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ton of the masses from their misery and as
the only capitalist way out of the crisis.
Fascism Breeds War
The rapid rise of Fascism is closely related
to the increasing war danger Fascism means
forced labor, authorization, lower standards of
living, and the accentuation of national hatreds
and chauvinist indictments as instruments for
the moral preparation for war 1t sets the
people of one country against the people of
another, and exploits the internal racial and
national groups within each country in order
to prevent them from uniting in joint action
to solve their common problems.
The War System
The war danger arises inevitably out of the
very nature of monopolistic capitalism the
ownership Of the means of production by
small capitalist class and the complete domi-
nation of government by this class The imni-
nent war danger is only another expression of
the fundamental crisis of the capitalist system
which continues it's existence only at the cost
of intensdcaton of exploitation and oppression
of the masses at home and in the colonies
and of struggle among the imperialist powers
for rediviSon of markets and sources of raw
materials
Only in the Soviet Union has this basic cause
of war been removed There are no classes
or groups which can benefit from war or war
preparations. Therefore the Soviet Union mr.
sues positive and vigorous peace policy and
alone among the governments proposes total
disarmament. Serious struggle against war in
wolves rallying all forces around this peace pol
icy and opposing all attempts to weaken or
destroy the Soviet Union
The United States Prepares for War
The government of the United States in spite
OF peaceful professions is more aggressivelv
than ever following policies whose only logical
result is war. The whole program of the Roose-
welt administration is permeated by prepared
ness Tor war, expressed in the extraordinary
military and naval budget, mobilization of in
ouStry and man power, naval concentration in
the Pacific Ocean, intervention in Cuba the
continued maintenance of armed forces in
emma, the loans to Chang Kai-shek, the mi
Cation OF currency and tariff wars-all OF which
give the lie to the peaceful declarations Of the
United States government
Under the guise of public works, the NRA
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power to effect a nationwide agitation and
against war preparations and war.
To this end we join together in carrying out
he following immediate oojectives
l. To work towards the stopping of the
manufacture and transport of munitions
and all other materials essential to the
conduct of war, through mass demonstra-
TONS picketing and strikes.
g. To expose everywhere the extensive prep
arations for war being carried on under
the guise of aiding National Recovery
g. To demand the transfer of all war funds
to relief of the unemployed and the re-
placement of all such devices as the Civil
ian Conservation Camps, by a federal
system of social insurance paid for by the
government and employers.
4. To oppose the policies of American I'M
perialism in the Far East, in Latin Amer
lea, especially now in Cuba, and through
out the world; TO support the struggles
of all colonial Peoples against the i'm
perialist policies of exploitation and armed
suppression.
5. To support the peace policies of the
Soviet Union for total and universal dis
armament, which today with the support of
masses in all countries constitute the
clearest and most effective opposition to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30

war throughout the world; to oppose all
attempts to weaken the Soviet Union,
whether these take the form Of misrepre-
sentation and false propaganda, diplo-
matte maneuYering or Intervention by
imperialist governments.
To oppose all developments leading to
Fascism in this country and abroad, and
especially in Germany; to oppose the
increasingly widespread use CT the aimed
forces against the workers, farmers and
the special terrorizing and suppression OF
Negroes in their attempts to maintain
decent standard of living; to oppose the
growing Entertainments upon the civil
liberties of these groups as a growing
fascination Of our so-called democratic"
government.
To win the armed forces to the support
of this program.
To enlist for our program the women in
industry and in the home and to enlist
the youth, especially those who, by the
crisis, have been deprived of training in
the industries and are therefore more
susceptible to fascist and war propaganda
To give effective International support to
all workers and anti-war fighters against
their own imperialist governments.
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has diverted immense funds from the care of
starving millions to the building of a vastly
larger navy and to mechanization of the army.
The widespread unemployment has been utilized
to concentrate young men in so-caled refoyest-
alton camps which the War Department is
using for trial military notifications The mill
tary training of youth in the schools and coll
leges is being further developed. More and
more, national holidays and specially prepared
demonstrations are being used to glorify the
armed forces and to stimulate the war spirit
among the masses. Hundreds OF factories are
working overtime to produce munitions and
basic war materials for shipment to the warning
countries in South America and the Far East.
A centralized war control of industry, along
the lines Of the War Industries Board of 1917,
is being established AS in 1917, it is drawing
the upper leadership of many trade unions into
active collaboration in the war machine.
Smoke Screens for War
This Congress Against War warns the masses
against reliance upon the League of Nations
and the Kellogg Pacts as effective instruments
of peace. The Congress declares that this illu-
sion becomes particularly dangerous at the
present moment, especially whel it is put forth
as in the recent Congress of the Labor and
Socialist International and the International
Federation of Trade Unions as method Of
combating the war danger.
For Mass Resistance
We can effectively combat war only by arous-
ing and organizing the masses within each
country for active struggle against the war
policies of their own imperialist governments.
whether these governments are working ind-
vidually or through the League CT Nations.
The Congress declares that the basic force
in the imperialist countries for struggle against
the war danger is the working class, organizing
around it in close alliance all of the exploited
sections of the population, working farmers.
mtellectuals, the oppressed Negro people and all
tolling masses and all organizations and groups
which are generally opposed to war on any
basis. The anti-war movement allies itself with
the masses in the colonial and sem; colonial
countries against imperialist domination, and
gives full support to their immediate and I'M
conditional independence
PROC RAM
The Congress pledges itself to do all in its
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Chicago Workers to
Mass on Nazi Consulate
July Z; Campaign Gains
lDalIy Worker Midwest Bureau


