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has already in its customary IN
derhand manner begun to circu-
late its insidious literature, call
ing for the taking over Of the
convention by the reds, removing
the officers, striking the mines
which are now under contract
with the P. M. A. and putting the
general program of the Commu-
mist Party in motion in the Illi-
nois coal fields"
There are 100 resolutions sub
mitted, of which more than So
have been introduced by the left.
wing forces, including the re5olu.
tons against criminal syndicalism
unemployment insurance, against
war and fascism, unity movement
endorsement of the U. S. Congress.
Against War and Fascism, for thu
release of the Scottsboro boys
Herndon, Hillsboro boys, for the
unity movement against the N. r
a. and deportation.
In the joint report for the ex-
ecutive board by Pearcy and Keck
attempt was made to cover up the
betrayal of the $4,000 miners and
make excuses for the wage-cut
agreement. In spite of this dema-
gogy, the oficialdom could not
show any improvement under the
collaboration policy followed since
the first convention. 1t was dis
close that more than $4,000 was
spent for lawyers, a large deficit
for the printing of the union
paper.
The convention sent wire Of
greeting to the textile workers and
a resolution is being introduced
by Laverne Pruitt, in support Of
the textile strike.
The credentials committee has
not reported as yet, but discussion
has already begun in which it was
disclosed that neither Keck nor
Pearcy are delegates.
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Militants Must Expose
Past and Present
Role of Executive

