The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1933, Page 6

Page Six a | What World 5 | /——By Michael Gold | Discovery of America. No doubt any American social Thoyement should have one foot in the Rockies, the other in the Al-| Jeghanies. It shouldn’t talk in jargon, put the native Americanese. It should root itself in the red clay and| lack soil of this country. | The Communist Party has failed to| overcome some of the sectarian habits | formed in previous years. It still! needs to start humbly and earnestly | on a new voyage of discovery in pro- | letarian America. | ‘And this is being realized, and this is being done. | National Socialism. | But when some liberals begin this sstupid talk about Communism being an Asiatic-Russian thing, that can) never be American, one can only give | yhem the horse laugh and watch one’s pocketbook. Half the time it is the weasel statement of a dishonest thinker. The other time it is one of the usual parrot-cliches that pass for thought smong wide sections of the liberals. What is American, anyway? Is Nira American? It is certainly noth- ing that Thomas Jefferson or Abe} Lincoln ever dreamed. But it is be-| ing pushed, talked and steamrollered | under the symbol of the American | eagle, all in the name of American-/ fsm. It is the new America, and/| poor old 100 per cent Jeffersonian | ‘Americans like H. L. Mencken and) Senator Hatfield of West Virginia| and Hank Ford can’t understand it| at all, To them it smells of Moscow. Which is as funny and juvenile, as| Soglow’s little king standing on his head 2 Plus 2 Equais 4 Anywhere.| As a matter of fact, the same eco- nomic laws will produce about the same results on any soil. You know| @ peasant when you see him, whether he is Chinese, Russian, African or Texan. And when the lower middle class is being crushed in the modern world by the wars and depressions of capitalism, % turns to fascism as a sunflower to the sun. It accepts) the leadership of the biggest capital- ist in their terroristic attacks on the | workers. | "At first there were people who said | Fascism was purely Italian, and ex- plained with all the usual hokum—| it was Latin, it was racial, it was the Roman Empire again, etc. etc. | But fascism is the international foe of Communism. It develops the same | forms everywhere. The Germans ‘faped the Italians, and then Fascism ‘was said to be racially Teutonic. But the Irish have now their own Fascisti, and the placid Britons have theirs. In France, which was supposed to be | “racially” remote from Fascism as | British government prosecute those | the United States or England, 10 per) cent of the Socialist deputies have| just formed a Fascist party. Even} ihe Jewish race has a Fascist wing, | brown shirts and all. mecently they began their nefarious ‘work by assassinating a Jewish labor | leader. | Yes, it’s the same the World over. The inflamed bourgeois degenerates of each land, whipping themselves up to frenzy, arming and drilling in pre-| paeration for new wars—many new) ‘wars. | But Communism is more native' to gach land than Fascism, for it is rooted in the great working mass, those who create the national life, those who have fertilized the soil with | their blood and tears through the/ centuries, those who make peace, who build and create. | Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman is now conceded even by the most stupid of literary professors to haye been America’s| grandest and most representative poet | up to date. And Walt Whitman is| the American poet who came closest te the American workingclass, to the fishermen, farmers, housewives, “It is Fascism that is foreign to the rit of every race, for it suppresses ye majority of a nation; it is an armed tyranny over the Working ' Class. “Communism simply means the rule! of the majority—the rule of the Mess, the Ozerdom, with its little minority of degenerate, French- nobility, or this mighty movement that now stirs in village on the steppe, every ‘Tartar aul? ‘Was Herbert Hoover more Amer- jean than William %. Foster, John Reed, Gene Debs or Jack London? are four candidates for Mayor current New York election; to bore, bore, bore me with | chatter about the} ricanism of the Marxian the-) When there is a Soviet America, i be time to investigate whether J.P. Morgan was a more typical ican than Mother Bloor of the Farmers League. _ How Fascism Works. ty . . . . ‘Fascist leaders are always dema- promise anything they must compete with slick ins, the Fascists go the ex- on everything. If Tammany promises every voter a pair of ; socks and an ice cream cone, the ( promise each voter the loot- » of a jewelry store. Men like Long, the true scurvy fascist would promise their mother’s 4 