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Newspaper
The Toiler
Location
Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
1
London reports detail a network of agents moving through Berlin and Soviet Russia with forged American Red Cross credentials. Couriers carried dispatches among Bolshevik groups, German Sparatkides, and Swiss communists, including letters linked to Spartacist leaders and M. Tchicherin.
Former National City Bank president Frank A. Vanderlip warned of an acute European crisis with inflated currencies and credit shortages in Central Europe, Austria, and Poland. He urged the United States to exercise moral leadership and aid in rehabilitation, predicting worse conditions ahead and urging limited foreign loans rather than government grants.
Benjamin Gitlow former Socialist Assemblyman was found guilty of criminal anarchy after a five week trial. He asserted his revolutionary beliefs and declared his life devoted to them amid interruptions by Justice Weeks. The judge warned against personal views not tied to evidence.
A dispatch lauds workers while condemning profiteers and government price controls. It cites Department of Labor probes into widespread price hikes, noting massive gains in food, clothing, fuel, and rent since 1914. It mentions 179 profiteers nabbed under anti profiteering laws and argues food may be overvalued.
A radical appeal urges workers and readers of The Toiler to join a Revolutionary Movement, fund subscriptions, and back the paper against government pressure and capitalist oppression. It asserts labor revolt will win, seeks immediate support, and calls readers to join or risk the defeat of the workers press.
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