The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1934, Page 6

Page Six DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 239, 1934 Daily <QWorker TENTRAL ORGAN COMMUMIST PARTY U.S.A. (SECTION OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL) | “America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper” FOUNDED 1924 | PUBLISHED DAIDY, EXCEPT SUNDAY, BY THE | COMPRODAILY PUBLISHING CO., INC,, 50 E. 13th Street, New York, N. Y. | | Telephone: Algonquin 4-7954. Daiwork,” New York, N. ¥. Room 954, National Press Building, in D.C. ells St., Room 705, Chicago, Il. | Subscription | a $6.00. $2.00 $3.00. monthly, 7! Foreign THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1934 Roosevelt Acts on Two Bills | i ONE DAY Roosevelt s week signed two bills. One was the signing of the Vinson Naval Bill. The other was the veto the Independent Offices Bill restoring some of the com nsation and pay uts of which Roosevelt robbed the wounded war veterans and Federal employees. Roosevelt thus approved an authorization of $750,000,000 for the future building of 1,184 bombing planes and 102 war vessels. ut he vetoed an appropriation of $242,000,000 for thousands of wounded war veterans and Federal employees struggling desperately to stay above the starvation line. That is the brutal, capitalist reality that lies behind all of Roosevel sweetly hypocritical radio | speeches about the “welfare of the people.” Billions for war, for deadly bombs, machine guns and gases to protect the foreign investments of the Morgans and Rockefellers. But wage cuts. slashed appro- priations for war veterans, hunger and misery for the masses whom he pretends to love. Roosevelt tramples on the faces of the men who faced murderous hell and agony on the battlefields to “make the world safe” for Morgan investments. He deliberately robs the Federal employees and their families of their bread—to pay for bullets and bankers’ investments. But he gives $10,000,000,000 to guarantee bonds, | mortgages, and dividends. He has already given close to $2,000,000,000 for warships and bombing planes. He has already handed out $750,000,000 to the clique of Wall Street bondholders who keep the government bonds in their vaults. This is because Roosevelt and his government are nothing but agents of the Wall Street bil- lionaires, Let Roosevelt make all the sweet speeches about the “people.” His actions are the | actions of a Wall Stteet tool and agent. Every | Federal employee, every wounded war vet who now faces the misery of joblessness and wage slashes, every C. worker who now faces the bitterness of starvation, every striker against the | hated N.R. slave codes is learning this fact. | The masses are starving. Their standard of living is rapidly king under the treacherous blows of the Roosevelt price-raising policies. The toiling masses must get the billions that Roosevelt now ladles out for war and the bankers. These billions come from the masses. They belong to the masses. The hungry m S must organize to wrest from the Roosevelt government what is theirs. fe) ze to defeat Roosevelt's wage cutting and compensation slashes! Organize to force Roose- | velt to turn the war billions over to the jobless! Organize to force Roosevelt to give these billions for the C.W.A., for relief, for Unemployment In- surance! A Mild Reproach to theS.P. to Cloak an Attack on the Communist Party American Civil Liberties Union has just issued ‘E 1 tas report on the recent Madison Square Garden meeting called by the Socialist Party to discuss the uprising of the Austrian working class against Fas- cism. The inquiry into the events at the Garden, states the Civil Liberties report, was authorized “not so much for the purpose of fixing responsibility, as for establishing the causes of the conflict and of minimizing them in the future.” The Civil Liberties Union describes itself in the report “as a neutral agency outside the struggle of parties and groups.” But the report itself reveals | that within itself the C.L.U. also expresses the | irrepressible class antagonisms and class points of | view. The report is marked off’ into a majority report, and two minority dissenting reports. majority report follows: “It is undisputed that the Communists parti- cipated in the Madison Square Garden meeting for the announced purpose of preventing two | Speakers from being heard and demanding places | for two of their own speakers on the program. The immediate responsibility for breaking up the meeting rests, therefore, squarely upon the Com- munist Party leadership. “The Communists assumed the right as an or- ganized group to attend a public meeting to which they were not invited as a group, and to deter- mine whom it should hear and not hear. Even granting that a Communist leader was present for the purpose of maintaining order—at least up to the arrival of Woll and LaGuardia—the Commu- nist Party leadership cannot escape responsibility for its rank and file members getting out of con- trol.” This is, of course, the traditional attitude of the Civil Liberties Union, the attitude of “liberal- | ism” which is greatly impressed by the niceties of who, and who was not, “invited” to the meeting. The majority report continues: “The