| Show A STINGING indictment few feu more stinging indictments indictment of soviet rule have haie been written ritten than the report from the metal workers union of russia which has been mode made public by tha american federation of labor it la Is shown that the bol which pretend to be the friends of the workers have instituted a policy of industrial which is unthinkable in lit its cruelty imd and oppression freedom of speech and of tho the press and the right to hold meetings have haic cecii abolished workmen have been impressed into ni jil du duhan harice all and forced to labor here ever the government es fit and at whatever wae nage the pie wishes to pa in ill most cases the tile inen arc are 1111 under dir paid and underfed if workmen quit work they not otil arc are arrested but tit lire tire elrea saurel eL punished q nd sometimes shot in a it of instances the workers atre forc fort i d to labor for eight licurs liours IL ack week 1 I ilc lie arc are aftin compelled to bork work and on oll sundays i nell ten if they object to doing so A report workmen near petrograd statis statts that intall In tarl finif of the russian Ilus sian proletariat ha have hate te perished and another state mint has in the full of the word mord we e are Mar barving ving as we exist on bread and omet soup alone the conditions ree revealed aled in lit lie the aport of the ll metal work ork ers should bring bout about a revulsion of feeling the part of tho those of americ in orga myed labor who laite have been iding the t ause of lie the I 1 r 1 ic Ma in lit the acl rt are in accord with mith tho 1 bluh have hae leen teen from binic to time by 01 0 servers of the tile american govern allent who haic liae rus litis bian conditions the soviet is an all audirac au of tin the worst sort pre tending to be a dictatorship it is ii not even enen that it is a pov go eminent which apparently Appa retith exists foi the ole sole purpose of car rang out the tile will of the few lead era who arc are ui power it dois not the people it is vi not the tile will of if the people it la is kept helit jn in b military forte jt is 19 01 1 ol I coed to all of the principles I 1 of drino trac and all of the hinds for the american labor ement stand Exclia lle |
