The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
BY F. B.


THERE are many signs that show how the
anti-war sentiment is growing daily among
The millions Of American workers. Today the
most advanced American workers see clearly that
not only is Japan holding on to Manchuria
while still maintaining its armies in Shanghai
put that NIanchuria is being built up as the
Japanese base for the attack against the Soviet
Union. They see that the Japanese are extend
ing their military forces into China and con-
stitute the vanguard Of the imperialisJs for the
smashing of the Chinese soviets.
We are witnessing the beginning of a
mass movement Of indignation against the Jap
anese robber attack on the Chinese people and
the war moves against the Soviet Union.
The appeal Of the Anti-War Committee COM
posed of the TUUL, Marine Workers Industrial
Union, FSU, EX-Serycemens League, and Com
munist Party, to the workers of the United
States to demonstrate against the robber war on
China, against the attempt to turn the war in
the Far East against the USSR was met with
4 great response by hundreds of mass organ
zations, cultural organizations, Mutual Aid So
cieties before and during the Anti-War Week.
These organizations appealed to the workers
Of their organizations, to the workers in the
shops and mines, to unite in the struggle against
imperialist Hundreds OF thousands of leaf
LETT we're distributed to the mass organizations
in different languages, before factories and on
q neighborhood scale; thousands of copies of
"Woman and War" and other pamphlets were
issued by the mass organizations in different
languages.
Mass organizations sent out their own appeals
as Tor example the Executive Committee of the
Hungarian Workers Benevolent and Educational
Workers Federation. The Statement Of the
Hungarian organization in its final paragraph
says:
THE imperiaIists preparing for early
attack against the workers fatherIand. What
will you do? viii you stand by and watch
how the land of your hopes Will be crushed?
You cannot do this You cannot assist capital
ism to commit the most horrible crime in the
history of mankind. You must resist, you must
organize and rally to the defense of the USSR.
We call upon all workers in the United States
to defend their fatherland, the USSR."
Hundred of Hungarian mass organizations re-
sponded to this call Hundreds of mass meet
ings called by the Hungarian organizations were
arranged all over the country This is not the
only example. The Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian,
Lithuanian, Finnish, Polish, Greek Armenian
ana other organizations have all held and are
arranging special anti-war meetings.
During the Anti-War Week in New York, the
Jewish organizations alone held 165 indoor meet
ings at which after discussion of the war
situation, the Jewish workers pledged themselves
to become agitators in their shops, against the
imperiaIist war. The same organizations held
also As open air meetings at which thousands
of workers attended.
Never, as now, did the mass meetings called
by the Polish Ukrainian and Russian organiza-
lions based the class struggle, have such a
tremendous response from the masses as in the
anti-war campaign. In the hundreds Of mass
meetings called by the mass organizations that
responded Immediately to the appeal of the
Anti-War Committee, protest resolutions were
voted and forwarded, as is known to us, to the
State Department and Japanese Embassy in
Washington
In this campaign, we see for the first time
how independent workers mass organizations
cake the initiative of calling mass meetings on the
anti-war issue and not only indoor mass meet
ings but open air meetings, especially on a neigh
borhoOd scale in the territory where workers
Of the nationality live. What is Of special
importance is the fact that they are appealing
10 the workers Of the shops mines and mills.
The various language mass organizations have
held and are arranging city conferences and ap-
peaEng to the masses of the organizations led
by the reactionaries to join in the fight against
imperialist war.