CHICAGO, June %. - Climaxing
an intensive drive to force the free
dom of Thaelmann, Chicago work.
ers will mass Saturday, July 7, in
front of the German Consulate in
mighty protest demonstration
The International Labor Defense,
the Communist Party, the Chicago
Committee to Aid Victims Of Ger
man Fascism and the American
League Against War and Fascism
have undertaken the job of rallying
thousands Of anti-fascists for the
protest.
The demonstration will take place
promptly at noon in front of the
Consulate. McGraw-H Hill Building,
$40 n Michigan Ave. Actions to
force the police department to grant
a permit for the demonstration
have been started.
Neighborhood Meets Sat. and Sun.
This weekend a number of
neighborhood meetings and demon
STATIONS will be held, all of which
will serve to recruit workers for the
central demonstration next week.
The campaign of delegations, pick
citing and sending of resolutions is
being speeded up.
The Chicago Committee is pub
fishing special Thaelmann edition
of newspaper this weekend. Bun
dies can be obtained at 208 N. Wells,
Room 310-4.
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10. To form committees of action against war
and fascism in every important center and
industry, particularly in the basic war
industries; to secure the support for this
program of all organizations seeking +
prevent war paying special attention ( ,
labor, veteran, unemployed and farmer
organizations.
BY virtue OF the mandate granted by the
thousands of delegates from all sections of this
country and groups of the population which
bear the burden of inperi&list war who, though
they differ in political opinions, trade union
affiliations, religious beliefs, and the methods
OF carrying on the struggle against war, are
bound together by their desire for peace, and
on the strength of its unshakable conviction
that the struggle against imperialiSt war is USE
full only to the extent to which it effectively
interferes with and check-mates imperialist war
plans, this Congress calls upon the working
class, the ruined and exploited farmers, the
oppressed Negro people, the sections of the
middle class bankrupted by the crisis, the groups
Of intellectuals of all occupations, men, women
and youth, together. to organize their invncible
force in disciplined battalions for the decisive
struggle to defeat imperialist war,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Second Congress Against War, Fascism

