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 Brother workers of Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland, be firm in your hard struggle, remember that the workers of all countries are with you.

Down with the Executioners of the Working Class!

Long live the Liberation of the Working Class!

Long Live the Proletarian Revolution!

LMOST for four years the revolutionary proletariat of Jugo-Slavia has been suffering from the horrors of the white terror. The enslavement of the working class has reached the extreme limit. Under the protection of the government, on June 2nd of this year, armed Fascist bands attacked the miners in Trbovlje (Slovania). Five miners and a child were killed. Eight miners were wounded. The wounded workers are at present in prison. One miner was seized by the Fascists, tortured, "sentenced" to death, and murdered.

For these bloody crimes the Fascists have not even been indicted.

On the 12th of July of this year, the Jugo-Slavian government again forbade the activity of the revolutionary labor unions and the Independent Labor Party, and disolved its organizations under the pretext that they, too, are engaged in illegal work.

Since 1920 this is already the second case of prohibition of the activity of labor unions in Jugo-Slavia. Over half of the labor unions had not yet been able to recover and begin their work, when the labor unions were again outlawed. Again the workers are subjected to persecution, arrests and tortures.

Workers of all countries!

Raise your mighty voice against this barbaric, brutal and reactionary regime, against the Jugo-Slavian government—the vassal of French imperialism.

Show your solidarity to the tried fighters, the revolutionary workers of Jugo-Slavia, who are struggling against the counter-revolutionary capitalist government.

Workers of all countries, join the fight against the counter-revolution which is being organized in the Balkans under the direction of the Jugo-Slavian government,

Rise to the defense of your persecuted comrades!

Comrades, workers and women workers of Jugo-Slavia!

The entire international proletariat is firmly convinced that you will maintain your courage in the struggle to the end, as in former battles, Only at the price of heavy sacrifices can the working class achieve its liberation. Only through struggle can the working class obtain power. Be firm in your struggle against reaction and prove that you are worthy of fighting comrades of the great Russian proletariat and the international proletariat who is marching together with you.

Down with the Oppressors of the Working Class!

Down with the Fascism!

Long Live the Jugo-Slavian Proletariat!

Long Live the Social Revolution!