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as follows: Austria, Munichreiter
whose husband was killed in the
Dolfuss terror; Jugo- Slsvia, Mira
Panic; Poland, Marie Solnick; Den
mark, Helene Horne; Sweden, Anne
Lindagen; Holland, j. Lelay, B. de
vries de Stout; italy, Vera Ross;
Indonesia, Artinah Samandin; Gee
choSlayakia, Anna Rudkova: Spain,
Dolores Malaschevaria; Argentine,
Nydia Lamarque; International
Woman's League for Peace and
Freedom, Nellie Dudon; England,
Charlotte Despard Qreland); Amer
lea, Ella Reeve Bloor CU, s. A.,
Capitola Tasker, Albania.
Mrs. Inez Barr, Milwaukee. also
elected on the Presidium, was chair
man for one session of the Congress.
Mabel Byrd, an American delegate
was elected on the Secretariat and
also served as chairman of one ses-
sion.
20 Years After World War
Nine. Duchesne of France and
Nine. Haden-G Guest Of England,
active members of the Initiative
Committee responsible for the or
ganization of the Congress, formally
opened the Congress with stirring
addresses. Nine. Guest said, in
part:
The call to this Congress came
from many notable women like
Charlotte Despard, Gabrielle Ouch
esne, Helene Stassova, Mime. Sun
Vat Sen, Helene Dimitrova, and
many others-women were modified
everywhere. This Congress takes
place just at the twentieth ami
versary of the World War, so we
must, and shall be, an accusation
against the capitalist system, out of
which war and fascism are born.
To-day we are gathered together
with women from fascist countries
who fought heroically with their
husbands. We have an awful list
of imprisoned, tortured, and muir
dered women from the countries
of fascism and reaction.
Il, myself, have seen, in Vienna,
many Socialist and Communist
women maltreated by Dolfus
agents. One of these is Paula Wal
Itch, whose husband was hung. She
has sent letters of greeting to this
Congress. was present at her
trial. Her judge was the same man
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scious and organized struggle to
prevent war and to defeat fascism,
Actions Against War
We will take part without hesi-
tation in all demonstration against
war and fascism. We will support
the protests of the workers: their
demonstrations, their strikes, their
boycott Of the transport Of war ma
terials. We admire the struggle
which the Japanese and Chinese
women are waging with courage and
self-sacrifice against those who are
responsible for the war in China.
They give us an example which
must be followed by the women of
the entire world.
The World Congress calls on all
women throughout the world who
do not wish to remain indifferent
to the fate of humanity. It adj
dresses itself to all organizations
which oppose fascism and war, and
invites them to join without delay
in the ranks of the fighters for q
great and just cause:
For the economic, social and cul-
tural demands Of women, as they
have been formulated by the con-
gress in the charter demands;
Against the nationalism, the
chauvinism, and the racism which
excite the peoples against one an
other and which throw them into
imperialist war;
Against militarism, armament
the transport of war materials, and
against the authorization of the
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Negro Woman Delegate
To Anti-War Congress
Praises Unity of Meet

going into the churches in the
South and tell them about the
MANY women who were at the in
ternational congress - "even sick
nurses-women from every walk in
life"
This is no individual fight: It's
worldwide fight I'm going to
tell the women: You needn't to
worry. There's nothing to lose:
there's everything to gain But we
must organize, we must"
Yes, she was going to tell the
southern women workers, particu-
larly her Negro neighbor. about the
Congress. She, whose life was one
long, bitter struggle with the Ala
bama soil, whose life was one bit
ter fight with hatred, the hatred of
a white ruling class-she was going
to tell them Of the Congress.
ITO think about the melody of
the meeting-it was all like a
bunch Of little bitties, little chicks.
you know-they acted as il they
never knew what hatred was-the
whole four days were sunshine!"
And would I please put it in the
Daily Worker.
would.
That'd be fine. It'd help in the
anti-war work in Alahoma.
CLARA BODIAN, trim, competent
G. secretary of the United Council
Of Working Glass Housewives, sent
by the New York Regional Confer
ence AGAINST War to the Interna-
tional Women's Meet in Paris. Just
laughed when I asked her what
were here greatest impressions of
the Congress.
