The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-09
GOOD INVESTMENTS FOR Capital Will solve UlgEM|I
PLoYMENT PROBLEM Says SOCIALIST PARTY.

Sharts please glance at the top Of
the first columns on page where the
address of our "coal cellar" and tele-
phone number is plainly printed for
the express information of the "po-
liceman"?
Purpose of a Working Class Party.
1t seems to us that the question
that ought to be asked and answered
here is; What must be the purpose of
political party of the working
class? 1t must be one of three things.
It's purpose must be either revolu-
tion, the complete overturning of the
capitalist method; or it must be re-
form within the capitalist system; or
just plainly reaction in the interests
of the capitalist class. For political
party of the workers to claim to be
revolutionary and to adopt a program
of reform is to place upon it the
brand of the fraud and betrayer. This
is what the Socialist Party of Ohio
does in advocating this STATE
CAPITALISM scheme of meeting the
present unemployment problem.
But, to quote editor Sharts in
answering our attack. ."We can't sail
our boat where there is no water.
The masses of working men and
women of Ohio are still deeply and
thoroughly conservative. We have
to appeal to them. We have to enlist
the support of conservative labor
bodies. We are trying to accomplish
something-adaptng our plan to the
material"
Indeed. 1t is just this philosophy
this tactic and program, this reform
istic psychology which has damned
|. the Socialist Party in the past. 1t is
exactly what the working class has
, put behind it and will have no more.
, The real meaning of this paragraph of
excuses is this: the workers are
, conservative. We must keep them
so. They believe in the capitalist
system. We must perpetuate this be-
lieve. We must teach them that re-
form, not revolution is sufficient. We
must not teach revolutionary tactics
- or we viii not "get any where"
Especially into political office
:, where we can continue to cavort
: about our reforms and delude them
" still more. What, we want to know,
. is the purpose of the Socialist Party +?
Is its purpose revolution or is it re-
D form? If it is revolution why does
= :: it not adopt and teach revolution to
:" the deluded and enslaved masses
: Where, in all this fol-de-rol about
> Opening the factories" for the starv-
ing workers is one word or syllable
ST of the ringing challenge of revolu-
81 ton to the power and authority OF
Is the capitalist class and the capital
3 ist State?
J. Editor Sharts goes on to say: "if
'f (the proposed amendment) is not
IL radical enough to satisfy the radio
st ais it may be conservative enough to
r gain the support of the conservatives
L who must be won." Since the Social
'e ist Party is to follow in the foot
's steps of the Scheidemann socialist
IL the conservatives must certainly be
g appealed to to save the day for
IL capitalism, just as in Germany.
e. Making The World Safe for Capital
ut ism.
n When we enquired as to who would
le buy these bonds with which the
m municipalities are to purchase the in
P dustrial plants, we elected this re.
n sponse. Capitalism flows toward the
Z best market. Capital never refused o
o deal where there was a market In
sight.-If the bonds are good in
3 vestment, you may bet on it there
l. will be capitalists to take them."
IL So. The Socialist Party's program
n for the unemployment problem is tC
Of establish the capitalist owners Sc.
m curely in "good investments" and
st "best markets" Finding the capital
# lists unable to carry on industry pro
ty fitably for themselves, the Socialist
he Party will show them how to do il
II with gold edge securities thrown in
e. And this Socialist Party has the AL
in dacity to call itself revolutionary, ant
is to aspire to the leadership Of the en-
Id shaved and jobless workers!
It is nothing less than the ole
gospel, now shattered and almost de
ty stroyed, that the Capitalist State car
i. be made to function in the interest
~ Of the workers. II is the idea Of bour
r geois democracy gone crazy. Tht
,r scientific conception Of the State Al
II an implement Of CLASS rule has no
,f dawned upon the Socialist Party o.
Il Ohio nor upon the mind of editol
Y Sharts, the godfather of this out
n. landish, traitorous reformisti,
ia scheme.
,e Follows Traitor Kautsly.