the A. F. of L. leaders. The ex-
perience Of the last World War and
the position of the A. F. of L. off,
cialdom mus be given the widest
exposure in the unions.
Specific action against the ship
ment of munitions to Japan and
NaZi Germany should be pro-
posed. 1t should be demanded
that all the evidence in the arms
investigation-names of govern
ment officials involved, etc.--be
brought forth and made public.
Waterfront and transport strikes
against the shipment of nuni-
tons should be proposed. The
heavy tax on the profits of the
arms manufacturers =holld ne
demanded. That all war funds
go to the unemployed should meet
with no little support even at the
A. F. of L. convention. Last, but
by no means least, militant dele
gates should demand that the
convention officially condemn the
support of the lingo preparedness
campaign by those who claim to
speak in the name of labor
William Green, Matthew Vol,
etc. The Vol anti Soviet attacks
should be condemned and the
question of the defense of the
Soviet Union, the workers father
land, should be sharply raised.
Only by the most energetic ac-
tivity today in the unions will it be
possible to defeat the war plans of
the American ruling class and its
in the ranks Of labor
the Greens and VOLS.
This activity should go forward
at top speed and should find more
than one reflection at the October
convention of the A. F. of L. at
San Francisco. To raise this ques-
ton on the floor Of that body is
the sacred duty of militants to
whom the cause of labor iszdear.
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SOIdCe. war preparations are
going on; the occasion for
conflict will also be manufac-
tured when the time arrives.
But even before the international
conflict breaks out, an internal war
is being waged within individual
countries. This internal war is called
Fascism and it is directed against
the working masses, the liberals, the
intellectuals and against minority
groups. Camouflage is resorted to
in the form Of demagogy; suppress
sion and censorship silence all criti-
cism and opposition; brutality and
terror are entrenched in the streets;
spying is raised to the dignity of
national occupation. And all the
time behind the scenes and along
the sidelines the people are being
prepared for that larger conflict
which will involve many nations
and turn the world into one huge
blood bath.
In any attempt to promote inter
national war, or its brother, Fas-
cisn, special group divisions, racial
or religious, play an important role
Names, with stigma attached, are
grist for the demagogic mill. Jew!
Negro! Red! Hun!
All these categories have been
used by wartime orators to create
frenzy and to incite to murder. They
are being used today by hundreds
of petty fascist adventures, the paid
hirelings Of capital. Many people,
untutored in realistic economic aSd
political thinking, desperate in the
struggle for a livelihood, accept
these phantom demons as plausible
explanations for the despair that
afflicts it. Action is wanted and ac-
ton in plenty is promised by these
orators, Wipe out the jew! Lynch
the Negroes! Destroy the Reds!
Conquer the Huns!
Among all these, the Jewish
masses have long been singled out
as a group particularly vulnerable
for attack. They are classic mate
rial for Fascist pogron1s. Scattered
throughout the world, additionally
living on sufferance, caricatured in
a thousand ridiculous poses, the
butt Of constant jokes, they b5come
easily focal point for aroused re-
sentiment. They can be charged
with anything, and anything that is
said about them can be believed.
Not the Sole Victim
But while it is apparent that the
Jew is one Of the victims, and per-
haps the handiest victim, he is not
by any means the only one. Other
minority groups and the lower eco
nonic classes suffer equally. Nor
is the Jew without defenders. Every
one who is opposed to war and Fas-
cism is to that degree friend of
the Jews and deserving of their
support and encouragement.
If the Jew would escape his plight
he must choose his friends. Even
more, he must bear his share of the
burden in the fight against war and
Fascism. Mere lament will not suf-
flee; indifference at time like this
is criminal.
On the %, 90, and 30 of Septem-
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Der a Congress is to be held in Chi
cago - the United States Congress
Against War and Fascism. The
American League Against War and
Fascism has issued the call for this
Congress.
AS victims of Fascism in Ger
many; as those against whom Fas-
cist anti-Semitic attacks are being
made elsewhere; as the subject of
pogromS before, during and after
war, the Jews ought to be repre-
sented in large numbers at this
Congress. If their experience means
anything to them at all they ought
to support it unanimously. Not to
elect delegates would mean what
some are suspecting is true, that all
the Jews fine protestations in be-
half of peace and justice are mere
words. Absence is opportunism and
sycophancy of the lowest order.
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eve speak for millions of
Americans. We are not a sect.
We are not party. We repre-
sent the organizations held to-
gether by the pressure of our
common needs. We represent
the part of the nation closest to
the fundamentals of life
whether we approve it or not,
we must recognize that war is
a situation with which we must
reckon :.
Industrial justice is the right
of those living within our coun-
try. With this right there is
associated obligations. In war
time, obligation takes the form
of service in defense of the Re-
public against enemies
I'VE, the officers of the Ma
tional and International Trade
Unions of America in national
conference assembled in the
capital of our nation, hereby
pledge ourselves in peace or in
war, in stress or in storm, to
stand unreservedly by the stand
ards of liberty and the preserva-
ton of the institutions and ideals
Of our Republic
we call upon our fellow
workers and fellow citizens in thu
holy name of Labor, Justice, Free.
dom and Humanity to devotedly
and periodically give like service.
The Recruiting Sergeants
Here you have it in its baIdest
form: the open recruiting within
the ranks of labor for the armie:
of Wall Street. The war is a wal
for democracy. The present war,
says the report, "discloses the
struggle between the institutions Of
and those of autocracy.'
Here are the hypocritical phrase,
Of wilson introduced into the body
corporate of labor.
Ard this is the attitude of the
A. F. of L. leadership today, seven
teen years afterward! Nay even
further, as Green so kindly anpn-
fed in his answer to the Federal
Council OF Churches, theorizing his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
W ere W all Street s
Recruiting Agents
in 1917
By 81 Gerson

MILLIONS Of people, read
Nh ing of the arms investi-
cation in Washington, are no
doubt seized by a chill of hor-
ror. 1t is not necessarily the
cesspool of intrigue and brib-
cry that scandalizes people
but the revelation of the express
train speed at which the capitalist
powers are arning for a new war.
Not that the work of the Nye
committee will bring out the basic
causes of war-the titanic, ire
concilable conflict between the
capitalist ruling classes for the
worlds markets. But it will, Of
necessity, bring to many workers
the realization Of the closeness of
new world slaughter.
1t is in such a setting that the
Second U. S. Congress Against
w al oA4l doC1o41l WILL UCS11l 4Io
sessions at Chicago, in a meeting
which will work to unity broad
masses in the struggle against war.
One should think that among
these most interested in this great
assembly Of anti-war forces would
he the Official leadership of the
labor movement. But such is not
the case. An examination of the
war position of the oficialdom Of
the American Federation of Labor
which claims to speak for all of
American labor-wiH reveal not
only that the chieftains of the
A. F. of L. are not part of the
anti-war forces but that they were
in the last war and are today
among the mosi fervid of war
mongers within the ranks of the
working class.
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Gathering to Mark
Growing Opposition
10 War and Fascisn1
Committee Flooded with Credentials from Tex
tile, Munitions, Steel and Mining Centers from
Workers Organizations Turnout Nation

