The Archive · 1938

Plea to Germans

Restraint on German Government to Avoid

War Urged in Appeal London, Sept. 28.

An appeal to the German people to exercise their power and influence to restrain the German Government from again plunging Europe into the horrors of war is contained in a striking message which the British National Council of Labour—representing the Trades Union Congress, the Labour Party and the Parliamentary Labour Party—has addressed to the German nation.

"The British Labour movement," the message states, "has done every. thing it could to avert a calamity. We worked for justice and understanding of your problems in Germany's dark days at the close of the Great War and the years that followed.

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