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Page Four : se ——__ 13th st blished by the Comprodally Publishing Co., Inc., daily exeept Sunfay, at 56 B New York City, N.Y. Telephone ALgonquin 4-7956. Cable “DATWORK.” and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 5¢ E. 18th St., New Yerk, N.Y TWELVE DEAD IS FOUR DAYS’ TOLL OF WORKERS =} IN ONE PRUSSIAN TOWN Red Aid Leader, Town yicted Colony Storm Troop Report Gives Names of Storm Troop Mur-| ' derers; Police Assist Gangsters Who Kall With SAARBRUC German} workers by Nazis in four days Wupperthal district, Pruss Comrade Glasper, district leader of the International Red| Aid, and Town Councillors Ot Biberfeld, released after months in a concentration camp, Were dragged from their homes by Storm Troopers, thrown into a motor ear, tortured and murdered, .and their bodies were thrown into the Ronsdorf canal. Gottschalk’s brother, Frank Was murdered some days ago. Erwin Dahler, member of a work- efs youth organization of Elberfeld. after having been missed for several | days, was found dead on the ash dump on the outskirts of the town with his abdomen ripped open Police and Storm Troopers raided | the Evicted Colony on the outskirts | of Elberfeld, at 2 o'clock in the morn- ing. After a two-hour search, the police left, and the Storm Troop lead- | er August Puppe, seized a worker | named Gorsmeier. Another worker,| already badly beaten up, was thrown| out of a motor-car, and Gorsmeier pulled in. In the car, Gorsmeier was shot four times, and his jugular veins cut. His body was found in a pond the next day. The other worker was picked up by the police, taken to the| Storm ‘Troop barracks in the Aue, and tortured in an attempt to make| him confess to an imaginary plot to blow up the Storm Troop barracks He was released finally, after being threatened with death if he spoke| about the treatment he had received. | Another worker was found dead| with three bullets in his body in Bre-| merstrasse, Elberfeld, where another | murdered worker was found recently. | Another worker was found dead in Osterbaum, Elberfeld, with two shots | in his-abdomen and two in his back. | Sixsother dead bodies have been! found in the outskizts of Elberfeld, but their identity is not known The murderers of all twelve are well known. Their leader is August Puppe, of Reibahnstrasse; Wohlgemut | and Stroten, Petroleum Quarter, and | Wichelhaus, Postrasse, all of Elbén- feild World Anti-FascistAid | Issues First Report on Receipts. Exvenditures NEW YORK, July 19.—The finan- cial report of the international office in Paris, France, of the National Committees to Aid Victims of German Fascism throughout the world, up to duly 1, received by the American committee shows total receipts of 51,111.92 francs, and disbursements of 42,014.59 francs for April, May and June, it was announced today by Alfred Wagenknecht, secretary of the committee here. At present rates of hi exchange. 42.00 francs is equivalent to about $2000. Resides these sums. it was vointed out, the International Labor Defense of France had collected 60,000 francs for dof-- nd relief even before the oper the week of defense and reliev { stims of German fascism which in Europe is being held July a7 to 24. and other sums have been col- lected by other sections of the Inter- national Red Aid. The American campaign for d and relief, in which the International Labor Defense is taking a prominent role, is to be held August 7 to 14 throughout the country, except in New York. where the week will be| held July 31 to August 7. The financial report, given in| francs, follows: Receivts: from’ Workers Interna- tional Relief, Switzerland, 976.08 fr.: National Committee to Aid Victims of Germen Fascism, U. S. A.. 10,721.25; | W. I. R, Austria, 2.600: Lendon Com- Mittee 15,014.59: French Committee. 