handling of the meeting intensified the conflict, Searching Communists or their sym- pathizers at the door, taking away banners and copies of the ‘Daily Worker, encouraging ushers ‘o eject disrupters, and leaving the policing of the meeting solely in the hands of untrained ushers, were factors bound to increase hostile feeling. “The physical attack on Clarence Hathaway, The who went to the platform alone among a hundred opponents, was disgraceful and wholly unneces- sary. He could have been escorted from the plat- form without violence whatever his motives. No adequate explanation of the dsiturbance at the Garden can be made without reference to these factors.” HE fact of deliberate, brutal provocation at the Garden meeting on the part of the Socialist Party leadership is thus fully confirmed in the eport of the Civil Liberties Union. This confirma- m could not have been withheld by the Civil Lib- erties Board too without making the report ob- viously distorted and false. But the Civil Liberties Union report, after facts which it could not ignore because too well known to the thousands of work- ers who witnessed them at the Garden, delivers its slap at the Socialist Party only, it is clear, to give greater force to its main blow, the blow aimed at the Communist Party. The Civil Liberties Union report gives the appearance of above-the-struggle, impartial judgments only to weight its condem- nation of the Communist Party, the revolutionary party of the American working class, The facts here are definite and clear. The pic- ture of provocation, deliberately planned by the So- | cialist Party leaders in order to introduce a definite | atmosphere of disruption and provocation, is fully based on the facts, facts that can be attested to | by the thousands of workers who saw the Garden events with their own eyes. In regard to this section of the report on the deliberately provocative way the meeting was han- dled by the Socialist Party leaders, it is necessary to say that the disruption and provocation of the So- cialist leaders, with the conscious purpose of break- ing the meeting, was not a sudden, accidental oc- currence. The evidence of the meeting itself, as well as other known facts, give indisputable indication that the course taken by the Socialist leaders at the Garden had already been determined upon by them well in advance of the meeting itself. With the news of the heroic uprising of the Aus- trian proletariat, contrasting so terribly with the actions and policies of the Austrian Socialist lead- ers, it was necessary for the leaders of the American Socialist Party to get some issue other than the bloody events of Austria itself. It was necessary for them to quickly find some issue upon which to divert the attention of the workers from the open class war raging in the streets of Vienna and Linz, the open class war | that left the Socialist Party in a distinctly un- favorable light. And the issue they planned was precisely the issue which their arrangements so clearly indicated they wanted—a break in the united front of the workers coming together in the pride and enthusiasm of the Austrian up- rising. But they over-reached themselves. The brutal assault on Hathaway was a spontaneous extension of the pre-arranged plan. It had the effect of a revelation to the thousands of workers who packed the Garden, who saw with astonishment and in- dignation an exhibition of brutality and reaction- ary violence that was in no way distinguishable from the police oppression of the capitalist class. The assault on Hathaway gave the show away, for it revealed not only to the thousands of workers who witnessed it, but to the vaster workingclass audience of the country, the actual, living proof of who it is that is the party of reactionary, oppressive violence. In the attack on Hathaway, coming as the culmination to the whole series of pre-arranged provocations outlined above in the report of the Civil Liberties Union, the fact that the Socialist Party leadership is at one with the capitalist ruling class in its use of brutality and violence against its workingclass opponents was made as clear as day. . * . they are ‘O minority reports then follow, revealing that the “impartial” report itself reflects the same forces that met in conflict in the Garden meeting. A dissenting opinion from the majority was signed by Robert Dunn and Mary Van Kleeck: “In our opinion such a public meeting could not escape protest from a dissenting group in- cluded in the general call and vitally anxious to have its point of view expressed. An audience has rights as well as the platform. We dissent from the implication that the right of free assemblage requires peace gained by withholding protest.” The last dissenting opinion of the “impartial” and “neutral” report is from none other than Nor- man Thomas, who repeats with truly impartial in- sistence that “the sole and single responsibility of the Civil Liberties Union was to determine who was responsible for the kind of attack that turned what would have been a solemn and orderly meeting into a riot.” The significance of the “impartial” report is made clearer when it is remembered that it is the result of the determined efforts of the two