Hellraisers Journal: A Stirring Appeal From Eugene Victor Debs on Behalf of Leaders of W. F. of M.
Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 03/10/2016 - 12:56pmThe issue is the Workers versus Plutocracy.
If they strike the first violent blow we will strike the last.
-Eugene Victor Debs
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Saturday March 10, 1906
From the Montana News: Comrade Debs Speaks, Warns Plutocrats
From this week's edition of the Montana News:
Debs' Stirring Message.
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Calls Working Class to Prepare for Action
to Prevent Judicial Murder.
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What I have to say about the latest and boldest stroke of the plutocracy will require but little space. It is not talk that is wanted but action.
The issue is clear. There can be no mistake about it.
The labor leaders that cannot be bribed or bullied must be ambushed and murdered. That is the situation in a nutshell. How shall we meet it? In just one way. We have got to fight.
Another Haymarket attempt will precipitate a revolution.
If murder must be committed it is not the working class alone that will furnish the victims this time.
Moyer, Haywood and their colleagues are absolutely innocent. The writer knows them to the heart's core and will stake his all on them.
The only crime they are guilty of is that they are unswervingly true to the working class, and the working class can do no less than stand by them to the finish.
