921) issue of
the American Federationist, Comp
ers editorialises about the wicked
Bolsheviks and hands his followers
"More Truth About Sovietism." Says
Samuel
"The soviets do not constitute a
dictatorship of committee, or a
clique. self-appointed and self-per-
petuating by virtue of momentary
control of a sufficient amount Of
force"
Of course the A. F. of l.. is an
ideal pure and holy democratic or
ganization, all rule emanating from
the bottom up. There is no dictator
ship, no official ring, no suppression
of truth; nothing mirnical to Labor,
is ever done within the sacred pre-
cincts Of Samuels' holy office"
How alike are these modern petty
middle-class shopkeeper parvenues,
be they English or American Labor
Leaders! Phillip Snowden, writing in
the London Labor Leader" calls
the Bolshevik chiefs "Gang of I'm
posters" who have exploited a
great ideal and associated it with a
policy, method and aim absolutely
opposed to the principles of COM
munism. These communists are neith-
er socialists nor communists. They
are Bakounin anarchists, but with
out his (Bakounin's courage etc."
Sounds exactly like our belived Vic
tor Berger, who recently assured his
many followers that Bolshevism or
Communism was in no sense the
same as Socialism, Bergers brand!
Yes, shopkeeper democracy is the
same the world over!
SAMUEL LOVES NOT LENIN.
"Leninism is the legitimate sue
cessor to kaiserism and Lenine is
the true heir to the mantle of the
fallen autocrat. 1t is this autocratic
creature of the worlds most hated
autocrat that the propagandists of
Moscow and New York's intelligen-
tia now ask the United States to
recognize.
"Russia is a country Of regimented,
ticketed, clock-work human beings,
wretched in every physical aspect,
disorganized in mental capacity, de-
moralized and degraded. 1t bares its
fangs at every civilized nation, either
openly or secretly determined to tear
down the foundations of every de-
mocratic institution everywhere"
TO QUOTE THE FEDERATIONIST
How account for such drivel as the
above? Old age? Sam is dying at
the top. He is really dead, but
doesn't know it. And he is a fit ex-
ponent of a dying social order. His
vision is dimned. He has eyes, but
sees not; ears but hears not the red
trumphets sound forth the glad
some cry, workers of the World
Unite" The only sounds audible to
Sam is the tinkle of the dinner bell
the pop of the champagne bottle,
and the wheeze of the cracked
American Liberty Bell". He reminds
us of an antique Ohio democrat: he
can see bug on barn door "a mile
off, but cannot see the door.
What a difference in men H. N
Brailsford, and enlightened English
man, goes to Russia to see and hear
for himself. What did he see? Many
things strange, novel, original and
interesting. The age long conflict
between darkness and light, reason
and superstition, is on in Russia and
light and reason are conquering
darkness and ignorance. Writes
Brailsford in the "New Republic, -
FINISHING THE WORK OF PETER
THE GREAT.
"Every village" said one of the
agitators, Jesus was an agitator, was
he not? "has its own character. A
backward village elects old stagers
to the Soviet. A progressive village
elects youngsters, thinking they are
now the rulers. In my village" she
went on, "the priest worked hard to
carry his own list. The younger
people came forward against him
with the cry, Are you going to vote
for the man, who used to take your
last crust?' He was utterly defeated.
Even his sons have come over, and
are organizing village plays, work
ing for the anathema' as their father
says"
This anti-clerical struggle has its
ugly side. It was not pretty to see
the young laughing at the old, as
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