12.000. Expenditures: April 15, for upkeep of kitchens in Germany, 3,000: for | relief in the Saar. 1,000; May 30, for relief work to victims of German fas- ism in France 1,000; June 1, for up- keep of kitchens in Germany, 3,000: | for Paris People's Court to try the workers’ leaders accused of firing the | Reichstag, to help effect their release, 7,000; June 20, sent to Germany for Political orisonsrs, 12,000; publication costs of Brown Book, record of Nazi atrocities, 2,127.75; relief and chil- dren’s homes, Saar territory, 4255.59, | and June 27, for establishment and relief of children’s homes, 8,631.25. American Broadcaster Hired to Praise Nazis LONDON, July 19—The Fascist | government has hired Douglas Brink- ly, American radio announcer, to broadcast from the high-powered Stuttgart station in English, praising the Hitler regime. Giving his “im- pressions of Bavaria,” he said: “I take this opportunity to express my admiration for the great work of the German people's new leader, Adolf Hitler.” He went on to exclaim, “How happy the people all seem in their new freedom. Hitler has work- ed sincerely for all classes, by his| great love and understanding!” After | declaring that the foreign press has | @reatly exaggerated stories of events) 1 Germany, he declared, “T find ik everywhere peaceful and! Go to see every subscriber when his | mbscription expires te get his re- sews!, « several @ |in Berlin, according to the London) Danish Toilers Refuse Councilors, Leader of Are Victims of Night Raids Impunity July 19.—Twelve murders of | are reported from Elberfeld, | to, Datten and Gottschalk of GERMANY, JAPAN TALK WAR PACT Secret Negotiations Aimed at U.S.S.R. LONDON.—Secret negotiations for a German-Japanese alliance against af - ~ ts’ Victim Sah | the Soviet Union are now going on| “Daily Herald.” The discussions, | which are still unofficial, are be-| tween Japanese representatives and/| Alfred Rosenberg, Adolf Hitler's un-| official secretary of state. | { to Unload Ship Flying) German Swastika Flag COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 19.—The captain of a German ship at Odensee, Denmark, was forced | to haul down the Nazi flag before | the dock workers would agree to unload the ship. The workers or- | | ganized a demonstration which} ; | tied up all work on the dock. Nazis Hold Brooklyn | Man, Charge HimWith| ‘Inciting Communists’ GRIEFSWALD, Germany, July 19. i s —Walter Orloff, a student of Brook- | yn, N¥, was arested by the Neat DEMONSTRATION secret police today on charges of “in- citing Communists to renew their ac- CALLED AGAINST TERROR IN CUBA tivities.” Berlin authorities said he would probably be deported. Australian Workers’ Letter to Roosevelt Hits Frame-Up oi 9 Mass Protest in Union Square Saturday at 2 P.M. SYDNEY. N. S. W., Australia— —— — Members of the East Sydney Eco» NeW YORK.—A demonstration nomic Study Group condemned the| against the reign of terror of the Scottsboro frame-up in a protest sent | Machado-Wall Street Government in to President Roosevelt at Washington.| Guba and in support of the Cuban The protest, signed by G. Burge,| Independence movement will be held secretary of this group of workérs, | in Union Square on Saturday, July 22, States that “we, members of the East | at 2 p.m. Sydney Economic Study Group and] Sections 1 and 2 of the Communist | workers of Darlinghurst, protest|Party, and the Anti-Imperialist | against the ‘justice’ meted out to the! League, which have joined to issue Scottsboro boys in Decatur by Judge| the call for this demonstration, said: | Horton, and condemn the lynch law} “Machado has maintained a reign verdict of the mouthpiece of the Ala-| of terror against the Cuban masses bama ruling class in sentencing Hey-| ever since he came to office in 1925. wood Patterson to death. Sinte 1927 the right of assembly has “Further, we demand that this per-| been denied in Cuba. Martial law has | secution of these members of the) existed since 1930. Hundreds of work- working class cease, and that these| ers have been murdered in the streets | Nine Lawyers Volunteer for Fire Trial Defense Americans, French, Belgians, Join Law Staff of Torgler and His Comrades NEW YORK, July 19.—Nine internationally prominent lawyers from America, France and Belgium have definitely agreed to serve on the legal staff for the defense of Ernst Torgler, Blagoi Popoff, Vassil Taney and SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: Ome year, $6; six months, $8.50; 3 months, $2; 1 month, 4 Foreign and excepting Borough of Manhattan and Uronx, New York City. Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; 3 months, $3. < JULY 2, 1988 —By Burck.