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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18
BY PAULINE RoGERs

THE 7th National Conference on the Cause and
Cure Of War is being held in Washington Jan
uary Is TO q, 1882. At this conference will be
presented the thousands Of women's signatures
for disarmament petition which are being col
lected in the United States by eleven organiza-
lions connected with the National Committee on
the Cause and Cure Of War. This petition to-
gather with similar European petitions contain
ing millions Of signatures England, one and half
millions; Holland two and a half millions, etc.
will be presented at the World Disarmament
Conference which will be held in Geneva in Feb
ruary 1892 with the U S. participating.
The National Committee on the Cause and
Cure of War consists of eleven womens organ
l2ations. While the majority OF these organizs-
lions consist of housewives and professional wo-
men, two Of the affiliated organizations the
Womens Trade Union League and the Young
Womens Christian Association reach and influ-
ence thousands Of working women with their
dangerous pacifist, ant-working class teachings,
This National Committee for the Cause and
Cure Of War, whose chairman is Carrie Chapman
Gait is supposed to educate women to the causes
and cure of war by holding national conferences,
by circulating literature by setting up local study
groups in womens organizations. But what does
his organization teach women about the causes
of war? The first conference Of this National
COMMITTEE held in Washington in January 1925.
stated that the causes OF war were psychological,
political, social etc" But not one word about the
real cause Of war-the constant conflict between
irnperialist powers for more markets, for more
colonies for greater profits, Tor more means Of
exploiting the working class AS long as the capt.
talst system exists, imperialist wars will exist.
and what according to this organization, is the
cure Of war? They say that the road to lasting
peace is the road Of disarmament and peace con-
ferences. and SO they are presenting petitions
with millions Of signatures to the Geneva Con-
ference for the reduction and limitation Of arma-
ments, and try to convince women that this is
the way to bring about universal peace.
PACTIsTs AID WAR MAKERS
These false teachings about imperialist wars
are very dangerous to working women, because
they blind the working class to the fact thst be-
hind all this peace talk, preparations for war
gains ahead full speed These very organizations,
which talk about peace and disarmament ere
giving full support 10 the Hooyer-Wal Street
government which spends three billion dollars q
year scr way preparations These very orgenass-
.rsss gssssE sgs @rw ennsuHang agraz=-se ses @a-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18
Conference on cause and Cure" of
War Hides Real Cause OF War

armament were among the first TO come out in
support Of the World War. The Women's Trade
Union League one Of tbs organizations now
connected with this National Committee FOR the
Cause and Cure Of War, fully supported the last
war in spite Of the fact that it spread pacifist
ideas among working women before the war broke
out. The Y.WCA. which is also preaching dis
armament and peace is at the same time teach
ing young girls, in it's clubs TO shoot and TO take
military training Of one sort or another, and Is
already training working women TO take part in
the coming war.
The Cause and Cure Of War Committee has
ben rallying support for the Kellogg Peace Pact.
the Washington Conference, the London Naval
Conference, ten League Of Nations, the World
Court and 1882 Disarmament Conference The
working class has already seen chat all Of these
fake peace conferences turned out TO be a race
for armaments and not for peace among the
imperialist powers. The farce known as the
League of Nations was seen in action only re-
Gently in the war between China and Japan In
Manchuris. In this situation the League Of Ma
tons not only could not stop the war, but was
battle ground on which the capitalist powers were
fighting for the best position In Asia
The one issue that the capitalist countries 40
unite upon Is an attack the Soviet Union On
the agenda OF this coming conference in Wash
ington there is one point listed as %The IN
known Quantity-Russia." This is now the Soviet
Union is presented by trees pacifist organizations
in spite Of the fact that the policy OF the Soviet
Onion on wars is well known TO the working class
Of the world. The Soviet Onion was the only
country TO propose complete disarmament, and
this was turned down by the inpertalist powers
OF the League Of Nations
The Russian workers today have better work
ing conditions than they have ever had in the
past while the workers in capitalist countries are
bowed down under the burdens of past and pres
ent wars, and are suffering starvation and mis-
cry. Billions of dollars are being spent by the
Hoover government on war preparations but they
refuse TO grant one cent for unemployment In
surance. In the richest imperialist country In the
world twelve million workers and their families
must starve, many Of them to death because they
cannot find jobs
FIGHT THE PACIFISTs
Working women must not be fooled by this fake
peace and disarmament conference Of these paci-
fist organizations which are the agents OF the
capitalist system In every country. working wo-
men aSe beans ysepssed Tor assual passscapeNcm
IN ahs naaa vel Hsg~aE ssg ls1ase aaae1hf 10 usa
sst a4SA
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18

