The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 23, 1933, Page 6

‘Page Six Dail “America’s Onl, Doty WEA. Working Class Daily FOUNDED 1924 Published deity, except Sunday, by the Comprodaity Publizhing ©o., Inc., 50 East 13th Street, New York, N. ¥. Telephone: Algonquin 4-7955. Cable Address: “Daiwork,” New York, # Washington Bureau: Room 954, Matton! Press Sullding, lith and G. St, Washington, D.C Subscription Rates: By Mail: (except Manhattan and Bro! G months, $3.50; 3 months, $2.00; 1 mon Foreign and Canada: 1 year, $9.00; 6 months, $5.00; 3 months, $3.00. By Carrier: Weekly, 18 cents; monthly, 75 cents: “MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933 Fascist Murder URING the past two months, the fascist trends of the Roosevelt regime through the N. R. A. have expressed themselves in murderous attacks on strikers, With P: nt Roose s and General Johnson's avowed polivy of r n on strikes, and sup- porting armed o drive strikers back to work, st dr against workers better working and ting for union living conditions the fasc recogn will increa E GIVE here a brief record of the N.R.A. massacres and Philadelphia, death when they ing the Cambria Fagle. Pa., Sept. 1—Two strikers shot to ght to prevent scabs from enter- Hosiery plant, flaunting the Blue Ambridge, Pa., Oct. 6—An organized steel trust army | of hundreds, carrying every type of small arms, in- eluding sub-machine guns and tear-gas guns, for 45 minutes shot at picket lines, leaving two known dead @nd 40 wounded kilied. Tulare, Calif, Oct. strikers and wounded 30 in San Joaquin Valley, where 18,000 cotton pickers struck for higher pay. Paterson, N. J., Oct. 20.—Police shot into the ranks of striking silk pickets and dangerously wounded two; another is in the hospital and scores were clubbed. Fayette County, Pa., Coal Fields.—Dozens of strikers, their wives and children shot by Frick Coke Co. (U.S. Steel subsidiary) thugs. One striker killed. Homes and cars dynamited, Armed attacks on strikers con- tinue to this day. Clairton, Pa.—@as attacks and beating of mine and steel pickets at the Carnegie Steel Co. plant (U. S. Steel subsidiary) ton, West Wa., Ciarksburg, West Va., and Steu- benvilie, Ohio.—Repeated gas attacks and clubbings of in the strike of 15,000 steel workers for union Oct. 20.—One miner killed by U. M. Three companies of state militia Peabody Coal Co. gunmen nen. d against strikers. ia Members. Jallup, New Miexico.—Martial law declared against s end strike leaders court-martialed and sent to nitentiary. Hundreds of arrests and assaults on b.—U. 8. Army and arms. ot leaders. Ma:tiai law, arr Repeated assaults on elds of strikers, ws and shooting IN hunJreds of other strikes, workers have besn shot, Sessed or be 1 but a. small part of the siory, coal companies are rapidly or- ascist armies for further attac The published the fact that the steel building up arsenals, placing chester Arms Co., to shoot down Strikers. Roosevelt declared that the N. R. A. “has teeth in it.” Here are the teeth. Two Farm Programs — is a remarkable contrast between the de- mands of the self-appointed leaders of the farm s#tike, Milo Reno, etc., and the program proclaimed by the Farmers National Committee of Action, which Will hold 2 Second National Conference at Chicago om November 15-18. In the light of the present crisis, what is it that the farmers need most? They need immediate cancellation mortgage debits. *» They need, not a program of crop desiruction, but 3 program that will permit them to sell their products without having to pay heavy tribute to the Wall Street middlemen, the speculators, the ‘rusts, etc .» Higher prices for the farmers. ~ Lower prices for the workers in the cities, And drasiic reductions in the huge profits of the jopoly middlemen! burdens of the farmers. ‘This is the program of the National Farmers Com- mittecs. "In the light of these obvious elementary needs ' af the farmers, the proposals of the present Holiday Teatdiers are obviously calculated to steer the revolting farmers away from uniting with the city workers; they are calculated to tie the farmers to the Roose- _-yelt. program g They deliberately do net demand cancellation of of all their -) They deliberately refrain from attacking the Roose- It program of separating the city workers from the ers. On the contrary, they support this program in- directly by demanding higher farm prices while maintaining complete indifference to the prices the éity workers must pay. This silence aligns them on the side of the monopolies, whose profits they leave untouched. 