The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-01-17
RUSSIAN UNIONS =.
FEAR :.|::.|!|| ! RED R / Pr: R
Leaders J. eli lenine and
Tfotsky Rule Country With
Gun and II! d|.Bayonet.
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its organ Of the S. DIS. and r. ss');-
and finally the Bolshevists established
by decree the dawn Of their own
Reds Break Up Union.
who split up the reserve funds of
the trades. unions? The Bolsheviks.
Who split up the Grades unions as a.
class? BY whose orders. were all
strikes put down by force Of arms
and amid eplentiful< executions? It
was the eRoHheviks, who broke the
workm EMS easnperatiYe societies and
converted their shops into communal
! stores. The, Bolsheviks promised the
Russian peopae peace, bread and free
dom. '>:# &: = ~ :. -
"Actually,=|ln place of peace they
gave civil wan which destroyed all
manufacturesSand stained every side
! with blood: in place of freedom,
prison, exile and the shooting party,
in place of bread, famine and the
grave. ,&N~.$,', =
$50 1t was that, having drunk to
the full cup OF humiliation and tasted
, this red~bayonet Socialism, Ijevski
and Vodkinski recognized that fur
Their life of this sort was impossible.
and though without arms. and armed
only with the armour of Right, with
only their blistercd hands to fight
| with, united in spirit, to a man they
rose against the oppressors. and by
virtue of their strength of will,
snatched the rifles from the hands Of
the Red Guard and began the battle
for citizens rights and the freedom
| Of the Russian people.
Shot Down Workers.
1.-THE reader asks why Bolshevism
holds out 80 long il the peasants and
workers are fighting against 1t. This
is the true answer: All the world
peace with Wilhelm, disarmed the
Russian army, and with the Germans
began to shoot down the peasants
and workers, All the time their chief
power has rested in Magyars, Chinese,
Let's, Tsars' gendarmes, capital GRIM
inals and communists.
"All. these dark forces, armed to the
teeth, are driving, under threat OF
death, father against son, brother
against brother, and the Russian peo-
pie, which bore the first brunt OF the
mailed fist of Teutonic junkerdom
and in the first place saved France
and all Europe from: distinctions bite
now bleeds in the struggle against it
and looks to allied democracy all owe,
the world, in itS turn to save Russia
| No Friends Of Labor.
l. Appended tnsthe statement was thu
testimony Oft enshevok OF the 1jevsk
workers. uniol..; which. was as follows
eve, IjevskN Ko dkinska work
er,s, who raiaeH the standard ant
took arms against Bo1shevisnna, are
anxious to give our story to English
workers and to English newspapers
We wish to- explain the reasons which
lad to our revolt, for we cannot a
present understand why part of tn
English press regards the Bolshevik'
as the friends of trade unionism. W.
Russian workers have found that tn
Bolsheviks. turned out enemies t.
trade unionisn as big as the CAPT
talists, of the Tzar's time. We arr
ready to give you details Of the hor
rors which we workers have lived
through under the regime of :thei
despotic sway. We will give you tn.
story of the decline Of Russian pro
ductivity, and with 1t the eclipse O.
the industrial classes.
I'VE took UP arms against our op
pressors In the name of the duty WI
owe to Labor's flag, for which hun
dreds and thousands Of it's loyal de
tenders have died in our part of tn