The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-05
Sowing the Seed that
viii Some Day Bring
Communist Harvest
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the migFtlest task of the American Communist
movement is getting its candidates, the candidates of
ton in November.
1t is great effort for youthful political organization
OF workers. harrassed every side the attacks pe
dices of the established social order But the being
achieved are magnificent
is possible with little work on the part of all party
members and sympathzers, get candidates the
ballot in large number of states along with candidates for
state and local offices.
1t should be spur the workers great industrial
beings that the first state put Communist
tcket-Willam z Foster for president and Benjamin
the center of agriculture in the northwest
was assigned by my party branch to Precinct No. T.
in chicagos soh Ward to get signatures for national
state and congressional candidates The fact that there
Labor Day Issue of paper enabled to do this
party work on Sunday morning. accompanied by comrade
Sam Hammersmark, our advertising manager candidate
for congress in the Seventh illinois District.
This precinct far the northwest side of Chicago
is closely peppered with the cottages of workers. who have
escaped from the more ppuous tenement and cheap apart
ment house districts Yet even here there aed unrest and
discomfort. Everywhere find the dsusion of workers
who had expected something from the old parties and failed
to get it. What opportunity for the Communist forces in
America could only take advantage of it, with
meager numbers organize this seethng discomfort and edu
If this discomfort and disgust prevailed in this neigh
borhood of cottages and fWes what must be down in
the Ghetto in Little Italy,, in New Poland or in the
"Back Belt?
81 can't afford to live here, Italian tranman on
the ELEVATED declared "Yes, belong the union, and
$35 week, but that isn't enough to raise family
This lived down in the Italian sums in the 18th
ward He had just west along Chicago Avenue to visit
friend.
They signed the Workers Party petition. There
only few refusaIs There the man who wouldn't do
such thing Sunday. There the wife who stood
in of her husband who not at home and she was
afraid And there the worker who claimed to be so dis
gusted that he wouldn't sign anything.
But the whole they their signatures to the petit
tons of the Workers Party get the Communist candidates
the ballot Even the democratic precinct committeeman
signed. 1t have been mistake 1t he did it to
obIige friend who with him.
But we gave all those visited copy of the DAILY
The democratic committeeman paed at the sight of it. He
had gotten his under false pretenses He
said had failed to tell him we were socialists.
Hammersmark and contended not socialists,
that Communists that this the Foster GtIoW
ticket that the socialists out for LaFollette
mo, know who you are" he persisted "You are 100
per socialists Communism is 100 cent socialism,
This committeeman in the argument that followed con-
fessed he for Davis, because Davis wet and he
claimed the neghbohood wet But he drew the line at
Bryan left him promising read his copy of the DAILY
WORKER thoroy. But he shook his head over the
thought of his conversion to Communism
So the story goes The circulation of the petitions tor
the Communist candidates offers door to the home
of every worker the United States Every party member
should be the job not only getting signatures but leaving
Communist literature in every home that is visited 1t IS
sowing seed that will day. in the not far distant
future, make possible to reap the Communist harvest
in the United States of America.
r For ETTE nAMDATCN MAMAHEDC