CHALLENGE & APPEAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 4

CHALLENGE & APPEAL

ADDRESSED ON MAY DAY TO GERMAN WORKERS BY BRITISH LABOUR COUNCIL. STRUGGLE AGAINST NAZI TYRANNY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 1. Among world-wide May Day messages sent out from this country was a manifesto by the National Council of Labour containing a “challenge and appeal” to German workers. "Do you realise,” the manifesto asked, "that after 50 years of sound progress through working-class organisation you are now bound as slaves to a worse tyranny than history has ever known before and that only the military defeat and overthrow of the Nazi dictatorship will set you free? “We call upon you, in the name of your own great leaders of the past who fought for your liberation, to renew the struggle which we have never ceased to carry on, fortified in their faith and inspired by their example to strive for the re-establishment of freedom, international order and social justice.” Broadcast messages included one< from the Minister of Labour, Mr s Bevin, to the workers of France and to the French General Confederation, of Labour and Agriculture, from the First Lord to the Admiralty, Mr Alexander, to the Scandinavian countries, and from the Czechoslovak President, Dr. Benes, to his people. Mr William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour, sent messages to German and Italian workers. M. Camile Huysmans, veteran Belgian Labour leader, was another speaker.