'Tb is not by such demands that leave the essen- of the Roosevelt program untouched that the rs will be able to solve their problems. .. Within the last few weeks organized groups of rs led by the United Farm League have stop- L at least four attempts to foreclose and evict It is the mass, militant action of the farmers 3 selves that alone will put an end to the fore- of bankers and mortgage holders! © The present farm leaders try very subtly to keep ’ the farmers off the picket lines and from any mass rea fittions. They do not call for any mass organized © Tesistance to foreclosures. .s . . . H ; ied call for a national farm strike by the leaders i of the National Farm Holiday Association doesn’t "Mean that they really believe in the strike or that | they really want to fight the Roosevelt-Wall Street Program. Tt is an entirely different game that they are playing. They are leading a strike at the present ™ement because they are no longer able to hold back Strikers say as high as seven were | 9.—Fascist gangs killed four. d muredrous attacks on Progressive Miners’ | provides coal gunmen | That will help to alleviate | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1933 the enormous tides of rebellion that are rising with tremendous force throughout the farm states of the country. It is to hold the reins until they can stop the team that they place themselves at the head of the farm strike. Hundreds of thousands of small farmers have had enough of Roosevelt’s Wall Street program. Roosevelt's boasted mortgage re-finance program has not been of the slightest assistance to the small farmers. It has merely reduced their huge debts by a hair, while it has hed the effect of the guarantee- ing the profits and loans of the mortgage holders and banks. But it is not of the slightest interest to tell @ penniless farmer that he must pay $700 instead of $900 mortgage interest. Roosevelt’s acreage reducing program has driven hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers off the land. It has not helped the small farmers. It has merely resulted in the granting of huge government subsidies to rich farmers, wheat speculators, corpora~- tion farms. What is the essential feature of the whole Roose- velt program? It is that there is a “surplus” of farm goods which must be reduced in order to raise the food prices in the cities. In this way Roosevelt hopes not only to protect the mortgage holders who rest on the backs of the farmers, but, just as important, he hopes to drive an iron wedge between the city workers and the starving farmers, setting them off against each other. It is this way that he hopes to keep these two natural allies from uniting against enemy—Wall Street monopoly capitalism. It is of the utmost urgency that the members = the United Farmers League, and other militant farm | groups, go deep into the ranks of the actual dirt farmers, those who really mean fight against the Roosevelt-Wall Street program with the message of cancellation. The formation of Committees of Action, the forma- tion of solid picket lines, the establishment of direct co-operation with the city workers on the picket lines and in other ways, must be arranged with the greatest speed. The farm strike is in danger from the very moment it is called, so long as it is in the hands of the professional agents of the rich farmers, the wily politicians who hope to climb upward on the backs of the farmers. Militant mass action! Leadership from below! Against Wall Street mortgage debts! This must be the program of the farmers! The Soviet Way Out EF NOVEMBER of this year the proletariat and peasantry of the Soviet Union will celebrate the sixteenth anniversary of the successful overthrow of capitalist and landlord rule and the establishment, upon the ruins of the Czarist empire, of the revo- lutionary dictatorship of the proletariat. In November of this year the workers of the world will celebrate the victorious advance of Socialist con- struction in the Soviet Union—the fatherland of the world proletariat. ‘They will hail also the great historic achievements in the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan of Socialist construction. The American workers and toiling farmers, enter- ing upon the fifth year of the deepening capitalist crisis, with a winter of misery and hunger staring them in the face, realize with a growing consciousness the deception behind the capitalist schemes of the Roosevelt Administration and in this realization their gaze is instinctively turned to the land of the Soviets, where before the eyes of the world there is rising a planned Socialist economy. In launching the Second Five-Year Plan at the opening of this year, the proletariat of the Soviet Union undertook as its fundamental political task the final abolition of capitalist elements and of classes in general. It undertook the complete destruction of the relics of capitalism in economy