The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-14
Grew Strikes MunsOn
Liner in New Orleans;
MWIULeads Struggle
Organizations Call
All Membe Out
On Streets Today
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OF the Austrian workers. We appeal
to every branch, to every member OF
the I. L. D., to mobilize for this dem
onstration, to make it the mightiest
expression Of international solidarity
with the Austrian workers"
Max Bedacht, secretary Of the In
ternational Workers Order. declared
that this organization would rally its
membership for support of the
Austrian workers. "Our members
should act as the organizers for this
demonstration among their fellow
workers. Our immediate support to
our Austrian class brothers can best
be shown by our mobilization for this
demonstration in their support"
William z. Foster, in the name Of
the Trade Union Unity League,
stated: THE fascist swine moving
down the Austrian working class
should feel the powerful voice Of the
American workers. Every trade
union local, every trade union menu
Der should rally his fellow workers
in this demonstration of international
solidarity. Through our action we
should mobilize the united front Of
all workers in the fight against fas-
cisn, in a show of solidarity with
the heroic Austrian proletariat."
"We will Immediately go to all A.
F. Of L. members and locals we can
reach" said Louis Weinstock, secre-
tary of the A. F. of L. Committee for
Unemployment Insurance, land mo-
Billie them in united front demon
stration on behalf of the brave Au-
strian fighters against fascism."
"All unemployed workers, facing
hunger under the growing fascist at
tacks in this country, should rally on
the streets today in the demonstra-
ton in support of the Austrian work
ers," said Herbert Benjamin, national
organizer of the Unemployment
Councils.
J. B. Matthews, chairman of the
American League Against War and
Fascism, issued the following state
ment on behalf of the National Ex.-
ecutive Committee OF his organiza-
ton:
Austrian workers and farmers
are being brutally murdered In
their brave resistance to the fascist
regime. Working class women and
children are being murdered in
their homes. Trade union head
quarters, workers homes built by
workers organizations, and their
newspapers are being destroyed.
The American League Against War
and Fascism calls upon its support
erS, all American workers, and all
people opposed to this latest fascist
outrage, to join in all demonstra-
tons in protest against this fascist
terror and to forward Immediately
wired protest to the Austrian en-
baSSy at Washington"
The National Executive Committee
of the American League on whose
behalf this statement is Issued, in
cludes the following:
Professor Robert MorsS Lovett, Uni
versity of Chicago; Rabbi ISEae! Gold
stein; Mrs. Annie e. Wray, director,
Women'S Peace Society; Mary Fox,
Executive Secretary, League foe In
dustrial Democracy.
Roger Baldwin, American Civil Lib
critics Union; Earl Browder,- General
Secretary, Communist Party; william
Pickens, Field Secretary, National AS
ISOLATION for Advancement Of Colored
People; William Spofford, Church
League for Industrial Democracy.
Charles Zimmerman, Local %, In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union; Louis Weinstock, A. F. of l..
Trade Union Committee for Unem-
ployment Insurance and Relief; A. j.
Music, Chairman, Conference for Pro-
gressive Labor Action.
Devere Allen, Editor, World Tomor-
row; Tucker P. Smith, Brookwood
College; Roy Hudson, National Sec
rotary, Marine Workers Industrial
Union; William Patterson, National
Secretary, International Labor De-
Tense; Harold Hickerson, National
Secretary, Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League; Alfred Wagenknecht, Ma
tional Committee to Aid Victims OF
German Fascisn; Mrs Lincoln
StefTenS.