The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
Steel WORKERS
GIVE SUPPORT
TO COMMUNISTS
Thousands EnthuSed at
Big Foster Meetings
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug.
15.-Enthusiasm for this years
Communist campaign, and sup
port of it's national ticket, was
rampant, up and down Mahon-
ing Valley today following the
two big mass meetings adj
dressed by William z. Foster,
presidential candidate, here yes
terday.
The drive for the Communist
candidates, in this big steel dis
trict, is now under way and will
know no let up until election
day.
"Those two meetings Sunday were
the biggest and most enthusiastic
turnouts of Mahoning valley steel
workers in recent years." was the
manner in which Wallace T. Metcalfe
spoke of the Foster gatherings, one
in the afternoon at Avon Park, Girard,
and the other at night in the Ukrain-
ian Hall, Youngstown.
Foster closed this speech with a
ringing declaration that the Workers
Party is the revolutionary vanguard
of the working class. He appealed for
members, and many applications were
received. The largest collection ever
taken in the Mahoning valley at any
party gathering was taken.
At Avon Park two thousand steel
workers from Warren, East Liverpool,
Girard, Youngstown and the various
valley steel towns were present. Be-
fore the speaking the crowd was enter
tanned by Bolsheviki band composed
of Workers Party members. "Bill'
White, the Red" steel worker of the
valley, was chairman. The labor Off
Gals of the Youngstown unions who
have Endorsed the candidacy of LaFol-
lette were interested listeners to Fos-
ter's speech.
Foster spoke for two hours, in the
course of which he fiayed both old par
ties. He spoke in detail of the part
that LaFollette is playing to bolster
up dying faith in the decadent sys-
tenn of capitalism. He showed that
the fake explanations given by Cool
idge and Davis for the recurring crises
of the present system are no explana-
ton at all, and that the explanation
given by LaFollette tends to confuse
the workers even still more. He stat
ed that all three ignore the basis of
the class struggle, which is the factor
out of which develops all real opposi-
ton to the power of capitalism.
The speech of the Communist candi-
date brought out the fact that the
high sounding phrases of LaFollette
are meaningless when it comes to a
struggle with capitalism. He pointed
out that LaFollette will stand against
the workers and with the failing sys-
tenn of the capitalists. In this connec-
ton he characterized the capitalist
ownership of the government and
their use Of this instrument for the
continued exploitation of the workers
as being adaptable" to their every
need. When government shows its
corruptness to the naked gaze Of the
workers, then along come the LaFol.
lettes, MacDonlads and Scheide-
MAINS to confuse the workers by indi.
eating that it can be reformed Eos.
ter said: "The function of the LaFol-
lettes is make capitalism livable for
the workers-that is, to delude masses
of them into supporting it because Of
some alleged tendency toward re-
form"
He went on to show that when the
workers are in a revolutionary mood
the capitalists make use of a Musso.