The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-19
MASSACHUSETTS
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swell Big TOTAL
New England Workers
Overcome Obstacles

to twenty-one or nine, more than
in the election campaign Of 1924
The states now on the ballot in
addition to Massachusetts and New
Hampshire are New Jersey, Della
ware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, Illinois
Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, New
Mexico, Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona,
Montana, Kansas, rkansas and
South Dakota.
With six more weeks between now
and election day the goal of thirty
states originally set by the National
Election Campaign Committee is
certain to be reached with the prob
ability that at least thirty-five
states will be in the red column by
the time the last filing day is
reached.
Overcome Obstacles.
In Massachusetts, and New Hamp-
shire, the workers had heavy OBJ
stacles to overcome, the election
machinery in several important
cities being in the hands of the
agents of the mill barons who took
advantage of every technicality to
prevent the Party from getting on
the ballot. The success of the Work
ers (Communist) Party in New Eng
- n
the prestige gained thru the activ-
ity in the great textile strike in
New Bedford and Fall River. While
the socialist party is lined up with
the labor bureaucrats who are be-
traying the strike to the textile
barons, and fighting the militant
Textile Mills Committee with the
aid of the police, the Communists
are not only fighting the employers
but the city and state governments
as well as the reactionary labor
leaders.
The only New England states on
the Communist ballot in the last
elections were Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island. This will leave only
two states out, Vermont and Maine
where there is yet no Communist
organization to speak of.
Want Worker-Organizers.
Another important election cam
paign development is the Inaugural
ton of a drive for 1000 rank and
file organizers to go out into the
small industrial cities thruout the
country, spreading Communist pro-
paganda and organizing Party units,
Every available vehicle will be
mustered into action to bring the
workers from place to place. The
National Office Of the Party will
supply the necessary material, litera-
ture, subscription blanks for Party
papers and membership cards.
Workers who speak any of the
foreign languages will work among
the workers of that particular Ian
guage. There are hundreds of thous
ands of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
workers in heavy industry, and
where there is no Communist organ
ization they are at the mercy of
the employers who use bourgeois
politicians of foreign birth or de-
scent to keep them tied to the cap
italist political chariot.
Plan Extensive Drive.
Women's organizations, youth or
CARNATIONS and Negro organizations
will be pressed into service. This is
the greatest organizing plan ever
conceived and executed by the Work
ers (Communist) Party and if the
rank and file respond as they are
expected to, it will build the Party
in sections where the Communist
message never penetrated before and
viii develop hundreds of workers
for leading functions in the Party
The Communist election campaign
is now in full swing. Foster and
Gitlow are now speaking in the
northwest. They are met by enthu-
siastic gatherings of workers in
every city and each meeting brings
in many news members to the Party.
Organizers are busy throughout
the country, doing the necessary
work to place the Party ticket or
the ballots in the various states.
The Negro campaign is making
great Roadway in New York City
where great mass meetings are helc
weekly with Comrades Moore, Welsh
and other Negro leaders exposing
the role of the republican, dem
ocratic and socialist parties as tools
of big and small business, pointing
out that the two big capitalist
parties have sanctioned the lynchine
OF Negroes in the south and the
many determinations practiced or
them in federal and state institu
tions by both parties. The socialist
party, tho pretending not to draw
the color line refuses to help in the
organization of the Negro masses
for a struggle against capitalism
The Workers (Communist) Party
alone, as our Negro comrades poin
out to their people, is the only party
that has the program that mean'
freedom for black and white work
ers.
BERLIN, Sept. 18.-The Swedish