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20 WU JM 206 NL
1054 am 7th
Detroit, Mich., April 5, 1918.

The President,
Washington, D.C.

We the Russian citizens of the City of Detroit at a mass meeting called
by the Soviet of all Russian organizations which was held at the Social
Turner Hall on March 31, 1918, for the purpose of organizing revolutionary
legions for the defense of Russian freedom for the invasion of German hordes
and to give other assistance to the revolutionary peoples of Russia, resolved
that revolutionary legions be organized trained equipped and transported to
Russia and that we request the President of the United States to permit us the
organization and training of such legions and that we further request that the
American government furnish the transportation for these legions to Russia.
It is further resolved that we protest against Japanese intervention in the
internal affairs of Russia. Deeply convinced of the innocence of Thomas Mooney
and his comrades of the crime of which they are accused of by the Chamber
of Commerce of the City of San Francisco and as a matter of fact their only
guilt is their loyalty to the workingmen's cause. We demand their inmediate
release.

It is further resolved that since Alexander Bergnan and Emma Goldman
are Russian citizens, we demand that they be released from prison and be
permitted to leave this country and to return to their native land. Finally
we protest against the imprisonment of workingmen who are struggling against
the oppression by the capitalist class. We demand that justice be given to
the men now on trial in Chicago.

Resolution Committee.

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