The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-02
Hail Henri BarbuSse
as Fighter In World
Anti-War Movement
Greetings from Cuban,
German Delegates
Wildly Cheered

NEW YORK, Oct. Swept
up into an electric storm Of
emotion, that broke into a
thunderous roar of singing,
cheering, and the widest jubi-
lation, almost 5000 delegates from
practically every part of the country
rose yesterday to greet Henri Bar
busse, world-famous French writer
at the United States Congress
Against War, which ended last night
at st. Nicholas Arena, New York
City, after two-day session.
Packed to the doors with delegates,
and visitors in the gallery, the Con-
gress met to deliberate on the present
danger of imperialist war that hangs
sinisterly over every capitalist coun-
try in the world, on the danger of
intervention against the Soviet Union,
and against present intervention in
Cuba. And these thousands of dele
gates, representing practically every
shade of political and religious opin-
ion, met particularly to agree on
immediate concrete, practical ways
and means of organizing to meet the
oncoming catastrophe Of imperialist
war.
From the farm states of Idaho,
Texas, and Iowa, farmer delegates
came; from the Black Belt where
slavery and Jim-Crow oppression still
reign, came Negro delegates; from
Arkansas, North Dakota, Oregon,
Tennessee, and wyoming, as well as
from the factory towns of the East,
Of Pennsylvania and New England,
they came to join together in the
fight against the slaughter now being
prepared by the inperialist rulers Of
the world.
There was a delegate from an
American Legion Post, there was a
representative of a unit of the Ma
tional Guard, there were 264 repre-
sentatives of educational and cul-
tural bodies. There were 370 repre-
sentatives from fraternal organiza-
tons, $50 delegates from trade union
and factory groups, 1876 from bodies
of unemployed workers, los from
women's organizations, and 173 dele
gates from various peace organiza-
tons, making a grand total of 2,616
delegates.
There were Communists, pacifists,
Socialists, Democrats, Republicans,
sailors, soldiers, teachers, workers,
farmers. professional men and women
all gathered to fight their one COM
mon enen1y-war.
And the figure of Barbusse, tall.
gaunt, veteran and hero of the 1914
slaughter. was to them the
rallying point of their hatred of war.
The Saturday morning session was
opened by Donald Henderson of the
Executive Committee of the Ameri-
can Congress Against War, who made
his organizational report. The chair
man for the session was j. B. Mat
thews.
The major part of the morning was
devoted to the speech Of Henri Bar
busse, guest of honor of the Con-
gress, who came as a representative
of the world movement against war,
and as chairman of the World Com
mittee of the Struggle Against War
and Fascism.
Tall, gaunt, and with passionate
face ravaged by sufferings endured
in the 1914 slaughter where he won
three medals for bravery, Barbusse
launched into wonderfully eloquent
and detailed denunciation of the i'm
perialist war preparations now go
ing on all over the world.
Our struggle" he said, leaning
forward toward the thousands OF
delegates whoa leaned forward TO
grasp his every word, is against
German and French Fascism and i'm
perialism, by the German and French
people, those natural allies"
''Fascism today" he continued to