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Show GOMPERS WARNS RUSSIAN PEOPLE NEW YORK, March 1. American labor has sent to the Russian people a message mes-sage of cheer and "pledge of high resolve and purpose' to defeat autocracy, it was announced here today. A cablegram containing this declaration was cable. 1 by Samuel Gompers, president presi-dent of the American Federation of Labor, La-bor, on behalf of the A merit "an Alliance for Labor and Democracy, of which Mr. Gompers is also president. The executive council of the alliance authorized This action after voting by telegraph. The message warns the Russian Rus-sian people that Prussian militarism menaces free Russia today as nevor before be-fore and that "the clear object of Germany Ger-many is the destruction of Russian freedom free-dom and the annexation of a preat area of Russian territory." The Russians are urged to arm themselves to meet the invading in-vading German troops. |