The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1920-09-08
EARTHQUAKE WIRE IS italian CITIES


Many Deaths and
Labor and War
Organized labor and working men and women have
always been opposed to war. Capitalists have always
started and kept them going. Labor has always
given up it's blood and suffered the tortures and agonie
Of war. The kings have sat back and spoken Of the
bravery Of y people, Profit and gain have been the
stakes that the profit played for The workers
suffered and lost Labor must put stop to the war
game. LABOR WILL, PUT A STOP TO THE WAR
GAME When the toiler says II will not kill my fellow
toler,'' there will end to the war MANIA When
working refuse to make transport the munitions
Of and the profits taken out Of war, there will
be end to it. It is foolish to say have always had
and there will always be wars This doctrine comes
from those who always start the and then retire to
place Of safety and direct affairs Four foolish old
continuing the present horror at the behest OF
the bankers and the money people who count nothing in
this world but interest" Human interest is nothing;
profit alone is the king they worship. Labor is fast
discovering it's great strength. The London Liverpool
and New York dockers realize the power they possess
American and British transport workers alone can end
this cursed business by united effort
The appreciation, encouragement and help given to
Lincoln by the militant section Of the working class in
England and the continent Should be forgotten
At the darkest hour Of the Civil the two monster
meetings of workingmen, in London and Manchester,
Dec 81 1862 prevented Palmersto in Marks words,
fro declaring against the United States when he
the point of doing it,.
Zone of the first public addresses issued by the Cen
trail Council of the International Workngmens associa
ton organized in London Sept 28 1864 letter to
Lincoln congratuating the people upon his election
It was dated Nov. 20, and written by Marx It
reads, in part, as follows
'sWe congratulate the American people upon your
election by large majority If resistance to the slave
power the watchword of your first election the tr
umphal war-cry of your reelection is 'Death to Sav
ery From the commencement of the titanic American
strife the Workngmen Of Europe felt nstinctvey that
the Star Spangled Banner carried the destiny of their
class.
The working men Of Europe felt sure that as the
American War of Independence initiated Of
ascendency for the middle class the American Anti
Slavery War will do for the working classes They
slider it earnest sign of the epoch to that it fell
to the lot Of Abraham Lincoln the single minded Of
the working GLASS; to lead his country through the match
less struggle for the Of the enchaned and the
reconstruction of social world
After the assassination of Lincoln the Central council
again expressed itself The document took the form of
letter to Andrew johnson, who succeeded Lincoln It
was dated May Is. The author most probably Marx
The original English text has been los and the
given below have been Englished by Herman Schlueter
from German translation made at the time. The mat
ter is taken from Mr. Schlueter's Lincoln Labor and
Slavery (New York: The Socialist Literature com
: panyl PIP. 1914 1877: Y -
"Weshal not seek for words of mourning and Of hor
ror when the hearts Of two continents throbbing with
emotion Even the sycophants who year after year
day after day busiy engaged in morally stabbne
Abraham Lincoln and the great republic Of which he
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