The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-18

as the republican COHVentloH 10 CoH-
cened? The paltry few that may be
around this Wall Street gathering
are misleaders of the Negro masse'
and even these are segregated because
of their color. In the Democratic
convention, the only welcome the
Negro might get is the welcome of a
lynching party. The Socialist Party
1t had only one, and at that misled;
Negro delegate.
The character of our Negro delega-
ton is a tribute to the fact that the
Communist Party is the only one that
lis ready to fight for the Negroes as
well as for the other exploited and OPP
pressed. (Applause1. The most sig
nificant step in the history of our
Party since its inception is the deter
mination to go South, and to begin the
difficult and dangerous task of smash
ing the solid South. Our Party aims
not only to stop lynching, but to
punish effectively the lynchers and to
destroy the whole lynch system. Our
Party halls and welcomes the Ne
groes. We are of them and for them.
| (Applause.)
The farmers: We have here dirt
farmers. Senator Capper, multi
millionaire newspaper owner among
farmers, is the best farmer the Re-
publican Party convention will have.
There probably will be little less
wealthy farmers at the Democratic
convention. The agricultural work
ers, together with the exploited farm
ing masses, will yet be aroused to a
mass struggle against the enemies OF
the workers in the cities, who are
their enemies also.
Nor is it an accident that the
Haitians, the .Chileans, the Peruvians,
the colonial and semi-colonial
masses-have sent delegates to this
convention. We are their Party.
Working Class Traditions.
And it is not an accident that our
Party is the inheritor of the best
traditions of the American working
class. Our working class has some
/ splendid traditions-the traditions OF
Haymarket, the traditions of heroic
strike struggles, the best of the tradi-
tions of every struggle and movement
for the enhancement of social pro-
gress. We have inherited the best
that was in anarchism, the best that
was in syndicalism, the best that there
was in the whole Socialist Party. The
spirit of Ruthenberg and Debs anc
i Haywood, the spirit of the Haymarket
martyrs, the spirit of our dead
leaders, and the spirit of vigorous
youth coming forward, are ours to-
day. Here is the best proof that oul
Party has inherited all that has beer
and that is most worth while in thu
American working class.
Last but not least, this convention
has answered the question whethe
! our Party will participate success
z fully in the election campaign. We, il
splitting from the old Socialist Party
spurned and spat upon, reacted bitter
Ily against the old parliamentar.
fakery and cretinisin of the Hillquit
and Bergers. In this wholesome re
action, we developed certain danger
ously wrong syndicalist ideas and at
titudes. This convention deals a NOR
tai blow to these misconceptions. Yo1
, delegates are going back to act a
Leninists in this election campaig
I without socialist illusions and with
Y out syndicalist fears--in the mos
e brutal, the most powerful, capitals
! country. (Applause.)
: On to Work and Fight!
, You must go back to work. Worl
: work and fight! We must get on tn
ballot. To our Party the campaig
r for getting on the ballot must serv