GERMAN WORKERS MANIFESTO

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 27 July 1917, Page 1

GERMAN WORKERS MANIFESTO

According to the Swiss Social organ, tks " Eerner Tagwaeht,' thq iojiowihg broadsheet was being circulated ■ ni advance oi- May Day in Berlin and other towns: — "/ Workers! Comrades! Pxoia Apia 16, the bread ration for the already ;hui'af Vmn. and impoverished people is to be reducedby more than a quarter. .Whale 'our --onsand brothers a,Te being murdered, a;Ki maimed in the trenches and. on the -pavtle£eld, the working people have to starve vnnt-il their working powers are •compittviv lost and miserably destroyed by exhaustion. That is required by the icterus oi the capitalists and the Junker ciaes. of the clique .which "contrived, the vrr-v arid brought evil to the German people! Workers! Our brothers, the Knssian proletariat, were up to a month, the same condition. But We know "whai happened in Russia. The working people there l ose, and not only compelled a tettliment of the food question, but :it the same time—which was infinitely more important—gained liberties of > which the Gerimfn workman still does not dare to dreain. Russian workmen have destroyed Tsarisni and won the Democratic Repi'i-.. : lie, the introduction of a people's 'Govem- . ment. • V And we' Are we to continue patiently ' to bear the old misery, the abuses, the hunger, the murder of the people—the , cause of all our suffering and pain No! , A thousand times. No! Leave the workj shops and factories! . Leave off work! ; Workmen, arise! i Your might realise! c All wheels stand still! J If 'tis your strong arms' -will! T Down with the wax! Down, with thfl s Government!' Peace! Liberty! Bread s