TOO many of them; everything
was important" But" she COR
rected herself, zone thing did stand
out in my mind above everything
else. And that was the fact that we
working class women could neu-
tralize, if not win over. so many
middle class women-pacifists fem
inists, church women.
There was a real feeling of in
brnationalism," she went on. "a
unity built on the basis of the ex-
cellent reports of the women work.
ers who led the Congress. The
working women, of course, and their
reports were the basis of the Con-
gress."
THE Soviet delegation and the
speeches Of its members gave the
women a feeling of the genuine
equality that exists for our sex in
the U.S.SR. 1t gave the women a
certain confidence that equality
can be achieved"
Anti-IVar Meetings in City
What were her immediate plans
for further anti-war work?
Section mass meetings called by
our organization, the Women's
Councils. in every district in New
York. At this meeting I'll report on
the Congress and delegates to the
Second u. 8. Congress Against War
will be elected. Well work. at the
same time, to get delegates from
other organizations to the Con-
gresS."
Yes, the struggle against a new
war will be pushed with increasing
vigor. The traditional picture of the
frail girl waving tear-stained
handkerchief at the departing
doughboy is rapidly fading.
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during their defeat Of TODAY.

during their defeat Of today.
German fascism, through its eco
nomic policy directed against the
people which it has deceived
through its destruction Of the So
cial gains Of all parts of the popu-
lation, has intensified to the ex-
IRENE the crisis and misery, and is
leading the entire country to ca
tastrophe. It is the same in fascist
Italy. In both countries, fascism
has exhibited before the eyes of the
entire world not only its inability,
but also its lying demagogy, its rot
teness and its adventurist policies.
and it has become apparent that it
peddles in mud as well as in blood.
By pompoHs phrases, fascism
seeks to inculcate IN women and
girls ideas about the family, edu-
cations, the nation and the race.
which are petty, reactionary and
degrading. This is in order to para
lyZe the resistance of the workers of
both sexes. in order to make the
oppression last as long as possible.
Fascism is also attacking in the
countries of democratic appearance
and pretension: in France, in Eng
land, in the United States, in Bel
GUM, in Spain, in Czechoslovakia,
in the Scandinavian countries. The
governments Of these countries be-
gin in the same way as did the
others, by attacking the democratic
liberties scrap by scrap. and by IA
voring fascist bands which are de-
signed to lead a bloody fight against
the working population.
This is the terrible balance of
misery and oppression which is
charged against postwar capt.
talism.
A New War Looms
But the immediate future is even
more dismal and terrible than the
present. Carried away by the race
for profits, caught in the gears of
the machine Of gold and iron, the
prof1teers Of the war of 20 years
ago are preparing a new world
slaughter which will UNNECESSARILY
surpass the other in cruelty and in
harmfulness. These prof1teers have
need of fascism, in order to propa-
gate chauvinism, and to render ODE
dent, by the boot and the machine
gun, the masses and all those who
dare to offer any resistance to war.
Every year the number of billions
destined for ornaments, which are
extorted from the people, grows.
The war industries, which are I'M
productive and destructive, which
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who imprisoned her husband. He
treated her sadistically, but she, in
spite of extreme illness, was heroic
and militant.
I'VE comrades here at this Con-
gress must fight for her deliver
ance and for all imprisoned women
of all countries
"Our Congress takes place in a
time of a threatening war danger.
In Japan and Germany the fight
against the Soviet Union is already
prepared. In all capitalist countries
immense sums of money, which
should have been used for social
insurance, are being squandered for
organization of new wars. The COM
ing war will be bloodier than all
before. The Front will be every
where; women and children will not
be spared. Therefore the task of
women in all countries is to organ
ize the action of women against all
imperialist wars.
II herewith declare this Congress
opened"
Fight Against Common Enemy
This speech was the keynote of
the Congress and the open discus
sion started Immediately. 1t is i'm
possible in any brief analysis of the
Congress to give adequate mention
of all the remarkable women who
participated ,-.women like those
from the Saar Valley, who stressed
the formation of their united front
of Communist and Socialist Parties.
One OF them. Socialist, Nine
Wodergach, said:
Deeply Influenced by our united
front, successful because of our ten
acious efforts, about 80 per cent of
the Catholic women have organized
themselves in opposition to Hitler
-" 1--WE were often asked, Will
not one group dominate another?
We answered We in the Saar do not
worry about such things When the
enemy stands before me I do not
ask who my partner is, if only he
fights with me against our common
enemy.
