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Show IflHE PESCE IS ! URGED EOR SOVIETS j Continuance of State of War in Russia Deemed Inexcusable by English Labor Leaders LONDON, Jan. 29. Complete and Immediate peace for Soviet Russia is declared necessary In a manifesto signed by eighteen prominent labor leaders including John Robert Clynes, former food controller, James Henry Thomas, general secretary of the national na-tional union of railway men and William Wil-liam Brace, miners' leader. . The signatories assert that they "do not subscribe to the political and social so-cial theories on which the soviet government gov-ernment is based," but contend that a continunnce of the state of war is Inexcusable In-excusable and that the course of least risk all round is peace. They maintain main-tain that If the soviet government is merely imposing Its power on (he Russian Rus-sian people by tyranny, it is because the people are cowed by privation and hunger nnd that those conditions will be perpetuated by a state of war, the horrors of which will fall not upon the tyrannical government but upon the peasants, women and children. chil-dren. The manifesto denounces "the intrigues" in-trigues" of the great powers and their "proposal to use alien satellite armies to prosecute a war which their own soldiers have refused to wace" indl- eating, among the "satellites," Japan and Poland. It concludes by declaring that the labor party, if it comes into power or wields a determining influence in the next year or two, "will not regard itself it-self bound by military or diplomatic commitments made secretly and in defiance de-fiance of the foreign policy to which the labor party is Dledcod.' |