Aji appeal to British Trade Unionists for "direct action' to help the Russian Bolsheviks has been issued by some of the members of the British Labour delegation that recently visited Russia, It is signed by five members of the delegation " only—Messrs, A, A. Purcell, H. Skinner, Ben Turner, R. C.{ Wallhead, and Robert Williaus. Those who do not sign are Miss Bondfield. Mrs. Snowden, Mr. Clifford Allen, and Mr. Tom Shaw, up. With the delegation also, acting as secretaries and interpreters, were Mr. C. Roden Buxton and' Dr. Haden Guest, and_ they have not signed this manifesto. This appeal is in the following terms:
"We have visited Russia and have been compelled to realize that no form of Parliamentary action will induce the British Government to give up its policy. of trying to strangle the S regime, Russia has fought for six years against various enemies. Had she been allowed to continue her revolution and its development since 1917, Russia would have been the most prosperous country in the whole world for the working people.
"Last year the mere threat of direct action on the part of the Triple Industrial Alliance caused Churchill and his associates to hesitate in their policy.
"The Russian workers and peasants and the soldiers of the Red Army hailed with delight the decision of the dockers to refuse to load the Jolly George, but the fight to prevent the prostitution of our labour services at the command of Imperialism must not be left to dockers or to railwaymen. We appeal, therefore, to the men and women who make up and determine the policy of the Trade Union movement that they should at branch and lodge meetings, and by such means as are available to them, to decide in favour of direct action as the only way out of the impasse into which we have been forced by the Churchills, Milners, Curzons, Golovins, and Pilsudskis."
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