MASSES OF WORKERS IN THE SHOPS AND
THE UNEMPLOYED.
This the bosses know-and FEAR. They know
the program of the Communist Party and do
everything to Illustrate it, The Party members
know the program-Lut see too many difficult
ties in carrying 1t out. There is no shortcut TO
realization of the program; no shortcut TO de-
Tense of the Soviet Union.
Organization begins today-our sincerity will
be tested by our work today. In the shop union,
among the unemployed, in the struggle for Negro
rights, we will be tested. Barbados are for to-
morrow; hard plugging work is for today. Bar
ricades follow only on the hard routine
work of organization today. In this the revo-
luton is tested-not in outbursts of enthusiasm.
Revolutions are not built on emotion-but on
hard organizatonal work, built on struggle, soil
dified by experience.
What we will do in case of war depends on
what we do today. Each factory must become
a bulwark of Communism. This places revolu-
tionary tasks upon every Party member that
cannot be shirked or postponed. This and this
alone will build the Party and the revolutionary
unions, unite the workers in the struggle and
"uld the forces with which alone we can de-
fend the Soviet Union and turn the imperial
st war into civil war.
That is our revolutionary job-and the Party
must organize its work to this end. This means
immediate and intense orientation 10 the
ShOp-tO the masSes-to struggle. This means a
real test of our leadership revolutionary under
standing and discipline No poStponement is
permissible-the imperialist war is close upon
us. Each Party member must accept his or her
duty or be found wanting in revolutionary un-
derstanding and therefore not fit for member
ship in the Communist Party.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18
ny 1. AMTER.
PART 2 (Conclueionj


To fight against ilnperialiSt war and for de-
Tense of the Soviet Union means the organ
ixation OF the workers in the shops against wage
cuts and speed-up. This means that in every
shop in which there are Party members and
revolutionary workers, the revolutionary union
must be established and the workers be led in
fight 1t means that the revolutionary work OF
our Party cannot be only on the squares and
streets, but mainly In the shops. The struggle
for the masses must be in the shops and fac
tories, SO that the workers will learn how to
fight in an organized manner, who their lead
ers are, what The struggle means-nou only
against starvation, but against war, both OF
which are part Of the present system. Fight
against starvation Is preparation for struggle
against war. Led in struggle by the revolution
airy party OF the working class, taught the
meaning Of the struggle by the Communist
Party, the workers will fight against imper-
ialist war as against wage cuts. Organized
against hunger in the unemployed councils the
workers will learn that the fight for unemploy
rnent insurance is part Of the fight for the over
throw Of the capitalist system Of exploitation.
Only thus will We prepare the armies for turn
ing imperialisE war into civil war.
What does this mean for every Party mem
Der? 1t means 70 come down to the base OF
concrete work. Are you sincere in your deter
rnination to defend the Soviet Union? Then
practical work-and that alone will defend the
Soviet Union. You work in a factory-whether
large or small. Your duty is to build griev-
ance committee, TO win the workers for the
Communist Party. Your duty is 10 draw these
workers into the revolutionary unions. Your
duty Is to lead the workers in struggle. Let us
not talk about heroism the barricade-this
will be an illusion II today we fear the loss Of
our jobs-if we continually complain that we
cannot organize the workers for struggle. Let
us not merely talk about the unemployed being
part Of the revolutionary forces They are po-
tentially such-but If we do not organize them
into the unemployed councils and lead them in
struggle for unemployment insurance, then they
remain a disorganized mass, subject to the inr
fluence Of the dominating force. Let us not
talk about the Negroes awakening and willing
TO fight. This awakening will mean nothing
unless through joint struggle Of white and Negro
workers for Negro rights, against discrimination
and lynching, we convince the Negroes Of our
sincerity. Let us not talk ABOUT a fight against
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18
Jacob Burck-- Graphic Historian of
the Class Struggle

