Bisbee daily review., 1917-05-08
President of American Labor Says American Peoples
 Sympathy Goes Out To
 Russia In Its Internal Trials.
DENOUNCES GERMAN
 INFLUENCE IN RUSSIA
Message Says 99 Percent Of American People, Including Laborers Are Backing Unit ed States In War.
(By Review Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON, May IA plea against a premature peace for Russia and renewed assurances that America wage earners and the American peO- pie are in hearty sympathy with the Russian democratic movement. are in cluded in a long cablegram sent by President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor to the executive committee of the council of workmen's and soldiers deputies at Petrograd.
 U. s. Would Help Russia
 Speaking for organized labor in this country. Mir. Gompers also expressed complete confidence in the purposes and opinions of the American war mission soon to go to Russia AT though he does not mention specif- cally the recent attacks on Elihu Root. who will head the mission. the labor leader denounces as criminal and pro German any suggestion that the meni- bers will seek 10 interfere in Russia's affairs. or will give any advice ex- cept with the purpose of combating the common enemy.
 Condemns Annexations
 Forcible annexations are condemned hut Mir. Gompers pleads that every people affected by the war should in the end be free 10 choose their al- legiance. Punitive indemnities also are denounced. and hope is expressed that leaders of the working classes Of he central empires will cease plot ting for abortive peace and will bring Q real peace by overthrowing the au- | iocracies of Hohenzollern and flaps burg.
 The message. timed to aid in com batting the pro-German agitation ap- parent during the last few days in Russia, was cabled yesterday. Its text was made public tonight as fol- lows:
 "The gravest crisis in the worlds history is now hanging in the bal ance and the course which Russia will pursue may have a determining inhu- ence whether democracy of autocracy shall prevail That democracy and freedom win finally prevail there can no doubt in the minds of men who tnow. but the cost. the time lost, and the sacrifices which would enspe rom lack of united action may be appal- ling.
 Labor Backs U. s.
 'In view of the grave cisis through which Russian people are passing we assure you that you can rely abso- lutely upon the whole hearted support and cooperation of the American peO- pie in the great war against our com mon enemy. kaiserism. In the full fllment of that cause the present Am amican government has the support # 99 per cent of the American peo- -'e including the working class Of both the cities and of the agricultural sections.
 German conspiracies
 "In free America, as in free Russia. the agitators for a peace favorable TOT fruSSlan mllltdllsu nave bcch dl- lowed to express their opinions that the conscious and unconscious tools of kaiserism seem more inflated than they really are.
 Like yourself we are opposed to all punitive and improper iudemnities. We denouuce the onerous punitive ir- Semnities already imposed by tho raiser on the people of Serbia. Be- -ium and Poland.
 Down With Tyrants
 American workers share the views of the council of workmen's and sol Hers deputies that the only way n
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