The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-25

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ways been in the forefront against
anti-Soviet attacks by the fascist
groups and the reactionary press.
The F. S. U. has always been the
mouthpiece for all advanced ele-
ments in America in the struggle
against fascism and war. Workers
in all industries, worker members Of
the American Federation Of Labor,
professionals, intellectuals. educat-
ors-all have made their friendship
to the U. S. S. r. known through
the F. S. u"
THE nationwide campaign which
the Madison Square Garden will
launch" Trachtenberg went on, 'is
especially timely now. There are
certain indications on the inter-
national horizon pointing to the
deal which imperialists are making
to permit Poland and Germany to
push on towards the East-to seize
the great Soviet Ukraine for the
Polish fascists and to return inpor-
tant strategic territories such as the
Polish Corridor, Dsnzig, etc. to
Nazi Germany. Together with these
indications, there is the undeniable
fact of the japanese imperialist Of
fensive in Mongolia-the fact that
it is, day by day. approaching closer
to the Soviet Siberian border, pre-
pairing for a military invasion Of
Soviet territory in the Far East.
when this international threat
of war receives encouragement from
the government Of the United
State'sc2.as it surely does by the
breaking off of trade negotions with
the Soviet Union, it is high time
that the American masses rise in a
concerted campaign for the defense
of the only country in the world
which stands as a living bulwark
against war, the only country in the
world where the workers are no
longer enslaved, but masters Of their
own factories and fields, their own
destiny.
This United States action should
be actively opposed by our own
working maSses-by all people,
Negro and white, as well as by CO.
lonial workers. Hundreds of thou
sands of Americans have been de-
MED the jobs and employment
which the establishment Of normal
trade relations would have provided.
The Madison Square Garden dem
onstration tonight will not only be
the outgrowth Of many similar
smaller meetings held in this city;
it will be, as well, the first of many
such demonstrations in this coun-
try. Others will be held-in Phila-
delphia, Washington, Boston, Chi
cago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland
Milwaukee, Minneapolis, San Fran
cisco, Seattle-in every large city
and industrial center Of this coun-
try. These demonstrations will be
the answer of the American workers
to the breaking off Of trade rego-
tiations; they will be the mighty an
swer of the American masses to the
State Department action, the cam
paign Of SANDER, and the moves for
war on the workers Fatherland.
THE F. S. U. calls on all workers
and professionals, on members Of
the Socialist Party and the Amer-
can Federation of Labor the Un-
employment Councils and fraternal
organizations, to unite in this fight
against the danger of war at the
Garden tonight. The F. S. U. ex-
poets to fill not only the Garden it
self tonight, but the streets around
the Garden in mighty demonstra-
ton of solidarity with the Soviet
workers"
The Needle Trades Workers In
dustrial Union has issued a call to
all workers in the needle trades to
support the mass protest demon
stration called by the Friends Of
the Soviet Union for tonight at the
Madison Square Garden, against the
Hearst anti-labor drive.
The Fur Workers, Knit Goods
Workers, Fur Dressers and Dyers,
Custom Tailoring Workers and
Bathrc le workers Industrial
Unions, affiliates of the Needle
Trades Union, all joined in endors-
ing the call for support of the pro-
test meeting
James Matles, national secretary
of the Metal Workers Industrial
Union, issued a call yesterday sup
porting the Madison Square Garden
meeting and calling on all metal
workers, especially the workers OF
Majestic, Presto Lock and Grand
metal shops to turn out in support
of the anti Hearst demonstration.
The City Council of the Food
Workers Industrial Union at its last
regular meeting, voted to support
the garden meeting by calling on all
the Food Workers locals to mobilize
in the Union hall, 915 Eighth Ave
nue., at 7 o'clock tonight and to
march from there to the Garden
where they will join with the other
workers in the protest.