The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-07

movement must take up the needs
Of the youth on a class basis. If
the students, young workers and
other youth mean to serve an
historically progressive aim, they
must ally themselves with the
workers.
Scores Nye
you speak of being 'non-par-
tisan.' You can take a bipartisan
stand only in the sense that you en-
deavor to bring all the youth into
your movement. But you must be
definitely partisan in the class strug4
gle between workers and capitalists.
You must ally yourself with the
working class movement as a whole,
with the class which alone can lead
the way to further social progress
for all mankind"
Hathaway scored the speech Of
Senator Nye Of the Munitions In
vestigating Committee, pointing out
that the Roosevelt slogan of "tak-
ing the profits out of war" was a
cloak for its war preparations 10
make secure the profits of the mon
opolies and plumber the colonial
peoples and exploit its own work
ing people.
Mr. Nye speaks of the need CT
national defense" Hathaway said.
but let me ask question. If you
go into a war, can we term this q
defensive war? The American mon
opolies have been driving toward
war on every front. They have
plundered Latin-America and the
Chinese people. They have aided
the butcher government of Chang
Kai-shek against the Chinese So
VETS. They have waged continuous
economic warfare against every inn
perlalist rival-Japan, Great Brit
ain, France, etc. If some day these
oppressed people, or even other inn
perialist pirates take steps to force
American monopolies to keep with
In the confines of their own national
boundaries, should the workers be-
lieve that American imperialism is
waging defensive war? It is the
opinion of the Communists that YOU
should then say to the capitalists,
This is your war, you have brought
1t on yourselves, and we refuse to
light it We propose to strive to
turn that very war into a mass rev.
olutionary struggle of the workers
to get political power for themselves.
This is the only way, in the final
analysis, that wars can be ended"
For Unity of All Workers
In pointing to the steps and ac-
complishment already made by the
Youth Congress, Hathaway con-
cluded by stating that the youth
could be decisive factor in unit
ing all the workers, workers in the
Socialist and Communist Parties
and In the American Federation Of
Labor.
In the early sessions yesterday,
representatives of the Democratic
and Republican parties, and of the
Progressive party of Wisconsin also
spoke. Representative Will Rogers,
Democrat of Oklahoma, exhorted
the young people mot to get too
impatient about getting out of this
depression" He ended up by beg
ging them to be good Democrats,
read some of his own doggerel
verse, quoted scripture and Patrick
Henry, referred to Roosevelt's
money changers" and received the
tepid applause of courtesy
Ex-senator Brookhart m de
grimaceS and urged support of his
own panacea-something he termed
cooperative economics" His half
baked utopias did not even get the
tepid courtesy accorded Rogers.
Representative Vito Marcontonio,
a friend of LaGuardia, who was
elected by the people of East Har-
lem, where one-fifth are on relief,
scored the New Deal" policy of de-
stroying food, and engaged in all
the political charlatanism of the
New York mayor
Senator Nye chanted on his past
theme taking the profits out of
war" and cited profits Of astros
nomical figures, including one Of
1,143000 per cent rolled up since
1925 by an unnamed aviation motor
company which was subsidized by
the government. Again harping on
taking the profits out of war;" he
repeated his proposal that the gov
eminent go the whole way and
make its own war goods : poison
gas, munitions, vessels of war, ETC.,
for national defense"
Representative Amlie of Wiscon-
sin, member of the American
League Against War and Fascism
and of the Friends of the Soviet
Union, while declaring that he was
thoroughly in accord with the re-
marks of Clarence Hathaway, who
preceded him." stated that he
agrees with the MARKHAM analysis
but not its social program" which
means exactly nothing. He further
said that all forces should be united
in Racine for the defense Of the
Communist Party there, which is
under fascist attack by the com-
bined forces of the police and the
American Legion.
The last session of the Congress,
the stormiest, received the report of
the credentials committee 33 cities
and IS stStes represented by host
of groups representing $4,000 young
people.
Although the credentials commits
tee stated that this was a conserva-
tive estimate, and was based only
upon the reports of the delegates,
reasons OF economy forced some
delegates to represent several groups
and full total was not available.
Lovestoneites attempted to force
through a disruptive wedge with the
cry Of "overstatement.
In the final hour, the delegates