This works quite well as a short monologue
Jim Carroll

THE 'DON'T SHOOT' LEAFLET        1912
The year 1912 brought the first national miners' strike and a further London dock strike against the victimization of trade unionists. And it was against this back ground that five people, among them Tom Mann and two others prosecuted as the printers, were sentenced to prison terms of up to nine months for circulating a leaflet appealing to the soldiers during the Liverpool strike, after two men had been shot dead.

DON'T SHOOT!
Men! Comrades! Brothers! You are in the army. So are we. You, in the army of Destruction. We, in the Industrial or army of Construction.
We work at mine, mill, forge, factory, or dock, etc., producing and transporting all the goods, clothing stuffs, etc., which make it possible for people to live.
You are Workingmen's Sons.
When we go on Strike to better Our lot, which is the lot also of your Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters, you are called upon by your Officers to murder us. Don't do it.
Don't you know that when you are out of the Colours, and become a 'Civvy' again, that You, like us, may be on strike, and You, like us, liable to be murdered by other soldiers.
Boys, Don't Do It.
'Thou shalt not kill,' says the Book.
Don't forget that!
It does not say, 'unless you have a uniform on'.
No! Murder is Murder . . .
Think things out and refuse any longer to murder your Kindred. Help us to win back Britain for the British and the World for the Workers.