The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-06
GitIOw Candidate for Mayor
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geois character Of the socialist party,
and compared the programs of the
Workers Party and the socialist party
in the campaign.
Unity Proposed.
"The Workers (Communist) Party
wanted united campaign on the part
Of the working class Of New York
against the capitalist parties" said
Comrade Gitlow. 1--WE proposed a
united labor ticket and addressed a
letter to the socialist party-inviting
them to join us in a united campaign
against the capitalist parties on the
basis of program containing de-
mands of immediate interest to the
workers of New York City.
"The socialist party ignored the pro-
posal of the Workers Party and re-
fused thereby to even consider a pro-
posal Of working class political unity
and were therefore responsible for
the fact that labor's forces in New
York City in an important political
campaign, are divided instead OF
united.
THAT the socialist patry is no long
er interested in the struggles of the
workers is clearly apparent from the
candidates chosen by the socialist
party and the program adopted for
their campaign. AThe standard
bearer of the socialist party, Norman
Thomas, is a minister in good cir
cumstances and not a worker. The
program of the socialist party has
omitted all reference to the capitalist
system and docs not make an appeal
to the workers directly but to the
citizens" and public" of New York.
There is nothing in the socialist
party program that distinguishes It
from a liberal, petty bourgeois pro-
gram. In fact, the socialist party has
so debased itself in the pres ,It cam
paign that it includes in its program
an appeal for law and order thru the
increasing Of New York's police
force"
The program Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party, on the other hand,
Comrade Gitlow stated, does not ap-
peal to the general public" but d.
rectly to the working class. "The
program Of the Workers Party" he
said, lis program which stresses
the importance Of the workers uniting
politically to combat the political
power of the capitalists by the forma-
thion of a labor party. The Workers
Party has its own candidates in the
field, due to the refusal of the social
lists to unite in a united labor ticket.
But the Workers Party takes the
lead as it has in the past, in demand
ing working class political unity
against the capitalist exploiters.
THE Workers Party enters the
New York campaign also to carry on
an effective fight against government
by Injunction" the Communist candi-
date for mayor continued, particular
ly the recent Injunction issued to the
Tailoring company
against the members of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers out on strike
against that firm. We demand that
the city government cease it's inter-
ference with striking pickets, and the
sending Of police against strikers in
labor disputes. consider the break
Ing up of picket lines by the police
and the issuing of injunctions
against strikes to be one of the major
issues of this campaign.
THE Workers Party also in this
will seek to mobilize the
against high rents that the
landlords are extracting from the
workers and against the deplorable
housing conditions now prevailing in
the city. We demand in our program
the construction of dwellings for the
use of the workers, and rented to
them without profits, the setting of