The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-04
CALL MEETING TO
RATIFY WORKERS
PARTY NOMINEES
Hold Conclave Sunday,
September Is

To all Workers Party Branches, Lo-
cal Unions, Workmen's Circle
Branches and other Fraternal and
Workers Organizations.
Dear Comrades-During the coming
few years the workers of this country
will be faced with enormous problems
and difficulties, which will prove of
decisive Importance to the working
class movement. Already in spite of
every effort of the ruling class, we see
an enormous spread of unemployment
thruout the country. In our own state
of New York the total number of un-
employed has been steadily increasing
until it now numbers 100000 more
than year ago. This condition is re-
fecting turnout the rest of the coun.
try. And this in spite of every at.
tempt of the bosses to maintain good
times" until after the election.
With unemployment figures amount.
ing into the millions, we can expect
the united capitalists of the country
to renew their open shop campaign,
with the object of wiping out all sem
blance Of organized labor in this coun
try. The only force capable of avoid
ing such a situation is a government
definitely committed to the interests
of the working class as against the
capitalists.
1t is by this time a matter of fact
known to all of the working class that
both the democratic and republican
parties are wholly controlled by the
great financial and Industrial interests
Of the country. The strikebreaker
Coolidge, the open shopper Dawes, and
the attorney of the House of Morgan,
Davis, can no longer fool the workers
with their planks, designed to catch
the labor vote. They are incapable of
defending the interests of the workers,
for it is their job to at all times pro-
tect the interests of the bosses and
bankers.
q Large masses of workers look to the
LaFollette Socialist outfit, backed
by the sugar king, Spreckels, and the
former president of the National City
Bank, Vanderlip, as a movement on
the road to take over the government
for the interests of the exploited
masses. A study of the LaFollette
record and the story of the betrayal
of the Farmer-Labor Party by the So
cialists at the behest of LaFollette,
who is the political leader of the small
business men and rich farmers, will
convince any workers that this outfit
is opposed to the interests of the work
ers.
The only political party in this cam
paign representing the interests of the
workers is the Workers Party. The
Workers Party took the lead in the
fight for Farmer-Labor Party. Now
that the LaFollette socialist" outfit
have betrayed the Farmer-Labor Par
ty, the Workers Party will continue in
the campaign for the formation of
such a party.
The Workers Party calls upon the
workers of this country to rally
around the banner of the Workers
Party, whose candidates are William
q. Foster for president and Ben Gitlow
for vice president, both tried leaders
of the oppressed masses of the coun-
try.
The Workers Party issues this call
to all labor unions, fraternal organiza.
tions and all sympathetic organiza-
tons to attend the ratification meeting
of our candidates which will be held
on Sunday afternoon, Sept. IA, 1924,
at p. m. sharp, at Stuyvesant Casino,
142 Second Ave-, New York, N. Y.
Fraternally yours,
CHAS. KRUMBEIN.
District Organizer, District No. 2,