The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-14
'ANTI-WAR MEET
HITS WALL SITS
MELLA MURDER
Demand Recognition
of USSR
Continued from Page One


Worker. sounding the keynote of
the conference, outlined the underly-
ing causes Of the approaching i'm
perialist war, the role of the work
ing class in defending the Union of
workers republic, the target of the
attack by combined forces of imper-
tack by combined forces of imper-
ialism, the record Of imperialist
plumber in Latin America, and the
necessity for developing and sup
porting the Anti-Imperialist League
to help it arouse the mass of Amer
lean workers.
Robert Dunn, who gave statistical
data on American investments in
Latin America, was followed by
George Pershing, field organizer of
the United States section of the
Anti Imperialist League, who
stressed the growing militarization
of the youth in the schools, and the
colossal war machinery now being
organized by the American ruling
class.
Richard Moore, secretary of the
American Negro Labor Congress,
sharply criticized the apologetic at
titude of William Pickens, of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, to the
Kellogg Peace Pact. Moore charac-
terized the pact as an instrument of
war which gave imperialists the
smoke screen behind which to pre-
pare.
Harrison George followed B. S.
Roy, Indian Nationalist, and pointed
out the bourgeois character of Roy's
theory as to the manner in which
Indian liberation could be achieved.
Speaking for the enslaved work
ers of Haiti, r. La Motto made a
plea for the support of the Amer
lean workers for Haitian liberation.
John De Facio pledged the support
of the Anti-Fascist Alliance with the
League in the fight against the COM
mon enemy, the fascist terror, under
whatever guise and wherever it
made its appearance.
Trade union representatives par
ticipated in the discussion and reso-
lutions were adopted pledging in
tensified activity in behalf of the
Nicaraguan rebel forces, in support
of the Chinese Proletarian Revolu-
ton, and condemning Jack john
stones arrest by the lackeys of Bri-
fish imperialism in India. A tele-
gram was sent to the British am
bassador at Washington demanding
the immediate and unconditional re-
lease of tombstone, and at the same
time pointing out the determination
OF the League to stand by the strug-
gle of the Indian workers and peas
ants for liberation.
Other resolutions called for recog-
milton of the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics, demanding uncon-
ditional independence of all Latin
American countries, including Ha-
waii and the Philippines, the end of
marine control of Nicaragua, abol-
ishing constabularies trained by the
U. S. military machine, and con-
demning the Pan American Union
as a tool in the hands of American
imperialism.
Resolutions also condemned pup
pet relationships in Latin America,
the militarist policies of the reac-
tionary leadership of the American
Federation of Labor, called for trade
union unity in a concerted fight
against all the imperialist powers
and endorsing as we'll as pledging
support for the Labor Conference to
be held in Montevideo in May.
After the reading of resolutions
and the formulating Of the Leagues
plans for it's Anti-Imperialist work,
trade union and other representa-
tives pledged financial support from
the organizations they represented.
One pledge of ten dollars from the
Venezuelan Revolutionary Party was
included in the total amount of $3.50
collected in pledges.