The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
On the
World Front
By HARRY CANNES

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COR the second time now,
l the French workers, in
Communist and Socialist
United Front actions, have
successfully carried out anti
war maneuvers.
On Tuesday, nine squadrons
of French war planes were to de.
ploy over Paris, Stimulating an air
raid and defense. The whole pop
lation was urged to cooperate W
the military authorities by putt
out every possible light in orde,
make 1t difficult for the 81
enemy.
MORE than two weeks ago
lN French aviation authorib
tried to carry out similar maneuver
in the south of France. United ac
tons by the Communists and so-
eialistS effectively stopped them.
Huge bonfires were lit in various
parts of the city; lights flared IN.
workers willingly paid the utilities
gougers few more cents to express
their determination to fight against
a new imperialist war.
In the capital of France. for DAYS
previous to the announced maneu-
vers, IL Humanite," Communist
daily newspaper, and ''Populaire.
Socialist paper, carrying out the
united front pact, appealed to all
workers to light upl"
The anti-war maneuvers were VIC
torious. The air raid over Paris was
called off and moved to outside en-.
virons, which make them useless for
the purpose of taking into account
the actual typographical and struc-
tural conditions of Paris.
Z" 'HUMANITE" urged the workers
Il to mass in the streets, If the air
maneuvers were carried out, and to
demonstrate against war, carrying
torches everywhere, lighting I'm
lights and in every way making it
impossible for the militarists to in
crease their knowledge of how to
conduct new imperialist slaugh.
ter.
THE workers have won this first
skirmish," declared "L'Humanite."
Now there are certain political
conclusions to be drawn from this
united front action against war
that involves the whole struggle
before and during an imperialist
war. It shows that the Socialist
workers realize the necessity of
working for the defeat of their own
imperialist masters in the event of
war. The anti-war naneuvers are
rallying the workers now to make
it more and more difficult for their
exploiters to start another war; and
at the same time are preparing, if
they cannot stop this war, to work
for the defeat, by every means, of
their war-mongers.
DURING a period of war, to work
~ for the defeat Of the war-makers
in any given country, means, also,
to work for the transformation of
the imperialist war into civil war,
into the victorious armed uprising
Of the proletariat.
JUST now In New Jersey, 5000 of.
y ficers are carrying on war maneu-
vers. A sham invasion of the
United States is supposed to be
taking place, with simultaneous
attack from the Pacific and Allan
tic Coasts. The War Departments
releases very clearly show who this
sham war is supposed to be directed
against. On the West Coast, Japan
is supposed to be the enemy, and on
the East Coast, Great Britain.
British armies are supposed to be
landing below New York, and up
near Boston. Air battles are sup-
posed to be raging along the Allan
tic Coast from Philadelphia to
Boston.
We do not know all the plans of
Secretary of War Dern, but if they
include similar night air war man
euvers over New York or any other
large city, we certainly here should
learn from our French comrades.
and do everything we can in anti
war maneuvers, with the aim OF
working for the defeat of our own
masters-the Morgans, Rockefellers,
MELONS and Fords, whose domains
are supposed to be under attack.
EVERY new scrap of information
Il from Germany on the Hitler
plebiscite (from capitalist sources)
indicates that the real vote against
Hitler was tremendous. We have
already reported the New York
Evening Posts cable stating that
instead of 4,500,000, there were
100000 definite votes against Hit
Ter. Now we have some data. It
refers to Hamburg and Berlin, the
two leading industrial centers, and
the centers of bitterest contest. Tt
will be remembered that Hitler
made triumphant" entry into
Hamburg. On the night of the
plebiscite, Minister of Poison Prop
uganda Goebbels' figures showed 20
per cent of the Haflburg voters
casting mol" ballot against Hit
Ter. A few days ago, the New York
Herald Tribune Berlin correspon-
dent, John Elliot, declared that the
mol" vote in Hamburg comprised
over one-third of the voters, or over
331s per cent!
Now we get the following infor-
nation from George Durno, in his
syndicated Washington column,