The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-25
PETITIONS ARE
SUBMITTED FOR .
foster GITLOW
Miners Disappointed
Nth "BOb's" HOkum

The class conscious workers
OF Illinois will be able to cast
their ballots in the coming
elections for William z. Foster
and Benjamin Gitlow, Com
munist candidates for president
and vice-president of the United
States on the Workers Party
ticket.
This announcement was made
today at the district office of
the Workers Party. Arne Swa-
beck, district organizer, is in
Springfield today filing petitions
with L. M. Emerson, secretary
of state for Illinois.
File 1929 Names.
Tho only 1000 signatures are re.
CURED in this state to place presiden-
tial electors on the ballot, the party
members gathered 1923 for good
measure.
The SUCCESS of the party in putting
the Communist candidates on the bal
lot in this state makes Illinois the
seventh state to qualify.
Arne Swabeck stated to the DAILY
WORKER reporter that his recent
tour thru the mining region in I'LL
nois convinced him that the miners
were disguised with the two old par
ties and keenly disappointed with the
failure of the LaFollette movement
to tackle the unemployment problem,
which is the most burning issue con-
fronting the miners today
4 have addressed scores of meet
snss, said 5wabeck, and talked per.
sonalIy to hundreds of miners. They
feel that the capitalist parties have
no interest in their fate except to use
them as voting cattle on election day.
The LaFollette movement is little diff
ferent from the two old parties of
Wall Street in their opinion.
For Workers Alone.
"The Workers Party alone takes up
the problems of the workers and
makes those problems its only con-
sideration. The Workers Party is not
concerned with the welfare of the cap
italists. It's object is to organize the
workers for the crushing of the CAPT
tal'st class politically and the over
throw of their system Tie Workers
Party is not vote-catching machine.
1t frankly tells the workers that the
social revolution will not be accom-
plished inside the halls of congress.
but must be the act of the working
masses.
The Workers Party goes before the
toiling masses in Illinois and all over
the country, with the slogan of work.
ers' and farmers government, telling
the exploited proletariat that there
can be no solution of their problems
until they overthrow the capitalist
system and establish the rule of the
workers and farmers on the ruins of
the capitalist state.
"Our candidates, William y. Foster
and Benjamin Gitlow are both union
men who have devoted their lives to
the struggles for the building up of
the power of the. workers and for the
betterment of their working conditions.
Foster and Gitlow have seen the in
side Of prisons for their loyalty to the
cause of labor.
Care Not For Labor.
None of the other candidates are
union men or have anything but con
tempt for union labor except when
they can use it in order to get into
Office. This is as true of the LaFollette
movement as Of the democratic and
republic parties. Foster and Gitlow
are the only two candidates appeal
ing to the masses for support in this
election who are not lawyers and lack
eys Of the ruling class"
Comrade Swabeck, declared that the
machinery for waging an effective
campaign was being built up in the
district.