The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-15
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Communist candidates, William e.
Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, and the
capitalist party candidates, Coolidge,
Davis and LaFollette.
The largest establishments in vari-
GUS industries have been selected,
among them being the printing, ma
chinery, electric, clothing, food and
packing, candy, mail order, railway
shops, street car shops, automobile
and building industries.
The various factories and plants
will be covered by Workers Party and
Young Workers League members with
nine days concentrated campaign
Each factory is in charge Of Factory
Captain. This work will be done dur
ing the noon hour, when the workers
are having their lunch, or at other
places between five o'clock and seven
o'clock in the morning when workers
are coming to the shops or some
plants are Changing sHlLtS.
Distribute $4,000 Ballots.
At least $4,000 ballots will be dis
tributed during this Straw Ballot. The
ballot is called the DAILY WORKER
straw vote, one side of the card con-
tanning the names of the United
States presidential candidates and the
other side an advertisement for the
DAILY WORKER. Thus, in addition
to the straw ballot within the main
industries of Chicago, which will be a
better gauge of the attitude of the
workers than the bourgeois ballots be-
ing taken at county fairs, etc., the
DAILY WORKER will be made known
to thousands of other workers. Straw
ballots have but little real meaning, of
course, since even the actual cleo
tions are only Of straw value to the
workers, but we can use them as a
medium for getting Communist ideas,
literature, the Workers Party program
before the workers. Then, too, it Is
another way of carrying on the Com
munist election campaign in addition
to the street and other meetings.
Distribute DAILY WORKER.
The party in Chicago will follow up
the factory straw ballot by organic
ing squads to distribute the 10000
Special Chicago DAILY WORKER edi-
ton for the Foster-Gitlow campaign
meeting on October IL, at Ashland
Auditorium.
The 10000 DAILY WORKERS of
that edition will be distributed free
among the workers at the same factor.
les and plants which will be covered
in the straw vote campaign.
This is a logical follow!up of the
straw vote and campaign to obtain
signatures to place Workers Party
candidates ON the ballot in Chicago
and the State of Illinois.
Party orientation Toward Factory.
However, the important factors
growing out of these campaigns OF
various kinds in the factories and
shops is that gradually the party
members will begin to think Of carry
ing on the political work of the party
in the shops, mills and factories and
will get away from purely internal
branch activity or routine parliamen-
tary, neighborhood, middle-class work
Instead Of distributing the DAILY
WORKER or other literature from
house to house and which takes a much
longer time, comrades will take It for
granted in time that literature should
be distributed at the factory gates,
either from the outside or inside, pref.
erably the latter. In carrying on these
factory campaigns, comrades are
learning how much more effective the
Communist work is that way. II organ
lied politically within the shop, as
shop nuclei, the work will be even bet.
ter, far more systematized and organ.
lied. Factory activity and organiza-
ton is in the direction OF real Com
munist activity. AS such campaigns
increase in-Chicago and elsewhere, the
party members will see the greater
benefit and need Of shop nuclei organ.