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Description: | Concept: inter-war, workers, civilian effort, industry, business / trading / markets, charities, women / womens work, children, family, death, medical / convalescence, civilian personnel Description: whole: eight separate images are positioned down the right and left edges, each held within a black border and set against an orange background. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The text is separate and positioned in the upper third, down the centre, and across the bottom edge, in orange and in black. The title and text are set against a white background. image: the first image is a depiction of a nurse standing by the bedside of a dead patient whose face looks like a skull. The second image is a depiction of a graveyard with wreaths placed over some of the crosses. The third image is a depiction of a large crowd of striking workers. The fourth image is a depiction of two workers. The fifth image is a depiction of a crowd of men gathering menacingly around a smaller man. The sixth image is a depiction of a worker operating a valve in a pipeline. The seventh image is a depiction of a woman bathing a baby in a tin bath. The eighth image is a depiction of a woman holding a child in her arms as she tries to persuade her husband, who is putting a jacket on, not to go out. text: ARBEITER-BERLINS wir die unterzeichneten Leiter der gemeinnützigen Anstalten Gross-Berlins wenden uns an Euch im Namen der unserer Obhut anvertrauten Kranken und Verwundeten, Säuglinge und Mütter [text accompanying first image] Die Vollversammlung des Arbeiter-rats hatte am 6. März mit kleiner Mehrheit beschlossen, der Bevölkerung Gross-Berlins Gas, Wasser und Elektrizität zu sperren. Wisst Ihr, was ein solcher Streik, abgesehen von dem Elend, das über die gesamte Bevölkerung Berlins gekommen wäre, für viele Hundert unserer Pfleglinge bedeutet? [text accompanying second image] Er bedeutet für sie den sicheren TOD also Mord ausgeführt von den eigenen Volksgenossen, vielleicht von den eigenen Vätern, Männern und Brüdern. [text accompanying third image] Trotzdem ist dieser Streik und zwar trotz des flammenden Widerspruchs der mehrheits-sozialdemokratischen Mitglieder der Streikleitung zum Teil zur Ausführung gelangt. Nur durch das Eingreifen der Technischen Abteilung der Garde-Kav.-Schützen-Division konnte grösseres Unheil verhütet werden. [text accompanying fourth image] Wir wenden uns an Euch, reife Männer unter den Arbeitern [text accompanying fifth image] die Ihr nicht jedem ehrgeizigen und unreifen Schreier nachlauft. [text accompanying sixth image] Duldet nicht wieder, dass ein derart Verbrecherischer STREIK gemacht wird. Beweist Eure Gesinnung durch die Tat und helft gegebenen Falles die Lücken ausfüllen, die verblendete Kameraden gerissen haben. [text accompanying seventh image] Schafft Ihr uns dann Licht, Gas und Wasser [text accompanying eighth image] Wir wenden uns an Euch, Ihr Arbeiterfrauen und Arbeiterkinder Sagt Eurem Manne, Eurem Vater, er soll an unsere hülflosen Pfleglinge denken und durch seiner Hände Arbeit sie vor dem Verderben retten [the names of thirteen directors of medical organisations follows] Druck: Richard Neumann, S.14, Sebastianstr. 69 [Workers of Berlin. We the undersigned, leaders of the public welfare institutions of Greater Berlin, address you in the name of sick and wounded, infants and mothers, entrusted to our care. On 6 March the full assembly of the Workers' Council had decided by a small majority to block the supply of gas, water and electricity to the inhabitants of Greater Berlin. Do you know what such a strike, apart from the misery that would have afflicted the whole population of Berlin, means for many hundreds of those in our care? For them it means certain Death, i.e. murder perpetrated by their own fellow countrymen, perhaps their own fathers, husbands and brothers. Even so the strike, admittedly in spite of the ardent opposition of the majority Social Democratic members of the strike leadership, was partly implemented. Greater evil could be averted only through the intervention of the Technical Section of the Horse Guards Rifles Division. We appeal to you, mature men among the workers who do not run after every ambitious, immature trouble-maker. Do not allow such a criminal strike to happen again. Show the way you think through action and if necessary help plug the gaps left by your blinded comrades. Ensure we have light, gas and water. We appeal to you, wives and children of workers, tell your husband, your father, he should think of the helpless people in our care and save them from destruction through the labour of his hands.] Object: grave cross, bath tub | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Unknown Printer: Richard Neumann, Berlin S14 | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2789... | Go to resource |
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