WORDS OF WISDOM

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 12

WORDS OF WISDOM

The. subjoined extract is from a local newspaper published in a small town in Central France. This appeal ami warning to working men might, without any alteration, be addressed to the working men of every other oily To work is, for the man, a natural law. and therefore a duly. Work provides wealth, whereas idleness ensures misery to the masses and boredom lo the wealthy. But if work is to provide: wealth both to Nature and to the individual, liberty to work must exist. Such liberty comprises and includes: Liberty to choose the kind.of work, one wishes to undertake; liberty .to work" wherever one desires; liberty to'join trade unions or to remain out: liberty to buy-and, sell; liberty to lend one’s money; liberty to defend the rights of ones profession: . Communism- is striking at all these recognised and necessary rights; it admits none of'them. ■ Under the- Communistic - creed _ the worker becomes a slave; lite. for him is a perpetual slavery, which eventually results in - decadence both for himselt and the nation, for when everything is crushed under the heel of Communism everything perishes. Workers, justly proud of your liberties, understand -that the reign of terror imposed on your .Russian brothers has reduced them to poverty mid. rendered them helpless, because their degradation is a result of their slavery.