| — | National Organizing |in New York September 2, 3 and 4, | beginning with a mass meeting in | Madison Square Garden, according to | Present plans. | ; The National Organizing Commit- ; | tee of the U. S. Congress Against | War, with headquarters gt 104 Fifth Ave., New York, calls for the setting up of city-wide commitiees every- where, with special attention paid to |centers of war industries and war preparations. It calls for a cam- paign of enlightenment on the war danger, and for raising of funds for the delegations and for the expenses of the congress. The committee has provided “U. 8. New York and Chicago Congress Against War’ buttons, Ee which may be obtained from its head- Choose Special Dates|suarters, Representation ai the congress is to be on the basis of one delegate for each local organization, plus an ad- ditiongl delegate for every 250 mem- bers or major fraction of 250. Na- tional, state, county and city organi- | zations are each entitled to two del- | egates, for Anti-Fascist Week NEW YORK, July 19.— The New York and Chicago districts have chosen special dates for their Week of Protest, Defense and Relief for Victims of Ger- man Fascism, the National Com- mittee for Relief of Victims of German Fascism, 75 Fifth Ave- nue, announced today, The New York week will be July 31 to August 7. Text of Congrecs Cail. The text of the manifesto follows: To all Workers, Farmers, Veterans, Unemployed and Your Organiza- tions; boys be released unconditionally.” SYMPO;! ON SOVIET CULTURE NEW YORK.—‘Culture in Soviet Russia” is the subject of a sympo- sium to be held under the auspices of the John Reed Club, at the New School for Social Research, 66 W. 12th St., at 8:30 p. m., Friday. Speak- ers will be Corliss Lamont, Hugo Gellert, Joshua Kunitz and Minna Harkavy. Moissaye J. Olgin, editor of the Freiheit, will be chairman, STRUGGLE AGAINST PROVOCATION Expose Fritz Ruthe, Spy in Schenectady All workers and all workers’ organ- izations are warned by the Commu- nist Party organization of Schenec- tady, N. Y., against Fritz Ruthe as an unreliable and disruptive individ- ual, who fled and disappeared from Schenectady as soon as he was placed under investigation on suspicions of! being a stoc!-pigeon. Descripti About 27 years old, of German nationality, tall and slim, brown eyes, sharp nose, talks with a strong German accent. Two Spies Expelled from Party in Jackson JACKSON, Mich.—James Leathead and Frank (Buddy) Boughner have been expelled from the Communist Party and the Unemployed Council as disrupters and close associates of the police. All labor organizations and residents of Jackson are warned against these two individuals and are asked not to contribute funds to them. Description Leathead, about 40 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, slightly stooped. Light brown hair, grey eyes, weighs about 140 pounds. Is a drunkard and has a very disagreeable, profane manner of speech. Boughner, about 22 or 23 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, very thin, weighs about 120 pounds. Fair complexion, blue eyes, dark brown hair, pale, hol- low cheeks. Also a drunkard. These two individuals have been trying to demoralize the working class movement by spreading terror- istic rumors in the name of the Party and the Unemployed Council. They severely beat up two workers and tried to wreck the Workers’ Hall, 624 Oak St. Hare you approached your ftel- low worker im your shop with » copy ef the Dally?” M net, de | and in prison cells for daring to fight against American imperialism and its | agent, Machado. The Cuban masses are carrying on |a )leroic struggle against their condi- | tions of virtual slavery. Under the | leadership of the revolutionary trade | union center, mass strikes have been | | carried through. | “The struggles of the Cuban masses | against American imperialism must | | receive the support of all workers in | |the United States All workers are | | called upon to attend the demonstra- tion and to support the fight of the | Cuban masses as part of their own struggles against the American ruling class, which exploits the workers in the United States and in the colonies |of American imperialism.” Among the speakers at the demon- stration on Saturday in Union Square | Will be George Siskind, organizer of | Section 2 of the Communist Party; | Joseph Porper, secretary of the Down- ‘town Unemployed Council, and J. | Brandt, Section Organizer, Section 1 |of the Communist Party. Helen Alli- |son will be chairman, | ‘John Linko Dies in |U.S.S.R.; Was Founder of Labor Sports Union A letter has just been received by | friends in Cleveland, Ohio that Com- | rade John Linko has died in the So- | viet Union (Soviet Karjala) after a brief illness. Comrade Linko went to the USSR last summer. He was active in the Finnish Federation and one of the founders of the Labor Sports movement in America. His technical assistance and sport knowl- edge, gained when he was a member of the Red Sport movement in Fin- land and an outstanding athlete, con- tributed much to the building of the Labor Sports Union. His ambition was to assist in the building of the sport and physical culture movement in Soviet Karjala. He leaves behind a widow and son | in the U.S.S.R. and his eldest son who is now living in Cleveland, Ohio. |Czech War Industries Running at Top Speed PILSEN, Czechoslovakia, July 19.