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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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