and in social consciousness by involving the entire toiling popula- tion in city and country-side in the conscious and active building of Socialism. As the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan draws to a close, it is clear that not only is this plan being fulfilled, but like the First Five-Year Plan, it is, in a number of basic fields, being surpassed. Heavy industry, as the reports for the two- thirds of the first year of the Second Five-Year Plan show, has made further progress in every important branch. The key industries, coal, metallurgy, and machine construction, register a steady upward grade. In grain production the Second Five-Year Plan has in its first year shown the carrying through of the Soviet Union’s most successful agricultural cam- paign. While the bourgeoisie, the fascists, the social- fascists, the Vatican, and the Trotskyists have been spreading hobgoblin tales of starvation and cannibal- ism in the Soviet Union, the bumper Soviet harvest represents a glorious achievement on the agricultural front! Along with these gains there has been a consider- able increase in the supply of consumers’ goods, al- though the achievements in light industry have not equalled those in heavy industry. There has been a steady rise in wages and in general living conditions, The average monthly wages rose by more than 33 per cent in 1982-1933, . «8 +s achievements of the Soviet Union have been rendered possible through the correct leadership of the Communist Party, which ,guiding itself by the teachings of Marx and Lenin, spurred the masses forward for the overcoming of all obstacles in the onward march to Socialism. The correct guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is throughout the period of So- cialist construction directly traceable to the firm lead~- ership of Comrade Stalin, who has held true to the teachings of Lenin against all deviators and oppor- tunists, and who further developed the Marxist- Leninist teachings as a guide to action in the of Socialist construction. ' In contrast to the victorious advance of the pro- letariat in the Soviet Union on the road to Socialism, is the failure of all attempts by the international bourgeoisie to force its way out of the general cap- italist crisis. ‘The. general crisis of capitalism has created a colossal army of unemployed. In the United States, the number of unemployed has reached the appalling figure of 17,000,000. The Roosevelt administration has come to realize that the N.R.A. has failed to solve the crisis. Quite noticeably from day to day, the tactic of demagogy is giving way more and more to methods of open suppression, to methods of fascist brutality, to thug- gery and murder of strike pickets, to State-engineered and State-perpetrated lynchings of Negroes, to the wholesale use of anti-strike injunctions, to the flagrant “tempts to suppress revolutionary. unions. Es -For the American workers ‘there is only oné. way out—the way that the workers and. peasants of the Boviet Union took sixteen years ago... It. is the way of proletarian, revolutionary struggle against all cap- italist exploitation, the way of struggle against the Roosevelt N.R.A. hunger program that leade to fas~ cism and war, the way of struggle against the treach- eries of the A. F. of L. and Socialist Farty leadership. Tt is the way of revolutionary struggle for the over- throw of capitalism, the destruction of the dictator- ship of the capitalists, and the establishment of a revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat. their common THE OLD GENTLEMAN AINT-SO DUMB! —By Burck Demonstrati NEW YORK.—Fearing the effec P. O'Brien, Saturday night, said he Immense opposition to this meet~- ing, ostensibly to celebrate the 250th anniversary of German immigration, developed as it became clear that the meeting was to be turned into a Nazi rally. Mayor O'Brien, declining an in- vitation to speak at the meeting, concluded his letter to the organize: with these words: O'Brien’s Letter “In view of the foregoing, I must definitely decline your invitation, and if you and your associates do not see fit to call off the meeting yourselves I shall regard it as my duty as Mayor, in the interests of law and order, to stop it.” The earlier part of his letter had referred to Nazi persecution of Jews, and to information he said he had received that opposition to the Nazis would cause violence at the meeting. Not relying on O'Brien's statement as a guarantee that the meeting would not take place, the American League Against “War and Fascism, Against War, and the N. Y. Com- mittee to Aid Victims of German Fascism, joined with other anti-Fas- Against Big Nazi Meet to Prevent Nazi Gathering strong anti-Fascist feeling among the