The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-12
WORLDS METAL
WORKERS APPEAL
FOR GERMAN AID
Urge Help for Brave
Comrades in Germany


The International Propaganda
Committee Of Revolutionary Metal
Workers, appeals for help for the
German Metal Workers, as follows:
To the Metal Workers Of all coun-
tries.
Comrades and Brothers:
Your brothers in Germany have
again entered the phase of grave
battles against capital, They are be-
ing driven back to the days when the
workers spent no less than twelve
hours per day in the factory, getting
starvation wages and having no right
to protest against this slavery.
The German metal workers, especi-
ally those who find themselves under
the double yoke Of the trusts and Of
the army Of occupation of the world
gendarme, Raymond Poincare, are
fighting for the eight hour day
against tremendous odds.
German Struggle-World Struggle.
The German metal workers have
raised the banner of struggle directly
in the factories and shops as the re-
formist unions not only failed to take
up the leadership in the struggle,
but on the contrary, signed treach-
erous pact with SHINES, Krupp and
the other metal kings, providing for
the introduction of the ten hour day.
In this resolute struggle the reform
lists took their places alongside those
Of the capitalist ministers; they did
not join the ranks of the hungry ter
rorized workers, who are defending
with the last drop of their blood the
basic gains of the international pro-
letariat-the eight hour day.
Metal workers of France, Great
Britain, Czecho-Slovakia and United
States:
Do you believe that the struggle
Of the German metal workers is their
private affair? No. You cannot
think so, for each one of you. realizes
that the abolition of the eight hour
day in Germany is only preliminary
to your being robbed of two or three
additional hours per day. The Ger
man capitalists are robbing the work
ers in order to be in a better position
to compete with your capitalists.
Should today the metal workers of
tomorrow the Comite des FORCES will
take steps to increase their Compel
ing capacity at the expense of the
increased labor and lower wages of
the French metal workers.
The Ruhr, Berlin and all other
metal workers of Germany have been
left by the reformist trade union
centers to the mercies of capital and
of the military dictatorship. In this
determined struggle for the eight
hour day we see no united leadership
The factories have raised the BAN
ner of the struggle on their own
initiative and against the will of the
central unions. The struggle is di-
rected by the factory and shop COM
mittees and by those branches of the
metal workers union which are led
by communists. In this struggle
SHINES and Company are calmly
looking on from the third line of
trenches and before the working
masses will be able to reach this line,
they will have to overcome the re-
sistance Of their town" unions and of
General Seeckt's warhounds.
Support the German Comrades!
Comrades and Brothers: Lose no
time. Support your fellow workers
in Germany. Follow the example Of
the Red International of Labor
Unions which has started collections
for the support of the struggling
workers, and not of Shines bench
men.
The international Propaganda
Committee of Revolutionary Metal
Workers calls upon you to form in
every country committees of help to
the struggling metal workers of Ger
many. These committees should ex-
plain to the workers of their coun-
tries the situation in Germany, collect
money for the support of the strug-
Cling German workers. Send this
money directly to the international
Workers Relief Committee or its
American section. The Friends Of
Soviet Russia and Workers Germany.
On to the support of the German
workers!
On to the struggle for the eight hour
dayl
Long live the revolutionary metal
workers of Germany;
Down with the traitors to the work
ing classl
Long live international solidarity.
INTERNATIONAL PROPAGANDA
COMMITTEE OF REVOLUTION
AIRY METAL WORKERS.
Moscow, January 81, 1924.