The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-07

FIGHT. Official organ of the
American League Against War
and Faseism, 112 E. 18th St.,
New York. April, 1894. Price
cents.
m THE 18th anniversary Of the
" U. S. entrance into the World
War, FIGHT, illustrated monthly
published by the American League
Against War and Fascisnn, comes
out with its April number appro-
priately designed to counterfeit inn
perialist propaganda. The maya
zine contains articles by Henri Bar
buSse, Harry F. Ward, John Wexley,
author of They Shall Not Die"
Robert Whitaker, and an article by
an auto worker.
One Of the stimulating articles in
this number is written by q former
pacifist, Robert Whitaker, who was
very active in the Peoples Council
(anti-war organization in 1917-1S).
On the basis Of his past experiences,
Whitaker is of the opinion now that
opposition to war will avail us
much until war power is out of the
hands of the profit-takers, and their
henchmen, and in the hands OF a
revolutionary proletariat 1t is not
by abolishing force that we shall
lessen its Use, but by transferring
the control of force to the side of
those who speak the common in
terest. War will cease to be
war only when the power to make
war is in the hands of q society
that knows no owning class as
| against a class of the disinherited.
The writer urges an i'm
mediate, organized opposition to
imperialist war
Henri Barbusse writes a special
article for FIGHT on the present
'pre-Fasctst stage in France" and
on the Paris uprising. The dis
tinguished French writer and anti
war fighter who was in the U.S.A.
last october to attend the U. S.
Congress Against War writes that
large section of the middle class
and other sections of the popula-
ton, the Taxpayers League, the
conformist Veterans League, the
Young Patriots-that is the most
clearly defined Of the peasant and
middle class elements-are stirred
by nationalist and Fascist agitation"
He points out that these elements
are exploited in order to CONSOLE
date the capitalist system itself by
q means of violence" In talking
Of the French general strike of
February 18th, Barbusse writes that
it was finally declared on the ini-
tiative Of M. Jouhaux of the re-
formist C.G.T. only after converse
tons and dealings between Jouhaux
and the government, and this lent
it a quasi-official character which
ought to give us pause" Finally
BarbuSse points out that the ex-
IRENE precarious situation makes it
extremely urgent for us to ex-
pand the working class front by
defensive and offensive alliance with
the middle classes, the peasants, and
the war veterans and for this pur-
pose we must forcefully work upon
the great undirected masses, to show
the similarity of their interests with
those of the working class"
The article by an auto worker in
Detroit plant shows how that in
dustry is turning itself into war
machine through the manufacture
of Diesel engines for war planes,
and how many Of the companies
like Chevrolet. Chrysler and Dodge
meet the requirements of the War
Department An interesting and i'm
portant point is made that Henry
Ford who publicly denounces the
munitions makers turns his own
plants into producing gun car
riages, graphing iron for tanks and
khaki colored U. S. Medical Corps
ambulances." There is always q
1917" is fruitful review of the
soldier rebellions during the last
World War. John Wexley, whose
Scottsboro play is now running on
Broadway, writes on white SUI
premscy. describing how the ruling
class divides the workers, Negro and
white, in their efforts to retain their
supremacy.
Harry F. Ward, TIE new National
Chairman of the League, writes on
Churches and Fascism. Adam Lapin,
editor of the Student Review"
swings into Ralph Easley "a pal of
Matthew Void, of the National
Civic Federation, for his attack on
the students anti-war movement, in
the Hearst newspapers. Many other
articles and photographs turn
the April number of FIGHT into a
most excellent medium to combat
war and fascism during tire 18th
anniversary of the U. 8. entrance
in n tIoa IUortd NUau