fublished by the Comprodally Publishing Co. 13th St., New York City, N. Y. Telephon Ine., dali e ALgonquin xcept Sunday, at 5¢ BE. Cable “DATWORK.” Address and mall chacks to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St,, New York, N. Y. NAZIS GET ORDER TO KILL | “*“*™"™™ | WITNESSES AS REICHSTAG INQUIRY OPENS IN LONDON |New York Mass Meeting, Philadelphia Trial, Chicago Protest Meetings Are Planned as the Torgler Trial Nears LONDON, Sept. 14—Deeply worried by the forthcoming exposure of the fact that the Nazis set the Reichstag fire, the German govern- ment instructed its Ambassador to Great Britain to ask the British government if the commission of inquiry which opened its sessions today was sanctioned by the British government. He was informed that it was not. It is, however, composed of some of the best-known international jurists of Ewrope and America, None of them is a Communist. LONDON, Sept. 14—While London Reichstag fire held its first session here today. Photographs of German witnesses were posted at London quarters, with a notice which said, “If you meet any one of them, kill him; if he is a Jew, break every bone i his body.” Some of the witnesses who will testify will be heavily vailed to con- ceal their identity, in order to pro- tect them and their relatives from Nazi reprisals. The German Buro of the Com- munist Party has called a mass protest meeting against the frame- up of the Communists charged with setting the Reichstag fire, for Sat- urday, September 16, at 8 p.m. at the Labor Temple, 243 E. 84th St., New York City. Clarence Hatha- way, of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, will be the main speaker. Among the speakers will also by L. E. Wins, noted Vien- na journalist just returned from an extensive tour through European countries. The commission will hold hearings for four days, and announce its find- ings just before the trial of four Com- munists framed-up on charges of set- ting the Reichstag fire opens, Sept. 21, in Leipzig. Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoft are the Communist leaders who face trial in Germany. Sir Stafford Cripps, Solicitor-Gen- eral in the former Labor government, greeted the commission, of which D. N. Pritt is chairman. Among its other members are Arthur Garfield | Hays, of New York; Francisco Nitti, former Premier of Italy; Dr. Betsy Bakker-Nort, of Holland; Morro- Gtaferri and Gaston Bergery, France; Johannes Huber, vice-presi- dent of the Swiss Federal Parliament; | | Dr. Vald Huidt, of the Supreme Court | of Denmark, and Sweden. * New York Wires Protests NEW YORK.—The National Com- mittee for Defense of Political Pris- oners yesterday wired Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador in Washington, protesting against Great Britain allowing the Nazi threat to witnesses before the Reichstag Fire Commission, and demanding that the Georg Branting, of responsible. The International Labor Defense also issued a sharp protest against | the London Nazi’s provocation, com- Tn Palestine | Paring it to Ku Klux activity in the | United States. Nee Philadelphia Plans Trial PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14.—A mass trial at which all the evidence which proves the Nazis fired the German Reichstag last February will be pre- sented, is to be held in Philadelphia September 21, the day when Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Blagoi Popoff and Vassil Taneff, Communist ot go on trial in Leipzig for the ire. As plans for this trial were being made, word was received that David Levinson, Philadelphia lawyer who has power of attorney from the fami- | honor to the voters if it helped their strategy. The Fascists make their appeal mostly to the lower middle class—the doctors, lawyets, storekeepers, small manufacturers, clerks, farmers and white collar elements. This class is being crushed by big business, and Fascism, in the person of the loud- mouthed Huey Longs, promises them immediate relief. These Hueys and Father Coughlins and the like sound almost revolutionary, until you ex- amine very carefully what they are | saying. They never promis® to really change the system. They want to reform it. But you can’t reform a Ford Model T of the year 1920. day is done; no amount of polish will make it a good car; capitalism is finished; and fascism, a new coat of varnish, can’t make the old clap- trap tin can @ better machine. It is the Workers who suffer most under Fascism, They are being beaten down in wages to the starv- ing point in Germany and Italy; their trade unions have been destroyed; strikes are a political crime, And the lower middle class that put Mus- | solini and Hitler in power, is begin- | ning to see they are nothing but