CHICAGO, Sept. 81. - Reports
from scores of cities in every section
OF the country pouring in to the
Offices Of the arrangements Com
mittee here indicate that the
SECOND United States Congress
Against War and Fascism which
op ens on Friday will be an historic
2 expression of the opposition of
RAmerican workers, farmers, profess
PlonalS and intellectuals against
Fhese two major threats to world
civilization.
According to present indications
the arrangements expects from 5000
to $500 delegates to attend the
Congress. No accurate estimate is
possible of how many millions of
workers in various organizations
these delegates will represent.
Credentials are flowing in daily
from American Federation of Labor
organizations, veterans groups
church societies, student organiza-
lions as well as from the active
revolutionary organizations, the
Communist Party, the Young Com
munist League and outspoken work
ing class trade unions and fraternal
groups.
There is vitality and interest in
every organization where the ques-
ton of the conference has been
brought up" the arrangements
committee said.
When the Congress opens on
Friday with mass parade of dele
gates and Chicago workers through
4ehe streets Of the city, there will be
in the line of march more than 25C
delegates from New York, an almost
similar number from Chicago, rs
from Milwaukee, so from Pittsburgh
30 from Detroit, 20 from Massa-
chusetts, 10 from Newark, Is from
Cleveland, and smaller delegations
from scores of textile, shipping, nu-
niticns, steel, coal and farming
centers. A mass meeting at the
Ashland Auditorium will mark the
official opening of the Congress fol-
lowing the parade.
In all these localities preparations
are now under way for getting the
already elected delegates to the Con-
greSs, mass meetings, lectures,
ancesd open air meetings, movie
shoWings and other activities are in
progress to raise transportation
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funds and to popularize the Con-
gress and its purposes.
An analysis Of the composition of
the Congress would reveal barriers
of trade union, religious, political
and social utilization being swept
away in this unprecedented wave Of
unity against the twin menace of
war and fascism.
Socialist, Communist, American
Federation of Labor, Trade Union
Unity League, Railroad Brother
hood, Negro, white, native-born and
foreign born, Veterans of Foreign
Wars and Workers Ex- Servicemen' s
League organizations are all sending
delegates.
The magnitude of the gathering
and the seriousness of it's purpose
indicate fully the tremendous i'm
portance to the American masses of
the decisions which will be made at
the Congress.
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JObless Fight
Against War,
Anter States
J ObIe S S Councils Aid
Workers Opposition to
Lnperialist Menace
By l. Amter
Secretary of the National Unem-
plOyment CouneiIs)

