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This letter to British soldiers, reprinted from Sheldrake's Military Gazette (Aldershot), of March 1st, 1912, is the subject of the charge against Crowsley, Guy Bowman, the Buck brothers, and Tom Mann. Read and judge for yourself. Let the voice of the be heard.

Men! Comrades! Brothers!

You are in the Army

So are in the Army of Destruction. We in the Industrial, or Army of Construction.

We work at mine, mill, forge, factory, or dock, producing and transporting all the goods, clothing, stuffs, etc., which make it possible for people to live.

When go on Strike to better OUR lot, which is the lot also of, and , YOU are called upon by your officers to MURDER US.

DON'T DO IT!

You know how it happens always has happened.

We stand out as long as we can. Then one of our (and your) irresponsible Brothers, goaded by the sight and thought of his and his loved ones' misery and hunger, commits crime on property. Immediately are ordered to, as you did at Mitchelstown, at Featherstone, at Belfast.

Don't know that when you are out of the colours, and become a "civy" again, that you, like us, may be on Strike, and, like , are liable to be  by other soldiers.

"," says the book.

It does not say, "unless you have a uniform on."

No! MURDER IS MURDER, whether committed in the heat of anger on one who has wronged a loved one, or by pipe-clayed Tommies with a rifle.

Property can be replaced! Human life, never.

The Idle Rich Class, who own and order you about, own and order us about also. They and their friends own the land and means of life of Britain.

When kick, they order  to  us.

When kick,  get courtmartialed and cells. fight is fight. Instead of fighting against each other, we should be fighting with each other.

Out of loins,  lives,  homes,  came.

Don't disgrace, by being the willing tools any longer of the.

, like, are of the. When rise,  rise ; when  fall, even by your bullets,  fall also.

England with its fertile valleys and dells, its mineral resources, its sea harvests, is the heritage of ages to us.

no doubt joined the Army out of poverty.

work long hours for small wages at hard work, because of poverty. And both poverty and  arises from the fact that Britain with its resources belongs to only a few people. These few, owning Britain, own jobs. Owning jobs, they own  very.

Comrades, have called in vain? Think things out and refuse any longer to. Help to win back  for the, and the  for the.