the same Tammany Hall windbags, liars and racketeers as other capit- alist politicians. The masses starve in Fascist lands; it is only a small clique of grafters who get the gravy. In America every worker ought to un- derstand that this is not a new deal, but the same old rotten capitalist deal, oe ee Grover Whalen, Fascism is growing in America un- der the mask of Nira. It is a pleasant enough mask, the false face of a benevolent liberal, but look under- neath and you see the features of strikebreakers and anti-Soviet forgers like Groven Whalen, who bosses the New York area for Nira. Who picked him out? I don’t be- lieve even Heywood Broun would de- fend Whalen as a liberal or friend of the workingclass. And this is typical all through the country—the worst anti-labor elements have been given charge of things, and we are supposed to believe they have changed their fascist sol[Ahdn’tKd?n h h hn their Fascist spots to please “liberal” Roosevelt. What a fairytale for babes and liberals! 4 of | Its | \Philippines May Hold Vote on Act of “Independence” Island Congress Fears Responsibility of Accepting Bill | MANILA, P. I., Sept. 14.—Fearing to accept responsibility for approv- ing the Hawes-Cutting Act, a charter of slavery for the Philippine Islands under the guise of ‘“nidependence” ten years hence, the Philippine Con- | gress today voted to submit the act to a popular vote. The act, passed last year by the United States Congress, would give the Philippine Islands a status sim- ilar to Cuba’s in ten years. place, however, as a substitute plan is being discussed to call a national convention to pass on the act, in- stead. If the plebiscite is held, it will be on Oct. 30. It would permit women to vote, for the first time in the island’s history. | Mes of three of the Communist de- |fendants, has been barred from par- ticipating in the defense at the Leip- zig fire. ee sf i) NEW YORK.—Sharp_ protest against the barring of David Levinson from the trial of the four Commu- nists in Leipszig was made yesterday | by William L. Patterson, national | secretary of the International Labor Defense, who said it was an exact parallel to the barring of LL.D. law- yers from the defense of three Ne- groes in Tuscaloosa, Ala., last month, which led to the lynching of two of the defendants, * . Two Chicago Meetings CHICAGO.—Two meetings are be- ing arranged by the workers of Chi- cago to demonstrate their protest against the forthcoming trial of the |German Communists framed for burning the Reichstag. | The first of these is being arranged by the Chicago Committee to Aid the Victims of German Fascism, for Sept. 20 at 8 p.m., at Wicker Park Hall at 2040 West North Avenue, The day before the meeting a |caravan of autos bearing anti-fascist | slogans and publicity will tour the various sections of Chicago, calling | upon the workers to demand the im- mediate release of the four Commu- | nist leaders held for the fire, Workers who own cars are asked | to call at one of the following places Tuesday, September 19, at 6:30 p.m.: 209 West North Avenue, 3301 W. | Roosevelt Road, or 3116 S. Halstead St. | ‘The other meeting, called by the |1L.D., will be an open air protest | before the German Consulate at 520 |N Michigan Ave. on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 12:30, noon. | Workers are asked to send resolu- | tions of protest to the German Con- | sulate and to join the demonstration. Nazis were under orders to kill any | witnesses they met, the international legal commission of inquiry into the | jazi head- | Even the plebiscite may not take | | BARGAINING— N. R. A. STYLE” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Mail everywhere: One year, 90; six excepting Borough ef Manhattan Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5; $ MARICOPA COUNTY MARCH IN ARIZONA WILL DEMAND By Gropper Every single one of the marchers Police Frustrated When They Try to Arrest | Speaker at Square Meet ie é By PASOUAL.. NEW YORK.—Down the full length of 14th St. to the Cunard Steam- ship Line, marched 500 workers Wednesday night at 11 p. m., behind three flowing red flags in a send-off demonstration to the three young workers leaving for the Paris World Youth Congress Against War and Fascism. was conscious of the fact that this tary display of the NRA parade with its 1917 war music, its bombing} Planes in fighting formation, its sol- | diers marching with fixed bayonets, The resounding militant music of | the Red-Front- Band played the| fighting songs of revolutionary work- the parade amazed at the rhythmic shouting of the whole line, “Hands ist War.” There was discipline and a full-hearted militant enthusiasm within the workers such as was not seen any time throughout