The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-11
COLORADO PUTS
WORKERS PARTY
CANDIDATES UP
Workers Develop Fine
Fighting Spirit
Especial to The Daily Worker

especial TO The Daily Worker)
DENVER, Colo, Aug. 1O.-The state
convention Of the Workers Party nom
mated a full ticket to run in the fall
elections and made plans for carrying
on an active campaign for the only
working class candidates in the local
and national field-the Communist
nominees.
The state ticket is as follows: Will
liam Dietrich for governor; candi-
dates for lieutenant-governor to be
named by Pueblo or Trinidad; secre-
tary Of state, Albert Kiefer Of Denver;
! for United States senator, James A.
Ayres of Rio Blanco, Garfield County
for attorney-general, Sidney Smith of
Denver; for congressman, Nelson
Dewey Of Edgewater, Jefferson Coun-
ty, and Louis Zeitlin of Denver; for
state legislature, Helen LOWE Die
trich, G.. @. Jeffries, John Lendwehr,
Dorothy FIJI, Isabel Hutton, ]. Fer
schler.
| Anti-War Meet.
1 Fred Kaufman, Orlo McSwain, ]. B.
Ell, John Nohar, l. Hutton were nomi.
mated for the presidential electors
Ella Reeve Bloor, Louis Zeitlin, and
James "A. Ayres addressed the con.
vention.
An enthusiastic anti-war meeting
was held after the convention and
everyone stayed for the picnic supper
Norman Tallentire made a stirring ad
dress and Ell Reeve Bloor made a col
lection and announced that a branch
of the Young Workers League would
be organized at the Labor Lyceum OF
August IA.
Juniors Ready.
Ten Juniors" were already presenf
and eager to join the League as soor
| as it is formed here.
, "A real revival of Communist sen
, timent is in progress in Denver,
states Ella Reeve Bloor, organizer
land all comrades are pledging them
selves to work hard for the DAILY
WORKER. for the state and nationa
, campaign, and they are already lininI
.Iup for the Foster meeting of Octo
Der T."
The state platform adopted by thu
! Colorado Workers Party is:
State Platform
Workers Party of Colorado
1. Municipal ownership of public utili
ties. with workers control of the man
agement maintained thru committees
elected by the workers in the shops.
II 2. Union labor to be employed on al
public works (road building, etc) M
| farming out of contracts; construction t
be undertaken directly by the state o.
municipality under the direction of thu
workers control committees.
8. Protection for mothers before anC
after childbirth, and equal pay for equa
4. Abolition Of child labor; mainte.
nance by the government of all children
during the period of education up to tn
age of 16. Education to be under tn,
! 5. Abolition of the power to issue in
functions; guarantee of the constitutions
/ right 70 organize. strike and picket;
s. Absolute social, economic and ra
cial equality for Negro workers.
Z. Inauguration of public works; gov
ernmsntai seizure Of closed faetories T
work; maintenance by the local and stat
government at regular union wages 9
those Tor whom Work cannot De FOUND
establishment OF control committees o
: workers TO prevent sabotage by the EN-
ployers, to regulate production and In
vestigate accounts; no eviction for non
payment Of rents by the unemployed.
s. Land was created for all the people
and we demand a system of land tenure
which will eliminate landlordism and
tenantry and will secure the land to thu
users thereof.
8. Establishment of Farmer-Labol
Party based on the class interests of In
dustrial workers and exploited farmers
10. Establishment of workers ant
farmers government and the substitution
of the present capitalist dictatorship will
the dictatorship of the proletariat.