mem- bers of the Civil Librties Union board who are two avowed enemies of the Communist Party, Norman Thomas and the Rey. A. J. Muste. Was it in the interests of a “neutral agency outside the con- flict” that these two gentlemen of the Civil Liber- ties Board demanded its report? The report of the Civil Liberties Union on an incident resulting from the’ struggle of opposing class points of view only makes it clear that its claim to supra-class impartiality and “neutrality” is without foundation. The report reveals that the Board of the Civil Liberties Union is itself torn with the inescapable forces of the class struggle, and that all its reports and opinions inevitably re- flect these class forces. The class forces, we repeat, that conflicted at the Garden, only find additional (even if distorted) expression in the “impartial” report of the “neutral” Civil Liberties Union. The report concludes with the proposal for a “committee outside the membership or sympathizers of groups likely.to be in the conflict, for the pur- pose of obtaining agreements to minimize interfer- ence and the hearing of complaints when they oc- cur.” The Communist Party, of course, recognizes no “neutral” agency in the class struggle. While it cannot accept any allegedly supra-class supreme court to pass judgments upon its struggles to lead the working class to the seizure of power from the capitalist ruling class, it is, of course, always ready to discuss proposals with any group when the pro- Posals are for the purpose of broadening the scope of united front struggle against the enemies of the working class. ILD Issues Stamps For AustrianRelief NEW YORK.—Fifty thousand five-cent stamps and 100,000 penny The I. L. D. national office has ;Committee” called on the widow of \the worker Munichreiter, hero of the Austrian workers’ fight, who | was hanged by Dollfuss’ court mar- tial. She was bringing a “gift” from the Dollfuss fund. stamps for the relief of victims of Austrian fascism were shipped over the country today by the Interna- tional Labor Defense, to stimulate and assist in the drive for relief funds, it was announced. Students, teachers and workers at Commonwealth College, Mena, Ark., on the initiative of the local branch of the International Labor Defense, collected $5.22 for the relief of vi tims of Austrian fascism, immedi- ately upon receipt of the call to col- lect funds issued by the national office of the I 1. D. 4 | issued an appeal to all who are col- | lecting funds for the Austrian vic- |tims to send in all money collected | immediately, to be cabled to Europe, |where an I. L. D. committee of | women has gone into Austria to | distribute the funds. No deduc- |tions for any expenses are being | made in the collection of the $3,000 |fund which the I. L. D. here has| pledged to collect, expenses being paid out of organizational funds or | through special means. | VIENNA, March 8 (By Mail).—A/ jlady from Frau Dollfuss’ “Relief | “Til take no ‘gift’ from the mur- | derers of my husband,” declared the | Mass Meet Sunday To Open Jews Killed TIME TO STRIKE! In Bavaria; U.S. Nazis Plan Drive Demonstration Called for Saturday at Nazi Consulate NEW YORK.—wWhile news reached New York of a Nazi pogrom at Gunzenhausen, in which at least two Jews died and many were seriously injured, jand New York Nazis planned an anti-Jewish campaign at a meeting }in Yorkville Casino Tuesday night, |New York Jewish workefs issued a jcall for support of their anti-fascist action. They announced a protest dem- onstration Saturday, March 31, at 10 a. m., in front of the German Consulate, 17 Battery Pl. The demonstration will be followed by a march to Union Square and @ mass meeting there, The demonstration is \called by the Jewish Workers and People’s Commitee Against Fascism and An- ti-Semitism, which: in its call urged | all anti-fascist workers to take part. Anniversary of Nazi Pogroms. This demonstration will take place the day before April 1, the first anniversary of the murderous drive against Jews in Germany which brought death, maiming, tor- | ture and ruin to hundreds of thou- sands of Jewish workers, profes- sionals and small business men, at the same time that wealthy Jewish financiers were being aided by Hit- ler, and giving him their support. The anniversary is being marked in Germany by intensified violence against Jewish workers and small traders, whipped up by a virulent anti-Jewish campaign in all the newspapers. In Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, Storm | Troopers staged a pogrom Tuesday, attacking scores of Jews, two of whom died as a result. Eleven Jews were arrested by the police, but of course no Nazis. American Heads Nazis. In New York Tuesday night, the League of Friends of New Germany, on orders from the Nazi party in Germany, accepted Reinhold Wal- ter, 308 East 86th St., an American citizen, as national leader of the Nazi organization in the United States. Fritz Gissibl, former leader, an- nounced that he had received or- ders from “the great leader” (Hitler) that all Nazi functionaries in the U.S. must be American citizens. Carl Nicolai, former acting presi- dent of the United German Socie- ties, announced the program of a vicious anti-Jewish campaign to be carried out by the American Nazis and their sympathizers, and a “counter-boycott” of those who take part in anti-Nazi activities, He said the American Nazis were or- ganizing a “German-American Pro- tective Alliance” to carry out the fight against Jews in America, and to spread Nazi propaganda, Doumergue to Cut Wages, Pensions, ‘Relief, Fire 80,000 To Take Four Billion Deficit Direct From Workers’ Pockets PARIS, March 28.