the many hours of the NRA ‘parade, ‘The workers marched from Wash- ington Irving High School where they had joined another group at Union Square. Before they arrived six policemen attempted to arrest Leonard Patterson, Negro Young Communist League member, while he was making an extraordinary appeal for funds at the Square, A screaming police radio car siren tearing down 14th St. was the signal for six policemen to pyll Patterson off the platform, One cop was clipped on the jaw by a worker, the others were quickly surrounded by an angry, screaming crowd, and for a moment it looked like the police would start clubbing. ‘The police, however, realizing the furious militancy of the crowd, im- mediately released Patterson. A few minutes later the group of 200 ar- rived from the open air meeting they had been forced to hold at 15th St. and Irving Place, when the war au- thorities refused a permit for a mass demonstration inside the Washing- ton Irving High School, Speakers at this meeting included Abraham Kaufman of the War _ Resisters’ League, and Anne Gray of the Wom- an’s Peace Society. Then the meet- ing was adjourned to Union Square. When the line ofthe marchers approached 13th Ave., on which the piers are located, the band started ers engaged in the struggle against | | wars and bosses’-oppression in the | form of the NRA, Workers watched | Off Cuba,” “Fight Against Imperial- | i | march challenged the jingoistic mili-¢- + Toiva Oja fists were raised to the day when the revolutionary workers will take pos- session of the waterfront and smash shipments of ammunition. As they marched around to the en- trance of the Cunard Line pier where the Berengaria is tied up, two work- ers, Carl Geiser, National Organizer of the United States Anti-War Con- gress, and a member of the Workers’ Ex-Service Men's League, quickly jumped up on top of a delivery car and addressed the marchers, ‘Three rousing cheers were given the delegates, Clemence Strauss, Phil Rosengarten and Toiva Oja, who were looking out through a window inside the pier. Then with the drums thumping out the Internationale to the accompaniment of lusty voices, the workers bade farewell to the playing the Internationale, and 500' delegates and marched back, 500 March Against NRA Militarism in Send-Off to Anti-War Delegates |Anti-Intervention Protests Increase HOicugo Workers Will Meet Tonight CHICAGO. —Chicago workers will | voice their protest against interven- . |tion in Cuba at a mass meeting to~ night at the Lithuanian Auditorium, |3133 S. Halstead St., at 8 o’clock,) ‘under the auspices of the Young {Communist League. Speakers include | Robert Morse Lovett, of the Univer- \sity of California; George Smerkin, | expelled national secretary of the \'Y.P.S.L., and several others. . ® * | NEW YORK—The volume of pro-| | Fe against American intervention is | grow! lorganizations everywhere are adding | | their telegrams and letters of protest | jto those that are flooding Roosevelt |end’ his secretaries. A meeting of farmers in Green- wood, Wis., last week, under the lead- ership of the United Farmers League, \telegraphed to Roosevelt denouncing | the growing war preparations and de- |manding: that all armed torces be | withdrawn from Cuba. | Miners, farmers and unemployed | workers of Pineville, Ky., assembled land sent a similar wire to the Pres |dent, demanding that the Cuban | workers be given the right to set up| | their own government without inter- ference, Lonnie Williams, young Negro , worker elected delegate to the Paris | Youth Congress Against War and | Fascism, spoke at a meeting of De- |troit workers gathered to bid fare- |well to Williams and to protest against Amerscan intervention in | Cuba last week. | The New Jersey District of the |Communist Party sent a telegram de- jmanding “hands off Cuba,” and the j nullification of the Platt Amend- | ment. |_ The Long Beach Open Forum, Cali- |fornia, sent a letter to the President | and the Secretaries of War, State and the Navy, demanding that all armed forces be withdrawn. | Help improve the “Daily Worker.” | send in your suggestions and criticism! Let us know what the workers in your shop think about the “Daily.” ‘Japan’s War Chief for War on USSR. . |mer ambassador to the Soviet Union, months, $3.50; $ months, $4; 1 month, 758, Br New York City. Foreign and ths, $8, JOBLESS AID PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 14—A 27th. ter. Cuts in relief has had its effect i the state. City Work Bureau Keeps “Blacklist”, on Militant Men. eee | |Refuses Work During | Rain, Fired As | “Agitator” i | NEW YORK.