THE CRY OF AUSTRIAN CHILDREN.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1920, Page 5

THE CRY OF AUSTRIAN CHILDREN.

MR. APPLETON'S PLEDGE OF HELP. Vienna, Feb. 26. Mr. Appleton, the secretary of Hie General Federation of Trade Unions, is now visiting Vienna investigating condit'ons. A big meeting in the industrial quarter was held yesterday, at which he spoke. He paid: "I have been through the streets of Vienna, and have visited workers' dwellings where children lay in bed with fever without a doctor or medicine, where beside a sick child was another ,dead, without even a sheet covering : t. We .workers of other countries will do everything to help you. We have already ispned an appeal to the workers, and if we succeed in convincing »,nriO,ooo British workmen of Vienna's distress they will imitate the Dutch workers. We expect the same of our American comrades, to whom we have also turned. I hope in two or three years to return to hear Vienna workers say, "Thanks to international solidarity, the sun shines again for us." The Deputy, Herr Wiedenhofer, who also spoke, said:— "We beg to tell your people at home that we are ready to work, but cannot because the Peace Treaty bars us frnm the position of a normal country."