Forward to the defeat of the war
makers and fascists in Americal
NATIONAL COMMITTEE
American League Against War and
Fascism.
DR.. Harry F. Ward, Chairman,
Robert Morss Lovett, Vice Chair
man, Lincoln Steffens, Vice
Chairman, Earl Browder, Vice
Chairman, Anna N. Davis, Treas
urer, Israel Amter, Roger Baldwin,
Max Bedacht, Ella Reeve BIoOr,
Winifred L. ChappeII, George A.
COe, Barnett Cooper, Professor
George S. Counts, Malcolm Cow
ley, HI. w. L. Dana, Dorothy
Deter, Margaret Forsyth, Maur-
ice Gates, Rabbi Benjamin Gold
stein, Annie E. Gray, Gilbert
Green, A. A. Heller, Donald Hen
derson, Francis A. Henson, Harold
HickersOn, Roy Hudson, Langston
Hughes, Rabbi Edward L. Israel,
James Lerner, e. c. Lindeman,
Rev. r. Lester MOndale, William
L. Patterson, Rev. A. Clayton
Powell, Jr., Henry Shepard, VIII
liam Spofford, Maxwell s. Stew
art, Alfred Wagenknecht, Profess
scr CoistOn e. Warne, Louis Vein
stock, Ella Winter, Charles Zim-
norman.
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or major fraction thereof. Ma
tional state, county and city
bodies shall each be entitled to
two delegates.
The program adopted by the First
Congress will be subject to such
amendments and additions as the
Second Congress shall deem neces-
sary in the light of the years ex-
perienCe.
The National Committee will in
vite outstanding international lead
ers of the struggle against war and
fascism in other countries to attend.
An Arrangements Committee will
be set up to act in consultation with
the National Committee in plan
ming the program of Congress activ-
tiles. to gain the broadest possible
participation.
We call upon all supporting or
CARNATIONS and local committees to
begin systematic and energetic
work, to secure the building of more
and stronger local committees, so
that the Congress will comprise at
least 5000 delegates representing
every section of the country and
every element joining in our strug-
gle.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Cables Protest to
Chief Nazi Prosecutor

NEW YORK.-Answering deep
tive promises of the chief Na1 pros
ecutor Werner, reported in Dispatch
es from Berlin, that Ernst Thael-
mann would not be executed but
would likely be sentenced to ten
years in prison, the National Com
mittee to Aid the Victims of Ger
man Fascism, $40 Broadway, New
York City, today issued a ringing
call to all workers and sympathetic
organizations to intensity their eff
forts to save Thaelmann.
THE statements made by the
Nazi chief attorney show the effect
Of the mass pressure already ring
ing around the world and clam
oring for the release of the innocent,
tortured anti-fascist fighters. AL
fredWa genknect, National Secretary
of the Committee declared: ut is
also intended to Iull the mass re-
sentiment, to silence the protests, to
make the aroused, indignant anti
fascists the world over feel that
Thaelmann is safe. This is a deli
berate smoke screen. Not a single
worker entombed in the Nazi dun
geons is safe with his life Thou
sands have been tortured, shot,
murdered, mailed, and the same
fate awaits Thaelmann and all other
political prisoners unless the mass
fight is developed sufficiently to
force their release.
"In the promises of the chief at
torney of the Nazi hangmen, we
must sound the note of alarm. We
call upon all organizations to flood
the Nazi attorney chief with cable
grams along the lines of the follow
ing cable sent to him in the name
Of our committee today:
Acknowledgement Werner,
Reichsgericht;
Leipzig, Germany.
Regardless your promises toAay's
press hold you responsible safe re-
lease Thaelmann and others. De-
mand abolish Vclksgericht, similar
to lynch justice against American
Negroes.
(SigneO
ALFRED WAGENKNECHT,
National Committee to Aid Victims
of German Fascism,'
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laneso of the First T. S. Congress Against War and Fascsn

EDITORS NOTE: We print herewith the
manifesto adopted by the Congress Against
War in 1888. This manifesto is the basis for
the activity of the American League Against
War and FaScism and the basis for the present
Congress-.
MANIFESTO AND PROGRAM OF THE
AMERICAN LEAGUE AGAINST WAR AND
FASCISM, Adopted at U. S. Congress Against
War, New York City, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 1889
APPEAL TO THE WORKING MEN AND
WOMEN OF AMERICA:
TO ALL VICTIMS OF WAR:
The black cloud of imperialiSt war hangs over
the world. The peoples must arouse themselves
and take immediate action against the wars
now going on in the Far East and Latin Amer
lea, against intervention in Cuba, against the
increasing preparations for war, and against
the growing danger of a new world war.
After ten years of futility, the World Dis
armament Conference is meeting to perform
once more the grim comedy of promises, to
screen the actions OF the imperialist govern
ments which are preparing more intensively
than ever before in history for new war
The -Four Power Pact is already exposed as
nothing but new maneuyA' for position in
the coming war between the imperialist rivals
and an attempt to establish united imperial
list front against the Soviet Union The rise
OF Fascism in Europe and especially in Ger
many, and the sharpened aggressive policy of
japanese militarism, have brought all the i'm
perialist antagonists to the breaking point and
greatly increased the danger of war of inter
ventlon against the Soviet Union. The greatest
naval race in history is now on among the
United States, England and Japan. The British
american antagonism is being fought out in
Latin-America already by open war-the So
called local wars being in reality struggles be-
tween these imperialist powers The presence
OF thirty American warships in Cuban waters
Is itself an act of war against the Cuban revo-
luton The collapse of the World Economic
Conference revealed only too clearly that the
great powers are unable and unwilling to solve
the basic international problems by peaceful
means and that they will resort to new i'm
perallst war in an attempt to divert the atten-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
By HELEN KAY

