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FIRST LABOR BANK IN NEW YORK CITY THE LIBERATOR. a monthly magazine, May, 1923. Twenty cents a copy, $2.00 a year, Vol. 6, No.5, Serial No. 61 Published by The Liberator Publishing Company, 7~9 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Entered as second-class matter, May 25. 1921, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1819. Copyright, 1923. Don Brown William Z. Foster \ THE LIBERATOR· Vol. 6, No.5 [Serial No. 61] May, 1923 EDITORIALS Mayday Slavery in America MAYDAY it is. The internatiQnal hQliday 'Of the wQrking I N FlQrida, men are being sol!! ·fQr twenty dQllars a head to peQple, which the wQrkers hardly dare as yet recQgnize lumber cQmpanies. The "whipping bQss" beats men tQ t SQ much as in a whisper, CQmes this year UPQn a wQrld bQil­ death fQr "laziness." The Florida legislature has decided ing with change. Few realize that America is fast becQm­ that the "whipping bQss" must be abQlished in the slave ing 'One with EurQpe. NQ lQnger can a shilling drQP 'Off a camps but that the selling of men may cQntinue. There is no table in the Bank 'Of England withQut affecting the life 'Of shock 'Of surprise in this. The sale 'Of men intQ slavery has GQpher Prairie, MinnesQta. But never mind EurQpe-let us been a cQntinuous practice in Southern states since the lQQk at America 'On this Mayday. cQuntry was settled. It was 'Only slightly interrupted by Eight men representing the WQrld War Veterans are Abraham Lincoln's proclamatiQn. Much modified and mini­ picketing the White HQuse tQday with the demand that the mized by time, it cQntinues in the m'Ore backward districts PQlitical prispners 'Of the United States be freed. Thus the of the SQuth. In 'One fQrm it exists amQng the tenant farm­ 'Old rQle 'Of the ex-sQldier as a bulwark 'Of reactiQn begins tQ ers, black and white. But the mQre QbviQUS fQrm 'Of present­ break dQwn. At last the natural destiny 'Of demQbilized SQl­ day slavery in the SQuth is that in which wandering labQrers diers is apprQached. We seem tQ remember having heard are arrested, cQnvicted of "vagrancy," and sold tQ IQcal capi­ sQmewhere the expressiQn, "wQrkers' and sQldiers' cQuncil," talists who may be shQrt 'Of labQr. It is cQmmonly knQwn in and we dQ nQt at all share the stale view that the cQnscripted SQme SQuthern states that the justices 'Of the peace are reg­ sQldier is fQrever the enemy of labQr. Eight representatives ularly informed as tQ hQW many "hands" are needed by plan­ 'Of an ex-service men's QrganizatiQn are picketing the White tati'On 'Owners; deputy sheriffs are sent 'Out to pick up the HQuse fQr amnesty fQr PQlitical prisQners. LabQr, here's an required number 'Of men, whQ are immediately cQnvicted 'Of ally fQr yQu! "vagrancy" and SQld to the plantatiQn 'Owner just as Martin One issue of a cQuntry paper in Greely, CQIQradQ, carries Tabert was sold. the advertisements fQr the sales 'Of 6500 farms fQr taxes, The season finds the chief representative 'Of labQr in Amer­ writes Charles W. WOQd in the New YQrk World. In 'One ica engaged almQst exclusively, as far as publicly seen, in cQunty 'Of 9000 populatiQn in CQIQradQ 1600 farmers had their fighting against every manifestatiQn of hQpe and militaricy farms sold under their feet for taxes in 1922. One-fifth 'Of in the labor mQvement. Gompers' latest frenzied attack is the land of another cQunty is tQ be sold fQr taxes. After against the Garfield Fund, Inc., an institutiQn built 'On an wQrking a year fQurteen hQurs a day, with "successful" inheritance which a yQung man refused because he had nQt crops, the farmer lQses his land for the lack of fifty dQllars earned it; and GQmpers attacks the trustees because they tQ pay taxes. Farm journals owned by Wall Street and devQte the money sQlely tQ helping mQvements that have the steered in their PQlicy by Barney Baruch are SQ far keeping 'Object 'Of abQlishing the explQitatiQn 'Of labor-yes, SQ CQm­ these farmers persuaded that it is all due tQ the "high pletely prQstituted tQ the cause 'Of emplQyers against labQr wages ext'Orted by labor uniQns." But it can't be kept up; has GQmpers becQme. the farmer defrauded 'Of his land will have t'O learn the WhQm GQmpers denQunces, Daugherty prQsecutes. Hardly lessQn of the proletarian. LabQr, here's another ally for yQU. had the 'Old labQr 'Overseer fQr the Civic FederatiQn launched The rulers 'Of America have definitely adQpted the his verbal assault against the trustees 'Of the fund, than one EurQpean system 'Of political police-the provocateur is the of the trustees, RQger Baldwin, was indicted 'On the initiativ,e accepted means 'Of dealing with the questiQn 'Of labQr and 'Of the Department of Justice 'On the pretext that he had sQcial unrest. This Mayday dawns with a strQng prQbability committed "larcency" in acting as an advisQr fQr the "Kuz­ that a natiQn-wide attempt will be made by detectives under bas" Russian ColQny. the "Department 'Of Justice" to transform peaceful May­ Eight 'Others were indicted with Baldwin for having "'Ob­ day meetings 'Of wQrkers intQ 'Orgies 'Of police-clubbing fQI­ tained mQney under false pretenses" in recQmmending the lowed by hyserical newspaper screams abQut "red plots." It Kuzbas cQlQny tQ prospective cQIQnists. The indicted men are will be remembered that Mitchell Palmer attempted tQ dQ quite sure that this is a deeply cQnceived political attack in­ that 'On May 1st, 1920. It WQuld WQuld be a "gQQd stunt" fQr tended tQ strangle in this country movements 'Of all kinds Daugherty this time. fQr the recQgnitiQn 'Of 'Or help tQ the Republic of Russia. 6 THE LIBERATOR Enough evidence of this is seen in the fact that this indict­ ment for larcencyin a case where the usual procedure would The Orphan have been a civil suit for damages, was instigated by the BUT some of the "reg'lar fellers" didn't have any papa assistants of Harry Daugherty. It will be recaUed that in a position to fix them up with the life's ease to which Baldwin has crossed paths with Daugherty in several all upper-class guys are entitled. William H. Taft was in matters recently. Baldwin has shown up Daugherty's lying danger of having to work. After being chased out of the in the case of political prisoners, he has exposed Daugherty Presidency where he had conducted an administration more as the initiator of the prosecutions directed against free reactionary than ever known before the lame-duck days of speech in Michigan. Baldwin's indictment is Daugherty's Harding, Taft was in the position of an orphan without any revenge. guarantee against having to work. But the sixty-four year Baldwin has dug up the very interesting fact that the dis­ old orphan found a father in the steel millionaire Andrew gruntled colonists of New Amsterdam sued the promoters of Carnegie, and was given a pension.