masses of New York, Mayor John American societies at the 165th Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave. at 26th Street, next Saturday night. e—— on Called t+ on his chances of clection of the would forbid a meeting of German- j cist organizations in a call fora | demonseration at 6:30 p.m. on the night of the meeting as a protest against war and Fascism. The League’s call is addressed to} | all organizations and individuals op- | | posed to Fascism, and calls on them |to demonstrate against the raising of the swastika flag at the Armory, and against the oppression of the {masses and the Jewish people in | Germany, | Liberals Side With Nazis |The American Civil Liberties | Union, trve to its liberal policy of| | supporting all sides of every question, | |was the first to protest against | Mayor .O’Brien’s threat. Morris L. | Ernst, counsel for the Union, said: “Even though I am a Jew, I'd be glad to fight the Nazi case on this issue.” | Roger Baldwin, director of the| | Civil Liberties Union, who is also a} }member of the Executive Board of |the American League Against War |and Fascism, chimed in with a writ- organized at the U. S. Consress/ ter protest to the chief of police of| for its verdict, were announced yes- | Blizabeth, N. J., who had forbidden meetings and distribution of leaf- lets by Nazis. | injured. Strike; Barricades at Palace in Havana HAVANA, Oct. 22-—A_ general strike of railway workers on most if not all Cuban lines is reported likely to follow the walkout on Friday of the workers cn the southern division of the United Railways. The Santiago express was stopped about 40 miles from Havana early yesterday by an explosion which damaged the engine but did not in- jure anyone. Another train from Santiago was derailed at Quintana by an open switch, but no one was A company of artillery was sent to Santiago last night. The government reported that soldiers of the garrison there were in revolt. Machine guns and sandbag fortifi- cations have been set up again in front of government buildings in Havana, and cannons mounted on the roof, as the revolutionary upsurge of the masses against the Grau re- gime continues to mount. Workers’ Leaders to Play Roles in N. Y. Reichstag Fire Trial NEW YORK. — The parts to be played by leaders of the American Communist Party in the review of the Reichstag trial to be held Wed- nesday night at Central Opera House, where a workers’ court will be pre- sented with the evidence and asked terday by the Anti-Fascist commit- tee in charge of the arrangements. trial in Berlin. The witnes is detective Heisig, who went ‘to Holland after the fire to “investigate” van der Lubbe’s con- nections there. He testified recently that two Dutch witnesses P. J, Albada and one Vink, | had told him van der Lubbe had only ostensibly been kicked out of the Communist Party, in order to help his work for the Party. Albada and | Vink, although they themselves are Police agents and enemies of the |} Communist Party, denied Heisig's statement as a reflection on their re~ liability as police informers. Confronted with sworn statements |} by both Albada and Vink, that he turned their statements into the con- trary of what they had said, he had to admit that they had never told him any such thing, This sensational breakdown of a | star prosecution witness came toward the close of the session. George Dimitroff, Bulgarian Com- munist defendant, leaped to his feet as a self-confessed liar. Judge Buenger, who had just heard Heisig admit his perjury, turned on Dimitroff and sharply reprimanded him, but the impression made in the court room by Dimitroff was so great, that Buenger hastily adjourned the trial until Monday. Traces Show Several Set Fire Impressive evidence that Marius van der Lubbe had accomplices in the firing of the Reichstag was given when the court gave the press corres- pondents their first chance to see the actual traces of the fire. It took 45 minutes to make a rapid inspection of the traces of the fire which the young Dutch tool of the Nazis is supposed to have set single~ handed in 15 to 20 minutes, with primitive means. In Bismarck Hall was the obvious trace of liquid fuel. The Session Hall is completely burnt out. In 21 days of the trial, the prose- cution has not been able to bring didate for Mayor, will be foreman of the workers’ jury. Max Bedacht, national secretary of the International Workers’ Order, will represent Ernst Torgler. Israel Amter, national secretary of the Unemployed Councils, will act the part of itroff. William L. Patterson, national secretary of the International Labor Defense, will be the worker judge. Joseph Brodsky, chief counsel for the I. L. D., will be the defense at- torney. % The jury will. be made up of elected representatives of workers or- ganizations, including white Ameri- can, foreign-born, Negro, Chinese, and women workers. ‘The sponsors of the trial are the International Labor Defense and the Ameriean Committee to Aid Victims of German Fascism. It will open at and made a fiery attack on Heisig} Detective Admits He Lied on Stand At Reichstag Trial Judge Adjourns Trial When Dimitroff Protests Against Admitted Perjury—Fire Traces Show Van der Lubbe Had Help AT THE GERMAN FRONTIER, Oct. 21.