The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-26
GITLOW EXPOSES
CORRUP ton ROLE.
OF BOTH PARTIES
Urges Workers to Vote
Communist

That the money lords of the
United States, the open shop manu-
facturers, and the labor-hating cap
italist class in general are brazen-
ly proceeding with their intention
to corrupt the American voting
masses on scale never equalled
before, is the comment made by
Benjamin Gitlow, Communist vice
presidential candidate on the Work
ers (Communist) Party ticket, who
served a term of three years in New
York penitentiaries for violation Of
the criminal anarchy law of the
state.
Gitlow, a former assemblyman,
made the statement after reading
a Washington dispatch in one of
the New York dailies which stated
that the cost of this years cam
paign to the two capitalist parties
would be $10,000,000.
Gitlow's Statement.
Gitlow's statement reads:
despite slush fund investiga-
tons held after the result Of the
1926 senatorial elections showed
that the elections of Senators Ware
in Pennsylvania and Smith in Him
ois were brought about by the use
Of enormous sums of money ex-
pended for the purpose of purchas-
ing politicians and corrupting vot-
ers, both capitalist parties are set
ting about the task of raising the
largest campaign funds in the his
tory Of American presidential cleo
ton campaigns. IL is significant
that Senator Reed Of Missouri,
chairman of the senatorial slush
fund investigation, was ignominous-
ly defeated for the presidential
nomination at the Houston conven-
ton of the democratic party.
"a Washington dispatch dated
July %, that appeared in one Of
the New York dailies Of Monday the
23rd, declares that the cost of the
campaign to both parties and their
auxiliaries will be S10,000,000 this
year.
"This enormous sum of money
will be used to blind the workers
and poor farmers to their own real
interests by means Of poisonous
propaganda in the capitalist press,
from the pulpit, the radio, and the
motion pictures.
at will be used to purchase venal
politicians and blocks of votes on
election day.
at will be used by the democratic
and republican parties to hire gang
sters in New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago, and other large cities, who
will see to it that the unterrified
American voter will vote as he is
told at peril of his life. This is
what this tremendous corruption
fund is int. Led for.
"The use of such enormous sums
of money to debauch the elections
is typical of the corruption that is
indigenous to the capitalist system
"a system that exploits the work.
ers and poor farmers for the bene-
fit of a parasite class.
Wall Street Controls Both Parties.
"Both capitalist parties are now
controlled by Wall Street, and there
is no fundamental difference be-
tween the platforms of the two par
ties or between the economic in
terests that are supporting both.
"The giant automobile industry
has divided over the two parties.
The two great rivals, the Ford Mo
tor Company and General Motors,
have taken under their wings one of
the two Wall Street presidential
candidates-Ford becoming fairy
godfather for Hoover and General
Motors, thru it's man Raskob, be-
coming the angel of AL Smith.
"Both the Ford and Raskob or
CARNATIONS are among the most Bit
ter enenoies of oroapi1ad labo,. IN