The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-05
WORKERS HAIL COMMUNIST
NOMINEES AT HUGE MEET
Twenty Minute Ovation Greets Foster, Gitlow;
Workers Acclaim Red Program
Celebration Marks the Eleventh Anniversary
of the Russian Revolution


yesterday afternoon roared a
mighty welcome to William q.
Foster and Benjamin Gitlow,
Communist candidates for
president and vice president
respectively, at the greatest
working class demonstration
ever held in Madison Square
Garden II the celebration in
honor of the 18th anniversary
of the Russian Revolution and
the Red Election Campaign of
the Workers Communist
Party.
Coming on the heels of the great
Red Parade of the day before the
event was a striking demonstration
of the growing power of the Work
ers Party. Enthusiasm knew no
bounds, breaking forth spontaneous
ly in loud cheers for the Soviet
Union, Kisses for Hoover, Smith,
Thomas and other enemies of the
workers, and thunderous ovations
| for the two candidates and
other Communist leaders who
spoke.
Sea of Red.
The huge arena. of Madison
Square Garden was sea of surging
red splashed with the revolutionary
slogans of posters carried by work
ers. Horns, whistles and other
noise-making apparatus were used
to give expression to the emotions
of the great audience. Among those
in the crowd was Charles Bickford,
star of Goods of the Lightning"
the Sacco-Vanzetti play now play
ing at the Little Theatre.
I William w. Weinstone, district or
ganizer of the Workers Party, was
chairman of the meeting.
When shortly before the meeting
formally opened 200 Paterson silk
strikers marched in they were
greeted with loud cheers. Delega-
tions of miners and of Negro and
Oriental workers were also cheered
as they took their places on the
platform.
Ovations for Foster, Gitlow.
The entrance Of Gitlow shortly
after the meeting started was the
signal for tremendous outburst.
Foster did not arrive until the meet
ing had gotten well under way as he
spoke at Newark earlier in the after
noon, but as soon as he appeared On
the platform he was greeted by a
demonstration of the widest entbus-
; iasrl lasting 20 minutes.
Foster was greeted by another
great ovation when he arose to
speak. In mastery speech of un-
usual comprehensiveness, the Red
nominee analyzed the issues, both
national and international, facing
the workers of this country. "Thc
program of the democratic party
does not differ in any essentials
from the program of the republican
party" he said Both parties are
the parties of Wall ST., the parties
of Imperialism, the parties of exploi-
tation of the workers and poor
farmers"
Exposes Role of S. p.
Foster exposed the role Of the So
cialist party as the party of. the
petty -bourgeoisie and of the betray-
ers of the working class, "The
Workers Party is the only revolu-
tionary party and participates in all
struggles of the workers. Not by
reforming capitalism, bu' by over
throwing it can we .hieve the
emancipation of the W. ing class"
Foster also laid sS stress on
the Negro prograrC' ae Workers
Party and analyzl, var danger
showing how tr i among the
lmperialisiwno leading in
evitably & .perialist war
e.Ne 49, e oONitb Y mon.
he appeal sdy. 9 workers to vote
Communist in the elections and to
join the Workers (Communist)
Party.
Vanzett Revelations.
Gitlow began his speech by re-
ferring to the revelations published
in The Outlook, a bourgeois liberal
magazine, adding further evidence
of the innocence of Vanzetti. "The
workers of the United States and Of
the entire world" he said, Twill rot
forget the murder of Sacco and Van
zetti and those responsible for 1t and
will some day hale them before the
revolutionary tribunal of the work
Continued ~, Don. T,,n