The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-05-28
HELL3TERn
REPORTS ON
APm MEETING

led. Note: We are printing be-
low a partial report of the Amer
lean Peace Mobilization meeting,
which was sent in by Marion He'll
stern of Valley County. Space
does not permit us to print the
entire report which includes a
copy of the resolutions passed at
this meeting.)
Firmly believing in peace, having
consistently opposed all steps which
are taking the United States towards
Involvement in the European war and
determined to do all in its power to
protect the United States from the
bloodshed, loss of civil liberties, and
the economic catastrophe which are
the inevitable result of war, the South
Valley County Farmers Union at it's
quarterly convention March % de-
cided to send delegate to the Amer
| lean Peace Mobilization meeting
which was held in New York City
April and g. The Northeast district
| of the Montana Farmers Union atsits
convention on March 20 chose the
same course of action and elected the
same delegate which South Valley
County has chosen.
| The American Peace Mobilization
meeting convened in New York City
April with 5,038 delegates of which
| 74S were observers. These came from
1856 cities and towns in 40 states. In
addition there were two delegates
from Canada and one from Haiti. A
wide variety of organizations were
represented although slightly over
half the delegates came from labor
unions and Peace group the represen-
tation being almost equally divided
between the two. Farm organizations
had go delegates present of which
quite a number were from the Farm
ers Union Both CLIO and AFL unions
were represented with by far the
largest per cent of labor delegates
coming from the CLIO. Outstanding
among the labor delegates were rep
resentatives from unions which were
ten engaged i'll strike struggles or had
recently been, such as the Allis-Cha
mers plant, the Ford factory, Inter-
national Harvester in Chicago and
the Campbell Soup plant in Camden.
The meeting consisted of a combin-
alton of mass meetings and group
meetings, in which state delegations
elected their officers and specific is
sues were discussed and reported
back to the general meeting. Church |
services Sunday were led by Dr. Harry |
F. Ward with Rev. DR.. John w Rob- |
inson, and Rabbi Moses Muller assist
ing One of the outstanding speakers
was Vito Marcantonio, congressman
from New York who charged Frank
lin d. Roosevelt with fraud and de-
ception" against the American people
by concealing from them the real is
sues and by taking steps leading di-
rectly to war He also charged that
the shipments of high test aviation
gasoline to Japan have increased by
1000 per cent during the last 80 days
while China has been unable to get
anything but a few trucks.
Other speakers were: Reid Robinson
CLIO vice president; Herbert Biber-
man, Hollywood Peace leader; DR..
Max Yergen, president National Ne
gro congress; Hugh Delack, Wash
ington Commonwealth Federation;
Former Representative John Bernard ,
Of Minnesota Rev. John B. Thomp-
son, and Corlis Lamont. Special en-
features were songs by
he Almanac Singers, and by Paul
Robson, a noted Negro singer.
Important resolutions passed were: !
one opposed to conveys, one opposed !
% an American Expeditionary Force, :
md one regarding Civil Liberties. In +
asmuch as conveys are the next step :
.owards war and in the words of /,
President Roosevelt, Conveys mean :
shooting and shooting means war;" :
he fight for peace at present must {
70 concentrated on opposing conveys. +
IN American Expeditionary force | !
would be the next step. The fight to
preserve civil liberties is of the ut
most Importance, inasmuch as no war !:
an be carried on without lies and pro-
uganda and therefore the destruction
t peoples right to freedom of speech
nd organization must inevitably be
ne of the first steps to war.-Marion
Iellstern, Hinsdale.