The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-04-06
APPEAL TO The WORLDS WORKERS

there was an armistice, there were
negotiations.
but that was not enough. The
Bolsheviki is now OVERLOOKING with
insults and affronts against the Max
malist robbers and the Wolff Tele-
after message in which the owners Of
those parts OF Russia not yet occupied
by German troops express the wish
said with synically open insolence.
What German rule means for the
laboring class-must l explain that
to YOU? Look at Riga. where a few
troops the leading members of the
soviet We're shot. Look at the occu
pied districts Of France, where the
German slave hunters inaugurated
and German officers took great delight
In disciplinng defenseless children
with lashes of the whip.
What Happened to Belgium.
Glance at Belgium, where, count,
Less he Mays been
the farce Of popular vote is en-
acted, which is but a new illustra ton
OF what the German government, this
abject servant Of the general staff,
understands by the right Of self
determination.
"And glance at Germany herself.
/ where the noble Liebknecht has been
in prison for nearly two years: where
the brave Dttman has Just been SEN
fenced to five years hard labor: where
the valiant Kurt Eisner has been ar
rested, where thousands are in JAIL
and where starving masses after an
attempt to break their chains were
returned to the treadmill Of war;
capital.
the strike did show th;M the Ger
man masses do not have the same
ideas as the German war party, that
the German people are not respon-
and rulers and that the German ma
misdecds which it's military despots
c c got % M s aHd '" ScS m A"d ,Sm
that, YOU are painting the picture too
black The danger is not as great as
YOU make it: The danger VIII DE
capitalistic Entente states, but by the
German revolution
"Workers of the Entente countries,
certainly there are, still in. Germany
and officers corps. many good, hon
est. splendid men and women. l admit
without further argument that there
they are, indeed. far outbalanced by
the rascals, scoundrels, rogues. black
guards .n and ravng maniacs:
1Htic are SttI IN NTeflUanV-and
many revolutionarily- inclined men and
women. who are resolved to risk
n S0Wet in in Grder to break the
caste. the most brutal class which the
world has known since the days Of
GcnGhis Kahn and Tamerlan. I do
not doubt. and in fact affirm with
pleasure and Satisfaction, that the
revolutionary determination of the
brave fighters Of the Wars of LIBERIA
ton finds a powerful ally in the great
fermentation among the -..%1aboring
classes. I am also convinced that the
German revolution will come.
Junkers Expect Revolution.
"The~Junkers and their associates In
Germany are also: convinced that it
yin come. But they cherish the hope
everywhere. else first: that this will
give them time to win the world war;
that this victory will enable them
either to nip in the bud the revolu-
tiOn in Germany or to suppress it wit n
terrible blOodshed. and that then the
victorious counter-revolutiona Ger
| many will exercise it's world SUI
prcmacN AS the nucleus Of an authori-
tative League Of Nations like the Holy
alliance.
"A new Holy alliance which VIII
nu]lify the achievements of the TWEEN
! tieth. of the nineteenth and even of
the eighteenth centuries. a holy trim :.
ity of capital, sword and holy-water-
stick, an order of ruling bourgeosies.
who are in turn ruled by Prussian
| .iunkerism. as the topmost stratum Of
the world. entire humanity doing
homage directly or Indirectly to the