The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-16
THOUSANDS OF WORKERS
HEAR R0B'T MINOR TELL OF
CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Speaking audience filled the high school aolo-
r%n n an ne en.ssic crowd Wh9se applause and cheer;
Minor. correspondent World famed cartoons told
OF Gondtion; nd, in Russia in graphic covncg manner that
The meeting held under the a'spces Of Tic Silver Bow
ades and Labor assembly for the benefit @ o The nterioa
Mooney and other war and Political prisoners
fire 5 the c" e @ se sx v e
iovet % or r All? M and easte Erope oyer
eresting material much which has hitherto been kept from
'f Rs % %S S poS "5ss 81 fs%:oi % address is given below
e9 ,e. f % s d @ s sos s.se OF e
ec"red before the Fabian ocey @ ii Boston The M ec"e
irueS into loy conesteu ienae ana i fe c1an,-
first work Of league Of nations would be TO suppress the rs
ing yWnl working s;.It; c1as;
a,1y oaX h9 league 3 G piols al II
but L operation just the same: That is to say. world
3 I ez o The sinf %
common aim
That aim is to extemnae by brute force the Russian labor
Yes the league Of nations is reality and its first job
League (unoffciay existence and seeking legal sancfi
i" i 'S rs g"rde S sv Hse
ments have not hesated to give their moral and military
ed class govemen even !" the midst Of technical state
w" The British is t ] did not ssae @ na.h to hpy the
from the British fleet with which to suppress working class
When crossed the Russian border into Germany after the
r;ae had occasion to ob;eye Sc s that the
helping the old German ruling class to break the working
class revolution.
'Everywere throughout the world the close of the
witnesses the ruling classes OF all countries uniting to prevent
the working from breaking from subjecon confiscat
ing the holdings of capital.
Floyd Gbbins famous correspondent for the Chicago
Tribune recent article frankly states that the allies
in unpublished alliance with the German government
to make war upon Russia
Sin short, the world is divided now, not into nations
but into two classes and world war undreamed Of
terrors is point open The league Of
tons, official or unofficial the lineup OF the world
capitalist class.
proecton of the weak by the league advocates, were
"The Irish republic would been joyfuy welcomed
in Paris instead of nsulted and knitted in the back;
"Egypt would not have been turned over to imperial
istic rule of Britain;
"The Chinese republic would have been slaugh-
tered for the Japanese emperor;
"The Hungarian workn1en's republic would not have
been and the Archduke Joseph of the old Aus
trian kasers family would not have been temporar-
lily seated upon virtual throne of Hungary;
"Belgium would have come out Of this war republic
instead OF reaconary kngdom the same would be true
of Italy. England also would have lost puppet
king, and the Japanese empire would have become
sand most important all, if pretenses Of ideal!
dupcity, the Russian Soviet republic would not
have defend itself from patica attacks its coasts
by British fleets without declaration Of war; III w
"1here would be troops of allied countries now on
Russian soil in exactly the status Of bandits making war
illegally upon the most enlightened republic on EARTH
In a newspaper interview obtained from Nichola enin
in Moscow last December he said, "They not formg
league nations league of mperulst to rangle the
nations. While differ from lenn in some OF his views,
must that his words proving true with vengeance
The ruling classes of the world feel that They are fghtng
must fight for the thing upon which their form OF culture
is bu-private property in industry. As bourgeois sup
porter of the reaction in Germany said to me- don Know
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