The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29

W. l. AAhfOS'J
THUS opened the "paper-war" maneuveYs
now being conducted in Northern
New Jersey by the War Department.
Lacking only the physical movement Of
troops, all actual conditions of an existing
attack on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts
by an imaginary enemy have been simu-
lated in order to test the new Four Army plan Of
military organization.
On the paper OF the War Department. holo-
csust RACES, shells explode cities are reduced to
shambles, masses are slaughtered-and Wall St. is
protected!
Coming events indeed cast their shadows before
theml
With unbehevably cold blooded precision, the
slaughter of the masses in the coming imperialist
is rehearsed 10 the last detail before the very
eyes Of the YOUTH who will be herded into the
trenches.
1t is under these conditions Of real preparations
and paper rehearsals for the coming imperialist
war that the working class youth of the United
States prepare to demonstrate against imperialist
war and fascism on September 1st, International
Youth Day
Something more than the irony OF history resides
in the fact that its twentieth observance Inter
national Youth Day occurred amidst the bursting
OF paper shells and the Of paper artillery The
dramatic conditions of the first observance OF Inter
national Youth Day in 1918 are being re-enacted
by courtesy of the War Department itself Then the
youth, in both neutral and beligerent countries
demonstrated against the war in actual progress
Today the youth demonstrate against the war that
is not only being prepared but is actually being
rehearsedl Under these conditions international
Youth Day takes on the greatest significance for
the entire working class
Originating at the Berne Switzerland Conference
OF revolutionary socialist youth organizations In
April 1915, International Youth Day has for twenty
years justified its bloody baptism in the last war
as a day of militant international youth demon
stration against imperialist The glorious ira
dtions Of the revolutionary socialist youth who re-
Jected the path of social patriotism taken by their
young and adult leaders in favor of the path of
unremitting internatonalis struggle against mper-
alist war has, since 1919 been carried forward bril-
liantly by the Young Communist international and
its various sections
This year, with the provocations OF Japanese
imperialism against the Soviet Union rising to IN
equalled heights OF nsolence with Mussolini ratne
the sabre openly before the entire world with
Hitler fascism straining ito the East" with the
Wall st. Roosevelt government actually rehearsng
the first moves Of the imperialist war which it is
preparing the youth again prepare to demonstrate
on International Youth Day, September 1st.
Under conditions where the sputtering fuse of
war shortens daily the most urgent necessity is the
achievement of unity in the struggle against i'm
per1alist war and fascism. Ali those who, for one
reason or another, stand in the way Of achieving
this unity are guilty OF splitting the ranks of the
youth are guilty of supporting the plans Of the
Roosevelt government, which calculates on such
splits in It's plans for war
International Youth Day must be a united dem
onstration Of all sections Of the toiling youth
employed and unemployed, Negro and white, Social
ist and Communist.
Forward to united International Youth Day
against imperialist war and fascsm!