—The City Emergency | Work Bureau recently decided that | only the foreman on the project can tell the workers to stop working when it rains or threatens to rain. As a result many of the workers contracted pneumonia and pleurisy, after being compelled to work in the rain. On Friday, Aug. 18, it threatened | to rain, and Al Rosado was observed urging the men not to board the buses that bring them out to the job. The foreman reported the fol- lowing back to the Work Bureau: “4992, Rosado, Al... This man is |a leader and an agitator. Can excite | the workmen to a point of refusing |to work because it might rain. On | Friday, Aug. 18, the men arrived at Bear Mountain bus station and it threatened rain. These men in gen- eral were willing to get in the buses and go out to the job with the knowl- edge that if it rained heavy we would send them back to the train... .” Rosado was fired Sept. 6. DemandsBillionYen TOKIO, Sept. 14—Open declara- tion that Japan was preparing for rant ‘|war against thé Soviet Union was ing daily, Workers’ and farmers’) Tage yesterday ‘by General Sadao Araki, Minister of War, in demand- ing a billion-yen “National Defense” bond issue ($266,500,000) to build up Japan's military and naval forces still | further, Araki declared as his reason for de- |manding this sum that the Soviet Union and the United States were preparing for war, | At the same time Count Yasuya Uchida resigned, giving his post as | Foreign Minister to Koki Hirota, for- | who is known as an active supporter jof Araki’s military policy, and is |Jooked on as a stronger supporter of | Japanese militarism, | A second billion-yen issue is pro- | posed for next year, when Japan will |demand full naval parity with the United States and Great Britain, ‘Milk Code Protest Meets to Be Held in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA.—A series of mass protest meetings against the Milk Code set by Secretry of Agriculture | Wallace, which raises prices for the {consumer without benefiting the ;farmer, have been arranged in work- ers’ neighborhoods. A great many |farmers are expected to show up |here for the Milk Code hearing. The meetings have been arranged ‘by the Workers Consumers Action Committee, recently organized, in- SEPTEMBER 15, 1933 | FOR WINTER Will Ask County Officials Petition President to Adopt Unemployment Insurance hunger march of Maricopa county on jobless in all counties throughout The strike of coal miners in Utah and New Mexico has been felt to a large extent here also. with at least 2,000 workers and farmers participating will take place on Sept. | ‘The marchers will demand an assurance for aid for the coming win- © A county conference which plan- ,' ned the hunger march took place last week. It was attended by a hundred representatives from all parts of the county. Demands to be presented to the supervisors and welfare board of the county will include: endorsement of unemployment insurance by county officials and that they ask President Roosevelt for its adoption by the fed- | eral government; abolition of all taxes on articles of consumption; relief jobs to assnire a minimum of $4 a | Gay for 6 hours’ work; a law against evicting jobless*for non-payment of rent; right to strike and picket with- out interference and the recognition of the Unemployed Council Commit- tees by the county relief officials. The delegates sponsored a move- ment to hold a convention involving all counties in the state on Oct. 8 and 9. Cincinnati Jobless Force Quick Aid Welfare Promise CINCINNATI, Ohio.—The promise of quick relief to be given to any case presented by the Unemployed Council to the Associated Charities has been won as a result of 4 mass demonstrations held here within the last six months. This decision, which carries with it recognition of the Unemployed Council, was given when 800 workers demonstrated at the court house on Sept. 1. Further promises made by Welfare Director Hoehler included a pint of milk to every child of unemployed workers, as well as shoes, dlothing and hot lunches, Hitler Apes N.R.A. in Relief Scheme BERLIN, ‘Sept. 14.—Forced de- ductions from wages, forced gifts from workers organizations, and an order to all Germans to eat a 17- cent meal once a month and give the balance’ of their usual expen- diture to the relief fund, form Chancellor Hitler’s program to re- lieve hunger in Germany this win- ter, which Hermann Goering, Pre- mier of Prussia, has declared will be the hardest winter in 100 years. Following the example of Roose- velt’s NRA, placards bearing the words “We Help” will be given to those who have donated “adequate- ly.” The color will be changed every month, and new placards must be called for each month, Aside from this forced charity scheme, in’ which hunger will be | spread out by taking from the poor to give the poorest, Hitler has no program to