—(Via Zurich, Switzerland) —< The only witness to give direct testimohy that Marinus van der Lubbe, the young Dutch tool of the Nazis, was connected with the Communist Party was forced to admit he had lied at today’s session of the Reichstag fire e forward a single piece of evidence to connect any..Communist with van der Lubbe or the fire, while overwhelming evidence that the Come munist defendants; Ernst Torgler, George Dimitroff, Vassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff, are innocent has been brought out through the breakdown | of the prosecutor’s own witnesses, | Witness Admits Being Spy. The carefully preserved evidence of the extent of the fire, which was intended to support the charge that the Communists worked with van der Lubbe, thus turns out to be-damning proof of Nazi complicity in the fire. The prosecution brought.-forward an admitted Nazi police spy named Hintze, who is serving a jail 4erm for a criminal offense, in an. attempt to connect van der Lubbe with Com- munists. Hintze himself. stated that he had received money from, police captain to spy on the activities of the Com- munist Party. Hintze said that.he met van der Lubbe in a-Neukoeln restaurant fre= quented by unemployed. He said van der Lubbe was.introduced to 25 un~ employed Communists with the words: “This comrade is sent to us for active participation,” and added that the name of Torgler had been mentioned, 5 Engineered Provocation Alfons Sack, Torgler’s . attorney, asked Hintze if he was not the man who, among other provocative acts, had organized an attack on a welfare office, and then. informed the police, with the result that his own sister's brother-in-law, ‘who was. involved, had committed suicide. Hintze turned deathly pale and attempted to deny the charge. Sack continued: “Didn't you offer firearms te wn- employed men?” Hintze cried, “No, no, no.” Sack read a long police record of Hintze’s convictions for criminal of~ fenses. Judge Buenger refused to answer when Dimitroff rose to ask why the court had accepted so notorious trim- inal as a witness, Dimitroff then de- manded that an investigation be made of Hintze’s attmepted attack on the welfare office. Earlier the question of van der Lubbe’s overnight stay in Hennings- dorf the night before the fire, where he registered with the police, was raised, and Dimitroff demanded to know why no investigation had been made to learn who his companions had been in Henningsdort. “What is the object of that ques- tion?” Judge Buenger asked, “There was no investigation of van der Lubbe’s companions in Hennings- dorf, but there was plenty of investi- gation of his connections in Neukoeln, because Neukoeln is a Communist. quarter,” Dimitroff declared. “That is entirely characteristic of the stra- tegy of the preparatory éxamina- tion” The prosecutor, thus openly at- 8 p. m. Wednesday at Central Opera Robert Minor, Communist can- House, 67th St. and Third Ave. tacked, could not even attempt to reply. Gives MilitantProgram of Struggle Against Imperialist War Editor’s Note:—On the even- ing of October 1, more than 2,700 delegates from 35 states, meeting in the United States Congress Against War unani- mously adopted a militant pro- gram of struggle against war and set up a permanent organi- zation to carry forward the work which the Congress began. The American League Against War and Fascism which was ereated by -that™ Congress has now issued the Manifesto of the Congress in the final form ap- proved by the National Execu- tive Board of the League. The great sharpening of the immediate war danger by recent developments gives special sig- nificance to the reprinting of the final draft of the Manifesto and Program of the League, in the final form approved by its na- tional executive board. ao ee MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM OF THE AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM Adopted at U. 8. Congress Against War, N.Y.C., Sept. 29,10ct. 1, 1933. Appeal to the Working Men and Women of America; : To All Victims of war: The black cloud of imperialist war hangs over. the world: The peoples must. adouse themselves and take immediate.action against the wars now going on in the Far East and Latin America, against intervention