The daily worker., 1924-07-15
CALIFORNIA FL.
DECLARES FOR
FOSTER-GITLOW
Repudiate LGFol[ette;
Will War on KIGn

SAN FRANCISCO, July a.
The Farmer-Labor Party of
California repudiated the en-
horsement of LaFoIIette at
special meeting of the state
committee Sunday and decided
to get behind the campaign for
William z. Foster and Ben Git
low, Workers Party nominees.
Supporters of George Kidwell,
we're checkmated at the COM
hittee meeting. Kidwell, orig
hal FL. candidate, seized the
first opportunity after the
cleveland convention announce
hents to declare himself for La
Toilette and throw overheard
The national Farmer-Labor
nominees but the committee
reversed his action.
Kidwell supporters were also de-
hated in an attempt to resurrect the
Nd Chicago Farmer-Labor Party of
The United States, which recently re-
seived a mortal wound at the hands
Of John Fitzpatrick.
An energetic fight for the revolu-
lionary candidates will be made up
and down the state. Speakers will in
vade the reaction ruled communities
Of southern California and will spread
the message thru the towns strung
along the San Joaquin and Sacramen-
TO valleys. Campaign literature will
follow up the appeals of the speakers.
The campaign will be fought on an
hncompromising revolutionary basis.
It will carry the sheer message of the
class struggle that can only end when
the working class has supplanted it's
exploiters
For Class War Prisoners.
A fierce assault on the prosecutions
under the criminal syndicalism laws
will be made by the forces directing
the proletarian campaign, These per-
secutions, which have been almost en-
tirely directed against the Industrial
Workers of the World, but which have
also hit at militant A. F. of L. union
lists, will be mercilessiy assailed. The
connection will be barred between the
prosecutors and the shipping trust,
Humber trust, big power concerns,
such as the Edison company, and dom
Ilnant agricultural interests.
Tom Mooney, Warren X. Billings,
Ford. Suhr and all the other class war
prisoners not included in the syndical-
j ism groups will be fought for as ar
identity as the others. Governor Rich
||ardson's hypocritical attitude toward
these men will furnish abundant cam
|lpaign fuel
|| Confusion in Old Parties.
II The declaration for Foster and Git
How has already. aroused responses
(which indicate the possibilities of the
lcampaign. The revolutionary drive
will be assisted by the demoraliation
that now exists in the old parties. Hi
ram Johnson's fight against Coolidge
FOR the White House spoils has en-
phasied disunity already existing in
/ he California G. o. p. The jackass
tparty has been weakened by the Nc
Adoo feuds. Tho McAdoo had the in
iorsement Of the state democratic
party at Madison Square Garden,
many Of his followers are disgusted at
'iis subsequent support of John w.
Davis, the Morgan lawyer.
Drive on Fascist Klan.
| Needless to say, the Ku Klux Klan
svill be attacked with vigor. This Fas-
I'M organization, whose strength is
I3ery largely in the democratic party,
las been running to extreme excess
n the last few months, of which the
recent violence in San Pedro is just a
Example.
LaFollette's failure to declare
y tAgainst the Klan has aroused the an
iger OF many workingmen, and is an
Important count in the indictment OF
lis candidacy az non-working class
iovement
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