The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-18
GITLOW HOLDS
ROUSING MEET
IN BRIDGEPORT
Labor Halls Communist
Candidate
Especial to the DAILY WoRKER)

BRIDGEPORT, Sept. H.
Last night Ben GitIow, vice.
presidential candidate of the
Workers Party, fired the open
ing gun in the local campaign.
To the workers assembled in the
hall, Gitlow analysed carefully
the system we live under, lacing
it into the Bridgeport gun mag
mates, famous for open shop
conditions.
Particular attention was paid
to unemployment. The coming
unemployment crisis doomed up
large, against the background
of war prosperity" and expan-
sion of productive forces that
accompanied it.
Workers Pleased.
Seldom are the workers of this city
given an opportunity to listen to a
speech, so profound, so chock full of
facts, with pyramid of arguments,
leading up to the logical conclusion,
the elimination of the present eco
nomic order, and the establishment
of a Workers Government.
The speech did not sound trite, like
the speech of a college professor,
weaving arguments out of book cloth
and thin air. Gitlow's illustrations
were taken from the actual situation
confronting the worker, and his sallies
brot forth round after round of ap-
plause. The audience was composed
of workingmen and women, who real
lied that the capitalist candidates and
parties were weaving a fine network
of phrases for campaign consumption,
whereas the Communist speaker was
giving rock bottom facts.
The speech was admirably begun
with a review of the imperialistic
world situation, of conflicting inter
ests of various economic and financial
groups, a conflict which inevitably
leads to war, even as it did in the
last war The Mobilization Day plans
were explained with capitalist imper-
ialism in the background.
Locks Horns With Bob.
After showing up the reactionary
nature of the platforms and candi-
dates of the old parties, Gitlow locked
horns with the new political mon
strosity that has appeared on the
horizon, a candidate of the small
business men, manufacturers, and in
dependent bankers, who, Messiahlike,
calls upon the workingclass to follow
him into Kingdom Come. Gitlow
showed how the support given LaFol-
lette by the Railroad Brotherhoods,
the A. F. of L., and the Socialist
Party, in no way meant that he rep
resented the interest of the proletAr-
lat.
After the meeting, many workers
came up to the platform, to congratu-
late the speaker on the excellence of
his address. That the audience real
lied the value to them of a working
class daily, was shown by the many
subscription cards sold.
More to Be Held.
The Chairman, Organizer Simons,
called the meeting a beginning of the
Bridgeport campaign, announcing an
open air meeting at East Washington
Park, next Friday, Sept. 10Th, at s
p. m, with Rebecca Grecht as the
speaker. Simons told the audience
that the candidates were waiting for
the announcement that the Workers
Party ticket was on the ballot in
Connecticut. 1t was encouraging to
hear that the Bridgeport comrades
were actively engaged in getting sig
natures, their total on Thursday, Sept.
IL, being 1876, of which Comrade ].
CONDOS, member of the District Exc
cutive Committee, secured 80. Com
rades e. Grosz and Jennie Feldman
are among others who are doing their
duty. Campaign Manager Mary
Dworkin promises that Bridgeport
will get at least 1000 signatures be-
fore October
With the enthusiasm engendered by
the Gitlow meeting, the local COM
rades are attacking the signature
problem with renewed vigor.