The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-16
PALACE
Meeting OPENS
". P. CAMP AICN
NY. Socialists Reject All
Unity Efforts
Special to The Daily wOrkerl

ASPSS'ai " iHe 6atiy NOTKGFl
NEW YORK CITY, Oct. a. The
opening gun of the New York mayor
atty campaign OF the Workers (Com-
munist) Party took place at Park
Palace, when Ben Gitlow, Communist
candidate for mayor, was the main
speaker of an enthusiastic ratification
rally, etf
The meeting was presided over by
Comrade Jack Stachel, who in his
opening remarks, stated that the
Workers (Communist) Party, does
not hold meetings only at election
time, like the other political parties
but participates in the struggles of
the working class the entire years
Wolfe First Speaker.
The first speaker, Comrade Bertram
D. Wolfe, agitprop director of District
No. 2, of the Workers (Communist)
Party, said that if you examine the
candidates for mayor, you find that
Waterman, the republican candidate,
, is no hired man of Wall Street, but
part of Wall Street himself, mill
lionaire in his own name, who offers
the rule of Wall Street to New York.
which we must fight against, for we
know what it has done in Latin-Amer-
lea, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Walker, the democratic candidate,
while member of the state senate,
was a member of committee which
has as its purpose the regulation of
the sale of food in the state, and at
the same time he was on the payroll
of the meat trust. The elementary
question is separating the workers
from the capitalist parties, and
tonight, If the socialist party has any
interest in the working class, they
will join in a united labor ticket.
How did the socialist party answer
the appeal for a united labor ticket ?
They refused and added one more
crime to their many betrayals of the
working class.
Weinstone Pans S. p. Slate.
William W. Weinstone, candidate
for comptroller, said that the social
list party has nominated as their can
didates, reverand for mayor, and as
his associates Solomon, lawyer and
Beardsley, a labor faker Today, 5000
textile workers in New Jersey mills
have had their wages cut Look into
the platform of either the republican,
democratic or socialist parties and
see if you can find any mention of
wage reduction.
Comrade Gitlow, in speaking, said
hat in this country labor does not
| hink for itself, but follows either
he republican, or democratic parties,
my worker interested in his own in
erests should fight to do away with
he exploitation, unemployment and
| III the ills of the present system of
iociety. 1t is necessary for the work
.ng class to think and act as one
| init a
The Communists in the United
States come out with the slogan of a
labor party, amalgamation of the
unions, recognition of Soviet Russia
and for the end of the capitalist sys-
tenn and for the victory of the work
ing class.
All workers should support the
Workers Party in its fight for a labor
party.
The meeting was also addressed by
Shachno Epstein, Juliet Stuart Poyntz,
Julius Codkind, J.CO. Bentall and Re-
becca Grechts a&
Before the meeting opened, four
large open air meetings we're held
in the neighborhood of the hall to ac-
quaint the workers with the fact that
the ratification meeting was going to
be held.