The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-30

No urgent appeals for ten-dollar
and fifty-dollar contributions come
from the headquarters of the demo-
cratic and republican parties. The
plutes don't bother with chicken
feed" The contributions come in
big wads. A $4,000 donation from
a DUPONT for AL Smiths campaign
or $4,000 donation from a Lamont
for the Hoover treasure chest is
worth front-page story, but even
those big sums are lost in the $20,-
100000 kitty that the two parties
of plumber and pillage are collect
ing for the greatest vote-buying
campaign in the history of the
United States.
The Workers (Communist) Party
is collecting a $1,000 fund to carry
the message of the class struggle to
the exploited masses. 1t is lot of
money in the eyes of the working
class. But it is not so much after
all. A Tammany CRATER could
make as much on one juicy sewer
contract. And republican burglar
could make ten times as much from
the proceeds of an oil deal.
Rousing Campaign.
But TO the Workers (Communist)
Party it means a rousing campaign
that will cover the industrial and
agricultural areas of the United
States with propaganda, by word of
mouth and literature.
There are hundreds of Communist
sympathizers who can afford to con-
tribute ten dollars, twenty dollars,
fifty doll~rs. perhaps one hundred
dollars, and there may be few that
can write checks for one thousand
each and not starve. If there be
such, let them come across now and
take their dividends in the satisfac-
tion of helping to bring nearer the
day when this world will no
longer be an exploiting hell the
paradise of the parasite-owning
class and an inferno for the ex-
plotted producing classes.
Aid Drive.
The National Election Campaign
Committee bases it's appeal for
funds on the comparatively small
contributions of the many. If the
thousands of members of the Work
ers (Communist) Party and the
scores of thousands of sympathizers
would contribute directly or indi-
rectly S. each, we would not bother
our readers with any more election
fund appeals, but our campaign ac-
tivity would show the result Of the
financial stimulus.
There is in front of the writer as
he clicks the typewriter keys a pile
of contributions at least one foot
high. They all came in the last two
days. This shows that the financial
tide is rising. But it's tempo must
be increased several hundred per
cent, if we are to make the kind Of
a campaign we want to make. Lack
of money is always a shackle on the
limbs of revolutionary party, and
the Workers (Communist) Party is
no exception.
Substantial Proof.
Money can be collected for the
Communist Campaign Fund without
much trouble. Here is some proof:
Comrade Kobel of the Estonian
Workers Club walked into the head
quarters of the National Election
Campairn Committee, at 43 East
125th St. few days ago and walked
away with a subscription list and ten
books of Vote Communist stamps.
Today he walked in with S19.50-
$3.50 on the list and the balance the
proceeds of the sale of the ten books.
When he left he carried with him
five subscription lists and 25 books
of Vote Communist stamps.
The South Slavic fraction in
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. sends in $40 for
the Communist Election Campaign