THERE were two heroes in the
i lynch courts of Georgia, chal-
longing the rights Of the Southern
ruling class to continue their
system of brutal terrorization and
oppression.
One was the defendant Angelo
Herndon, the other his defense
attorney, Ben Davis, Jr., who was
greeted in New York at a christen-
ing banquet by spirited gather
ing of some four hundred Negro
and white workers, to fill his new
post as editor of the Negro Liber-
ator.
The one time Harvard football
player tackled the problems be-
fore him and pledged himself to
put the same stuff that he showed
in the lily white courts of Georgia
into the fighting NEGRO LIBER-
ATOR, a damning indictment of
the system that keeps his people
and all the working masses in OPP
preston.
He spoke Of share cropping, the
infamous system where the i'm
poverished Negro and white ten
ant farmers do all the cropping
and the white landlords get all
the shares"
Earl Browder, general secretary of
the Communist Party assured Ben
Davis, Jr., the undivided support of
the Communist Party in helping to
build the Negro Liberator. "The
struggle for Negro liberation is not
new" declared Earl Browder, 1T has
been going on for generations. But
the Communist Party has been able
to Introduce something new into
this struggle. There is new I'M
dertsanding of how this Liberation
is to be achieved, established by the
theories of Marx and Lenin, and
that is unity and solidarity on a
common program of struggle with
the revolutionary working class. The
same way that the Soviet Union
released from oppression more than
100 national minorities and made
them leap forward in their histori-
cal development directly into a So
cialist society"
Journalists Speak
Speaker on speaker pointed out
the bravery and courage of Ben
Davis, Jr, to hurl into the very
teeth of the lynchers the revolution
airy program of the Communist
Party in the south. Eevn represen-
tives of the bourgeois Negro press
were forced to lend their voices in
greeting the fighting new editor of
the Negro Liberator. Mr.. B. Whit
ney of the New York Age, and the
Norfolk Journal and Guide evinced
pride and support of the tremendous
courage of Ben Davis in fighting on
behalf of the Negroes in the South.
Mr.. Post of the Amsterdam News
went further, and gave greetings to
the assembled on the need of pa
per such as the Negro Liberator.
For proof he stated, "You might not
guess that by what we have written
but what we have not written"
Other speakers were Paul Peters.
George Sklar, authors of Stevedore.
Agnes Smedley, author of Chinese
Destinies", Mr.. Lois of the Spirit Of
Service Federation, Merrill C. Work,
the new business manager of the
Negro Liberator, Harry Cannes of
the Daily Worker staff, greetings
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-30
Wooden Strike
Called Off By
AL. Leaders,
Demands for Wages,
Recognition Referred
to Roosevelt Board

