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. r PAGE 10. THE T OILE E SATURDAY, DEC. 18, 1920. confiscated from a parasite nobility and a bank rupt Czarist government might prove objection able to the State Department. If a gold coin is sent from Russia the ship per must prove that this coin was not a con fiscated coin, but had been come by "legitimat ely. ' ' Gold that comes from the blood of natives is all right as a medium of exchange. Gold that represents the sweat of the workers is all right as currency. Gold taken by a workers' govern ment from a parasite, corrupt nobility is too impure to be landed here. Does this mean that this Government stands with the rich of all countries as against the workers of all countri es? The period of depression is a cloud with a silver lining for the employers. The drive for the open shop is on. Chambers of Commerce have sprung up everywhere whose one program is to crush Organized Labor. Unemployment will be used as a club to beat the workers into sub mission. Are YOU going to do anything about this, or are you going to let unemployment do its work with the unions? Unrestricted trade with Russia will not solve the entire question of unemployment, but it will help mightily. There are some trades which could keep busy for months supplying Russia's wants alone. Union men, you know the fight for an open shop is on. You know that the employers intend to weaken and finally crush the unions if pos sible. You know that they are being helped in this by unemployment. You know that countries are no longer isolated and self contained. The interests of all countries are interlaking. We cannot have normal conditions without real peace. We cannot have real peace while this un derground warfare with Russia continues. The Italian workers forced their government to re sume relations with Russia. The papers of November 16th tell that the Council of Action of the English Trade Unions have issued a manifesto demanding free ex change of commodities between Russia and Great Britain. They say: "Peace with Russia would increase employ ment and bring down prices. "We cannot allow political imperialism or the interests of international financiers to stand in our way. Workers should not starve to pro mote inflated prices or perpetuate artif ical bank rates." The English workers have realized the re lation of unemployment to the blockade. Are the American workers going to do the same? You are raising millions of dollars to fight the open shop campaign. Are you going to join the workers of Europe in fighting unemploy ment by raising the blockade? The labor mov ement is international or it is nothing. Agitate for the lifting of the blockade that starves both Russian and American workers! In My Union How one live wire woke up a conservative union meeting. By J. C. C There are four hundred members in the ma chinists local to which I belong. Like most union members, scarcely more than fifty ever attend a local meeting. Altho we have had at nearly every meeting someone present to address us upon mat ters of interests to us as workers and as members of our craft, it has not increased the attendance. I have lately come to the conclusion that per haps it may be the speakers who have kept away the members for they have told us everything but truths. I have been a member of this union ever since it was organized and have been at all times until now a conservative. But since the last meeting I have changed and am now ready to read and think along radical lines. This change in me is due entirely to the activ ities of one younger member who woke up our meeting with a short but radical speech which convinced me and others that we have been hav ing the wrong kind of speakers to address us. This young man first attracted my attention by selling anti-Open Shop pamphlets at our meet ing. After "".he regular business of the meeting was dispensed with the Chairman introduced an Jfl