so. (f more drawings we're exhibit this
history might go back for several years. There
is Gandhi, whose bald head forms the body Of
a spider suspended from web; 1t is called sig
nificantly, THE Spinner" There Is Macdonald
driver of the British coach Of capitalism, with
Henderson in knee breeches performing as foot
man. The Red Cross, an overgrown, fat
whorish wench, lifts her skirt to salt away an
emergency fund" of $44,OO00OO. There are
records of struggles in the mines, the textile
mills led by the revolutionary unions: cartoons
depicting the role of the betrayers, the miltar-
lists, the A. F. of L. reactionaries; others call the
workers to action, to fight for the freedom Of
class-war prisoners, to carry on against race
hatred, against the attackers OF the Soviet
Union, and for the establishment Of prole
tartan dictatorship in the United States.
This list Of subjects might be extended fndefi-
nitely. But no words serve as adequate sub
stitutes for the cartoons themselves, which, in
their own panoramic medium, present these
problems and these struggles as clearly and
powerfully as they can be presented.
Reginald Marsh's contribution to the show is
far slighter: four well-executed drawings in
photographic crayon and ink: court scene. the
lawyer haranguing the jury; a catholic church
choir, and picture suction sale. All
cellent and witty caricatures, though slightly be-
low Marshs own best work Their inclusion adds
little to the distinction Of the entire exhibit.
But they are significant in contrast to the
Burck drawings. of the difference between
proletarian satirist and satirist who, though
his sympathies and his work have often been
extended to the revolutionary movement, still
keeps himself personally aloof from the strug-
giles of the working class. There is lack Of
fire, feebleness almost, in Marsh where Burck
Is dynamic and pulsating. Marsh draws intel
lectua1ly; Burck, on the other hand, adds to
the power Of his drawings by an emotional as
well IS an Intellectual awareness of his sub
ject; it is the reaction Of class-conscous revo-
lutionist.
The John Reed Club has done needed bit
of work in presenting Burck's drawings, which
have been allowed to go uncollected for almost
shsss yaEA ne naE &eg Gas& we Scpe MANY
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18
BY EDWIN RoLFR.

IN his introduction to 'Red CarJoons-l929,"
Joseph Freeman writes: "The cartoon is an
important political weapon. few bold pencil
strokes by an imaginative artist may convey
message more vividly than editorial or an
article. For this reason cartoons have some
times been more feared than comment" Free
man goes on to cite the story told about Boss
Tweed, former Tammany chief who, Fsmart-
ing under the savage drawings of Thomas Mast,
said: Tets stop them damned pictures; 1 don't
care so much what the papers write about me
my constituents can't read-but damn 1t, they
see the pictures!"
The 1929 cartoon book contained drawings by
Jacob Burck, and Fred Ellis, his predecessor as
staff cartoonist OF the Daily Worker. When Ellis
left the Daily almost VITO years ago, Burck as
suned full responsibility for the cartoon feature,
without even a Burck to help him Gas Ellis had
had) off-days How well he has succeeded
be seen in the two-man exhibit of draw
ings by Jacob Burck and Reginald Marsh, at
the John Reed Club Gallery.
Burck is represented by about rs drawings,
all OF which appeared originally in the Daily
Worker. They are the work Of mature artist
more a class-conscious proletarian artist.
Whatever his subject, his drawings are always
consciously proletarian, combining revolutionary
fire and an understanding which is prerequisite
to any good work as a revolutionist. There is
the deep, sympathetic understanding of the
worker-his problems, his struggles, his hopes
disclosed in few deft lines Of bent back that
still, despite pain, reveals his underlying and
unconquerable determination OF struggle. And
there Is also the bitter understanding Of the
roles Of the fascist, the lingo and, worst Of all,
the SOCIALIST" footman Of decaying capitalism.
J. p. Morgan, Ramsay Macdonald, Gandhi,
Hoover Norman Thomas, Henderson, Hillqmt--
all are made to feel the acid hate and ridicule
contained in Burck's social satire Ind several
Of them have probably often reosatcd Boss
Tweeds words: Damn IT, they can see the
pictures!7
Taken alone, the Buck drawings present en-
admirably graphic account OF the happenings in
!ssS rlELgelcnasg reQnarsrs " sss Let User o.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-18

