The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
MASS ORGANIZATIONS IN
FTHE ANTI-WAR CAMPAIGN

In some language papers, we can already see
how the workers are responding in unmasking
the war preparations. Workers are notifying us
that in the ship yards of Hoboken, passenger
liners are being transformed into battle ships;
that in Passaic, some Of the mills are working
on uniforms, that other plants are manufacture
ing steel helmets, etc.
All these examples of the activities of the
various organizations show that large masses Of
American workers can be drawn into the anti
war campaign and in defense Of the Soviet
Union.
But here we must state that while large new
masses moving and that on their own ini-
alive mass organizations call mass meetings,
vote protest resolutions, ETC., the Party did not
sufficiently utilize this mass sentiment to make
April tremendous Anti-War demonstration.
While, for example, in New York for weeks
the language mass organizations were multiply
ing the call Of the united front AntI-War Com
mittee, and were calling on the masses, through
their leaflets and through hundreds Of mass
meetings, to go into the streets, the demonstra-
ton OF April took the character Of an indoor
meeting in the Coliseum. The Party press and
especially the Daily Worker failed to reflect with
necessary emphasis the extent Of the anti-war
struggle of the masses. While the Daily Worker
was reporting the demonstrations in Detroit,
Chicago and in hundreds of other cities, it did
not indicate that behind this demonstration
there is a growing mass movement in hundreds
of thousands of organizations, in the factories.
Not of the hundreds of protest resolutions
voted at mass meetings called by the mass or
CARNATIONS, not single appeal of mass or
CARNATIONS quoted in the Daily Worker.
While the bourgeois press consciously main
tains silence on the anti-war campaign that is
drawing in hundreds of thousands OF workers
our press failed to bring forward the anti-war
fighting spirit of the American working class
1t failed to organize, to give expression to this
spirit and give at the same time guidance and
organizational directives for the development Of
the. campaign.
On the other hand, the Communist fractions
in the mass organizations are also responsible
for the weaknesses of the Daily Worker in SO
far as they failed completely to notify the CEN
trail organ of the Party about the activities OF
the mass organizations, about their participa-
ton in the anti-war campaign, did not take
care of sending copies Of the resolutions, etc.,
to the Daily.
This shows that while the elementary move
ment Of the masses in the anti-war struggle is
growing, our forces are not yet able to CO.
ordinate the movement, to lead 1t and utilize
the mass sentiment for the building Of the mass
organizations, for the building Of the Party, for
the development Of a much wider anti-war
movement a tremendous campaign in defense
of the Chinese people, Of the Chinese Soyiets,
of the Soviet Union
The anti-war week, between March 80 and
April 6, was not an aim in ITSELF but created
the basis for the development Of the anti-war
struggle, that must be continued and brought
to a higher stage in which millions of American
workers must be involved. May LIST must be
the expression of the most powerful anti-war
sentiment of the American working class.
Mass organizations that responded to the call
Of the Anti-War Committee must double their
efforts to reach new mass organizations new
masses Of workers, bringing the Anti-War age
tation inside the factories.
FORWARD! Continue to arrange new meet
ings in your organizations! Vote protest resO.
lutions against the robber war on China! Fight
in the mass organizations against the reaction
airy social-fascist leadership which is support
ing the imperialistS! Unite with the masses
who are fighting against imperialist war, against
starvation conditions in this country! Stop che
transport Of ammunition! Bring the anti-war
agitation into the shops! Forward in the
struggle for the defense of the Soviet Union.
the workers fatherIand! Forward in the struggle
to stop a new mass slaughter for the benefit Of
the exploiters!