The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30
'ATEMENT BY
OYNTz SCORES
WOMEN LIMOGES
nerican Legion Head
n Keynote Speech


last night with the primary pur-
of using all their power to-
d pushing the passage of the
teen Cruiser bill through con-
IS, delegates from many wom-
lingo and patriotic societies
sided over by Mrs. Boyce Ficklin,
president of the American Lee
l Auxiliary, continued their work
preparation for imperialist war
passing bombastic resolutions in
or of the vicious war measure
for an immediate attack on call
fversive elements who are at
pting to undermine our national
stige."
'auI V. McNutt, national COM
lder of the American Legion, de-
red the keynote speech of the
ming.
Vicious Activities.
n the statement issued before the
citing, designated by themselves
the "Women's Patriotic Confer
e on National Defense" it was
essed that although the passage
the cruiser bill is our primary
Germ, all the societies represented
this conference are deeply inter-
ed in mapping out a campaign OF
cation through which to meet and
cessfully oppose the propaganda
organized groups attacking army
| navy bills, military training in
ools and colleges, and other de-
Sc measures regarded by this con-
ence as desirable"
Regarding the imperialist work OF
lingo conference, the National
mems Department of the Work
(Communist) Party yesterday Is
ID a statement through the head
the department, Juliet Stuart
yntz. The statement in part, fol
IS:
Reactionary Societies.
This conference represents the
biIization of the most reactionary
mems organizations of the whole
lntry in support of imperialism,
cruiser bill, and the whole pro-
I'M of national Defense in real
imperialist aggression. Like the
t of the imperialist cliques, these
actionaries, bourgeois hundred
'centers, also support the Kellogg
ct and boast that they have gone
record in favor of peace treaties
h other nations and universal con-
iption in the United States.
These women are real fascist
| at heir conference a year ago
bounced that they were for the de-
lse of the country against the
envy without and the enemy with
against the subversive elements
hin orr country that attack the
yernnent and threaten the estab-
ned order of society,"
Aimed at Strikers.
This statement referred especial
to the militant miners and other
rkers on strike at the time.
This group, composed of the
rst enemies of the workers and
labor movement in this country,
dominated by the American Lee
IN, its women's auxiliary and other
goist organizations of the same
oe. This patriotic conference on
tional { Tense is completing the
,rk of the pacifist women's con-
,ence of two weeks ago in Wash
yton in modifying women and wo-
ms organizations in support OF the
perialist program of the wall
rect government.
"This mobilization of women Tor
war is one of the steps toward
next imperialist war, and must
met by working women with a
termined struggle against the war
niger and Imperialism, against
tn pacifism and patriotism, which
rye to put over the war.
"This struggle against the war
niger by working women will be
ried on under the leadership OF
g Workers (Communist) Party,
1ich is conducting nationwide
mpaign among working women's
carnations for the fight against
lperialism and the defense of the
,viet Union, against whom these
AZ measures are aimed"