The unemployed of this country
are opposed to another imperialist
war. They have every reason to
distrust the U. S. government,
which talks and carries cut the
strictest economy in connection
with relief; which finds all kinds
of reasons to deny them unemploy-
ment insurance, but at the same
time is able to find all necessary
funds to build up a navy second to
none.
How can a government, which
talks much about the needs of the
working population allow millions
to go without relief, millions to live
on the most meagre relief-and at
the same time take out of the pub
lie works fund, which was to pro-
vide work for the millions. hun
dreds Of millions for the building
Of war vessels, barracks, for mill
tary Civilian Conservation Camps
and other camps?
Thus the unemployed have be-
gun to question the whole aim of
the New Deal, which was to re-
lieve the crisis. They have begun
to question the whole motive of
those who talked about the "for-
gotten man." They are beginning
to understand the basis of the
whole war situation-Wars for mar
ketS, wars for conquest, wars for
the protection of investments.
Workers Gain Nothing by War
Furthermore, they see that when
they are forced to go into struggle
against hunger, they face the same
war machine Of which they will be-
come a part when war is declared.
The same National Guard. the
same Federal troops. the same
gases, bombs and airplanes will be
used, as are used in inperialist war.
Many of the unemployed were in the
last World War. They are now in
the breadline. Many of them re-
ceived gold medals for heroic &C
lions. Now they are in the pawn
shop. What have they to except
from another world war except Bit
terer suffering than from the last
one!
Hence under the leadership of
the militant unemployed organiza-
ton, the National UNEMPLOYMENT
Council, they are carrying on a
struggle against war and fascism.
They are on the picket lines with
the workers in the shops when they
go out against the New Deal. They
are in the picket lines with the
farmers, when they go out against
the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
They are to be found in the mill
tant demonstrations against terror.
They are in the struggles against
imperialist war.
Not Mfek Lambs
The unemployed are not docile.
They know that without daily
struggle they will be allowed to
starve. Their struggles have proven
that they can force the authorities
to grant them better and more re-
lief. Now it is a question of lining
up all sections of the population
willing to fight in one mighty
united front against war and fas-
cisn.
This United Front is the Amer
lean League Against War and Fas-
cism. It's Second Congress will be
held in Chicago from Friday to
Sunday. This Congress comes at a
time of the sharpest war danger
in the Far East, with the provoca-
ton of Japan against the Soviet
Union; in Central Europe, with
Germany arrning and preparing for
war against the Soviet Union on
the west; with southeastern Europe
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Youth Groups Send Credentials

Youth Groups Send Credentials
CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-The Youth
Arrangements Committee for the
Second United States Congress
Against War and Fascism has re-
ceived credentials for delegates
from the Gillespie, Ill, circle of the
Young Peoples Socialist League.
The circle is in the heart of the
Southern Illinois mining region,
which has been the scene Of bitter
strife between miners and the local
and State government in the past
two years, during which the young
Socialists have come to know the
value of unity in the struggle
against Fascist terror.
Your delegates have also been
elected from a number Of shops
from the Negro Young Womens
Christian Association of Chicago
from the Socialist Workers Sport
and GymnaSt Association, from sew
eral fraternities and from fifteen
Negro clubs.
The current week will be devoted
to the election of youth delegates
from the stockyards. Three Meth
odist youth groups have also de-
cided to send representatives.
An example of effective work foi
the U. S. Congress Against War
and Fascism was reported here ir
Roseland, q small industrial suburt
south of Chicago. The following
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Seething with war plots; with war
going on in South America. It &C.
ours at a time when the League of
Nations more and more shows its
impotence.
This Is the mood of the unem-
ployed-that is why they are sup
porting the American League
Against War and Fascism and its
Second Congress. All unemployed
organizations should without fail
send delegates to this Congress, to
unite the strength Of the organized
unemployed with that of the shop
workers, the farmers, the trade
unionists, professionals and all
other sincere anti-war fighters in
this country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Uniontown Delegates Picked

UNIONTOWN, Pa, Sept. 21.-Two
carloads of delegates are expected
to go to the Second United States
Congress Against War and Fascism
from here. Every effort is being
made to include in the delegation
representatives of the striking tex
tile workers in and around Union
town.
An Anti-War Conference was
held here last Sunday at Max Hall,
Main st. and Pittsburgh Rd. Many
organization will be represented, in
GLIDING United Mine Workers of
America locals, religious bodies,
women's clubs, language groups, I'M
employed associations, etc.
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class collaboration policies of Mr..
Green and other leaders Of the A.
F. of L.
The fight for industrial unionism
as against craft unions will be
tackled on the floor of the con-
vention by three different groups.
On the one hand we have the Lewis
gang, the leaders Of the Brewery
Workers Union and Hillman who
will give lip service to the estab-
lishment Of industrial unionisn, but
who will stick to the old class col
liberation policy.
On the other hand there will be
the militant rank and file delegates
of the Federal local unions and of
some Internationals who will fight
for industrial unionism as against
craft unionism based on a class
struggle policy, for the right to
strike and for the right to carry out
sympathy strikes.
Local unions and rank and file
groups must act Immediately to en-
dorse the resolutions worked out by
the rank and file members and by
many local unions affiliated with
the A. F. of L., all of which have
been printed in the September issue
Of the "A. F. of L. Rank and File
Federationist" and in the Daily
Worker"
Demand Officers Back Resolutions
Local unions with no direct rep
resentation at the convention should
send letters or kilograms to their
respective International officials at
tending the 54th A. F. of L. conven-
ton demanding that these officials
support the resolutions of the rank
and file, resolutions which call for
unemployment insurance, for de-
mocracy in the trade unions, for
equal rights for Negro workers, etc.
The rank and file conference to be
held in San Francisco simultane-
ously with the A. F. of L. conven-
ton, and the National Conference
to be held in Pittsburg, following
the convention, on October 9th and
18th will be a step further in the
development Of an ever larger rank
and file movement in the A. F. of L,
which will fight for the unity of
all trade unions organizations, for
the organization of the unorganized,
and which will drive out the allies
Of the employers from the trade
union movement.
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20 From Hamtranck

