Daily Worker
September 6, 1940
PEACE LOBBYISTS HOLD BIG CAPITOL ANTI-DRAFT RALLY
Washington, D.C. Sept. 5 — Eighteen hundred Washingtonians and Emergency Peace Mobilization delegates from dozens of states met Wednesday night at Turner’s Arena to make last minute plans for beating the fascist Burke—Wadworth Bill. . .
Before the meeting was opened, Pete Seeger, the young “traveling troubadour,” led the Assembly in a number of militant working class songs.