The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02

airy, whether they got it or not, and
Regardless Of the hours. This work
has been supplemented with large
numbers Of volunteer workers. Zap
plausel.
Praises Magazine Fight"
The most significant achievement
Of this work has been shown first,
and which we must regard as first,
the magazine Flight" I don't re-
call in my own experience any SIM
liar case in which a magazine has
reached the circulation, has reached
the variety Of growth, has reached
the efninence which has been
achieved by this magazine, and for
that we must place credit on the
brilliant shoulders Of its editor,
Joseph Pass.
The other two developments Of
the year that are extremely signifi-
cant are first: The development Of
the youth section. You were told
last night that this is joint ses-
sion of this Congress and the Youth
Congress. They are all here this
morning. You were told last night
| that this youth session had 1000
delegates. That represents the ex-
tent to which that has entered into
the life of the youth Of this country.
I don't recall, in my experience,
anything that so awakened us, at
least the eastern section in this
country, as the student strike that
occurred this year against war. Zap
| plausel. And also it must be re-
garded that both nationally, and in
some cases locally, the youth sec
ton has succeeded in breaking
through the large barriers, iflclid-
ing political Barriers, that has here
tofore existed Between real united
front in this country. That is a
matter in which they have taken
the lead and shown the example to
those of us who are little older.
The other significant achievement
of the development is the womens
work. 1t is now strongly organized.
1t participated, as you heard, in a
women's congress, by sending forty
delegates to Paris, and it is now in
an organizational shape to extend
itself further, not only in womens
organizations, but among the
women Of the country in every
field of life.
Cites Aug. 4 Demonstration
On the organizational field, To-
cally, the New York organization
has been engaged in the expert
mental task of setting up struc-
ture which might serve somewhat
as pattern, perhaps, for local or
CARNATIONS in other cities. Among
it's achievements must be recorded
the demonstration of last Aug. 4,
when it called upon the streets of
New York some 10000 paradets.
That was something New York had
not seen before and which it will
not forget in hurry. TApplause.1
There remains before us one of
the major problems of this Con
gress, to which you will be asked
to address yourselves, and that is
the problem of working up the Or
ganizational set-up, and the organ
rational approach in states and
cities with concrete program of
organizational development. That
concrete problem is one of the ma
jor interests of this Congress.
Last year the Congress met under
the imminent threat of war, both
in the Far East and in Europe. At
the present time both of these dan
gers have been temporarily post
| poned, because the balance of poht-
ical power and diplomatic relations
has been shifted in Europe in the
last few months. The fact Of the
entry of the Soviet Union into the
League Of Nations is one of the fac
tors which has led to this shifting
| of forces and also to the inodifica-
ton for the moment of the ifnme-
date war danger in the Far East.
The isolation of Nazi Germany,
politically, is one of the results.
However, this, of course, is only a
temporary shifting of forces. The e
must and will soon be realign-
ment. We have temporarily a
breathing space, a truce if you will,
for the moment, but in that breath
ing space and truce it is perfectly
obvious that we must continue our
struggle all along the line. The
main forces underneath are driving
them irtesistibly to the next war.
In view Of this situation which
have recorded briefly for you, what
is the immediate necessity in our
task? I would put first and al
ways the necessity of broadening
the basis Of the movement. we are
confronted, as you know, with a
situation IN the plans of the war
tnongers in which they expect to
mobilize the entire population on
the base of its vocational capacity
for the carrying on of the var. The
only effective answer to that is to
mobilize the whole population, as
far as we can, on the same basis
of vocational capacity to stop the
war. [Applause.l That means, Of
course, that we must broaden the
basis of this movement politically,
and that doesn't mean that this
movement lives or dies because of
its ability or failure to bring to-
gether the political groups. At the
present moment it is perfectly clear
in this congress, as in the work of
the League, that our basis is much
broader, on class lines, on voea-
tional lines, than it is on political
OF organization lines. If I may be
permitted to express, not simply the
hope that was expressed last night
at the mass meeting by other
speakers, but my belief that there
will be a much broader political
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