The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-10-20
WICKS INVADES
STEEL CENTER
IN Penn. DRIVE
Party Campaign Now in
Full Swing
tspeeIaI 70 The paIIy WOrkerl

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 1S.-The
Workers (Communist) Party election
campaign is now in full swing in the
Pittsburgh district with H. M. Wicks,
candidate for governor of Pennsyl-
vania, speaking every night before
large audiences in this industrial hell
where Garyism reigns supreme.
The campaign in this part of the
state opened with an enthusiastic
meeting in the North Side Carnegie
Music Hall, Pittsburgh. The following
night Wicks entered the soft coal
region to the south Of the city, speak
ing at the Miners Hall in Coverdale,
where a good audience listened to his
presentation of the issues of the cam
paign, with particular emphasis upon
the problems confronting the miners.
He exposed the role of the state as the
instrument Of terror in the hands of
the capitalist class and told the miners
that workers government would
destroy the infamous state cossack
system as it is now constituted. "If
a constabulary is needed" declared
Wicks, I'VE will supply it from the
ranks of tried and true fighters for
the working class. The capitalist state
militia will be abolished and, in its
place we will organize a workers mil
itia-disarm the capitalists and arm
the workers the moment we come into
power"
The speaker also dealt with the
question of workmen's compensation
exposing it's fake application by cap.
italist agents; severely attacked child
labor in the state, and dealt with the
crisis in coal mining, proving that only
the Communists have a practical solu'
ton.
lnVades Steel Town.
The following day he invaded the
town of Ambridge $50 named because
/ 1t is the realm of the American Bridge
corporation, a part of the United
States Steel combine). Altho there
are but twelve party members in that
town, which is absolutely dominated
/ by the hirelings of the steel trust, they
succeeded in getting out an audience
that equalled the Pittsburgh meeting
and for an hour and half they listen.
ed to the Communist candidate for
/ governor assail the Coolidge admin.
istration and the Mellon political
domination of the state OF Pennsyl
vania. Wicks fiayed "Bill' Ware, the
notorious hoodlum and vice boss OF
Philadelphia, who succeeded in cor.
rupting more republican voters and
stufing and stealing more ballot boxes
than Andrew w. Melons favorite,
George Wharton Pepper, the polished
servant of capitalism who lost to Ware,
in the recent senatorial primary con.
test.
As=sils Vim. B. Wilson.
Wicks also exposed to the workers
the record of TIE denSocratic candi-
date, William B. Wilson, pointing out
that it was the renegade labor leader
Wilson, who as secretary of labor dur.
I ms INC NOOuAOW NllSOu-A.
Palmer reign Of terror deported thou
sands upon thousands of workers in
1890.
Paying his compliments to his re.
publican opponent for governor, John
S. Fosher, the Gary-Mellon lackey
Wicks showed how this creature OF
the corporations had boosted the game
of the banking combine while acting
as head of the bank commission in
the Pinchot administration.
Shows Up Socialists.
Stating the position of the Workers
(Communist) Party in favor OF q
united labor ticket in this election,
Wicks exposed the socialists for
sabotaging such ticket and drew
salvos of applause from the workers
at all the meetings in the great in.
dustrial centers of this region when
he declared the Workers Party is the
only party fighting for the elementary
interests Of the working class and the
only party under whose leadership the
workers can ever attain their enamel
patton from Garyism-the malignant
form taken by rapacious capitalism in
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