relieve the crisis of German capitalism. Jail is promised all who refuse to contribute. cluding Unemployed Councils, Wom- en’s Leagues, International Workers Order, and trade uniens~ This or- ganization is cooperating- with the Farmers Protective Association in their demands that the price of all grade B milk -paid to the farmer be 5e a quart; the abolition of the basic an@ surplus; and the removal of Clyde King~as Federal Milk Admin- istrator. By EARL BROWDER, General Secretary, Communist Party, U.S.A. It is a question that everyone must answer, as to what attitude he shall take toward the approach- | ing new world war which is now | universally recognized. Therefore it was timely that the U. S. Con- gress Against War should have | been called, to meet in New York City on Sept. 29th to Oct. 1, to bring together representatives of all organizations opposed to war to | consider what are the most effective | means to fight against the impend- ing imperialist war. \ All varieties of opinion and all sorts of organizations will be in this cOngress. They range all the way from liberal pacifist and So- cialist, to revolutionary working class and Communist. I have been asked to tell why the Communist Party takes part in the preparation of this Congress, and what it hopes to see accomplished, what it thinks can come out of such a babel of conflicting views, in the way Of a unified program of struggle against war, Minimum Program The Communists will be a very small minority in this Congress. The majority of the delegates will most probably be persons already com- mitted aaginst the Communist pro- gram. The most that we can ex- ect from this Congress, therefore, is that some few Outstanding ques- tions in relation to war may be clarified, a minimum program of / Congress Can Be Means of Overcoming Illu- sions of Masses As to Causes of War | and Capitalist “Peace” Agencies action be adopted and that a pro- cess of thinking about this question among the masses may be speeded- up and intensified. Such results will be sufficient to justify the Con- gress being held. 2 What questions can be clarified? First of all, the very gathering of the Congress is in itself a declar- ation that extra0rdinary agencies must be set up to obtain a rallying of forces against war. That means the recognition of the need for a broad united front of all the forces in the country who are against war, not only in words, but also we may hope in deeds. It would be a use- ful step to fight against war, to set up such a united front center of mass struggle, to expose and orp ote all forces making for war. That means, in short, that only by strik- ing out along new paths—by revo- lutionary means—can war be ef- fectively opposed. This question will be clarified by the very gather- ing of the Congress, and at least to some extent further by its delib- erations, Must Judge Capitalist “Peace” Agencies Closely connected with this, {s the judgment on the role of the League of Nations and the Disarm- ament Conferences and the Kellogg and other Peace Pacts, as instru- ments of peace. These institutions have been the center of mass illu- sions, fostered and. developed b; many of the organizations who will be in the U. S. Congress Against War, At this Congress all must Earl Browder Outline o answer the question publicly, whether it is not true that the League of Nations was no obstacle to imperialist war of conquest of Manchuria by Japan, but on the contrary, served only to hinder the rousing of the masses of the world against this historical crime. Can a serious anti-war congress fail to warn the American masses against further such illusions? Can it fail to register that little Cuba, despite its position as a member of the League of Nations and signed of the Kellogg Pact, has 30 American war- ships in her ports, intervening in the determination of her g0vern- ment? Can it fail to expose the false character of the Disarmament Conferences, their role as masks of feverish preparations for imperial- ist war? We can expect and de- mand of the U. S. Congress Against War that this minimum is the only alternative to treacherous surren- der to the coming imperialist war. Where Does War Danger Rise? Further, is there any anti-war group that today can refuse to recognize that the war danger arises inevitably out of the existing sys- tem of capitalist society, out of its exploitation of the masses at home and in the colonies, and out of the consequent inevitable struggle for markets and sources Of raw mater- ials? Can there be serious struggle against imperialist war, which does not base itself upon the fundamental aim of changing the social system that p-oduces war, of abolishing exploitation for private profit of