The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-18
Call Sent For
Delegates To
JulyCOngres(
WOmen's Committee to
Organize a Broad
U. S. Delegation

NEW YORK.-A stirring
call to all women Of good will
in the United States to unite
to send a strong and broadlR
representative delegation
women to the Internations
Women's Congress Against War and
Fascism in Paris, July % to 80. has
been issued by provisional national
committee of women representing
many organizations.
The international women's anti
war and anti-fa9cist congress is
sponsored in the United States by
the American League Against War
and Fascism. The organizing COM
mittee has its headquarters at 112
East 10Th ST., New York, room sos.
A national committee has been or
ganized, composed of women trade
union leaders, representatives of
Women's mass organizations of many
kinds, and influential professional
women.
In a call which has been sent out
to women and women'S organizations
throughout the country, the COM
mittee says in part
why does Congress appropriate
billions of dollars for military pur-
poses? Why do the Civilian Con
servation Camps, under the guise Of
relief, continue to give emi-military
training to hundreds of thousands
OF young men, under the supervision
of army officers? Why has the
United States war budget increased
1877 per cent over the pre-war bud
get, the largest increase of any
country in the world?
Because the United States like
all the imperialist powers, will send
your son, your husband, your
brother, to war, to protect foreign
investments and loans - although
they will tell you it is for some noble
cause.
What War and FasciSm Bring to
Women
"The fifth year of the crisis. in
tensified by conditions resulting
from the World War and the equal
ly cruel peace that followed, finds
fifteen million Americans unem-
ployed and starving in the midst
of plenty. American women, YOU
see the effects of this crisis in your
chlldren'S torn shoes and your
empty cupboards. You know what
1t means to make ends meet on
present day wages, on the scanty
relief that governmental charity
sometimes furnishes.
American women! You. whose
husbands, sons and sweethearts
were sent to make the world safl
for democracy know how
many came back crippled in mind
and body, and how many never
came back.
American Womenl See what has
happened to the women of the fas-
cist countries-domestic slavery, no
jobs, prizes for women who make
the best breeding machines to build
the armies of a Hitler or Mus
solini.
What Can You Do?
American women! Ten and half |.
million of you work in America IS.
factories and mills. You weave thd
cloth, make the clothes, make th1
shoes that America wears. You'll
work in the metal plants that turn
cut bullets and shells, in chemical
and dye plants that will at a mo-
mcnt's notice produce the deadly
materials for chemical warfare. You
teach the youth of the country.
Millions of you are housewives and
domestic workers. You have a great
responsibility.
VIII you use this power to aid
in preparing another war? Will YOU
let the industrial and financial
magnates, the profteers of the last
war, throw the world into another
war? Will you weave the cloth for
uniforms, make shoes for the army.
make bullets with which your men
will be sent to kill sons, husbands
and SweetheartS of other women
like yourselves?
Organize Against War and Fascism!
ON the Twentieth Anniversary
OF the World War, July 18th to 3Oth.
a World Congress of Women Against
War and Fascism will convene in
Paris, to plan international action
gaainst war and fascism.
The American League Against
War and Fascism calls on all
women, of every walk of life. of
every point of view, to help send a.
strong delegation of working, farm
and professional women, to unite
with the women of all countries in
TIN /ruggle. Build anti-War. anti
fascist committees in the factories
and mills, on the farms, in the
schools, in the hospitals, in the
neighborhoods, wherever you live
and work.
Regional conferences and mass
meetings will be held during the
next two months to elect delegates.
Bulld and support the regional con-
ference in your community. Helm
by reaching your friends and sisters
with the program against war anda
faScism."