The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
War Revelations
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FIGHT, organ Of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cisn, June, 1888. Five Cents.

FIGHT, organ Of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cism, June, 1888. Five Cents.
Reviewed by
HELEN SHERIDAN
THE eighth issue Of Fight again
L exhibits the excellent makeup
and interesting content we have
been led to expect from this spirited
magazine. From its inception,
Fight has managed to gather
around itself some of our most
talented writer's, whose contribu-
tons are largely responsible for the
lively quality Of the stories and
articles. In this one issue, for ex-
ample, there are contributions from
James T. Farrell, author of Studs
Lonigan"; Langston Hughes, out
standing Negro poet and author of
Not Without Laughter; Grace
Hutchins, author of Women Who
Work" not to mention two letters
from Henri Barbusse, French nov
els, veteran fighter against i'm
perialist war.
This issue is especially addressed
to women and in a stirring article,
Clarence Hathaway, editor Of the
Daily Worker, calls upon the work
ing women of America to Join in
the worldwide movement against
war and to send delegates to the
Women's Congress to be held in
Paris on July %, 20 and 80, Or
ganized by the American League
Against War and Fascism.
Langston Hughes gives a graphic
picture of the militarization of
Japan, where young men commit
suicide rather than submit to draft
in the imperial army, where, to
quote Hughes, military dictator
ship imprisons them, shames them
through the press, drives them to
suicide, or forces them at the point
of a gun to shoulder arms" Wini-
fred L. Chappell, Secretary Of the
Methodist Federation for Social
Service, goes more deeply into the
question Of Japan's economic stu
alton, analysing in detail her ex-
port trade.
THE Greatest Mother in the
World" the Red Gross, is exposed
in all its hideous hypocrisy by Jo-
seph Funnel. He discloses the close
bond between the War Department
and this organization, whose funds
are audited by the War Department,
whose proceedings are printed by
the Government Printing Press,
and on whose administrative staff
are Army and Navy officers in &C
tive service. This shameless organi-
zation, which has refused help to
the starving families of striking
workers, has a special, untouchable
war reserve fund of four million
dollars, ready to be swung into
h-powered service at the frs
sign of hostilities.
G. Hartley Grattan, in his arti-
Gle called, 'Munitions-Racket OF
Capitalism?" warns us that al
though the many exposes we have
had lately on the munitions traf-
flc are useful, they nevertheless do
not to touch at the root of the war
situation, i.e the social forces
which make it possible for this in
ternational traffic to thrive.
A lipstick seems an innocent
enough affair, doesn't it? Dorothy
Aud, however, in a vivid story
called, 'Lipstick Bullets shows
how easily lipstick container can
be turned into a deadly bullet, and
how just such a lipstick factory had
been turned into bullet-producing
organism during the world war.
There are articles on farmers,
social insurance, China, all timely,
well-written and informative, con-
tanning facts indisT 7rsible for all
fighters against We nd fascism.
A special word of ise must be
given to the clear and well chosen
photographs and drawings.