Therefore we Socialists are Join
ing with the Communists. Oul
enemy is fascism. l appeal to the
women of the entire world to follow
the example of the Saar and to
bring about united front every
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| population in general ana Of youth
in particular;
Against all war budgets, for total
disarmament and for diverting the
quantities of gold designed for war
to purposes Of social and cultural
progress;
For the support Of the nobls
emancipatory struggle of the colo.
NAL peoples and the oppressed ma
tions; =
For the defense of the rights
the Chinese people, and for thief
mediate cessation of the y
against China, and in partic,S
against Soviet China;
For the support of the peace
icy Of the Soviet Union, and for
defense Of the Soviet Union agal
the provocations of the Imperial
lists;
For the defense Of the democrats
liberties Of the working population
in all countries;
For the liberation of Ernst Thael-
mann, of all the men and women
anti-fascists of the entire world
who are imprisoned, tortured. and
condemned side by side with the
opponents of war;
For the total emancipation N
women;
For the freedom Of the schools
from nationalist control; let the
mothers teach their children love
for all the peoples Of the world let
the teachers and intellectuals forge
a. spirit Of universal solidarity Of
youth.
We appeal to ali women. of all
countries of the world. We implore
them to think of the terrible con-
sequences Of the last war, of the ir-
remedial consequences of the next
war.
We show them the straight the
clear and proper path which opens
in front of them, ard at the end
of which there lies the victory of
human reason, of human feeling.
Women can do everything against
war and fascism if they march
hand in hand.
Let us form Women'S Committees
everywhere. Let them spring up
everywhere, let them multiply in all
countries, let them unite their
forces in common fightl
Arise, for a decisive struggle
against war, before it sweeps the
peoples into it's whirlpool
Arise against fascism, which sys-
tematically murders all honest peo-
pie in order to perpetuate the rule
of iniquity, of misery and of mas
sacrel
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Manifesto of Women World Congress Against War; Fascsm
Calls Women Everywhere Act Against Danger of New W.
sA nDra Npum nc4 5er@D

which is our love and our hope
is without hope, without future, and
their fate is like a decline where
they daily fall lower and lower.
We have heard all these voices.
arising from all countries, which are
in the grin Of the money powers. all
these voices which cry out their
sorrows and their defeat.
These voices keep repeating that
women suffer from a system which
is no longer able to provide work for
the workers, or to do anything
whatever for the social and cul-
tr17l progress Of humanity. They
say that they see clearly, bluntly,
that this system is the system of
capitalism.
At the same time, the enamel
patory struggle Of the exploited and
the oppressed against their oppres-
sorS takes on in all countries an
ever increasing breadth. The rul-
ing class trembles with fear of los
ing its power. 1t no longer replies
to those who struggle for bread and
for social justice except by ferocious
repression, a repression which, like
the huge wars of our time, permits
us to call this "the age of blood"
In many countries whose people
have worked nobly for human pro-
gress it has already installed fas-
cist dictatorship, the most odious
form of reaction which the nations
have ever known.
Germany, Italy, Austria and
Poland, Hungary, the Balkans. Por-
tugal, have been transformed by
fascism into tremendous convict
prisons. Fascism has deprived
woman Of the social status which.
although still low she had won at
the price of struggle through so
many years. 1t has made her once
again passive servant Of man.
eternally dependent, dispossessed of
all $ler rights, human machine
good only for obtaining the future
victims Of the slaughter which is
the logical consequence Of this sit
uati0h.
Fascist TOrtures
The picture of the unheard of
and indescribable tortures which
arg inflicted on the people by the
Hitler terror fills us with a pro-
found horror, which awakens and
strengthens in us the feeling of
solidarity which ties us to our
brothers and sisters in Germany.
We shall know how to support with
all our strength the battle which
they are continuing to carry on
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TO THE WOMEN OF THE
WORLD:

NTE, more than a thousand
w women, have come to this
great congress from ali cor
ners of the earth. We repre-
sent the wishes of millions of
women, who have charged us
to study the situation of
women and girls in all countries, to
study the position Of the workers Of
the globe, 20 years after the out
break of the World war.
We are workers and peasants,
teachers or Office workers, repre-
sentatives Of liberal professions or
housewives, and all political ten
denotes are represented among us.
