The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-03
GITLOW SPEAKS
TO Big MEET in
MUSKEGON, Mich.
Flags Silent Cal; CrOwd
ROars Approval
BY JOSEPH MANLEY

Campaign Manager Workers Party.
Benjamin GitIow, vice-presi-
Dental candidate of the Work.
ers Party, addressed a large and
enthusiastic campaign meeting
at Muskegon, Michigan. A big
audience at a Communist oam-
paign meeting in a city of the
size and type of Muskegon is
truly remarkable, and indicates
the drift of the workers in the
large Industries towards revoIu-
tlonary and Communist ideas.
Outlying centers like Muske-
zen were formerly bulwarks of
he ction. Muskegon is one of
lis Ise typical Main Street towns,
Atch the trusts have converted
k+cp a modern capitalist hell.
rn..ge factories were built in
.skegon in order to escape
III militant and discontented
l2Vtor of the big cities.
1dlDday the workers of Muskegon are
II foly predetermined, and reduced to
a Condition of unspeakable misery. One
third of them are unemployed; a ma
jority of those employed are working
part time Forty cents per hour is
considered high wages. Ten hours
constitutes a minimum days work.
Well Organized Meeting.
In this Michigan outpost Of manu-
featuring capital Comrade Gitlow made
a memorable communist address. His
meeting was well organized and ar
ranged, for which the comrades in
Muskegon deserve credit. The chair
man of the meeting was Comrade c.
Thorson. Foster and Gitlow campaign
posters were posted up all over town,
alongside of posters advertising the Ku
Klux Khan. Hundreds of tickets, charg-
ing twenty-five cents admission to the
Gitlow meeting, were sold.
The large audience which assembled
to hear Gitlow listened in rapt atten-
ton to his onslaught on the capitalist
candidates. Gitlow said: "A severe I'M
employment crisis faces the working
class of America already, even before
the approach Of winter. Thousands are
unemployed, in the large cities and the
textile and mining industries Of the
country. lThese unemployment crises
are but the normal manifestation Of
capitalist society. Their only remedy
is the abolition of capitalism.
1.-THE Workers Party advocates i'm
mediate unemployment relief. Unem-
ployed wages to be paid by industry
and the government" Gitlow aroused
great enthusiasm by his denunciation
of Coolidge and Davis. His exposure
of the LaFollette movement, as a
menace to the working class was ap-
plauded eagerly. 'LaFollette is a re-
publican lawyer for forty-fve years
and now he stands for the capitalist
system-and it's product, Wall street.
For Cheap Labor.
''The same capitalists and their sys-
tenn that came to Muskegon looking
for cheap labor are now going to Ger
many to further enslave the German
working class, with the Dawes plan.
This pima and its consequent opera
ton with American capitalist gold will
in conjunction with the slavish condi-
tions to which the German working
class has been reduced will produce
commodities at much cheaper rate
than they can be produced in Ameri-
ca. This will lead to still greater
American unemployment. Eventually,
as a result, the operation Of the Dawes
plan and the struggle of American
capitalists for supremacy in world
markets, will lead to war.
Fight For Workers.
''The Communist parties of Germany
and Of Europe are the only parties that
fight for the working class against I'M
employment, against capitalist wars,
and against the misery and exploita-
ton OF the workers.
"The solution of the many problems
confronting the workers of the United
States lies in the election Of the can
didates Of the Workers Party, the Of
fetal American branch Of the Third
Communist International, on a plat
form of abolition Of the capitalist sys-
tenn and reorganization Of the United
States government into a Soviet Re
public, modelled after that Of Russia"