The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-01-27
EDITORIAL
HULET WELLS THE ARTIST

Artists born and not made 1t is not to be
painter poet writer anybody be artist born if he is
There painters writer's and poets who not artists
And there other kinds of people working at something
else not requiring any skill or education who
Huet Wells artist he painted the picture of Russia and
the millions of starving people that country last Thursday
night as an artist audience
and the picture before them clear How there
do know. There must have been good many for it
showed their faces The to their when they
the painting of the terrible suffering of the children crying
for bread bread bread Of the hungry people seeking shelter in
the cities and laying the streets to weak to just having
enough strength in them for help for something to eat
drink Many thousands died of hunger and undernourshmen
No food no help children abandoned by their parents
He pictured the meetings taken part in by thousands the
demonstrations of the of the people believing their
ideal The work done by that part of the Russian
pie who convinced Of the ask before them The
picture Of the alteration shown of the greatest artist the
Russian singer called back time and again to sing
more, for his people.
Can it possible people adoring wrong
road is told to time and again? Can it be possible that
people think WELL fault they probably got what
they after, let them suffer.
it possible to sit down good meal after hearing
about the millions of suffering and dying people without voice
repeating to you bread bread give me some
the inside? Is is possible to have millions of people living
plenty and not giving thought to the other millions who
starving and dying of hunger those children will be
healthy and but will be crppes for fe for they
under nourished since their birth? Is possible that
pie cold-booded sayeave them aone-for they
have another kind of and let them suffer takes
millions of dollars to bring conditions in suffering Russia to
stage endurance.
The working class in the United States lives plenty
derng the conditions in Russia While starving in
this country the average worngman understands how great
difference there is between conditions in this country and any
country famine stricken
And all asked to do is to give whatever
eryone gives within his means, will millions
who suffering Nine million children famine stricken
They cry you for bread.
so WE APPEAL TO YOU TO GIVE AGAIN AND AGAIN.
country where the bark been stripped
trees to provide food" for peasants.
Picture country where have, for days at time
clasped dead babies to their sunken breasts
Picture country where wounded soldiers have been operated
upon without the aid of chorofom with blunt Instruments
Picture the hospitals where the mad shrew of
tents have driven doctors insane.
Picture country where and battle against the
armed mperas the world without food without
machinery that would enable them the lack of food
country Soviet Russia Millions of people starving
and dying yet they work and fight to retain the things that
many of them died for and sanced with their fes blood
Local Russian Famine Relief Committee will receive all do
nations, Mrs. Nora Shup 1927 Rockefeller, SecTreas.