— ‘The cannon, shell, and grenade de- partments of the Skoda Steel Works, the largest munitions plant in Central Burope, have been working at top speed for several weeks. A new Mar- tin furnace has been jnstalled, to in- crease the plant’s production capacity. | ‘The other Ozechoslovakian munitfons plants at Brunn, Strakonnice and Prague have also increased their pro-} | duction. Orders for 80 new planes | have bene placed with an airplane | factory. Steel production in Czecho- slovakia has shown. a sharp rise cently, apparently to supply the in- Nebr needs of the munitions fac- es. . George Dimitrov, Communists charged with having set fire to the Reichs- tag. The National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, in making this announcement, added that other lawyers from England, Holland and Rumania would also take part in the defense. The American lawyers are Leo Gallagher of San Francisco, promi- nent in the Mooney case; Samuel S. Leibowitz, of New York, active in the recent Scottsboro trials; Saul Waldbaum and Errol White, both prominent members of the Philadel- phia bar, and David Levinson, also of Philadelphia, now in Europe. Three prominent French attorneys, Ms. Campinchi, Torres, and Mere- Giofferie, will join the defense staff, it was announced, and M. Soudan, president of the Belgian Bar Associ- ation, member of the Belgian House of Deputies and professor at Graux University, is reported to have vo]- unteered his services. Lawyers from Rumania, Holland and England will also be on the staff. Both Mr. Leibowitz and Mr. Gai- lagher have received personal assur- ances from the German Embassy at Washington that while they will not be able to serve as attorneys of record that they will be able to assist in the defense as associate counsel. Danger Great for German Lawyers, However, according to the French press, neither M. Campinchi, who has sent a formal note to the Chief Jus- tice of Leipzig, asking permission to be active in the case, nor M. Torres, who has been in communication with the German Embassy in Paris, has as yet received any reply. | M. Campinchi, in a statement to | /Oeuvre, Paris newspaper, in which he commented upon the fact that he | had received no answer to his com- munication from the chief justice of Leipzig, said that “the danger at- tending any German lawyer who consents to take part in the defense cannot be overestimated.” “In an editorial comment on this statement, L’Oeuvre writes: “If the German government will n6’ allow | M. Campinchi and - his’ English, | American ana Belgian colleagues to participate in the defense, the whole world can only draw the conclusion that the Reichstag trial is a juri- dical comedy and that those who really set fire to the building are an entirely different group from those accused.” The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners has heard from Ella Winter, well-known writer, and wife of Lincoln Steffens, that the California section of the | committee is engaged in a campaign to raise funds for Mr, Gallagher's expenses. A Philadelphia committe, consisting of Messrs. Waldbaum, White, Vincent Mullen ‘and Albert Dennis, with Francis Fisher Kane, acting as honorary chairman, is ar- ranging meetings in that city to pop- ularize the case and raise funds for the lawyers’ expenses, Questions and Answers on the N.IR.A. | Question: Couldn’t we utilize the “collective bargaining” of the act for the organization of red unions? Answer: Quite the contrary. The collective bargaining clause in the act is designed to smash the revolu- tionary trade unions as well as any indepen =~ action of the workers against lower living standards and bad conditions. The first idea of collective bargaining under the act a8 propagandized by the A. F. of L. was that the workers would