The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-02
DELEGATES PLEDGE FIGHT
AGAINST IMPERTALIST WAR

ported for the Resolutions Commit
: tee.
The Sunday afternoon session
started at 2:30, Prof. Robert Moore
Lovett on the chair. He turned over
the floor to Mother Bloor, who
represented As farmer delegates, She
received a tremendous ovation. She
spoke very briefly and presented a
resolution dealing with the farmers
pledge to struggle against war One
paragraph Of the resolution dealt
particularly with their pledge to
fight against the terrorism against
/ the Negro farmers in the South.
-Four rank and file farmers spoke
about minutes each-Haskin from
the National Farm Holiday Associa-
ton; Stanley Czapkewicz represent
ing the Farmers Protective Associa-
ton of Pennsylvania. He told of
the fight of the dairy farmers in
central Pennsylvania.
A fiery speech was made by a
delegate from Ohio Farmers League,
John Marshall, who said: 1.-THE
Farmers have no country" Ire
mendous applause greeted this state
ment.
The next delegate was Slower,
representing the National Executive
Committee Of the Farmers National
Committee for Action in Eastern
Pennsylvania. The key note of his
speech was that they "are going to
fight against war by fighting against
evictions and foreclosures, and hook
up the fight of the farmers with the
fight against war"
H. Hickerson spoke for the Work
ers Ex-Servicemen's League and pre-
! scented resolution.
One of the big features of the
afternoon session was the appearance
of War Nurse, Nan Lee, who spent
% months in France with the
soldiers. She received a terrific ova-
ton. She spoke about hte suffer-
ing in the trenches. She said she
knows what war is. she attended the
wounded, she knows what it means
to be in the war, and with the same
energy put in the last imperialist
war, she will put in the fight against
imperialist war. She is one of the
group of nurses working within the
American Legion to create Anti-War
sentiment.
The rank and file war veteran,
Jerome Buckley of Post No. /,
W.E.SL., got up and made special
appeal to the rank and file mem
bers of the American Legion and
other organizations. He told the
delegates to wake up; new Lafay-
cite is here and that man is Henri
Barbusse."
Malcolm Cowley, speaking for the
professional men, received great APP
plause. Dollars poured in as Cowley
made an appeal for a war fund
against war.
When Malcolm Cowley finished,
the floor was thrown open for dis
cussion to the rank and file dele
gates.
Sasha Zimmerman, Lovestonite,
finally got on the presidium as a
delegate from Local % of the I. L.
G. W., ]. B. Mathews of the Presid-
ing Committee announced later in
the afternoon
A significant speech was made by
the organizer of the Socialist Party
of Philadelphia, Paul Porter, for
merly field organizer for the League
for Industrial Democracy. He is also
organizer of the Taxi Drivers Union
of Philadelphia. He made a vigorous
appeal for support of the Soviet
Union and said it was the only force
fighting for peace.
Another dramatic moment of the
Congress came with the appearance
i of spokesman for the Cuban Com
munist Party, Tbanez, who leaped to
the platform and greeted the Con-
gress in the name of the Cuban
| revolution.
A thrilling surprise at the after
noon session was the dramatic ap-
/ pearance of Anna Schultz, speaking
as representative of the German
! working class.
Gone party in Germany Hitler has
not been able to destroy" she
shouted, as the delegates roared their
enthusiasm. cat this moment, the
German Communists are organizing
strikes in the largest factories" she
said. II bring to you the greetings
of the German working class, and a
pledge from them to fight unfIinch-
ingIy against all Fascist terror and
war preparations. / bring to you
greetings and plea for your support
for the heroic comrades now before
the Fascist hangmen at Leipzig"
AS we go to press, the Congress is
celebrating the main resolution
unanimously adopted by the pre-
/ siding committee, which will bring
the Congress to close.
In part, the resolution states:
1.-THE government of the United
States in spite of peaceful professions
is more aggressively than ever fol-
lowing policies whose only logical re-
suit is war. The whole program of
the Roosevelt administration Is per-
meated by preparedness for war, ex-
pressed in the extraordinary military
and naval budget, mobilization of in
duStry and man-power, the naval
concentration in the Pacific Ocean,
the intervention in Cuba, the con-
tinued maintenance of armed forces
in China, the loans of Chang Kali
shek; the currency and tariff wars
all of which give the lie to the
peaceful declarations Of our own
government.
only in the Soviet Union has this
basic cause of war been removed.
The consistent peace policy of tie
Soviet Union. around which the
anti-war struggles throughout the
world must be rallied, was made pos