—The Dou- mergue Cabinet is meeting today to complete its plans for throwing complete a 4,000,000,000 franc deficit ($263,600,000) onto the shoulders of the unemployed, the civil servants and the veterans. This deficit represents a part of France’s gigantic expenditures for war preparations, Many previous cabinets. have fallen trying to bal- ance this budget. The present program is to fire 60,000 to 80,000 civil servants, cut the wages of all others another five to eight per cent, reduce veterans’ pensions by 700,000,000 francs and social insurance by 540,000,000 francs. -—By Burck ¥ € NEW YORK.—Unit 3, Section 10, of this District, shows an outstand- ing example of carrying on success- ful concentration work in a rail- road yard through the Daily Worker, resulting in new recruits for the Party. Previous to the circulation drive, sales at the Pennsylvania Railroad | yard in Sunnyside, Long Island, | were practically at zero. | total 300 copies per week. Tiba Garlin and Rose Leither, two of the most active comrades | selling the ‘ Daily” at the wards, re- | port that the workers were at first very reluctant to buy the Daily Worker, The Negro workers were ested, following explanations to . them how the “Daily” fights inter- of the Scottsboro Boys, against lynching, Jim Crowism and all forms of race discrimination. Both Negro Tiba Garlin and white workers began to admire the unit members who came to sell the “Daily” day after day. “What makes you come out here in such cold weather?” they asked. | The comrades replied, “Communists are always on the job for the work- ing class, regardless of the weather.” even those who were at first in- clined to joke about it began buying the “Daily” to see what it was like. New Party Members Ten railroad workers were re- cruited into the Party on the basis of Daily Worker sales. Some of | Now sales | for the freedom | ‘The workers liked this answer, and | Rail Workers Join Party on Basis of Daily Worker Sales these new Party members wrote a letter to the “Daily” telling of con- | ditions in the shop, especially of | the filth in the “sign-out-room.” | The letter was reprinted by the | Unit in a pamphlet and sold to the workers. Clippings of the letter in the “Daily” were posted by the workers in the shop. Within a week the company cleaned up the “sign- out-room.” | Far Reaching Effect A New Orleans Pullman porter whose route ended at the Sunnyside yard brought a copy of the “Daily.” The unit mem- m bers talked to this Negro work- er, got his name and address and forwarded it to the District. This worker is now a member of the Party. Rose Leither The white collared young workers in the yard have also been inter- | ested in the Daily Worker, showing how the “Daily” can be used to good effect among both Negro and white workers. Three comrades usually partici- pate in the work. Two pass out leaflets, briefly written and telling | what the “Daily” stands for, at | either end of the yard bridge over | which the workers go to and from work. The third comrade, selling the “Daily,” is stationed in the middle of the bridge. It is note- worthy that non-Party workers and IL.D. members in Queens help in this work. Let’s hear from other concentra- tion units how they are working to spread the revolutionary influence | of our Daily Worker! NEW YORK—The New York World-Telegram yesterday had its front page dominated by the report of an interview by William Philip Simms, its foreign editor, with Koki Hirota, Japanese Foreign Min- ister. In this interview, Hirota presses an invitation to the United States and Great Britain to help Japan in the “pacification” of China, and reveals that Chiang Kai-Shek, Nanking dictator, is acting as a puppet of Japan in China. What this “pacification” means, Hirota makes clear when he says: Hirota Again Bids for Us Aid in War Against Soviets Speaks of China’s Role in Anti-Soviet War; Confirms Chiang Kai-shek’s Betrayal “The present Nanking government is sorely beset on all sides by reb- els, Communists and bandits. If Chiang Kai-Shek fails, there is no telling what will happen. . . . The result is the same whether Chinese Communism is inspired from abroad or by conditions of want and mis- ery at home. “In either case the answer is chaos, and chaos in China is a men- ace to world peace.” “Pacification” can mean nothing but a gigantic war of enslavement of the Chinese people. Hirota repeated his recent state- Millions for Storm Troopers and War in German Budget Nazi Program Reveals Gigantic Increase in War Items | BERLIN, March 28.