The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-09
Hundreds Join
.Anti-W arBOdy
atMassMeeting
Demand Thaelmann and
Other Anti-Fascfsts
Be Released

NEW YORK.-"A million New
York workers out into the streets
against war on Aug. 1, interna-
tiOnal anti-war day."
The walls of st. Nicholas Arena
shook with the gigantic roar of ap-
proval Of 5000 workers who damned
the hall Friday night, when Nor
man Tallentire, secretary of the
New York City Committee of the
American League Against War and
FasciSm called for a pledge to full
fill this slogan.
Friday nights mass meeting on
the 18th anniversary of Americas
entry into the world war, was a
reSounding demonstration of the
determination of New York work.
ers to build gigantic fighting
front against the coming imperial
list war. The hall was filled to the
last seat with a crowd which ex-
pressed its fervent, militant deter
mination to fight war with thun-
derous responses to all the speak
/ erS.
Many Join League
When Tallentire called for ac-
ton, called on all those who meant
to join the New York branch of
the League and carry on the dav
to day struggle against war, more
than half of the gigantic audience
stood up in pledge of readiness to
join.
A roar OF "Aye!" which could be
heard far out into the street. was
the response to the two resolutions
presented for approval, the first a
pledge to refuse to support the
government in the coming war, to
organize and build a fighting Or
ganlzation against war. and to mo-
Billie million New York workers
to strike and demonstrate against
war on Aug. l, the goth anniver-
sary of the beginning of the World
| War.
Demand Release of Thaelmann
The second resolution, which was
Immediately telegraphed to the
German Ambassador in Washing
ton and the German Consul in New
York, was fiery protest against
the imprisonment and torture of
Ernst Thaelmsnn, leader of the
German Communist Party, and the
100000 other anti-fascists impris-
oned by the Nazis, a demand for
their release, and a pledge to carry
on the struggle until the demand is
fulfilled.
A collection of $357, toward the
war-chest Of the League Against
War and Fascism, was contributed.
Harry F. Ward, newly elected ma
tional chairman of the American
League Against War and Fascism,
was greeted with tremendous ap-
plauSe as he declared that only the
organized power of the exploited
masses Of the world could put an
end to war.
Advances Revolutionary Slogan
you are seeing with open ewes
the greatest preparations for mass
murder in the history of the world. :"
he declared, and showed how all
the efforts of the imperialists are
engaged in directing their war
making antagonisms into an attack
on the great Union of Soviet Re
publics.
The American imperialists," he
declared, will hesitate to make war
if they see in the working class a
united determination to use that
occasion to so alter the political
and economic form of the United
States that their power will be
broken"
Workers Representatives Get
Ovation
Thunderous applause greeted
Clara Shavelson, of the United
Council Of Working Glass Women;
Dale Jones, of the Marine Workers
Industrial Union; Alexander Hoff-
man, of the Needle Trades Work
ers' Industrial Union; DR.. Rubin
Young, of the League of Struggle