The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-21
GITLOW FLAYS
ALL, ACTION
ON AL SMITH
Convention Endorsement
Is Gross Error

SmlJn as SO-Cdll6u IFlenu OF LABOR
in it's national convention" declared
Benjamin Gitlow, Workers (Commu-
nist) Party candidate for governor, in
a statement to Workers (Communist)
Party campaign workers issued today.
Pardoning Is only Claim.
"Outside Of his pardoning of various
Communists convicted for their opin-
ions under the antiquated criminal
anarchy law after Overwhelming pres
sure from the New York labor I'M
IONS" continued Mr.. Gitlow Che was
one of the convicted men SO pardoned
by Gov. SMITH, 'he has absolutely
nothing Of a character friendly to
labor to show from his long admins
tration.
Against All Else.
"For the rest, Governor Smiths
record includes, the vetoing Of the
teachers salary bill, the proposal for
the strengthening of the state con-
stabulary and the further removal of
the state government from RESPONSE
bility to the people of the state.
1.-THE Smith-Hughes state reorgani-
cation plan would make of the gov
ernor a supreme autocrat and of the
New York state government some
thing approximating one-man dicta-
torship. He has increased the size
Of the national guard and of the state
police. Under his administration the
milk grafters go unpublished, altho
they are tampering with, adultering
and proflteering in this most essential
of the peoples needs.
Recent Attacks.
1.-THE most fragrant Of all are the
attacks of Smith upon labor in recent
months, now that he is trying to
prove to big business that he will
make as good strikebreaker presi-
dent as has Mr.. Coolidge; his brutal
attacks upon the striking garment
workers thru the Smith-man, Nc
Claughlin; the recent clubbing Of the
/. r. T. strikers; the arrests of gar
ment workers in numbers as high as
400 in a single day, with a total
which at this moment has passed the
5000 mark for arrests of pickets in
the garment strike; and, most vicious
of all, his attempt to force compul-
sorry arbitration scheme upon the New
York garment workers, which is in
tended as evidence to his powerful
financial hackers for the national
presidency that he would make good
enforcer of the Watson-Parker bill
forbidding railway strikes and Of a
similar arbitration measure in the
coal fields-sueh is the anti-labor rec
ord of Governor Smith.
Has History Also.
81 do not want to give the impress
sion that his anti-labor activities are
of recent origin. / remember how in
1919 he persuaded the milk drivers
who were on strike to go back to
work pending an investigation and
then never did anything on their be-
half. In 1922 he tried the same trick
in the public utilities strike in But
falo, and in the garment workers
threatened strike in New York he
succeeded in persuading the then
leaders of the garment workers union
to accept his fine promises and then
appointed the governors commission
on the garment industry, which dilly-
dallied for two years and then made
report adverse to the interests of
the garment workers on all the es-
sential points of dispute. This is
Governor Smiths favorite trick for
fooling labor When they are in a
fight and likely to win he gets them
back to work and then gives them a
commission. The commission takes
its time about reporting and then re-
ports unfavorably or forgets to report
at all.
Director Of {. T. C.
"Mr. Smith is director of the Elec-
trio Transport Co., which is tied up,
| thru interlocking directories, with
with the New York Central, etc. He
is the candidate Of owen d. Young of
the General Electric Co. and of the
House of Morgan for the presidency
of the United States and wishes to
use his governorship and the backs
of the New York labor movement as
stepping stones to that high office.
"The action of the A. f. Of l.. con-
vention is just one more product OF
their mistaken policy of their So
called 'non-partisan political action
This business OF 'rewarding the
friends and furnishing the enemies OF
labor only results in rcwarding iabor's
enemies, supporting the capitalist
parties, ignoring the true champions
Of labor and preventing the labor
movement from creating labor party
Of It's own. The Workers (Commu-
nist) Party, in the final weeks Of the
campaign, will redouble its efforts to
expose to the New York workers the
true record Of Governor Smith in la.
Dor matters. II Is a record Of con.
sistent opposition to the militant &C