have a yoice in drawing up wage codes. Gen, Johnson very quickly smashed this view. He said the bosses alone have the initiative. CoTlective bargaining will come into vogue when the workers refuse to accept a code. Then, to prevent strikes, the gov- ernment will force “collective bar- gaining” to ram the code down tee workers’ throats. Only the indepen- dent action of the workers, around their demands, and on the basis of struggle, can favor the development of the red unions. Question: What is the function of the Labor Advisory Board under the act? Answer: The Labor Advisory Board consists of labor leaders like Lewis, Frey, Hillman and Green, together with Francis Perkins, Their func- tion is to give the appearance of a tri-partite partnership of capital- labor-government. They are sup- posed to be the “defenders” of the interests of labor in’ the discussions that go on under the act and in the formulation of codes. Actually, the Labor Advisory Board is the strike- breaking general staff of the bosses in the camp of labor. Green and Lewis, for example, “defend” the in- terest of labor by participating in a secret meeting of the coal operators at the home of Bernard Baruch, mil- | lionaire stock gambler and one of the powers behind the Roosevelt throne, in order to niap Out strategy of getting the coal miners to Wecept a starvation wage code, Question: Wouldn’t ii be a good idea for the capitalists under the NIRA te raise the. worker? pay in order to give them greater pur- chasing power so they can help get rid of the surplus commodities? Answer: The idea is a good one, and every capitalist thinks it would be all right for his competitor. But when it comes to their own workers, it’s not such a good idea for the profit balance sheet. By the same token, each in practice thinks its a very bad idea. A capitalist hires a worker in order to create surplus value (profit) and not to provide him | with purchasing power. It is not their object to cut their own profit by raising wages or purchasing power in their own plant, no matter how much they may need it in the general matter of markets. Question: Does the industrial Tecovery act provide for any un- employment relief? Or does it deny the need for it? Answer: The act provides for no unemployment relief whatever. The whole purpose of the act is to elim- inate relief and to stem the strug- gle for unemployment insurance. It promises jobs for the unemployed, through the stagger plan, or through the public works section. In neither case will there be jobs. Most of the public works fund of $3,300,000,000 is alloted to war preparations. If we take the figures of the secretary of the British Board of Trade, Runci- man, that $500,000,000 in England for public works employed 4,000 men, then we can say at the most Roose- velt’s scheme will employ 25,500 men. But it will take two years to spend the money. Question: Can you show industrial recovery act will standard of living in a where hours are 48 and wages $9 (The assumption here is that under the cotton code, for instance, hours will be 40 and wages $13.) Answer: While it is true in certain individual cases, there will be the appearance of a rise, in the cotton id 3 The Chicago week will be July 23 to August 1. cS ‘The National week for all other districts is August 7 to 14, as Previously announced. PARLIAMENT T0 ON PARLEY FLOP Fear Wave of Strikes| Against New Attacks on Living Standards LONDON, July 19.—MacDonald’s | hopes of being able to avoid debate in the House of Commons on the fail- ure of the World Economic Confer- ence were blasted yesterday when he was qttestioned in the house. It was agreed that the House debate on the question’ next Tuesday, two days before the adjournment of the thing, which is also the date of adjournment To all Opponents of War—Men, Women and Youth; We Cail You to the United States Congress Against War. We welcome the step taken by Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Drei- ser and Upton Sinclair in their call for a united Congress Against War | to be held in New York City, Sep- (QUIZ MAC DONALD. ember 2nd, 3rd and 4th. We are united in the belief that the people of the world must arouse themselvés to take immediate action against the wars now going on in the Far East and in South America, against the increasing preparations for war, and against the growing danger of a new world war. We ap- peal to ail organizations, all