The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-05
To the organized workers of Great Britain

To the organized workers of Great Britain
Comrades and Brothers,
All the promises of the Governments and the constitutional
bour leaders to be lies We were told before the
that conditions would steadily improve would be patient
Conditions have not improved They have become We
promised during the Britain worthy the terrific sacri
ces of the multitude Pledges given that conditions
would be restored that nothing introduced should
be used the future demen of the workers Every promise has
proved to be tremendous lie and every pledge worthless
scrap paper The struggle the to make ends meet be-
and Jobs become harder to get and easier
to ose We have neither Britain fit for heroes guarantee OF
the prime necessities of life Unemployment scale unpreceden
ted the history of modern industry threatens every country in
the world except Russia
Factories closing down. long holidays declared and
wage cutting proceeds apace Reaction starvation bankruptcy
rapidly becoming the dominant features of the victorious and
defeated countries alike We in the midst of crisis which
extends far beyond the boundaries single nation 1t
teaona crisis international crisis of capitalism in decay
Whether turn to France Germany Austria America
the British Colonies Japan the iron heel at work.
the worless starving muude of the working class Mill
tasm with it's Black and Tans its thugs its armed police dom
mates the of everyone Of these countries while
noc distress characteristics the life of the working every
where.
nstnctvely workers ocked into the abo unions
of struggle refuge But the leaders of the unions
in most have mis-ed and misleading the
miseaby they mised them during the impeas Then
they the trumpeers of Imperialism the garb of
cracy rayng the to the battle fields where left
ten million dead To-day they rally their with their
gospel of cass peace and the principal buwark of decyg
social order During the these Hendesons and homas the
Cness and the Brownes the GOmpes and the JouauX
doned legislation which fastened the hands of abou tied the
chnery of the unions to the State worked the nnon courts
made agreements with the governments which flung away the gains
OF the trade unions century of struggle They supported
arbitration and helped build up complex machinery guaranteed
to obtain the maximum of delay dealing with any grievance of
the workers. Since the they have become experts impartial
enquiry babbers OF Whtleym and its Industrial Councils of
poye and employees herads of the dscreded League of
tons that democratic for the counter revolutionary act
ties of the capitalist against the workers of Russia
and elsewhere Under their leadership the Trade Unions of this
country have become affiliated to the yellow"
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS
with its headquarters at Amsterdam This international the
eatona of the Trade Union Bureaucracy formed osensb
prevent international sabbng and to assist the workers of
country to help those of another Actually has become an ap
paratus OF which the know little combination of Trade
Union leaders who pursue policy using revolutionary phrases
colour their actions which those of charitable organization
society and appendage of the gang the League of Nations
Nominay supposed to unite the workers of the world against
capitalism Actually ally of the capitalist states Nominaly
it an International Actually only combination of pationa
lists Nomnay calls the workers to use every
the war against imperialism and capitalism Actually its leaders
practice the gospel of ss peace which working class
betrayal make alliances of employers and employees support the
League of Nations and turn their backs upon and condemn the
Workers International which the Communist International
Test the organisation and it's leaders by experience Practically
every leader of this yellow Amsterdam International coaboated
with their respective capitalist governments during the mpeas
war That itself speaks volumes every worker who the
consequences of the
When the workers of Russia threw their capitalist govern
ment and seized the es of power did the leaders of this Inter
national respond workers to the calls of the workers Russia
Did they proceed to mobse the millions of the West and rally
them the of world revolution the destruction of inter
national capitalism? They did not Did they rally the masses K
the Hungarian revoon They did not They have vewet
every situation with the vision of national capitalist Liberals anC
not leaders of international working class striving for victor,
over international capitalism
Russia should be left to work its destiny they sa
the voice of the uncuous Liberals who believed that Boshesn
could be killed by ade When Poland backed by their friends
League of Nations made its attack upon the workers Russia
the Thomass and Hendersons talked the cant about th
neutrality of Poland that the capitalists talked They failed
tell the working class that the defeat of the Russian workers
the defeat Of the workers everywhere the victory the Russian
workers the guarantee of the ultimate triumph of the worker
of the world.
Thus the leaders of the Amsterdam International stand condem
ned leaders of the working class They have preached
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