The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-08
WORKERS PARTY
ON BALL OF IN
z MORE STATES
K e ntu cky, Tennessee
Have Candidates
on Red Ticket
Rally Negro Workers
Foster and Gitlow Will
Tour South

1HS communist Gi6CClOn Campaign
has scored another great triumph
in the hitherto solid south, having
succeeded in placing its national
and state tickets on the ballot in
the open-shop mining states of
Kentucky and Tennessee, bringing
the total number of states on the
Communist ballot up to 10, five of
which are below the Mason and
Dixon line.
The Workers (Communist) Party
ticket is now on the ballot in the
following states: Kentucky, Ten
nessee, West Virginia, South Da-
kota, New Jersey, Delaware, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan,
Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas,
Arizona, Montana, New Mexico,
Texas, and Arkansas. This is five
more than the total on the ballot
in 1924.
Open-Shop Mine Center.
Kentucky, known as the Blue
Grass State, is great open-shop
mining center in which the United
Mine Workers of America never
succeeded in making much headway,
because of the failure of John L.
Lewis to send capable organizers
into the state and the semi-feudal
conditions that prevail there.
] The output OF the open-shop coal
En1ines in Kentucky helped consider
Bably to break the great bituminous
strike that ragged in Pennsylvania
and Ohio for over a year, ending
with the surrender of John L. Lewis
to the coal operators.
The advent of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party in Kentucky is GER
tain to give fresh impetus to the
work of organizing the non-union
miners in that state. Already or
ganizers have been sent into Ken
lucky by the arrangements commit
tee of the New Miners Union,
whose national organizing confer
once in Pittsburgh opens tomorrow.
The miners in the Blue Grass State
ara anxious to join union that will
fight for their interests, but they
refuse to have anything to do with
the u. NJ. w. A., officered by reac-
tionary tools of the republican and
democratic parties.
No Party Organization.
There was no Party organization
In Kentucky and only few Party
members when Comrade Judson of
the Cleveland district was sent into
the state few months ago to or
Heanize the campaign for placing the
Communist ticket on the ballot
Through the few Party members he
was able to make contact with sew
eral sympathizers who joined the or
ganization after consenting to act
as electors. Several more have
Joined the Party since then.
Tennessee is also bidding for fur
ther fame by having a Communist
ticket on the ballot for the first
time in histo Like Kentucky
Tennessee is an open-shop coal min
ing state. The president and only
official of District 10 of the U. M
w. A., William Turnblazer, has a
post-office box address at Jellico
but, though his name sounds hot
that gentleman has done little OF
nothing to bring the coal diggers
inside the ranks of organized labor
Pioneer Work.
Judson, who organized the drive
to put the Communist ticket on the
ballot in Tennessee, had to dc
pioneering work. Outside of few
Communists and sympathizers
There was hardly any party organ
ization, but the sentiment for the
program of the class struggle was
so strong in that opem-shop, low,
wage state that within few weeks
he had succeeded in holding a state
convention and complying with the
legal requirement for getting the
ticket on the ballot.
The National Election Campaign
Committee is now working to lint
up Virginia, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi
and several organizers sent FROM
headquarters in New York are busilJ
engaged collecting signatures ant
lining up Communist sympathizers
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