We have come from Europe and
America, from the Far East and
from Africa, from the free Soviet
Socialist Republics and from colo
MES oppressed by imperialism.
We shall spread throughout the
world the resolutions which we have
taken in agreement.
During the dark days Of 1914
1918, there was not a single family
IN all the warning countries al
most all the countries of the world
where there was not a gap of
death, not a family which did not
mourn a father, husband, a son.
Nine million lives destroyed in their
prime and in the flower Of youth;
three times as many children dead
Of hunger or disease, or whose
lives were shortened by under
nourishment.
The governments which drove the
nations into this hell of mutual
massacre, by force, despite their
will. have pretended to console the
widows and orphans by saying to
them: your loved ones fell for
the national honor, for the nations
freedom, for the future and we'll
being Of the fatherland."
But this is the truth:
War and Profit
The war was waged in the inter-
ests of a small handful of NUM-
ton magnates, of bankers and large
landowners, in the interest of peo-
pie who could be counted and could
be named. Every death of the World
War was a source of profit to the
great financiers. The millions of
dead on the fields of battle repre-
sent billions of gold in the world
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are like a cancer on normal indus
tries, take on fantastic proportions
Never before has one seen peace
working so intensively for war. In
Germany and in Japan women and
girls, placed in industrial barracks,
are producing engines Of murder
for a wage Of hunger. Men and
women, old and young, are sub
mitted to regime Of militarization
All the sacred acquisitions of the
mind are militarized. Technique
and science are placed in the SER
vice Of mass murder. When war
breaks out there will no longer be
any difference between the front
and the rear, for there is no possible
resort of any kind against gas and
bacteria.
For years the capitalist countries
have been waging war in China.
in Latin America, in Morocco, in
India, war which daily costs hun
dreds Of human lives and which
daily ravages thousands Of homes.
Defend Soviet China
The liberated section of Central
China, the Soviet country which
contains more than 80 million in
habitants. is the target Of the Chi
nese militarists and of their impe-
rialist allies. 1t Is that because it is
above all the living expression of
free China All of their reasons for
attacking it must move honest peo-
pie 10 cry: No!
These attacks are the prelude to
the great international slaughter
which threatens to burst out any
day and to engulf the whole world.
In the east, Japanese imperial
ism, in the west, Hitler fascism,
supported by the reactionaries of all
countries, are preparing to attack
the Soviet Union, that rampant of
peace and of fraternal solidarity of
all peoples. They are preparing to
begin this war today rather than
tomorrow. What has held them
back until now is above all the
stubborn and heroic policy Of peace
of the Soviet government, the gov
eminent which respects the desire
of its population for peace.
We are confronted on this Goth
anniversary of the war with an UNI
heard Of provocation organized by
Hitler fascism in Central Europe;
on the Austrian frontiers and in
the Saar.
Certain imperialist countries hur-
riedly reply to this provocation by
concentrating their troops on the
Austrian frontier.
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Mother Ella Reeue BIOOr Writes Viuid
Story of WOmen's World Anti- Var Meet
BY MOTHER" ELLA REEVE
BLOOR

BY MOTHER" ELLA REEVE
BLOOR
THE Women's World Con-
4 gress Against War and
Fascism just held in Paris
numbering over 1000 dele
gates-was an event of the
greatest Importance to work
ing women. Farm women.
teachers, professional women. in
fact women of all walks of life all
over the world, who attended the
congress are now determined to
mobilize all their forces into organ
lied action against war and fascism
The opening day, the Hall of the
Mutualite, where the Congress was
held, was filled with women from
all nations. Over $50 from France
40 from the U. S. A., As from Hol-
land, one from Indo-China. 10
Czeckoslavakians, s Hungarians, 8
women from Greece, 8 from Java, IL
from Spain, II from Sweden, Nor
way and Denmark, Is from Rou-
mania, 2 from South America, AZ
from Fascist Italy, 8 Austrians. and
from Cuba, Mexico, Australia, Jugo-
SlaVia, Canada, one each; even from
far off Argentina one delegate came
Seyenty-seven from England. Po-
land represented by %, Belgium by
81, 10 German women, 48 from the
Saar Valley, % from Switzerland
Bulgaria sand we were told that
10 delegates were on their way from
the Soviet Union. They arrived
the third day and were the most
powerful force in the entire Con-
gresS.
