The daily worker., 1935-01-10
Fascist and War
Plans Exposed
in League Organ
FIGHT AGAINST WAR AND
FASCISM, published monthly by
the American League Against
War and Fascism. 112 z. 18th St,
N, Y. c., January issue, 5 cents.
Reviewed by
LEO WARNE
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Reviewed by
LEO WARNE
TO prevent Congress from voting
an additional war preparations
budget; to forestall swiftly rising
Fascist attacks upon the working
class, the January issue of Fight
declares in an editorial strikingly
Illustrated by chart which shows
the latest u S. War Budget, the
number Of unemployed, how many
Negroes were lynched in 1884. the
number Of strikers killed during
the past year. and how many work.
ers went out on strike up to Oc-
! tooer:
1885 will be what we. the COM
mon people make it-and we can
make 1t a year without War or
Fascism, year Of plenty and hap
piness-if we organize and fight for
our rights
Tersely worded, and to the point.
the editorial is characteristic of this
magazine which in the fourteen
months of its existence has reached
into the homes of thousands of
workers, farmers, and intellectuals.
into the churches, C.C.C. barracks.
schools and clubs. And 1t is a
magazine for all these people.
While it Is not strictly speaking a
news magazine, it keeps abreast of
the most outstanding Fascist on
slaughts and the ever increasing
preparations being made by the War
lords. Its articles and short stories
tell, in a clear cut and thoroughly
readable manner, what is happening
to the steel worker, the farmer, the
! youth in the G. c. c. camps. the
1 experiences Of a conscientious OBJ
Iector who was imprisoned in Lea
venworth during the last War. and
the conditions of women in the
/ factories.
Soldiers in Woods" by James
Lerner exposes the real nature of
the CCC camps. While more than
100000 young fellows were enlisted
in these camps supposedly to keep
them from starving. Lerner points
out that these camps are but the
first step in the compulsory mill
tary training of all youth for the
next war.
TWO especially meaty and inter-
1 esting articles are Women Who
Work" by Jean Lyon, and Farm
and Trench" by Paul Morris. The
discrimination against women work
ers, actually authorized by some
N. R. A. codes, brings home, when
compared by Miss Lyons with dis
elimination against women in Nazi
Germany, what may be in store for
the women of this country should
a Fascist regime be established
here. Morris relates the story of
the farmers disillusionment with
Wartime prosperity" In telling
facts and figures he describes the
wretchedness and misery of the
farmers while a handful of capital
lists reaped uncounted millions in
war profits.
Things are picking up for the
laundries in Dixie. The Klu
Klux Klan heroes are getting out
their sheets again." says Hamilton
Basso, author of "Beauregard, -
Cinnamon Seed" etc. Basso is a
Southerner and knows what a
reign of terrorism the radical, the
Negro, the Catholic worker and the
Jew are in for if the Klan is al
lowed to go ahead with its reor-
ganization. In his short, racy
article, Sheets Will Be Worn,
which is packed tight with evidence
of the Klan's reloirth and it's pres
ent activities, he gives vivid and
gripping description of maniacal
Southern lynching which he wit
messed as a boy.
The three excerpts from Morris
Kamman's recently completed novel
War Comes Again" stirringly de-
pict the experiences of a conscien-
tious objector imprisoned in Leaven-
worth during the World War.
gather from the parts of Kamman's
novel which are published in Fight
that the author, on the basis of his
own experience, came to the con-
clusion that Just being a conscien-
tious objector and refusing to &C
TO the front won't do very much to
prevent or abolish war, and the
only real effective means of fight
ing against war is to fight for the
overthrow of the system which
breeds it, capitalism. Pointing out
that these conclusions are the
authors, the editor of Fight invites
discussion on this important issue
ANOTHER feature of the current
n issue of Fight is history Of
the Protocols of Zion" by Leor
J Dennen. These forgeries, which
have been used time and again ir
vicious attacks upon the Jewish
race, are being circulated by tht
thousands in this country today
Dennen traces the history of thest
Infamous documents from thei
Discovery" to their use by Hitlel
in his present assault upon th'
Jews.
/ Fight is perhaps the most dis
tinctive looking of all the American
militant periodicals. The sharl
contrast of black and white in it
: well balanced pages makes for al
! arresting simplicity in format. Thi
. issue includes drawings and photo
by Gropper, Bourke- White, Pass
Quirt and Limbach.