The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
More Than 5000 Map
War on Fascism at
Chicago Sessions
Text Of Earl BrOwder's Speech
on Page 81
By Joseph North
Especial to the Daily Worker)

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 30-A cross
section Of America is here and it is
hammering away irresistibly at
building the united front; already
more than 5000 delegates from every
part of America have registered at
this historic Second U. S. Congress
Against War and Fascism. The men
of the foundry and from the fields
are here; mothers and wives who do
not yearn for the glories of the
gold star; professionals and middle
class men who understand that there
is no way out except to fight; and
they are mapping their strategy
with an enthusiasm and clarity that
augurs bad luck for the duPonts and
the Morgans.
Everybody here realizes the ire
mendouS resentment throughout the
country at the war program of the
ruling class. Everybody here recog-
nizes, too, the paramount import
ance Of organizing, crystallizing this
anger into a form which can be
welded into decisive action now. 1t
is already evident tina the congress
of 1884 will advance greatly over
that of 1898. Then 1900 delegates
assembled in New York. The begin
nings of a genuine united front
were made there.
More Unions Represented
At this writing, and all the
credentials have not been counted,
more than 5000 are on hand. Last
year the principal weakness was the
lack of organized support from the
trade unions, from the strategic
sectors of the working class front.
Today this representation is much
improved, although it continues to
constitute the chief weakness of the
anti-War and anti-fascist movement.
Many more workers are here many
more intellectuals; more Socialists
have entered, although individually,
into the United Front.
The great pressure of the events
in France, where the Socialists have
joined forces with the Communists
in the common struggle, is exerting
its influence across the Atlantic.
The presence here of Louis Peril
gaud, one of the editors of LIE Popu-
laire, the Socialist Party's official
organ in France, is highly signifi-
can't. The presence too, of Mrs.
Victor Berger, widow of the well
known Socialist, and her plea for
united front, is of greatest signifi-
canoe. The powerful cry for united
front was typified when Mrs. Ber-
ger said, Il am sorry am not here
as a representative of the Socialist
Party. expect to be in that posi-
ton at your next Congress" She
was interrupted by torrent of
applause.
Socialists Seek for Unity
This doesn't mean that I am
committing the Socialist Party" she
continued, 1T merely means that 1
know that our intellectual honesty
and our emotional reaction will lead
us to the united front"
Mrs. Helen Barr, a prominent So
cialist and member of the Women's
International League for Peace and
Freedom, delegate from Wisconsin
to the Women's International Con-
gress Against War and Fascism in
Paris last Summer, continued on the
same tack. IF you don't unite
against war and fascism," she
quoted German woman whom she
met in Europe, you people of the
United States, you will get the
united front we have here, united
front IN prison and concentration
camps, and that is what you will
deserve"
The principal weakness at this
Congress remains the representation
from the working class, the trade
unions. This point was hammered
at by most of the speakers, from
Clarence Hathaway who greeted the
convention on behalf of the Cen
trail Committee of the Communist
Party, to Harry F. Ward, National
Chairman of the American League
Against War and Fascism. Hatha-
way hailed most emphatically the
trade unionists present: the mem
bers here of the Socialist Party and
the Young Peoples Socialist League.
Continued on Page g.