work- ers, farmers, youth and professional groups to support this congress against our common enemy. After ten years of futile prepara- tions and promises, the World Dis- armament Conference has met only to adjourn itself with more promises and with all the imperialist govern- ments continuing to prepare for war more intensively than ever. The 4- Power Pact, the latest imperialist gesture to avoid concrete disarma- of Parliament. MacDonald's an-| ment measures, has solved nothing. nouncement last week that he would | The rise of fascism among the West- follow Roosevelt’s proposals for price | ern imperialist nations and the con- Taises has aroused British workers | tinued aggressive policy of Japanese against the menace of further infla- | militarism has increased the dangers tion, which means further beating | of war involving the Soviet Union. down of their standards of life. |The World Economic Conference in Fear Wave of British Strikes | London has revealed only too clearly MacDonald’s declaration that he | the inability and the unwillingness will “follow” the Roosevelt policy is! of the Great Powers to solve the clearly understood to mean that the | baste international problems which | the worker can pay. It will actually industry as a whole tRere will be a definite cut-in wages. The process that will take place will be a levelling out of-wages, pushing the higher paid British government has taken up the | Roosevelt, challenge for a trade war' which will be carried out by cutting | wages at home, charging monopoly prices in the home market in order to undersell competitors in the world market at “dumping prices.” | Many members of the House of Commons are fearful of an outbreak of a wave of strikes against further , inroads upon the standards of living | of the workers and also fear the in- volvement of great masses of unem- | ployed in stormy resistance to relief cuts. These issues are being raised in Parliament to try to defeat the mass struggles of the workers by | making them believe that tie govern- | ment will do something for them. 10 Bulgarian Soldiers Face Death Penalty for Red Work in Army SOFIA, Bulgaria, July 19—Ten infantrymen of the Kazaulfk regi- ment have been arrested on sus- picion of Communist propaganda in the army. They are threatened with death, which is the sentence passed on four Bulgarian soldiers in recent months for the same charge. workers dewn to the lower level, even if a few are given a slight raise. But we must examine the signifi- cance of the raise. Inflation and rising prices (bread, etc.) has cut wages 19 per cent since the first of the year. The process will continue daily as inflation advances. Strug- gles are breaking out against these wage cuts and for higher wages. The object of the Rooseve't regime is to freeze wages at a low level, giving the appearance of a rise in some in- stances; to hold the wages at the frozen level, and to permit the bosses to raise prices. We must break through the screen of money (the most important point in the period of inflation) wages and get to the real wages. In this case the so- called rise from $9 to $13 in the period of inflation will not be a rise in the amount of food, clothing, rent, amount to a cut, The advantage to the bosses, and the basis of their strategy '' to make the workers feel they are getting a raise. Haid wages down to that level. Proces# with price rises, speed-up and increased profits at the expense of the work- «t : F UPTON SINCLAIR Freiheit Chorus at the Mass Memorial to Zetkin, Gussev, Stokes NEW YORK.—The Freiheit Sing- ing Society Chorus will participate at the Mass Memorial meeting to be held under the auspices of the Com- munist Party, New York District, in | honor of the revolutionary leaders, Clara Zetkin, Sergei Gussev and Rose Pastor Stokes, on Monday, July 24th at 8 p. m. at the New Star Casino, 107th St. and Park Ave. The meeting has been postponed frrom an earlier date to the 24th so as to allow for the urn with the ashes of Rose Pastor Stokes to arrive from Germany in time for the me- morial gathering. Robert Minor, of the Central Com- mittee of the C. P. U_S, A.; William Patterson, National Secretary of the International Labor Defense; Louis Hyman, Prosident, Testimonial Committee; Rose Wortis, ‘Trade Union Unity League; will be the speakers at this memorial meet- ing, Carl Brodsky will ba the Chair. man. Needle Trades | Workers Industrial Union; Margue- | rite Young, for Rose Pastor Stokes | Ser Many Groups Sign Call to American _ Anti-War Congress | Endorse Action of Dreiser, Anderson, and Sinclair for Meeting Sept. 2, 3, 4 Committee Launches Campaign for Delegates and Funds NEW YORK, July 19.