If You Want Freedom Fight for Democracy

...One of the severest sentences ever assessed for ordinary picketing is being served by two organizers for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers as the result of a strike in Red Bank, N. 7., last August It's no especial pleasure to me to say, "I told you so," since the trend was fairly obvious several months ago wben I wrote that the consolidations of powerful uush.ess inter* ests on the various boards was going to trade the pants off even our most astute labor leaders...

...Their task now will be an Infinitely dangerous and difficult one...

...I have talked with scores of people this week, to leaders in the Women's Trade Union League, to the various peace organizations, to the women feature writers on the various daily newspapers—they are . i l l willing to lend their assi: '-• ance...

...Miss Van Kleeek said • very sage thing at a recent labor conference on tat NRA...

...Comrade i'reundlich is one of the most outstanding of the European Socialists and a brilliant worker in the women's movement and the peace movement...

...This is a war...

...Our comrades in Vienna who fought so courageously for our common cause must hear our call of solidarity and love I At thhs very moment we know they are reforming their dries, they are filling the gape in their ranks...

...If You Want Freedom Fight for Democracy Gertrude Well Klein ly Gertrude Wall Kiel...

...They will c a r r y it on with the same dogged determination with which they defended their beautiful homes...

...Comrades, we are racing before the storm...

...We started with our into national Women's Day meeting last Sunday afternoon...

...His deeply n oving cry of defiance as they carried him to the gallows must find a stubborn echo wherever Socialists are gathered...

...Can we fail them, we who are so rich in being still, tu a large extent, freet Comrades, it la still possible for u s to meet, to organize, tn protest, to gather funds...

...Whatever the NRA has given labor, or enabled labor to get it has given infinitely more to employers, who, sitting on the various administration b o a r d s, grabbed fat contracts for themselves and did their best to knife the anions...

...Which one of you will b e able to fare the years to come If you do not put aside a large measure of your daily personal concerns to help our sick and B u f f e r i n g comrades abroad...

...She is a member of the Austrian Parliament and President of the International Cooperative Women's Guild...

...I couldn't quite visualise the Amalgamated, with its leaders sitting in the very highest placet, getting sach a dirty double crossing deal...

...They are all ai.xious for action...

...With the fascist terror gripping one country after another, whatever wc do to strengthen the hands of our stricken comrades— and I speak now of strengthening the crushed movements which we know still live, as well <.s relieving the sun'ering of individuals—to that extent will we build our own defences...

...It is up to us to form the nucelus for this work, to map out the plans and do the actual or* ganization work...

...A tireless workers for peace, as well as an ardent Socialist, she was one of the most active members of the Total Disarmament Lobby at Geneva...

...Comrades, how can • impress upon you the imperative need for organizing our forces, for preparing oursel'es for any sacri^ce...

...A war in which women as well as men are actual W o m e n as well as men went d o wn under the terrific bombardm e n t of the A u s t r i a n H e i m w ehr, and women as well as men are b e i n g thrown i n to jail...

...She taid, "the NBA has given the workers MOTS hope, and the employer, more power...

...I Most savage was the late of our j brave comrade, who, though seriously wounded, was dragged from his hospital cot and hanged...

...We must carry pn a continuous campaign uf piolesl and relief...

...JDEPRISALS against the Socialist leaders oi Vienna are the i i i r . i i . i l . l e aftermath of the gory abyss into which fascism has plunged our mo*cent there...

...We must make every one of our demonstrations and meetings a success...

...Unless we help to repair, to build, unless we meanwhile build ourselves and, should the storm overtake us, there will be no one to answer our cry for help I In last week's issue of this paper was a story which gives an interesting sidelight on who is getting what out of the NRA...

...Whoever wishes democracy to exist or this earth must join witli us in building defences against fascism...

...Last week we received word that Frau Emmy Freundlich— whom most n" our comrades who have journeyed to Vienna must have met—has been imprisoned...

...My only mistake was in believing that it would be the weaker and more timid anions which would get the shellacking...