guns and rifles, to drive army planes to handle
machine guns and ammunition, to drive anbtl-
Iances. Working women must Eight against yers
by Joining the revolutionary unions OF the Trade
Union Unity League and the Communist Party,
the leader Of the working class in the struggle
against in1perialisG war
Working class organizations throughout the
country should send in resolutions OF protest TO
the National Conference on the Cause and Cure
OF War, Hotel Washington, Washington, D. c.,
unrnasKing their pacifist activities as an aid In
the war preparations Of the imperialists, and ex-
posing them as enemies Of the working class; de-
manding that all war funds be turned over to the
unemployed: that all American gunboats be re-
moved from Chinese waters; that U. S. govern
ment keeps hands off the Soviet Union
Conferences and delegate meetings of working
women mass meetings In women's organizations,
Unemployed Councils unions, ETC.. should be held
between January 10 and Il 70 expose these paci-
fist organizations 10 the broadest masses Of work.
ing women and 70 show how these organizations
are helping the Hoover government TO prepare for
the coming war and 10 maintain the starvation
program Tor millions Of workers in this coun-
try After the last peace conference the impe-
rialist powers appropriated more money for war
preparations than ever more. These peace" con-
feresoes which this pecifists hail as the cure for
way aye she very INSTRUMENTS by which ssse wuy4~
lsG ems rs uacIGlknG lluI i1ne uaa6 sf6QnikhHA
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The Washington times., 1932-01-23
1.-The Band Wagon"
Here, February |

"The Band Wagon" is coming.
and get your mail order in at once.
For this famous revue will be
here one week only beginning
February l.
Only five cities outside of New
York will see The Band Wagon" "
which is lust closing its record
breaking Broadway run to close.
The five favored cities are Boston,
Washington, Pittsburgh, Detroit
and Chicago. because they appre-
ciate ultra-sophisticated musical en-
tertainment and also because they
have stages which are sufficiently
large and well-equipped to accom-.
modate the vast scenic and light
ing production-the largest ever
constructed for a stage show.
The local appearance of THE
Band Wagon" will be at the Ma
tional Theater.
In "The Band Wagon" will ap-
pear Fred and Adele Astaire,
Frank Morgan, Helen Broderick
and the other Broadway favorites
who participated in the New York
run of this famous revue.
The Washington times., 1932-01-23
Group Theater to
Offer Unique
New Play

The theatrical event of the new
week will be the Group Theaters
arrival at the National Theater,
presenting Paul Green's play,
"The House of Connolly" This
producing organization which has
been fortunate enough to win
both prestige and success during
it's first season comes sponsored
by the Theater Guild.
This acting company of 80 is to
play a special engagement here
before proceeding to Boston, and
then return to New York for re.
sumption of its program at the
Mansfield Theater. They hope to
wine new friends by widening
their circle of activity.
Of interest most to playgoers of
Washington is their performance
of 1.-THE House of Connolly" Mr..
Green's drama was introduced by
them at the Martin Beck Theater
in New York during September
and hailed by dramatic critics as
the first fine contribution of the
dramatic year.
Big Company
The company which has been
SO active, rehearSing steadily
even through the summer, will
be seen here in it's full strength.
Its personnel includes: Franchot
Tone, Margaret Barker, Morris
Carnovsky, Stella Adler, Mary
Morris, Eunice Stoddard, j. Ed
ward Bromberg, Ruth Nelson,
William Challee. Phoebe Brand,
Walter Coy, Sylvia Feningston,
Friendly Ford, Virginia Farmer,
Gerrit Kraber, Robert Lewis.
Lewis Leverett, Gertrude Mayn-
ard, Sanford Meisner, Paula Mil
Ter, Clifford Odetts, Dorothy Pat
ten, Herbert Rather, Philip Rob,
inson, Arthur Smith, Alike
Walker and Clement Wilenchik.
This play has been directed by
Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Craw-
ford, with settigs by Cleon
Throckmorton.