The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-02
Moscow 1920

the Polish landlords and capitalists, now vail that
Poland is in great danger.
They are appealing to the governments of cap
italist countries with requests for immediate
sistance, so that European culture should not be
destroyed by the barbarians of the Russian revou-
tion And we see how the English Government
which armed the Poles for their criminal attack on
Soviet Russia, which together with its allies refused
to leave Poland when Soviet Russia proposed on
April to begin negotiations in London-we see
how that same capitalist England mpudenty threat
ems new general attack by all the allies in the
case Soviet Russia does not conclude an armistce
with the Poles who have advanced into Russia.
The directors of world capital, who are playing
with the destinies of peoples though they were
cats now come forward as the defenders of the in
dependence of Poland. The French Government,
which in 1917 was ready to abandon Poland to the
Tsarist government of Russia if the latter would
recognize the French pretensions with respect to
the left bank of the Rhine, the English Govern
ment which frequently during the war declared
confidentially through its agents to the German
Government that it would turn over Poland to the
Central Powers if German Imperialism would
evacuate Belgium, where it would be a danger to
England--all these traders in human flesh now
shout that Soviet Russia threatens the independence
of Poland and under this slogan are attempting
to prepare the public opinion of the whole world
for new attack on Russian workmen and peasants.
Workmen and workwomen Of all countries! There
is no need for us to explain to you that Soviet
Russia does not entertain the slightest plan of
conquest with respect to the Polish people, Of Hoff
man and Beseler. Soviet Russia was ready to con-
cude peace even with Polish capitalists, and in
~ oru i1nd hp
pendence of Poland but ceded to Poland extensive
border regions Soviet Russia is closely bound to
the Polish working masses by, decades Of common
struggle For Soviet Russia sef-determnation of
the Polish people is sacred and inviolate right,
and if not single soldier defended Poland, the
Polish land would nevertheless remain the property
of the Polish peaple, and the Polish people itself
| would determine freely it's own fate.
| But so long as there rules in Poland band OF
| capitalist adventurers and landlords who have
| drawn the country into criminal military adven-
| ture: so long as the capitalists Of the Entente
| supply Poland with arms, Soviet Russia is in a
! state of defensive war Should Soviet Russia to-day
give the Polish White Guardists respite and allow
them to reestablsh their shattered troops and again
/ arm them with the assistance Of the Entente to-
i morrow Soviet Russia would be obliged once more
| to tear hundreds of thousands of her best sons
| from the plow and workmen's bench and send them
to the front for a new defensive war;
Workmen and workwomen! If the capitalist filth
of the whole world cries out about the attack on
the independence of Poland, in order to prepare a
| new attack against Russia, you should know the
following and it alone: Your employers tremble,
fearing that one of the pillars of their rule, Of
their world system of reaction, exploitation and
oppression is falling; they fear that if white
guardist Poland falls before the blows of the Red
Army. and the Polish workmen take over power
into their own hands, that then it will be easier for
the German, Austrian, Italian, and French work
men to free themselves from their exploiters, and
that the workmen of England and America also will
follow them If the capitalist filth walls that DANCE!
threatens the independence of Poland it is because
shey fear that your slavery your involutAry
seryitude, workmen and workwomen, may be re-
placed by liberation from the chains of capitalist
slavery Therefore it is the duty of the proetarians
of all countries by every means to prevent the
Governments of England, France, America, and
Italy from rendering any aid whatsoever to the
Polish White Guards Proetarians of the countries
Of the Entente! Your governments will continue tt
try to deceive you; they will insist, heretofore
that they are not rendering support 10 roiahu'
is your duty to stand guard at all ports and al
frontiers, and see to it that not single train OF
ship with food supplies or arms should leave To-
] Poland. Take up your positions as guards! Do moi
allow yourselves to be deceived by false indications
as to the places from which transports are being
sent; such transports, you know, can be sent II
Poland by roundabout routes And when govern
ments and private capital do not give way to you
protests, organize strikes, act by force and unde