in Cuba, against the increasing preparations for war, @ new world war. After_ten years of futility, the World Disarmament Conference is meeting to perform once more the grim comedy of promises, to screen the actions of the imperialist gov- ernments which are preparing, more intensively than ever before in history, for a new war. The Four Power Pact is already ex- posed as nothing but. a new man- oeuver for position in the coming war between the imperialist rivals, and an attempt to establish a uni- imperialist front against the viet Union. The rise of Fascism in Europe and especially in Ger- many, and the sharpened aggres~ sive policy of Japanese militarism, and against the growing danger of |in {have brought all the phperieliey lantagonisms to the breaking point land greatly increased the danger | |of a war of intervention against |the Soviet Union. The greatest | naval race in history is now on among the United States, England | land Japan. The British-American jantagonism is being fought out| |in Latin-America already by open| | war—the so-called local wars being | lin reality struggles between these | \imperialist powers. The presence |of thirty American warships in |Cuban waters is itself an act of war against (ec Cubsm revolution |The collepse of the World Eco- nomic Conferenze revealed only too clearly that the’ great powers am unable and unwilling to solve the basic international problems by peaceful means and that they will resort to a new imperialist war in an attempt to divert the at- tention of the masses from their misery and as the only caiptalist way out of the crisis. NRA and War. Under the guise of public works, | the N. R, A> has diverted immense funds from the care of starving millions to the building of a vastly larger navy and to mechanization of the army. The widespread un- employment has been utilized to concentrate young men in so-called reforestation camps, which the Wa: Department is using for trial mili- tary mobilizations. The military training of youth in the schools and colleges is being further de- veloped. More and more, national holidays and specially prepared demonstrations are being used to glorify the armed forces and to stimulate the war spirit among the masses. Hundreds of factories are working overtime to produce muni- tions and basic war materials for shipment to the warring countries South America and the Far Fast. A centralized war control of indus- try, along the lines of the War | Industries Board of 1917, is being established. As in 1917, it s draw- ing the upper leadership of many trade unions into active collabora- tion in the war machine. Smoke Screens for War. This Congress Against War warns the masses against reliance upon the League of Nations and the Kellog Pacts as effective in- struments of peace. The Congress declares that this illusion becomes particularly dangerous at the pre- sent moment, especially when it is eration of Trade Unions as a meth- od of combatting the war danger. For Mass Resistance. We can effectively combat war only by arousing and organizing the masses within each country for active struggle against the war policies of their own imperialist governments, whether these gov- ermmenis are working individually or through the League of Nations. The Congress declares that the basic force in the imperialist coun- tries fur strugSle against the war danger is the working class, or- ganizing around it in close alliance all of the exploited sections of the repulation, working farmers, in- tellectuals, the oppressed Negro people and all toiling masses and al! organizations and groups which are gencrally opposed to war on any basis. The anti-war movement allies itself with the masses in the colonial and semi-colonial countr’}s against imperialist domination, and gives full support to their imme- diate and unconditional independ- ence. Fascism Breeds War. The rapid rise of Fascism is closely related ‘> the increasing war danger. i y ‘sm means forced labor, militariz...on, lower stand- ards of ljving, and the accentua- tion of natiom2] hatreds and chau- vinist incitements as instruments for the “moral” preparation for var. It sets the people of one country against the people of an- other, and exploits the internal ra- cial and national groups within each country. in. order to prevent them from uniting in joint action to solve their common problems. The War System. The war danger arises inevitably out of the very nature of monop- olistic capitalism—the ownership of the means of production by a small capitalist class and the complete domination of government b: class. The imminent war danger is only another expression of the fundamental crisis of the capitalist system, which continues its exist- ence only at the cost of