—Germany’s |budget for 1934, some details of | wholly a budget for war. | Among the outstanding items in it are a $100,000,000 grant to main- | tain the army of Nazi Storm Troop- lers, and regular army and navy appropriations of $357,600,000, an ‘increase of nearly $100,000,000 over last year. | Additional items directly con- tributing to war preparations are $14,000,000 to assist German ship- ping, $83,000,000 for aviation, $48,876,000 for field aviation, $20,- 000,000 for anti-aircraft measures, $76,000,000 for the police. ‘The total budget is $2,583,312,000. This budget figure is in addition to another 4,000,000,000 marks which the Nazi government is borrowing for special projects. Epidemic In Austrian Concentration Camp VIENNA, March 27.—A dysentery epidemic was reported raging at a concentration camp for political prisoners at Weellersdorf, near Weinerneustadt, government au- thorities admitted today. Sixty- nine prisoners have ben taken to hospitals since March 10. ment that “Japan must have peace and order in East Asia, and there- -|fore is taking the lead in a job for the good of the entire world.” Confirms Nanking Betrayal He made clear how openly Chiang perialist powers when he said that what the U. S. should do to “ad- vance the cause of peace in China” is to support Chiang Kai-Shek, who is now waging war on the Chinese Soviets, with the assistance of U. S., Japanese and European imperial- ists. While denying Japan’s intention to make war on the Soviet Union, Hirota willingly discussed the role of China in such a war, revealing how far the Nanking government has gone in its negotiations with Japan in preparation for the Japa- nese invasion of the Soviet Union. “Nanking now is convinced that an understanding with Japan is more to her advantage than con- flict,” he said. Simms adds that he has heard a great deal of talk’ in the East that the Nanking government is pre- paring to recognize the Japanese seizure of Manchuria. which were made public today, is| Kai-Shek has sold out to the im-) Chicago CP. Convention Workers to Gather at Coliseum Hathaway. and Gebert Will Speak at the Big Opening ! (Midwest Bureau, Daily Worker.) CHICAGO, March 28.—The Communist Party, District 8, | will open its Ninth Convention here on Sunday, April 1, at 7:30 p. m., with a mass meeting in the Coliseum, 15th St. and Wabash Ave., at which Clarence Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and Bill Gebert, district organizer, will be the main speakers. Besides workers, who will come to greet the opening of the conven- tion, delegates will be present from the mining, railroad, steel and pack- ing house industries of the district. ‘The convention will evaluate the work of the district since the last convention, held in Milwaukee in 1932, and basing itself on the draft resolution of the Eighth National Convention, to be held in Cleveland, will set itself the task of winning the majority of the working class in the basic industries of Ilinois and Indiana. Lerroux Revives Death Penalty as Strikes Spread Gas, Electric, Water Workers Strike in Valencia MADRID, March 28.— The Ler~ roux cabinet met today to hurry through a bill to revive the death | penalty in Spain, which was abol- ished after the revolution. The bill is aimed directly against | the revolutionary workers, as an of- ficial announcement makes clear. |The announcement says the blil is | introduced to “root out vandalism.” | Workers in the electric, gas, and water supply plants in Valencia | struck at midnight last night, in | solidarity with the hydro-electric | workers, who are already out on strike. The army is sending a troop of military engineers to scab on the electric and water workers, on board the army transport ship Almirante enee Mussolini, Facing Unrest, Organizes Fake “Criticism” Magazine Prints “Rap” at Corporative Scheme ROME. March 28.—The Musso- |lini government has felt itself forced to provide a “safe” vent for the deep and widespread discontent with the fascist program of total enslavement of the workers and peasants provided in the newly adopted full “corporative state” plan. In announcing this plan, which greatly fortifies the grip of the big- gest monopolists on the workers, and their union with the state, Mussolini declared his program was the “abolishing of capitalism.” Today, I Problemi del Lavoro (The Problems of the People), the organ of the National Association for the Study of Labor Problems, published an article ostensibly criticizing the fascist program. It does so, however, from a capitalist point of view, and provides no hint pl ay of the ee basis of the co or of any real program for the working class. That it is published, however, indicates that Mussolini is obliged to use new methods of d to stem the opposition of the Ital- ian masses. U.S. Women ® ‘International Anti-War Group Calls Paris Meet July 28 NEW YORK.