HAMTRANCK, Mich, Sept. 81. -
Twenty delegates will go to Chicago
from here for the Second U. S.
Congress Against War and Fascism.
This city sent but one delegate to
last years Congress in New York.
A successful conference in prep
aration for the Congress was held
with representatives from II local
organizations present. A send-off
was held yesterday at the Russian
Workers Club, 1884 Yemans Avenue.
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widely differing organizations have
elected delegates:
Socialist Party, italian Branch,
Workers Center of Roseland, Build
ing Trades Industrial Union, and
the Mount Greenwood Benefit Asso-
citation.
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Detroit Youth to Hold Dance

Detrolt 1cuIh TO Hoid Dance
DETROIT, Sept. 81. - A mass
send-off will be given to the dele
gates from the city next Thursday
night at a dance in the Finnish
Hail. 1869 Fourteenth Street, near
McGraw Avenue, before they leave
for Chicago to attend the Second
United States Congress Against
War and Fascism. The dance is
being arranged by the Youth Com
mittee of the American League
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Var Mongers Utilize
Race Hatred to Stir
Up Wartime Frenzy
Jew-Baiting Part of Fascist Methods To Divide
Masses-Jews Should Support Anti-War
Congress, Says Ben GOldstein
By Benjamin B. GOldstein

THE clouds of gathering rapidly every horizon
regular devils cauldron of poison gas disease germs
bombing planes liquid fire and submarines is being brewed
No issue of the without its warning of impending
Even the denas of immediate outbreak brings no
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Massachusetts to Send u

BOSTON, Mass, Sept. 21.-Twelve
delegates to the Second U. S. Con-
gress Against War and Fascism have
already been elected from Massa-
chusetts and many others will be
elected at coming meetings of the
League throughout the State. A
Boston Anti-War Conference took
place on Friday, Sept. 14th, at 8
pm. at the Hotel Bradford.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-22
Pittsburgh to Send 50

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. I'll
Over so delegates from this city and
the surrounding territory will be
present in Chicago for the opening
of the Second U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism if present
support and activity may be used as
barometer.
At least ten of these delegates, it
is expected, will represent mine
union locals, while as many as if
teen is indicated from unemployed
workers organizations. Youth Or
CARNATIONS, it is almost certain, will
be able to muster a like number, if
not many more, while the number
representing language groups, work
ers' clubs, unions, churches, and
professional groups cannot as yet be
estimated with any pretense at &C
curacy.
Fifty delegates, however, are al
most assured. The first organiza-
ton to send in credentials for its
delegate was bakers union local.
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munity have elected a delegate to
the Second United States Congress
Against War.
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Henderson to Talk at Harrisburg

HARRISBURG, Pa, Sept. 21.-
Donald Henderson will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a mass meeting to
prepare the sending of delegates to
the Second U. S Congress Against
War and Fascism. The meeting
will be held here on Sunday, at 2
pm, at Redman's Hall, Third and
Broad Streets.
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Textile Workers Send Delegates
TELFORD, Pa, Sept. 21.-The
Wool Pullers Local Of the National
Textile Workers Union in this COM
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What Are Issues
Before A.F.L. Meet?

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Opens Meet
With Red Batting

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