THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Saturday, April 5, 1919 Am With You, Workers. aisu. opposition TODAY am looking out through the bars of my By Bentall he. But the company would not allow liter timberreadly singing the life song of Spring. The sun (In County Jail, Brainerd, Minnesota)
ing. That would cut dividends.
is smiling upon the slumbering earth that is just wakYes he is badly hurt, but don cry. They are boring: ing from its sleep, unfolding its bosom of enchantbe shaken to your senses. Yes, the first whistle justing him home. The boys are all gentle and handie nient.
blew and you have to hurry. That crust and black him so carefully and tenderly. And anyhow he may coffee will keep your body and soul together till noon. 110t feel anything. No the little baby wont understand They have caged me in a cage of iron; they have That sandwich only some hard bread and the ban. that good. And the other children are growing locked the gates of steel against me. They tell me ana isn bad only started to spoil you can cat most fast and will soon be helping to earn. Xo, don must stay here.
of it your brother must have the other one. think your boy will be allowed to take his place only But am not here. They cannot slut in my mind and spirit. They cannot lock up my heart. am not twelve? You say lots of boys that age are now in the Does he work too? You say he is older than you here.
fourteen?
And so slender and pale. That he has mines? Thousands of them. So Congress repealed am with you you the working class the strugslaved in that child labor hell two years already? the child labor law did it. gling masses of toil and bitterness and harship.
Coughs like that every morning. And you, too, my Try to be strong there come the neighbors they ll little girl you can go to work today that coughi, lielp you. We ll pull out those chairs so they can lay am walking with you through the chilly mist of Stay home and play with your coll haven you? the board right on them they carry him on a wide early morning to your field and shop. stand by your Never mind lon cry. You ll have one some day, board. know it is hard for you. Tic was so good side the long workelay and look upon your worn and by God you will if live. Millions of you will.
and kind and always workeci liard.
tired body. And am tired with you.
Grown people will work in those cotton mills and Don not yet no, wait. They are coming to There are millions of you worn and tired.
in those factories. And we sliall not have lint and dust wash him and gather him together and maybe you can to strangle and clog your lungs. This child slavery see him. No, leave the covers over him.
shall cease and these cough breeders shall be fixed.
Yes, he tried so hard to get away how he pulled to get that crushed leg away and low eagerly lie am walking with you to the shaft, and slip in looked at is when we came running to help him but with you on the cage that shoots down to the bottom another block of rock fell on his head.
at the mine. go with you through the long entries.
So that hanging slate fell knew it woull so slid You ok with that foreboding look at those hangXo, not much insurance only enough to cover funwysia ds in the roof. You suspect that timbering.
eral cost and the preacher. Just coining from the. go to your room. that, too, houses the company, and you owe the grocer 13? And 110 bread The American Left Wing in the house when you come back from the.
and stand there naked to the skin. You tie that heasy And there are thousands like tliat millious.
leather apron to your body. It is cold and slimy and in Action skarp with slivers and coal dust since you threw it off By Hourwich when you quit yesterday. For the sweat of your body flowed like a stream of water as you heayed that heavy HE hitherto scattered efforts and manifestations Yes heard them in their secret chambers heard coal into the car. It the same today. You drink of personal dissatisfaction and discontent with them plot the big butcher program. It was Capitalism gallons of water and cold coffee gallons of it pails the opportunistic policy of the Socialist Party, in league with Satan. Sometime shall tell you thie of it. Yes, see how you can clo it that terrible. flow are now assuming a definite and organized expression. whole story.
of sweat. And millions of you sweat like that. The development of the Left Wing Section of the Now the boys are coming home. We greet you and New York City, the adoption of its Manifesto and Program by local after local of the life on the altar of Democracy. You were on the cheer you. Your heart was right and you placed your Socialist Party. all this is unifying the sejuare but Capitalism didn play square with you.
pengiriman har inte til en steel mills where you struggle to turn the party into its proper revolutionary capitalisina jaimed your heart when you went out guicie it from roller to roller, where you catch those course. And this course is the course outlined by the turn.
serpents of white hot steel and feed them again to the Engels.
creators of the proletarian International, Marx and was with you in the camps where you endured the rollers and catch them again and again and sling humiliation of slaves under the uppish idiocy of snobs, them around your naked body circling them around In common with the majority of the modern Socialand in the trenches where you tried to clodge death in that awful heat at that awful pace hurling them ist Parties, created and developing in a milicu of bouramong the corpses of your comrades.
like rings of fire into the last roller and onto the carrier geois parliamentarism, the American Socialist Party And am with you nuw when you are hunting jobs that takes them away.
in its present official form and policy, is the product work with you those twelve long hours that you ainong your masters and where you are sitting full an of a Socialist Party to the capitalist state, the of sores at the rich man feet, picking crumbs that labor.