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 20
officials Of the United Textile
Workers Union yesterday called off
the strike of $4,000 wooden and
worsted workers, which was sched-
uled to begin Monday July 2, and
agreed to refer all wage and other
questions to the Industrial Rela-
lions Board which is being set up
for the textile industry.
The United Textile officials fol-
lowed the same procedure they
had followed in the cotton textile
industry, calling strike, but MAX
ing no preparations for it, and at
the last minute betraying the union
members by dropping all demands
and referring everything to lin
Vestigation" of Roosevelt board.
The local unions in the wooden
and worsted divisions had voted
almost unanimously to strike for
their demands. The agreement of
the U. T. w. officials with the n.
r. A. and the employers, includes
the appointment of Francis Cor
man, president Of the U. T.
w, to the Industrial Relations
Board.
Arthur Besse, representing the
employers, stated, Union officials
exhibited most cooperative atti-
tud3 throughout the conference"
German has now called a meet
ing of the local unions for Sun
day, at pm. in Wool Sorters
Hall at Providence, Rhode Island.
The U. T. w. officials issued a
statement in Washington that I'VE
are satisfied that at last the ques-
tons of machine loads, hours and
wages will be worked out on a sat-
isfactory basis. :. We have rec
commended to our locals that the
strike should be withheld"
The National Textile Workers
Union calls on all wooden and
worsted locals to reject the agree
ment of German and to prepare
strike for their economic demands
by setting up united front action
committees in all mills.
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ION RI, Bronx; Grand St. Exten-
sion, Williamsburg; Hinsdsle and
Suffer AYES, Brownsville; Utica
Ave. and Eastern Pkwg., Brooklyn,
with a mass noon-dsy demonstra-
ton at Boro Hall, Brooklyn.
Eggaling to Speak Tuesday Night
On the night Of July 2, Eggaling,
the German seaman who was
snatched from certain death while
about to be returned to Hitler Ger
many, will speak at a Free Thael-
mann meeting of marine workers at
140 Broad st. Thousands Of leaf
lets are being distributed among the
seamen and Iongshoremen along
the waterfront in preparation for
this meeting.
The petition campaign for one
million signatures for the freedom
of Ernst Thaelmann is beginning
to make Roadway. One worker de-
cided to devote one whole day to
the campaign and the results of his
one-day efforts were 100 names on
the petition lists and IS in cash for
the liberation of Ernst Thaelmann
and all political prisoners in Nazi
Germany. This good example
should be followed by all organiza-
lions and the million signatures will
be obtained in a very short time.
4 The Anti-Nazi Federation yester-
day urged all organizations to con-
tinue the mass picket line at the
NaH Consulate, II Battery Pl., and
to bring their own placsrds.
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Silver, member Of the Young Com
munist League, was arrested yes
terday morning, after sticking 20
Free Thaelmann" stickers on cars
on the Market Street Ell Passen-
gers were sympathetic, except an
old lady who called conductors and
complained.
Delegations from the United
Ukranian organizations, Working
Women's League, and Ukranian
Sports Club called at the Nazi
Consulate today and left resolutions
condemning Hitlers murder regime
and demanding the freedom of
Thaelmann, and all anti fascist
fighters.
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union sent similar dele
cation.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union, Butchers Union, Office
Workers Union, have all adopted
protest resolutions and are selling
Free Thaelmann" post cards and
pamphlets. Rank and file workers
in the Tai Drivers Union, Painters
etc, have passed protest resolutions
Workers in the Samson Polay Good
man Dress Shop are carrying on a
vigorous campaign in the shop.
A mass trial of fascism will be
held Friday night, July 6, at the
Garrick Theatre. Broad and Chest
nut, with Lord Beaver and Kurt
Rosenfeld, as the main speakers.
An automobile parade will travel
through the city on July 7, while
a house to house canvas for sigma
lures to the Free Thaelmann" petit
lions will be conducted July 7
and 8.
Frank Holman will speak on fas-
cism over WPEN Tuesday, $50 pm.
and Harry M. Wicks on Thursday
at the same hour.
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Red Builders To Hold
Open Air Meeting in
Sheridan So. Tonight

NEW YORK.-The New York
Red Builders will hold a large
open air meeting on the Daily
Worker and the role of the Red
Builders at Sheridan Square,
Greenwich Village, Saturday
night at 9 P. M. Neighborhood
workers, professionals and stu
tents are urged to attend.
One of the speakers will be
Tom Lewis, widely-known soap
boxer and former friend of Bill
Haywood. Unemployed and
paE-time workers, attend this
Meeting. See how Red Builders
ean earn expenses selling the
Daily Worker. Join the ranks of
The Red Builders.
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Free ThaeImann" Meets Monday to Hit Nosi Court

verdicts against the Scottsboro boys,
the Angelo Herndon Branch of the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
is organizing an open-air meeting
at Glenmore and Watkins SITS, next
Monday night. The meeting will
demand the freedom of the Scots
boro boys, Angelo Herndon and
Ernst Thaelmann.