Strike!
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Title
Strike!
Description
A flier documenting the International Student Strike Against War demonstration on April 12, 1935.
Creator
Peace Action Committee
Source
Strike!, Box 1, Posters, Broadsides and Fliers collection, ua01321, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Publisher
University of Minnesota
Date
1935
Rights
Use of this resource is governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Resource is property of the University of Minnesota. Please contact the University of Minnesota Archives for permission to publish. https://special.lib.umn.edu/uarchives
Format
Flier
Language
English
Identifier
una803465
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
[1935]
STRIKE!
APRIL 12 11:30
Between 1900 and 1914, there were over one hundred "Peace Conferences". But these served only to cover up the real preparations for war which went on behind the scenes. Now too diplomats talk about averting war, but let us not again be duped by such maneuvers. We must recognize that only concerted MASS ACTION by all who suffer from the horrors of war will be effective.
That is why the students in ALL of the colleges of the United States and in THIRTY other foreign countries have banded together to use the most intensive form of protest, the STRIKE. The purpose of this strike is to call to the attention of the people of the world that students are awake to the danger of an imperialist war; that they are not only awake but protesting it by UNITED ACTION of all groups and individuals interested in preventing the next slaughter. THIS INTERNATIONAL STRIKE IS A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WHAT THE STUDENTS AND OTHERS WILL HAVE TO DO IN CASE WAR SHOULD BE DECLARED.
Planned by the World Student Congress Against War and Fascism held in Brussels, Belgium last December, the Student Strike Against War will not be the last step in the building of a united front against war, but only the first. In June a national Congress against war will take place. This Congress, among other organizational work, will arrange for a Pan-American Student Congress against war. Thus the second purpose of the strike is to initiate a permanent organization of the anti-war movement and in that way build a more effective united front against the munition makers and all 'war makers.
Our war department has threatened a new $700,000 armory and a chemical warfare unit. Already a new $850,000 city armory is being built. COMPULSORY DRILL IS HANGING OVER THE HEADS OF THE STUDENTS. THIS STRIKE EXPRESSES OUR DETERMINED OPPOSITION TO ALL CAMPUS MILITARIZATION.
This is issued by the Peace Action Committee.
STRIKE!
APRIL 12 11:30
Between 1900 and 1914, there were over one hundred "Peace Conferences". But these served only to cover up the real preparations for war which went on behind the scenes. Now too diplomats talk about averting war, but let us not again be duped by such maneuvers. We must recognize that only concerted MASS ACTION by all who suffer from the horrors of war will be effective.
That is why the students in ALL of the colleges of the United States and in THIRTY other foreign countries have banded together to use the most intensive form of protest, the STRIKE. The purpose of this strike is to call to the attention of the people of the world that students are awake to the danger of an imperialist war; that they are not only awake but protesting it by UNITED ACTION of all groups and individuals interested in preventing the next slaughter. THIS INTERNATIONAL STRIKE IS A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR WHAT THE STUDENTS AND OTHERS WILL HAVE TO DO IN CASE WAR SHOULD BE DECLARED.
Planned by the World Student Congress Against War and Fascism held in Brussels, Belgium last December, the Student Strike Against War will not be the last step in the building of a united front against war, but only the first. In June a national Congress against war will take place. This Congress, among other organizational work, will arrange for a Pan-American Student Congress against war. Thus the second purpose of the strike is to initiate a permanent organization of the anti-war movement and in that way build a more effective united front against the munition makers and all 'war makers.
Our war department has threatened a new $700,000 armory and a chemical warfare unit. Already a new $850,000 city armory is being built. COMPULSORY DRILL IS HANGING OVER THE HEADS OF THE STUDENTS. THIS STRIKE EXPRESSES OUR DETERMINED OPPOSITION TO ALL CAMPUS MILITARIZATION.
This is issued by the Peace Action Committee.
Citation
Peace Action Committee , “Strike!,” Gallery, accessed November 7, 2026, https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/items/show/6482.