Product of Capitalism of the Socialist perchance may fall from his table, while the profiteerAnd then we go home. man, what a home!
after that horrible day of slavery. will eat with you movement, becoming a lawful your bleeding bodies.
to night. Oh, there are the children. Tell them to iticalism. The parliamentary state mis part of ing dogs are licking a few more drops of blood from parties. And one of these parliamentary (but in And there are millions of you nearly four million come in want to see them. Playing out there? In no sense revolutionary) parties is the present Social of you.
that dirt, that mud and sand in the grassless tenement. am not going to the homes that Capitalisin has alley? Poor things!
of opposition to His Majesty bourgeois society. wrecked the hearts it has broken that can never heal.
Yes, your hand is rough, but love to see you take Precisely as all other social opportunist Socialist can the little baby in your arms and pat it on its tender parties, the American party is, in the words of the am not discouraged. For the fetters of this duncheek. It ll try not to cry. It loves you and your Manifesto of the Left Wing, the product of mixing geon are wonderfully elastic and generous. They rough caresses. So do all your little ones. Oh you real Socialism with bourgeois reforms: it is sausage let me out upon the mountains of vision and let me have six eight, you say? No, cannot look at them Socialism, in the apt words of Rosa Luxenburg. roam over the plains of reality. go to the Bethlehem. they are too thin and starved their little legs are bare and bony and scratched their eyes are bulging American Socialist Party, in common with its Euro billsides of Riga and Archangel where the Russian As the Left Wing Manifesto again phrases it, the stable to the inn at Petrograd and Moscow to the out too longingly for that food on the table. And poor Yes, ll eat with you ru try. Thank you registrative Institutions in to win the class strugglc in capitalist the proletariat are shouting their great hosannas to the new born Comrade of Peace the new born spirit of thought d try thank you but please pardon ine The complexity of the mass struggle of the prole good will to men the new born passion of a new am not hungry. Give this to the children want to go out a while. There is the old post in the tenement is at the same time a political struggle; the political in my arms and cry and shout. sing and dance and tariat, which, in the words of the Comunist Manifesto, shout with you in the ecstasy of joy. clasp you alley. want to rest against it while sob. Nobody struggle of the proletariat the meaning and object will see me. There are millions of you just home to eat and wanted to eat with you, but am not hungry not dictatorship of the proletariat. all these vita! phases his tyranny, and hurled Capitalism from its citadel the bourgeois class state and the establishment of the been bound and oppressed and hounded so long, and while all these children are hungry and their mothers. of Socialism narrow and stultifying limits of the tare into outer darkness where there is gnashing of teeth.
struggle, of the Socialist parliament. Parliamentary We have reared up the monument of Liberty and Thé Paris Commune, summarized by Marx established the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
in the And you at the harbor and on the sea. can stay And with you go into all the world and preach The working class camot lay hold of the ready made machinery of the bourgeois state and then to Italy and France England and America away from you. That dirt that rain those cold wintthis gospel to every worker beginning with Germany use it er winds your clothes wet and stiff your feet, clods for its of ice. suffer with you. never knew the human the official leaders of the Socialist Party, to noderate to every race and kindered and tongue.
body could stand such strain and such pace suich collapse of the second International, from the four affection shall sweep like a mighty wind over the carth, the And, behold, the all conquering power of the new No, wont go home with you. Your haunts of and a half years of the world war. Truly it can be and the masses shall be stirred to action against every poverty and suffering are too sacred for outsiders to said of them that they have forgotten nothing and onslaught of the master class.
step into. And there are so many of you inillions.
learnce nothing. As a protest against this degradation Unflinching, determined, inspired, victor proucl. and profanation of Socialism, there developer the resolver to snap our chains we rush licadlong against mass movement of the Left Wing within the party. all the hell and all the demons of tyran. ay ani oppresTo this mass movement belongs the future, and sion.
imposes an obligation on all revolutionary Socialists.
We have won.
Poor little things you were so sleepy this morning on all Bolsheviki in the party, to rally to its catise 10 We come rejoicing we have gained the world we It was so hard for you to be dragged out of bed and conquer the party for revolutionary Socialism. lay it at the feet of a free humanity. growing must have po!
a love.
cramped lesson of the