The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-16
THOUSANDS IN
PHILLY CHEER
VIM. z. FOSTER
Rips Into Capitalist
Candidates
BY ABRAM JAKIRA.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

kSpeclal 10 ne Daliy WorkeT)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept.
15.-The Workers Party cleo
ton campaign opened officially
in this city with Comrade Viii
liam z. Foster addressing a.
meeting at the large Musical
Fund Hall which was packed to
capacity by more than two
thousand workers.
All seats on the main floor Of !
the hall, the stage and even the
steps leading to the stage were /
occupied and hundreds of work /
ers were compelled to remain /
standing during the two and a
half hours of the meeting. /
About fifty uniformed and plain |
clothes officers, who came to /
preserve law and ORDER" adj
ded color to the gathering
which was about the largest
and most enthusiastic political3
gathering held in this city for
many, many years. .e.a,
Cheer Foster. ~
The audience arose to its feet as
one man when the chairman intro
duced comrade Foster as the president
tial candidate of the Workers Party
to give him a prolonged ovation
which lasted for several minutes. This
was followed by singing of the Inter-
national. Three cheers were them
given to comrade Foster, to the Work
ers Party, to Soviet Russia and So ,
Wet America. (
Comrade Foster went into details to
point out that the existing system of
wage slavery is the cause of all la
Dor troubles, of unemployment andi
of wars and that all these evils can
be abolished only by abolishing the ex-
listing wage system of exploitation
'and by establishing a dictatorship
of the proletariat which, he explained, 7
means nothing but a Workers and
Farmers Government.
The speaker was met with laud ap.
plause when he pointed out that the
Gold Dust Twins" Coolidge and
Davis, are but two wings of the same
buzzard, bird that lives on dead bod
les, ia this case the dead bodies OF
the working class.
Foster Hits at Bob.
Special Compliments were paid to
LaFollette who was denounced as the
arch betrayer OF organized labor.
Speaking of LaFolIette comrade Fos-
ter said: Millions of workers and
poor farmers will probably be fooled
into voting for this defender of CAPT.
talism. But the election of LaFollette (
couldn't possibly be of benefit, i'm
mediate or distant, to the masses of 4
the country" LaFollette, he pointed I
out, can not solve the problem of un-
employment and can not prevent war
because he is a staunch supporter of
the existing wage system and of cap
italism.
Comrade Foster denounced in most
vigorous terms the Defense Test Day
as an unmistakable sign Of the coming
of new bloody capitalist war. He
then proceeded to outline the plat
form and policies Of the Workers
Party and was again cheered when
he appealed to the workers of this
country to organize and prepare for
the establishment of Soviet govern
ment. With facts in his hands he
proceeded to show that the American
government, the press, the church and
all means of education are under the
iron dictatorship of Wall Street
and that the workers must choose be-
tween the dictatorship of the capital
list class and that of the working
class. "A
Expose Fake Party.
Comrade A. Jakira, District Organ
izer, who presided at the meeting; in
his introductory remarks pointed ont
that in the State of Pennsylvania La
Toilette is trying to go thru the La
bor' Party which is neither labor nor
party and thru the Socialist party
which is not socialist and which has
long ceased to exist as a party. He
called the attention OF the audience
not TO be misled by the name Labor
Party" which in this instance is
nothing but fake and a carricature
of a Labor Party by the LaFol-
lette followers in order to get the
workers of the state 10 vote for the
politicians Of the old capitalist par
ties.
Comrade Harry Winitzky Com
munist candidate for congress in New
York, also delivered short and elo-
quent speech which was met with
enthusiastic applause.
over three hunder and fifty dollars
were collected in addition to the ad,
mission fee charged at the door. n
Pledge Candidates on Child Labor.
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