—Forty-nine national organizations of workers, farmers, youth, intellectuals, and others have signed a manifesto issue today, endorsing the call of Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreter am | Upton Sinclair for a National Congress Against War. | The congress, to which all organizations and all opponents of wac ace | asked to send delegates, will be held @ THEODORE DREISER are steadily driving us towards war preparations and war. The recent rapid spread of fascism brings before us another serious prob- lem, one which is closely related to war, It means forced labor, militar- ization, lower standards of living, and the accentuation of national hatreds and chauvinistic attitudes. It ‘sets the people in one country. against the people in another coun- try, and even exploits the internal racial groups within each country, instead of uniting them for joint ac- tion to solve their common problems. U. 8. Prepares for War. We emphasize that the declara- tions of peaceful intentions on the part of the United States Govern- ment cannot be relied on to keep this country out of war. In spite of repeated statements of peaceful in- tentions all governments continue to arm, to train, to preparé. In the United States the Roosevelt admin- istration has systematically aided and furthered preparations for was’; the concentration of the entire fleet in the Pacific Ocean, the continued maintenance of armed forces in Chi- na, give the lie to the peaceful dec- larations of our own government. Under the guise of public works, the National Industrial Recovery Act has become the vehicle for launching the building of a vastly larger navy along the lines demanded by the Big Navy jingoes; the widespread un- employment of youth has been uti- lized to concentrate them in so-cal- led reforestration camps, directly un- der the administration of the war de- partment, where semi-militarized conditions prevail; the military train- ing of youth in the colleges continues and more and more, national holi- days become excuses for glorifying the armed forces and stimulating war hatreds. Throughout the coun- try, hundreds of firms are busy ship- ping munitions and basic war ma- | terials to! the warring countries in South America and the Far East. | With all this, the Roosevelt admin- |istration has developed centralized control along the lines of the War Industries Board of 1917. We must organize and act to save ourselves from these war preparations and war forces certain to culminate in suicidal international war, It is to accomplish this task that we unite in support of this congress. It is to formulate a program of con- crete struggle against these condi- tions that we appeal for the widest possible participation by the workers, farmers, youth and by all opponents of war throughoug the nation. We call every e@rganization to form a united front and we appeal to every individual sincerely opposed to war to begin immediately the work of building this mighty rampart against the forces of war! Committee on militarism in edu- cation, SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS... + American Committee for Struggle War, A. F. of L. Trade Union Commit | for Unemployment In: and Relief, Anti-Imperialist League ofthe U. 8., Bonus Expeditionary Forces, Rank and File of Am- Conference for Progressive Labor Committee Militarism jn Educa Farmers National Committee of Farmers Union Cooperative Marketing soclation, Fellowship of Liat nish Workers’ viet Union, “I onization in U.S.S.R., Intercollegiate Coun: cil League for Ind. Democracy. , Labor Sports Union, League for Industrial Democracy, League of fessional Groups, League of Struggle Necro Rights, Mzrine Transport. Workers Ind. Union, I.W.W., Marine Workers Indus- trial Union, National Committee to Aid Vie- tims of German Fascism, mesa Farmers Holiday Association, National Lithuanien Youth Federation, National Miners Unton, Against Needle Trades Workers. Industrial Ohio Unemployed League, Committee for Total Dis PY United Farmers Protect mal Rank War Resisters League, Work Cooperative Unity Alliance, Ex- jervicemen’s League; Workers International World Peaceways, Unem}