The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30

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AT the Opening Mass Meetings of the
q. S. Congress Against War.
JHIS Congress has the purpose to
find the most effective means to
fight against the coming imperialist
war. II must bring together and
unite the enemies of war. But every
/ one rroclaimS himseI as opYS0~-. %
4 wa, even those most busy in war
! preparations We can remember GnaG
I the BIocdy Car Nicholas received d
pretty medal as champion CT
/ peace" Before we can really organize
an effective struggle against war,
therefore, we must know who is who.
Who speaks against war only to cover
up war preparations? Who is OPP
posed to war, and yet is unwilling 10
pay the price of real struggle against
it? Ana VINO are thos4, the real
fighters against war, who are ready
at all times, under all conditions, at
any cost, to oppose war to the end
by every means at their commando
10 these questions we must find the
correct answer.
1t is not easy to fig; against war.
It is difficult-and costly Oh course
it is easy, and cheap, to fight with
words only, against the war-inazerS
Of another imperialist power than
our own. But that alone doesn't help
1 step wa. It may, indeed, only
make US tees OF our Wac--.lakeTS
To fight against war requires, first
Of all, to fight against the war
makers closest to US, to fight against
the war-malzing, preparing gov
erDment Of the United States.
ALL talk of peace is but mockery
Il unless we demand and fight for
4 removal CT the thirty Warships sur
rounding revolutionary Cuba. Peace
talh is pure fakary, unless joined
/ WITH the fight to withdraw American
soldic~s and Warships from the
l Pnilippi-,e SANDS and from Latin
America, ard give immediate and
Iucopaiticaal Independence to the
hi nina, 70 Liberia, Haiti and all
latin Arne cican colonies and semi
colonies. Peace talk only helps
the imper G-iso3, unless it de-
lnc-t,5 a. ED to Intervention in,
. and partition of China; an end 20
4 li1~ac.ol and mili.a;s aid to the
Il Chiaese hangman and tool of i'm
perialism, Chang Kai-shek; an end
Ito TIC lWo-I2ced diplomacy of egging
On JaYan to war against the Soviet
Union while flirting with American
recognition of the Soviet Union. All
talk Of peace is only hypocrisy,
unless it calls for support to the con-
sistent peace policy of the only
Workers Government, for defence of
the Soviet Union.
To fight for these things means,
first Of all, openly and consciously to
rouse the masses TO fight against the
oncrete policies Of the U. S. Govern
lent, policies OF IN imperialis5, OPP
pressing, war-mGking character.
1t is not of the slightest value to
speak against ornaments and war
preparations in other lands, unless
VIC fight against the enormous
yy-buiiding and militariZatiOn
program of Roosevelt. We must
brand every person who supports
military appropriations of any kind
as an enemy of peace. We must
fight for the diversion of all war
funds to feed the starving unem-
ployed, to establish unemployment
Insurance.
We must rouse the masses to
intense indignation against anybody
who votes for war appropriations,
for war measures. We must make it
impossible to repeat the experience
of the last World War, when the
trade union leaders became part of
the war machine, when Socialist
Congressman voted for war apprO-
priations (iust like their brothers in
Europe), without an immediate mass
upheaval and the reputation of
such traitors. We must make it
clear to every pacifist, that to only
speak against war but in action to
serve the war-makers, will bring
quick reputation and exposure from
the organized anti-war masses of the
people,
Ut is not easy to fight against war.
The anti-war movement must be
prepared, must be steeled and hard
ened, so that it can stand up under
the terrific pressure Of an imperial
list war; drive. even in the midst of
war mobilization.
Today in the U. S. A. we are al
ready having the first mobilizations
for war The NRA, the Blue Eagle,
the military and naval programs,
the mass parades, flag-waving, bally-
hoo, RECOMMENDATION of so-called pub
Ia Tat Ill -
beqEnning of an enormous war
pre- gram
few days ago, General johnson
and the Blue Eagle led quarter
million people through New York
streets under the slogan: do your
part for the NRA." Tomorrow Gen.
eral johnson or some other general,
will carry the War Eagle at the head
of similar parade to sweep the
masses into imperialist war, under
the slogan: do your part by becom-
ing cannon fodder"
Under such conditions. who will be
the real anti-war fighters? Who will
stand out against the mass insanity
cultivated Systematically by the war;
makers? Clearly, only those who
even today are able to see, and will
ng to expose, the true nearing of
these war preparations, to protest
against them, to fight against them,
"a help organize the masses against
hm
With the approach Of new World
ar, the black menace of Fascism is
sweeping over Europe. For the
moment 1t holds even the mighty
German working-class in its bloody
claws. Beginnings Of Fnscism are