The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
Anti-Fascist
Fight Hailed
By Frenchtnan
Louis Perrigaud Brings
Barbusse's Greetings
to Chicago Farley

to Chicago Farley
CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. L.
Louis Perrigaud, speaking as sec
rotary of the international League
Against War and Faseism; brought
the greetings of Henri Bafbusse,
who could not attend, he said, be-
cause of illness, to the Second
American Congress Against War
and Faseism. "He told me to tell
our friends, he said, what we ex-
pect from the American League"
Pefrigaud reviewed the progress
Of the anti-fascist fight throughout
the world. "Our French commit
tee is one of the strongest" he de-
elared. 1--WE have 100000 members,
not including those who are mem
bers of affiliated organizations.
Whenever there is occasion to dem
onstrate against fascistn they go
into the streets.
''There have been hundreds of
such demonstrations, such as the
one of Feb. IL, when fifteen of our
comrades were killed by the French
police. In Paris, Toulouse and Mar
settles, everywhere in France where
fascists were demonstrating, we had
anti-faseist working -elass demon
strations organized by our COM
mittee."
Fascisfn In France
The French speaker emphasized
that the February days had shown
how close faseisrn was in France. 1t
was these demonstrations, these
anti-faseist actions of hundreds of
thousands, which drove faseism
back, he pointed out. "There is
still a danger" he declared, unless
they continue to fight against fas-
cisrn, daily, hourly"
Briefly reviewing fascist develop
ments in other countries, Mr.. Peril
gaud pointed out that Sir Oswald
Mosley in England had great deal
Of money for his fascist enterprises
and that he had never revealed
where this money came from. 1--WE
know he got it from the English
capitalists" he said.
In Spain, the Committee Against
War and FaScisrn is a united front
Of all tendencies: anarchists, social
list, Communists, he stated. The fas-
cist organization in Madrid had at
tempted to hold a big meeting, but
a general strike call issued by the
united front committee spiked the
| fascists' guns. students and mem
bers of the middle class joined the
workers in the streets demonstrate
ing against fascism," he said.
Cites Fight In Germany
Speaking of Germany, M. Peril
gaud hailed the heroism of 100000
who voted mo" to Hitler in the re-
cent election. He told how thou
sands Of workers were risking their
lives to distribute illegal and anti
fascist literature in Germany. He
told how French workers cooperate
in smuggling this literature into
Germany at the risk of their lives
In Austria there is strong com
1littee, and in Bulgaria the COM
nlittee's influence continues to grow
despite the terror Of the Bulgarian
ruling class. "The World Commit
tee sent two of our comrades to Of
fer legal help to 40 ahti-fascist
| prisoners who had been sentenced
to die. These two comrades were
put in prison and tortured" he
stated.
Everywhere they are working
for war and fascisrn in the factor
ies," he said. IF war is to stop, the
factories must stop. The people
must fight against war in the
streets. We must tell the workers
in the factories, on boats, that they
are working against their own in
terestS and they must stop it. We
must boycott Hitler and Nazism,
We can do it everywhere, as we
have in France, not by speeches but
by real work in action. This is The
way to fight war and fascism."
He called for demonstrations in
all universities in the United States
and all other countries on Friday
and Saturday, Nov. 9 and 10,
against the celebration of Arinistiee
Day.
Henri Barbusse told me to in
form you that all the World Com
mittee is expecting special work
from the American committee dur
ing the coming year. You are one
of the most important countries. If
you do your work well, it won't be
long before we get to the final VIC
tory"