The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-27
By VIM. 2, FOSTER.

The Workers (Comnunist) Party
entered the election campaign CT
1928 with the object of arousing re
class consciousness of the masses
politically and to mobilize them for
the struggle against capitalism on
all fronts under the leadership Of the
Communist Party in support OF the
program adopted at the great Nom
mating Convention of the Party neid
in New York City in the latter part
of May.
That convention was Landmark
in the history of the Party, CONF csed
OF militant delegations from all
parts of the country fired with re-
volutionary enthusiasm and deter
mined to take the fullest advantage
of the election campaign period to
strengthen the grip of the Pa. ty on
the masses and to open up new
spheres of Communist activity in
tn United States.
! Collected 100000 Signatures.
1t was this convention that laid
the basis for the campaign that has
resulted in having the Workers
(Communist) Party ticket on the
ballot in thirty-three states of the
union, tremendous achievement
when it is taken into conside ration
that over one hundred thousand GER
titled signatures of qualified voters
had to be collected in order to ac-
conplish this aim.
The success of the Party in COL
lecting this latge number of ma
lures on the basis of a direct ap-
peal to the class consciousness of
the workers show that there is fer
tile. soil for Communist propaganda
and that the masses are rapidly rip
ening for organization into the Party
and for great mass struggles against
the capitalist class on the industrial
and rei. ciatsf;clds. M @
Ma Responsive.
After speaking in over forty of
tie principal industrial and agri-
cultural centers in the United
States, from the west coast to the
east and from the north to the south,
| can say from experience that the
masses are growingly responsive to
the message of the class struggle
and increasingly ready to lend a
willing ear to an explanation of the
most vital issues that confront the
workers natic--clly and inferno. n
ally today.
First and foremost of these is
sues is the danger of new i'm
perialist war, thousand times more
destructive to human life than the
last in which several millions of
the pick of the worlds proletarian
manhood were sacrificed on the bat
tlefields of Europe in the struggle
over the spoils of world imperial.
ism.
Real Danger of War.
Ten years after the last volley
was fired on the western front, ten
years after the victors met to i'm
pose terms on the conquered and
divide the former territories of their
enemies among them, the imperial
lists are again preparing to drench
the working class of the world in
another blood bath. War prepare
n tions are going on with feverish in..
Ytenz.ty.
The great rival imperialist pow
ers, England and the United States,
are lining up their forces for the
st .:ggle for world hogemony, while
maintaining state of armed truce
towards the Soviet Union, the first
Workers -.ep1elic in history .that
was set up by the victorious Work
ers and peasants of Russia on the
ruins of the czarist regime.
The workers of the United States
in cooperation with the workers of
all lands must fight the war dan
lsi, must Gamald The with avail
of American troops from Nicaragua,
must fight against the whole pro-
gram of American Imperialism in
Latin America, China and all over
The world, and when the next We 10
war breaks out they must be pre-,
pared to follow the example of the
workers and peasants in the p
of the cars by turning their mighty
power against their own imperial
lists, destroy the capitalist social or
tder and begin the building of a pro-
letarian society.
The growing crisis in the labor
movement, the complete betrayal of
the workers by the trade union
bureaucracy, the increasing pressure
brought to bear on the workers by
the g.. Lists, the growing repres
sive activities Of the strikebreaking
capitalist governments, national,
state and municipal, call for fresh
determination on the part of labor
to fight the capitalists and their
agents inside the labor movement.
The betrayal Of the ,bituminous
strike by John L. Lewis and .is
machine is one of the BLACKLIST pages
II the history of American labor
,Srhe strikebreaking policy of the re-
A;ons nv fvade ,,uion laadsrs in Now