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The Workers Council The Russian Miracle It Must Not Fail Vol.
New York, October 15, 1921 No. HAVE LEFT EUROPE, WHERE ART HAS BEEN KILLED BY COMMERCIALISM, AND AM CONVINCED THAT THE GREATEST HUMAN MIRACLE THAT HAS HAPPENED FOR 2, 000 YEARS IS NOW PASSING IN RUSSIA.
Thus writes Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer, who has gone to Russia to teach her art, in a letter to the Paris Humanite, the French communist daily. We are, doubtless, too contemporary, she continues, and can only see material facts; but those who shall live 100 years hence will understand that in the reign of Communism humanity has taken an immense step forward, and THE MARTYRDOM WHICH RUSSIA IS SUFFERING WILL BE AS FRUITFUL FOR POSTERITY AS THE MARTYRDOM OF THE NAZARENE. Only the fraternity of all the workers of the world, only the Internationale, can save civilization.
Swept by Famine and Plague WE ask our readers to read over again the above news item taken from a current issue of The Herald, the London labor daily, so ably edited by George Lansbury.
Soviet Russia is today facing her greatest agony. She is combatting the distress that is gripping some of her richest provinces, swept by famine and plague.
Let the fraternity of the toilers of America with the workers of the world rally in the effort to raise 220, 000, 000. This is the amount needed to meet this crisis.
Demand that the Russian workers receive immediate and adequate assistance from the United States government.
Get behind the national and international drive for funds. The Russian miracle must develop into a complete reality. You must help!
Send Contributions to The Workers Council Now!
entitled, The Lion and Lamb, in which the lion and TABLE OF CONTENTS the lamb lie down together, the lamb inside the lion.
Page Under the Gompers chloroforming policies, at least Cartoon, Left. Same Old Rotten Eggs. Cover a part of the labor movement will persuade itself Famine Appeal for Soviet Russia 114 that capitalism is serious about this disarming busEditorials: 115 116 iness.
Washington Conference Exposed. 117 119 But it will wake up with the next strike, as was The Task of the Hours 120 121 the case in West Virginia. The private armies of the The American Coal Miners.
122 employers, the state constabulary and militia, and the Labor Dictatorship Is Historical Necessity 123 federal troops, with tanks, aeroplanes and poison gas, Socialist Party and Soviet Russia.
125 will again be brought into effective use.
Lusk and Hillquit Accommodated.
126 If the Harding administration at Washington is Medical Care in Soviet Russia. 127 interested in limiting armaments let it disarm the rulLaunch the National Campaign.
128 ing class of the United States.
But this it will steadfastly refuse to do. It wouldn Issued by the Executive Committee of the so much as rob a Thiel or Burns Detective Agency Workers Council of the United States assassin of a single bullet from his precious automatic.
The American ruling class is armed to the teeth EDITOR LOUIS ENGDAHL against the workers of this country. The Washington conference will make sure that any disarmament Address all communications to Workers Council, hypocricy that may develop will not weaken the inter80 East 11th Street, New York City national exploiters in their war upon the world workers.
This is the time for the lukewarm to warm up.
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If the jobless get hungry, they can still look at SOLVING THE JOBLESS PROBLEM Sammy Gompers and Steel Kaiser Schwab When the American Federation of Labor Executive standing side by side in the picture taken of the unCouncil met several weeks ago at Atlantic City, the employment conference at Washington.
question of participating in the proposed unemployment conference was discussed.
LIMITING ARMAMENTS John Tobin, member of the council and treasurer Under the spiritual guidance of the Gompers regime of the federation, remembering labor experience of the American Federation of Labor, the organized with Wilson industrial conference, urged ignoring workers in various sections of the country are plan the equally futile Harding conclave.
ning to celebrate Armistice Day, November 11, with Tobin even threatened to resign if the council the holding of Disarmament meetings.
should decide to participate. Gompers, always a In New York City the labor officialdom announces staunch believer in capital labor par insisted or that there will be no co operation with pacifists. taking part.
This, no doubt, refers to those who opposed the late Against five labor representatives, Secretary Hoowar.
ver selected twenty industrial and financial magnates, First preparations for the New York demonstration most of whom are open shoppers, with glorious were made at a meeting held in the City Hall presided records of union smashing.
over by the patriotic head of the Central Trades The professors who were also invited to this capand Labor Council.
ital labor love feast were intended only for decorative Among those present were representatives of the purposes.
American Red Cross, the Girl Scouts, National Sec When the real issues were reached the present urity League, the American Defense Society, the wage standard and the closed shop these professors Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Merchants As could be depended on to produce enough scientific sociation, all hysteria promoting organizations during data to prove how a decrease in wages and the open and before the late conflict. These were the original shop would benefit the workers.
champions of preparedness in 1916 17.
After a great deal of vaporous generalities and Gompers is carrying out this idea on a national picture taking Charley Schwab and Sammy Gomscale thru the organization of a national advisory pers always standing together in the center the concommittee on disarmament, to which he has invited ference came to the heart of the unemployment Ralph Easly, of the Civic Federation, and other flag problem by receiving a recommendation from its waving jingoes.
most important sub committee for a return to Gompers is thus trying to repeat his pantomine. normalcy, via wage cutting.
TH HE WORKERS COUNCIL asks all its readers to send their contributions to Dr. Moses Aronson, Treasurer, Workers Council Russian Famine Relief Fund, Room 233, 80 East 11th Street, New York City.
Every penny received will be turned over immediately to the American Federated Rus.
sian Famine Relief Committee for immediate use.
Among the first to respond to the Workers Coun Union, Local 1018, Richmond, Va. The total to cil appeal for the Russian Famine Relief Fund are start is 29. 33. Readers of the Workers Council the follow Naron, California, 10; Serier will be interested to learn that their editor, Louis Washington, 5; Loggia Giuseppi Verdie, Richmond, Engdahl, has been elected to the Executive ComVa. 75; Stone, Virginia, 58; and Painters mittee of the Russian Federated Famine Relief,