The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-18
HOOVER BOASTS
OF PROSPERITY AS
listen
Red Auto Procession
Brings Message to
Newark Workers
Give 10000 Circulars
Hoover Thugs Attack
"Red Essex"

NEWARK, Sept 17.-Flaunting
the picture of increasing prosperity
of big business before the eyes of
thousands of workers who listened
to him here and before the millions
who probably tuned in on the radio,
Herbert Hoover tonight delivered a
studied bid for the vote of the Amer
lean workers. Although the speech
was devoted to the "labor question"
he CLOSED over or evaded the strug-
giles of the workers in many indus
tries for living wage and the un-
employment question.
In his speech Hoover cleverly dis
guised the unemployment issue with
the camouflage that the several
millions who he admitted had been
thrown out of work through the in
PRODUCTION of efficiency" methods,
had been transferred to our filling
stations, our garages, our hotels and
our restaurants"
The speech which was taken to
be sort of counter move to the
recent Al Smith bid for the vote
of labor was filled with the usual
Coolidge-Hoover statistics attempt
ing to prove that the republican
party had brought about if not
exactly the millennium was at least
on the way of its realization.
The protective tariff, Hoover ex-
tolled as one of the pillars of pros
perity. The laws restricting immi-
grafton he referred to as "the neces-
sary and natural companion piece
of a protective tariff" Admitting
the lowering status of the farmers,
he offered no suggestion for its cure
beyond the obscure statement that
lone of the large opportunities for
the further improvement of labor
lies in the further improvement of
agriculture.
On the question of injunctions he
repeated the Al Smith evasion prac-
tically in so many words, that sit
is necessary to impose restrictions
on the excessive use of injunctions. :"
Praises Labor Fakers.
He praised the labor takers in
directly for their class collaboration
policies and their efficiency" union
ism and for accepting "the funda-
mental fact that greater efficiency
is the road to cheaper costs.
lower prices" and again commended
them for having COINED in repelling
- subversive movements"
While Hoover and his cohort of
super politicians paraded up Broad
st. and through Sussex Ave, New
ark, early last night, in a line of
expensive limousines, a counter
parade was being held by workers
of Newark under the direction of
the Workers (Communist) Party.
Led by the redoubtable Red Es-
sex, with George Pearlman, veteran
of the New York and New Jersey
signature collection tours, at the
wheel, almost so cars, old clanking
Fords, outworn Chevrolets, bedrag-
gled cars that wheezed and groaned
under the strain of motion, wended
its way through Broad ST., Broome
ST., Mercer St., Clinton Ave-, Kin
ney St., Washington St., and Cen
trail Ave. to the Essex Armory,
after having left the Newark head
quarters of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party at SO Mercer St.
In each little car were packed
five, six, seven and even ten work
ers, crowded inside, hanging on to
the running boards, sitting across
the tenders. Each worker had pre-
pared for the occasion with a noise
producing instrument; horns and
rattles announcing the path of the
Communist parade for blocks ahead.
Tied to the backs and sides of the
cars, in glaring black and red let
tering, were signs reading:
"Vote Communist; "Hooverism
means Injunctions and Police Rule
for the Workers. Hoover and
Smith are candidates of Wall Street.
Vote for a Workers Ticket, Vote
Communist "Vote for William z.
Foster and Benjamin Gitlow, the
candidates of the Party of the Class
STRUGGLED"
While the ramshackle cars were
noisily cutting their way through
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