The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-06-11
RED CAMPAIGN
OPENS IN STATE
Minor, Dunno, Brill,
Fort Whiteman, Poyntz
Continued from page one)
with Governor Smith and his ieuten-
apfc
Strike

Win governor Om1th and his lleuten-
ants.
Strike Breakers.
In the needle trades struggle, last
ing over twenty months, Governor
Smith and Mayor Walker together
with the A. F. of L. officials and the
socialists have been working with the
forces for the disruption of this once
powerful union and for the establish
ment of sweatshop conditions and in
creasing the hours and worsening the
conditions of labor.
The republican and Tammany Hall
administrations were indicted by the
platform for the high rents and mis-
cradle housing conditions in the city,
for congestion in the schools, for the
segregation of Negroes in Harlem
and their being forced to pay higher
rents and live under miserable I'M
sanitary conditions, for youth and
child labor in New York state.
War On Capitalism.
The platform calls for a struggle
for the overthrow of the capitalist
system and the establishment of
proletarian dictatorship in order to
free labor from the misery of wage
slavery and from the oppression of
the capitalist government.
The platform denounces the social
list party as working hand in hand
with the American Federation of La
Dor bureaucrats whose policy of class
collaboration and surrender is re-
sponsible for the plight of the !nions
and no struggle against the of:snsive
Of the bosses, for the masses of work
ers of New York city and state being
unorganized and at the mercy Of the
trusts and big business and banking
interests.
Demand Low Rents.
The platform calls for the .estab-
lishment of Independent political
action Of the working class, calls for
the abolition of laws discriminating
against Negroes, for minimum fix
ing of low rents for workers, not to
amount to more than ten percent of
their wages, for unemployment in
surance to all unemployed workers
with full wages, against child labor,
for the maintenance Of the five-cenu
fare and free transportation for all
children to and from school as well
as free transportation fer all unem-
ployed workers, for equal pay for
equal work for male and female work
ers, for the prohibition by law of night
work for women and youth workers,
for the abolition of all indirect taxes
and for the exemption from all kinds
of taxes for wage earners, for the
abolition of government by Injunction,
for the freedom of all class war pris-
oners as a result of the needle trades
and other trade union struggles, for
the repeal of the crimlnal-anarchy
law, for free lunches to children. 1t
declares in favor of the organization
of the unorganized workers, as. q cent
raj task in New York city and state
and emphasizes particularly the need
of organization of the traction work.
ers, the marine workers, the food
workers, the shoe workers, for the
support of the needle trades workers
in building up their union.
The platform endorses the national
demand of mot man, not cent for
imperialist wars" for complete indie
pendence of the American colonies, for
the defense of the Soviet Union, for
the withdrawal of troops from China,
Nicaragua and Haiti, etc.
The appearance of Benjamin Git
low, Communist candidate for vice.
president, was greeted with an ova-
ton. In his reply, Gitlow likewise
stressed the Importance of the New
York state campaign to the Party
as a whole.