The enthusiasm can be imagined
The slogans everywhere marked the
spirit and purpose of the gathering
UNITED Fight of All WON n
Against War and Fascism," Sustain
the Peace Policy of the Soviet
Union, the Country of the Liberated
Woman" etc.
All reporters remarked that the
American delegation had a genuine
united front of elected delgates, four
OF them Negro delegates from the
most oppressed race of America.
Elect Presidium
After spirited songs led by the
French delegation the Congress was
organized by the election of an hon.
orary Presidium. The long list of
honored names made mention of
Clara zetkin, Rosa Luxembourg.
Karl Liebnecht, Francesca Vessel,
member of the Reichstag, murdered
by the fascists of GERMANY. Dimit-
roll and many others of our fallen
commissioning the living men,
bers, Gertrude Ruegg, languishing
in a Chin csc prison, Comrades
Steinfurth and Beimler in German
concentration camps, Camilla Do
vera, member of the Central Com
mittee of the Italian Communist
Party, Ada Wright of America. the
internationally known Scottsboro
mother, Roman ROLAND, Henri
Barbusse, and many others.
Then Comrade Stassova of the
Soviet Union, one of the most ener-
getic and beloved delegates of the
entire Congress, proposed the cleo
ton of Secretariat of Is members,
and the Presidium Of rs, or more,
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BY IDA KUNCA
auto Workers Union Delegate to
Women's Anti War COngress)

NAutO VOrherS UNION OelegaCe TO
Women's Anti-War Congress)
MY work in the Congress
A'A was largely with the
Trade Union Commissions,
and when I was called upon to
speak before the Congress,
I made the following pro-
posals for practical work on
our return:
Program of Action
1. Form Committees of Action
Against War and Fascism in every
existing union, and In the Depart
ment Committees in factories.
2. Issue special call to the
Youth and Women to join a United
Front-explaining their particular
position and linking this with their
special union demands.
3. Issue call to the unorganized
workers, groups in reformist unions
to join the united front against
war and fascism, following up this
call with the organization of com
mittees of action.
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AfNAtSN ny luC NdRCE
We shall not be moved.
HAPITOLA TASKER' s voice hoated
y over the greensward on the bank
of the Seine that clear Sunday
afternoon with all the suppressed
richness of her pleasant, husky
southern voice.
It's far cry from the clay banks
of the Alabama River to the shores
of the Seine. but for the women
folk fighting the monster of war, it's
2, short span. Capitola Tasker
knows that now, and she told that
to me very emphatically. Eyes. ]
sang that at that picnic right after
the Congress, and you should have
seen the French workers come run
ming to listen"
1T was right after the sessions of
the international Women's Con-
gress Against War and the French
workers gave us a big affair and
I was asked to sing" she continued
They couldn't understand a word
but they liked it. About the second
or third stanza they all swung in
They made one of their own fellows
translate it. too"
How did she happen to go to the
Congress?
Elected by the Sharecroppers
Conference in Alabama, of counsel T.
CHow could I be so stupid. not to
guess that this vital, smiling Negro
woman was elected by the poverty
stricken tenant farmers of the
SoUth2l TT was my first time in
New York and Of course, my first
time across"
What impressed her most?
Unity
The UNITY, 098 woman dele
gates together, all in harmony. all
telling of the same brutal treat
ment, all seeking a way out"
Yes. the stories we're all strangely
similar.
These women didn't think of
race or eOlor"-she stopped a mo-
ment, breathless - ''they were
looking out for their boys. their
husbands, their brothers-to keep
them from being slaughtered up
for profits for the capitalist class"
Mr7. Tasker went on to tell OF
the daily, workmanlike sessions OF
this anti-war movement. They met
from 9 to 1890 every morning, re-
converting for the four days of the
Congress. Mrs. Tasker plunged into
the work of the session with the
rest, meeting in committees, dis
cussing and debating. ut was heav-
en- on earth to see a number of
women working together for one
thing in harmony and peace"
What did she think of the Soviet
delegation?
1T was thrilling to see them
march in. even thought it was on
the last day. And what a reception
they gotl"
What did she intend to do now?
VIII Work in South
She was going back South and
report on the Congress. She was
going to tell them all about it, par
-icularly the women. And she was