Show Belgian Workmen Ask Assistance By Associated Press V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 27 An An apI ap ap- I peal from Belgian Beglan workmen for orI or oi or- or I assistance by ly neutral governments governments govern govern- ments and laboring classes in neutral neutral neu neu- I nations was made public at the I Bel Belgian lan legation today It says Bays that men have been thrown out of ot work and kept in forced Idleness which has led ed the Germans to decree that either you 1 0 must sign a contract for work in Germany or you will vIll be betaken betaken betaken taken as slaves saves As a result it adds the whole of the working classes of or Belgium a aTte threatened with sa er slavery starvation or death Germany the appeal says has condemned her victims to pay an immense immense immense im im- im- im mense war levy which already amounts to more than and which Is increasing at the rate of or monthly She has carried off and transported into Germany by pillage confiscation confiscation tion requisition and forced sale foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs and merchandise to the value of more than She has seized and sent to Germany the greater part of the raw products in our factories the machinery and all accessories she has thus stopped our Industry and caused an almost general general general gen gen- eral and enforced state of ot idleness of or orthe the working classes The plight of those deported Is pictured pic pie as painful |