—The World Com- mittee Against War and Fascism, headed by Henri Barbusse, Romain Rolland and Lord Marley, has is- sued a call from its headquarters in Paris to women all over the world to join their efforts in building a gigantic Women’s Congress Against War and Fascism to be held in Paris on July 28, 29 and 30, 1934, the 20th anniversary of the last world war. The call, which is ad- dressed to the women of every ‘country, reads in part: “Our homes which were destroyed and broken up by the war of yes- widow, as she ordered the lady out | terday have hardly been rebuilt dh | of her house, Co aetna reer etccarth in rn CHILE TOWN FLOODED ANTOFAGASTA, Chile, March 28, when those who profit most from the present system are feverishly | preparing a new world slaughter. “War is already raging in China, in Latin America, in Morocco, It is seriously menacing the borders —Torrential rains in the Andes have! of the peaceful Soviet Union. caused floods and washouts which so! far today had resulted in five dead and 100 injured, beside many homes destroyed. Communications with | the interior were disrupted. / “Millions are flung headlong into the race of armament production, our sons are enlisted into the armies, in preparation for the most formidable and most abominable war humanity has ever known, “Our lives, which we are asked to risk in the next war, are barely en- durable in these days of economic crises. Housewives find it impos- sible to balance their budgets. More and more workers are thrown into the horror and misery of unemploy- ment. The wages of those who work are constantly cut. Farmers are unable to sell their products and are driven into the greatest distress. Women intellectuals and _profes- sionals, whose families made great sacrifices so that they might com- plete their educations, are unable to make use of their training, are unable to find work. All around us is misery and distress. It is the duty of the women of all coun- tries to react immediately to this critical world situation. Fascism Rising “Those who exploit and starve working women are the same the world over. They are the same gentlemen who are preparing the next war. The economic crisis is piling up more ruin on every side. In the face of our anger, our ef- forts at resistance, the privileged classes become alarmed and resort to fascist violence in order to crush us and to make of us better mili- tarized slaves for their war aims. Under fascism, women are deprived & of the rights they have won through years of struggle; they are enslaved. Can we permit fascism to spread with ever accelerating speed | throughout the world? Can we per- mit fascism to drive the world back into the dark pit of barbarism? Time for Action “The time has come for action. We must follow the lead of women | like Charlotte Despard, Anna Lind- hagen, Karen Michaelis, M. de Saint Prix, Helene Stassova, Mme. Sun Yat Sen, Dr. Gertrude Woker, Lilla Fenner Brockway, and Ellen Wil- kinson; we must follow the lead of great working class organizations, of different political tendencies, groups of veterans, and the most militant groups in the intellectual world. We must gather all our forces from the farthest horizons, from every corner of the globe. “We must decide on our course of action, on our organization of the struggle against war and against fascism, on the means of carrying out our demands for which we will owe an accounting to history. Call to Congress “We call upon all of you to sup- ‘port this action and to participate |in the World Congress of Women which will take place in Paris on July 28, 29 and 30, 1934 ‘Women of all countries! We call on you to take the initiative in the factories, on the countryside, in the schools, in your organizations — wherever you live and work, to form committees for the support and par- ticipation in the World Congress. “Let us make of our united forces an invincible rampart against war, and an insurmountable barrier to fascist. terror. “Let us direct our efforts towards the economic and political libera- tion of women. “INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S. CONGRESS AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM. “Paris, January, 1934. “Signatures received: Claire Charles-Geniaux, Madeleine Rol- land, Mmes. Signac, Wallon, Aurdee Violis (France); Haden-Guest (Great Britain); Elin Wagner (Swe- den) Comtesse Karoly. “We have also received a number of signatures of women from coun- tries under fascist regimes but for obvious reasons and for their safety we cannot make them public.” New York Conference The American League Against War and Fascism has taken the ini- tiative in calling a preliminary con- ference of women’s organizations and other organizations that have Prepare for World Anti-War Congress of Women U.S. Women Meet Sun. to Plan Participation in World Congress many women in their membership to lay the plans for electing a large and representative organization of Negro and white working and farm women from the United States to the Paris Conference. This confer- ence will be held in New York City on March 30, 8 p.m., at the League’s Office, 112 E. 19th St., Room 605, A committee of three, consist of Anna N. Davis, formerly of ine War Resisters ie, Annie E, Gray of the Women’s Peace Society and Winifred Chappell of the Meth- odist Federation for Social Service is issuing the call of these organ- izations, This preliminary conference will | set up a National Committee which — will direct the work of holding dis- trict and regional conferences at which the widest representation of women—working women, housewives, farm women, teachers, intellectuals, students—will be called together to mobilize the support of American women, regardless of race, creed, color or political affiliation for the struggle aaginst war and fascism and for electing delegates to the Paris Congress,