The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-28
Coolidge Has His Price; So
Has Wheeler, Shown in
Closing Daysof Campaign
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, the national political struggle enters upon its
closing week. Another days and the American
voters will be marking their ballots.
or the first time the workers in this country
opportunity to vote Communist They have the chance to
mark their ballots for the ending Of the capitalist system
The of the Communist candidates of the Work.
ers Par-Wiiam z Foster, for president and Benjamin
Gtlow tor vce-pesidentW not appear the ballots
all OF the states The election laws Of 1.-The great American
democracy are framed to gag as much possible full and
At this writing total of "a states where the
Communist standard bearers will 60 before the
These are districts representative of the growing stru
gle between labor and capital hruout the United States
Il IS interesting to study the list Including Massa-
chusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New York New Jersey
pennsylvania Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota North
Dakota, Iowa, Colorado and Washington.
There is the New England textile and Industrial group
fne stamping ground OF the multmiOnae open shop
Connecticut and Rhode Island. Here find the victims of
the EMPLOYERS rameups sacco and vanzet in Lawrence,
and MeHck' in the shoe town OF Haverhil, Mass
Then comes an even greater industrial group-New
York New Jersey and Pennsyvanastates that decide the
national election The Communist appeal here goes the
millions in the factories, the mills and the mines.
Then the Chicago industrial district with Illinois, In
diana and Wisconsin These are states of coal Mines steel
farming land burdened more with mortgages and bankrupt
cies than with the produce of the SOIL
Then the great agricultural states Minnesota, North
Dakota and Iowa. scene OF the greatest unrest the
farmers where the workers in the cities and the land
breaking away from the old parties with their FarmeLabor
organizations
one state IN the Rocky Mountain district, Colorado,
where the class struggle these domains of John D. Rookie
teller have been most bitter Another state the Pacific
Coast Washington where the pioneer spirit still lives and
labor, farm and city, is militant to the CORE
are the states where the Red Flag of Communism
IS actually raised in the voting booths of the polling places
beckonng to the exploited and the downrodden enlist
the growing struggle n for their own emancipation
size of the Communist 1t gives energies to the
electoral struggle and accepts the results with the whole of
the American Communist movement, merely the begin
ming OF new and greater efforts.
In the great tidal Of pffIe that will enguf the
nation during the closing days of the campaign the Work
ers Party sounds the clear revolutionary note of A Power
From the camp of the the last minute
charge against Coolidge that he accepted fee of $780, while
memorial at Bridgeport, Conn, May ~ 1928 Coolidge
objected to bonus for the returned soldiers he didn't
wars victims.
But the bankruptcy the democrats is shown by the
they direct attention to measy $3.50 when
aires, republican and democrat alike lift billions annually
out OF the pockets of the workers
There is the good 100 per democrat, Burton K
Wheeler u S. senator from Montana paradng vicepres-
dental candidate the LaFolette ticket The workers and
farmers of Montana him Washington he is not
supporting their party the Party of Montana
He reiterates that he has sold the reaconary
labor democratic SENATOR Walsh because this corporation
tool aided him in his of Daugherys department
fact that the Wheeler investigation didn't touch
issues involved the governments attacks the workers
Coolidge got his $3.50 But Wheeler sold his support to
the democrat Walsh for the aers advice how to betay
had elected him, but of the entire nation.
This is the opposition to Communism in the present
campaign 1t is opposition against which workers
and poor farmers should rally unit They may not ac-
Of this political struggle will help them achieve that class
unity for future and greater and victorious struggles.
foreign ONCE and Of the army letter
under the labor make