The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-13
10000 JOIN
UNITED FRONT
IN MILWAUKEE
P eri g aud's C all for
Unity Stirs Big N. Y.
Meeting

Militant, anti-war actions took
place in various cities throughout
the u S. yesterday as the war
preparations machine of the Roose-
vent government was flooding the
country with imperialist propa-
ganda on the occasion of the 18th
anniversary of the signing of the
armistice. Press, radio and churches
joined in this jingoist campaign.
Outstanding among the united
front anti-war demonstrations was
the one held in Milwaukee. Here
Socialist and Communist workers
Joined in parade and mass meet
ing. More than 10000 are estimated
to have participated in this dem
onstration
In New York, under the leader
ship of the American League
Against War and Fascism, a series
of anti-war actions began Friday
night and reached climax with an
enthusiastic meeting in Central OPP
era House on Sunday night.
"A stirring plea for Communist
and Socialist unity in the mounting
struggles against war and fasciSn,
by Louis Perigaud, French Socialist,
brought more than 1000 persons to
their feet in war of unbridled
enthusiasm at the anti-war Armis-
tice Day meeting held on Sunday
night at the Central Opera House.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the American League
Against War and Fascism.
Incisively and militantly, half a
dozen speakers stressed the deadly
international unity between fasclsm
and war preparations and called
for the welding of the united front
led by the American League Against
War and Fascism among the broad
est possible masses of the workers
and the middle-class.
War Plans Increased
Clarence A. Hathaway, editor of
the Daily Worker, speaking i'll the
name of the Communist Party,
pointed out that the sixteenth OBJ
servance of Armistice Day was
characterized by intensified war
preparations and by the open adj
missions of all capitalist govern
ments that the world moves closer
and faster towards a new war.
"Armistice Day." said Hathaway,
dis being used deliberately to stimu-
late the war spirit. 1t must be
admitted that the preparations CT
the imperialists for another war
have far outstripped our prepara-
tons for preventing it. Our job now
is to catch up.
NO one group can do the joe
itself" Hathaway declared. THE
Socialist Party must be brought INTO
the united front. Only real fight
ing united front can transform the
whole working class into an active
enti-war force"
Cheer Communist Party
mot even the combined number of
Communists and Socialists are a
guarantee of a sufficient force to
fight war" Hathaway said. But
the combined influence of these two
groups in the van of a broad united
front movement will be effective.
This combined influence can pene-
trate and permeate the trade unions,
the other organizations to organize
millions of workers, farmers ana
intellectuals for resistance to the
next war;" the Communist editor
asserted.
Noteworthy in an audience which
included many white collar workers
and students who are new to con-
cepts of militant struggle was the
deafening applause which greeted
Hathaway's introduction and the
mention of the Communist Party.
Perigaud, formerly editor Of the
Partisan Socialist newspaper Pop