The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-17
ANTI-WAR FRONT
CALL BACKED BY
NOTED WRITER'S
Anderson, Dresser and
Sinclair Sign Call to
Fight War

NEW 1ORh.-A mOOlllzd-
ton of all organizations and
forces in the United States
especially among the working
class, for a mighty united
front against war is already under
way through the action of so ma
ional organizations of labor, farmers,
war veterans, unemployed, students,
Negroes, pacifsts, professions, in re-
spending to the call for a United
States Congress Against War spon-
sored by Sherwood Anderson, Theo-
5ore Dresser and Upton Sinclair
The Congress Against War is
scheduled to be held in New York,
September "a, TO map out pro-
gram Of struggle against the danger
Of new imperialist war. The Office
OF the arrangements committee is To-
Gated at 104 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Donald Henderson is secretary of
the arrangements committee.
The Communist Party has endorsed
the call and is mobilizing all work
Ing class organizations to partici-
pate in this united front (see Cen
trail Committee statement. published
elsewhere in this issue) Communist
Party leaders on the arrangements
committee include: Earl Browder
general secretary of the Communist
Party; Clarence Hathaway, editor of
khe Daily Worker: Charles Krum-
bein. organizer Of the New York dis
trict, Robert Minor, member of the
Central Executive Committee. and
James Ford. of the Trade Union
Unity League.
The call sent out by these so or
CARNATIONS appealing for support of
the anti-war congress declares: we
ere united in the belief that the
people of the world must arouse
themselves to take immediate &C
ton against the wars now going on
In the Far East and in South
America, against the increasing
preparations for war, and against the
growing danger of a new world war
We appeal to all organizations. all
workers, farmers, youth and profess
sional groups 10 support this con-
gress against our common enemy"
The call particularly brands the
rapid rise Of fascism as closely re-
lated to war"
At the last meeting of the aT-
&c oil
to lay special emphasis on drawing
trade unions into participation in
the Congress Against War and to
further broaden the arrangements
committee to achieve this purpose
Speakers are to be sent to local. city
and national bodies of the trade
unions to draw them into active sup
port of the anti-war struggles and
the United States Congress Against
War.
The call for the anti-war congress
declares that the National Recovery
Act has become the vehicle for
launching the building of a vastly
larger navy along the lines demanded
by the big navy lingos," 1t goes on
to add: Throughout the country
hundreds of firms are busy shipping
munitions and basic war materials
to the warning countries in South
America and the Far East. With all
this, u r"c3eYelt administration has
deve' - centralized control along
the lines { The War Industries Board
Of 1917"
The aim of the anti-War congress
will be to organize and act against
these preparations and war forces
which are leading to suicidal imper-
ialist war.
Among the members of the ar
rangements committee are j. B. Mat
thews, executive secretary of the Eel
lowship of Reconciliation. who is
chairman of the anti-war body: Mrs.
Annie B. Gray, director of the Wom-
ems Peace Society, treasurer; A. j.
Music, national chairman Of the Con-
ference for Progressive Labor Action;
Professor Robert Morss Lovett of the
University of Chicago and Roger
Baldwin. executive director of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Realizing that large number of
mass working class organizations
we're responding to the call for the
Congress Against War, various soci-
zhst leaders declared they would
give their names To the ARA npe-