the productive forces of the world? We can expect these things to be made clearer to overwhelming mass- es of the population who suffer from war, as a result of this Con- gress. We can even hope that the Congress will be convinced to make such a declaration officially. Whence will come the necessary mass forces to defeat imperialist war? If the anti-war Congress seriously wishes to rouse resistance to war, it must recognize that its basic forces will be found only among those hundreds of millions who suffer most from war and who have a class interest in fighting to overthrow the existing system that produces war. Such forces are first of all, the working class and espe- cially the workers in the basic in- dustries (coal, steel, chemicals, war materials), together with the poor farmers, and the exploited peoples in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, Support of Colonial Struggles The Congress Against War must base its program upon these forces, and rely upon rousing these masses to independent action, gathering around them the Other suffering strata of the population, the middie classes, for any serious struggle against war. We can expect to convince the Congress of this basic programmatic point. If we expect to unite the anti- war forces in the imperialist coun- tries with the oppressed colonial peoples, the anti-war program must include support of the liberation struggles of the colonial peoples. It is impossible to be against war with- out opposing intervention in Cuba. That means that to fight against imperialist war, we must support all efforts of the colonial peoples to free themselves, including colonial wars of liberation against imperial- ist oppression. That means the anti-war program must not be J against ware in general, but against imperialist robber wars. We can ex- pect the Congress to establish this point. Only One Government in Peace Of all governments in the world, only one has consistently followed a peace policy throughout the per- iod sines the last war. That is the Union 0: Socialist Soviet Republics. It is precisely the danger of an im- perialist war of intervention against the Soviet Union that is a central point of the war danger today. A serious struggle against war is im- possible today without support of the peace policy of the Soviet Union, without rallying the exploit- ed masses of all countries to the defense of the Soviet Union which has abolished the source of preda- tory wars by abolishing capitalist exploitation. We can expect that the Congress will confirm this basic principle in the struggle against war. It is impossible to fight owe ‘inst unless we first of all fight against preparations for war by “our own” imperialists in America.. Any seri- ous struggle against war must de- clare its unconditional opposition to the naval and military preparations of the ORosevelt regime, its enor- mous war appropriations, its forced labor military camps, its national- ist jingoist propaganda, its aggres- sions in Latin-America. The Con- gress, on penalty of becoming a mere “pacifist” mask for the war makers, must declare itself on this question. We ean expect that it will do so. the forces of war in other lands,| put s the Tasks Before the ‘Congress Against War No Anti-War Group Can Refuse to Recognize That Capitalist Society, Exploitaticn, Inevitably Causes War Serious struggle against war de mands also the rousing of the mass~ es in the military forces to a know]- edge of the criminal uses to which they are being put, and to organize their resistance, establish an allj- ance with them and the anti-was forces among the general populee tion. The Congress must wor for this funsamental point. I have mentioned a few of most simple, most fundam points that must be in the program of any serious anti-war movement This is not a Communist program, but it is one that every Communist can energetically support unitedly with all anti-war groups and indi- viduals. It is’ gram which has already been tiade abundantly clear as an absolute minimum without which there can be no pretence of serious opposition to the coming imperialist world slaughter. The Communists in the et | U. S. Congress Against War wil forward clearly their own en- tire program for combatting and ultimately abolishing war. They are prepared to unite with all forces, including those. who oppose the Communist program, upon a serious minimum program of real struggle against the war preparations which will really prepare and rouse the masses for’ struggle, which will really hinder and help to defeat the imperialist war-makers. These are, briefly, the motives and aims neste Somnias in tak- i in . 8. Ci 84 Oe ee We ‘that gathers in New York City on Sept, 29tY a | 2 »