intensifi- cation and oppression of the masses at home and in the colonies, and of struggle among the imperialist powers for a redivision of markets and sources of raw materials. | Only in the Soviet Union has jthis basic cause of war been re- moved. There are no classes or groups which can benefit from war or war preparations. Therefore put forth as in the recent Congress of the Labor and Socialist Inter- national and the International Fed- the Soviet Union pursues a positive and vigorous peace policy and alone this | gle against war involves rallying all forces around this peace policy and opposing all attempts to weaken or destroy the Soviet Union.. The U. S. Prepares for War. The government of the United States in spite of peaceful pro- fessions is more aggressively than ever following policies whose only logical result is war. The whole program of the Roosevelt admin- istration is permeated by prepar- edness for war, expressed in the extraordinary military and naval budget, mobilization of industry and manpower, naval concentration in the Pacific Ocean, intervention in Cuba, the continued maintenance of armed forces in China, the loans to Chiang Kai-shek, the initiation of currency and tariff wars—all of which give the lie to the peace- ful declarations of the United States government. * * ’ Program. ‘The Congress pledges itself to do all in its power to effect a nation- wide agitation. and organization against war preparations and war. To this e'» we join together in carrying out the following immediate objec- tives: 1) To work towards the stopping of the manufacture and transport of munitions and all other materials essential to the conduct of war, through mass demonstrations, picketing and strikes. To expose everywhere the extensive Preparations for war. being carried on under the guise of aiding Na- tional Recovery. To demand the transfer of all war funds to relief of the unemployed and the replacement of all such devices as the Civilian Conserva- tion Camps, by a federal system of social insurance paid for by the government and employers. To oppose the policies of American Imperialism in the Far East, in Latin America, especially now in Cuba, and throughout the world; Peoples against the imper- jalist policies of exploitation and armed suppression. ‘To support the peace policies of the Soviet Union, for total and uni- versal disarmament which today with the support of masses in all countries constitute the clearest and most effective opposition to war throughout the world; to op- 5) Anti-War League Shows Way to Fight Growing War Danger 'Manifesta of Anti-War Congress Issued by League ing to Fascism in this country and abroad, and especially in Germany; to oppose the imereas- ingly widespread use of the armed forces against the workers, farm- ers and the special terrorizing and suppression of Negroes in_ their attempts to maintain a decent standard of living; to oppose the growing encroachments upon the civil liberties of these groups as 4 growing fascization of Our so- called “democratic” government. To win the armed forces to the support of this program. To enlist for our program the women in industry and in the home; and to enlist the youth, especially those who, by the crisis, have been deprived of training in the industries and are therefore more susceptible to fascist and war propaganda. To give effective international support to all workers and anti-war fighters against their own impert- alist governments. f 10) To form committees of action against war and fascism in every important center and industry, particularly in the basic war in- dustries; to secure the support for this program of all organizations secking to prevent war, paying special attention ‘to labor, veteran, wpempitret and’ farmer organiza- ions. “ 9) By virtue of ‘the mandaté granted by the thousands of delegates from all sections of this Country and groups of the population: ‘which’ bear the burden of imperi@list war who, though they differ in political ovirions, trade union affiliations, religious ~beliefs, and the methods of carrying on the struggle egainst wary are bound to- gether by their desire for-peace, and on the strength of its unshakable conviction that’ the’ struggle against imperialist war is useful only to the extent to which it effectively inter- feres with and check-mates’ imperi- alist war plans, this Congress calls upon the working class, the ruined and exploited farincrs, the oppressed Bre of the 5 nied hy the crisis, the groups of jnivieciuals of all oc- cupations, men, women and® youth, together, to organize their invincible among the governments proposes total disarmament. Serious strug- force in disciplined battaliong-for the decisive struggle to defeat imperialist wae