The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-23

Active in Drive for
100000

In a circular letter to all local
unions, workers fraternal, educa-
tional, social and sports organiza-
lions of Philadelphia, inviting them
to send delegates to an enlarged
Foster and Gitlow Campaign Com
mittee," the Workers (Communist)
Party of District Three, with head
quarters in the Quaker City, issued
a statement calling attention to the
chief issues that confront the Ameri-
can working class today and the pro-
gram drawn up by the Workers
(Cofnmunist) Party to meet them.
The statement declares that the
1928 presidential elections afford the
workers an opportunity to manifest
their resentment and demonstrate
their determination to fight against
the capitalist class policies of the
government under the direction and
domination of the big business inter-
ests, the bankers, manufacturers,
and public utility corporations, and
the misery and suffering of the
workers and poor farmers.
Unemployment.
The growth of Unemployment
five million workers now being to-
tally unemployed and many millions
on part time-finds the republican
party boasting about prosperity"
and turning blind eye on the I'M
employed. And the democratic
party does not even promise to do
more than investigate" the cause of
unemployment.
The document stresses the active
preparations now being made by the
great imperialist powers-particu-
larly the rivals, Great Britain and
the United States-for another orgy
of imperialist butchery in which mil
lions of workers and poor farmers
will be slaughtered.
1t declares that the ruling class
of this country, believing that the
workers are incapable Of further re-
sistance, are becoming more AFRO
giant in the exploitation and oppres-
sion of the masses and will not hest
tate to consign millions of prole-
tartan lives to the inferno of an
other war.
Demands.
Pointing out that it is the duty
of every working-class organization
to help mobilize the workers for
their defense, the statement urges
mass fight for government unem-
ployment and relief insurance, five
day, forty-hour work week, for the
right to organize into bona-fide
union and the right to strike, for the
enforcement and extension of social
legislation, such as old-age and ma
ternity pensions, workmens COM
child labor, etc., for
abolition of all discrimination
against Negro and foreign-born
workers, for the recognition and de-
tense of the first workers republic,
the Soviet Union, and for a workers
and farmers government in the
United States.
1.-THE Workers (Communist) Party
is the only party that fights mill
family and uncompromisingly for
these and all other demands and
needs of the working class" the
statement continues. "The standard
bearers of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party have proven through |
long years of courageous, militant /
struggle and by loyal service to the
cause of the working class that they
are worthy spokesman Of the work
ing class. The candidates of the
Workers (Communist) Party are in
fact the candidates of the entire
class.
Meeting August 3.
1--WE consider it the duty of every
oyal working class organization to
help rally the support of the great
EST possible number of workers for
The platform and candidates of the
class in this presidential
The first meeting of the enlarged
q Foster Gitlow Campaign Com
mittee" will be held Friday, August
3, in the local headquarters of the
Workers (Communist) Party, 1914
Spring Garden St.
The PHILADELPHIA comrades are &C !
tive in the Communist campaign
fund drive for 100000, of which
Trachtenberg, with head
quarters at 43 East 125th St., New