The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-20
WORKERS HEAR
COMMUNISTS AT
Big meetings
Open Air Gatherings
Are Very Successful

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meetings held on dozens of
street corners.
Hundreds of copies Of the
DAILY WORKER are being
sold, and thousands of leaflets
setting forth the Communist
program have already been dis
tributed.
AS the campaign to educate the
workers to vote for their class, rep
resented by William 2. Foster, and
Benjamin Gitlow, enters its hottest
stage, thus far, every Workers Party
member who can speak is being press
ed into service.
Many Questions Asked.
The crowds at these meetings are
not changing, but stand and listen to
the Workers Party speakers straight
thru the meetings. Many intelligent
questions are asked, and interesting
discussions held after the speakers
are thru, demonstrating that the work
ers have their eyes open to the CAPT
talistic fallacies preached by Davis,
Coolidge and LaFollette.
Large outdoor mass meetings and
open air demonstrations will be held
during the coming week.
"Mother" Bloor in Pullman.
Tonight an outdoor mass meeting
will be held at Hath Place and Michi-
gan Avenue, Pullman, to be addressed
by Ella Reeve Bloor, which will give
the Pullman car shop workers a
chance to learn why they are Cypress
ed by the Pullman company. An ear
ly street meeting will be held on the
corner of 18th street and Langley ave-
nue., where the residences of the car
builders are located, at which short
speeches will be made in Greek, Po-
lish and Italian. This meeting will
be adjourned early and the crowd will
be taken to the corner where Comrade
Bloor is to speak.
Another big open air demonstration
will be held Sunday afternoon in the
park on North Clark street and New
berry place, where Comrade Bloor
and others will speak.
Cicero Is Peaceful.
Many large street meetings were
held, Thursday night. On the main
street of Cicero, 14th street, Mother
Bloor spoke to 300 people, and there
was no sign of policeman to dis
turb the open air university" conduct
ed there. Comrade Antonio Presi,
of the Italian Federation, and an edi-
tor of II Lavoratore, spoke in Italian,
Many copies of the Italian Commun-
list daily, II Lavoratore, and of the
DAILY WORKER were sold by the
children of the Junior Group of CT
cero.
bill" Kruse held forth at 62nd and
Halsted street, and the crowd of 200
people stayed thru the whole meet
ing, buying out every copy of the
DAILY WORKER. Comrade Kruse
was especially hard on LaFollette,
and there was a lively discussion at
the close or the meeting.
Get Many Signatures.
A good collection was taken up at
the meeting of Comrade d. E. Early,
34th Place and Halsted street, and
many signatures were secured to pc
titions for Workers Party Congress
sional candidates. Literature, includ-
ing the DAILY WORKER, was also
in demand at this meeting.
Pete Herd spoke on the corner of
Roosevelt and Latin avenues, and
Karl Reeve spoke to a crowd of $50
in the stock yards section at the cor
ner of Ashland avenue and 47th
street. A comrade also spoke in Po-
lish at this meeting.
Questions asked at the Workers
Party street meetings indicate that
both Coolidge and Davis have lost the
support of many workers. The work
ers listening to the Communist speak
ers, showing that LaFollette is rum
ming on a personal program, that he
does not concern himself with UNI
employment or any other vital prob
lem that concerns the workers; that
he is backed by millionaire exploit
ers Of labor, and that he represents
the independent manufacturers, be-
came convinced. Then they hear the
Communist speakers tell how the
Workers Party is in favor of work
ers' and farmers government, aboli-
ton Of the capitalist system, and a
fight TO a finish against the capitalist
class, which causes wars and ex-
ploits the workers, until the working
class gains control of the government
and industries. Then they say, Guess
I'll vote for Foster"
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