The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-27


existing ruling classes trembe
The pretarians have nothing to lose
their chains They world Workers of all lands
unie!-Kal Marx, The Communist Manifesto
years ago struggle the revolutionary proetar
party the United States reache%
the point ruthless expulsion the majority of the working
membership by the Hilquit-Berger bureaucracy.
In September 1919 the majority the socialist partys
membership founded the two revolutionary parties which
later merged Party America and const
tuted the organized Communist movement Most of the proe
tartan elements revolutionary traditions of the
socialist movement incorporated in it.
The Communist Party its beginning much
party as the socialist party had BEEN matter of
revolutionary political party should be- for the
entire working class open the daylight than other
party But the warmad ruling class could not look with equa
nmy upon revolutionary political party of the working class
the United States The government put through of the
sweeping and ruthless political arrests that had
thinking thereby to drive the
Communist Party of existence But Communist Parties don
drive of existence Our Communist Party safeguarded its
organization the stronger elements of its membership by
ganzng its entire framework operating basis which the
police could not destroy Certainly for revolutionary political
party necessary be able this Party did, to function
with or without the permission of the ruling class
Memory Upon the fact of the brief and enforced
underground existence through which the Communist Party
capitalist press and the yellow social
fased all Of the history of the labor movement and
perssteny characterized the Communist Party body
working the purposes kept from the
But Communist Partiesthe great international Communist
Party-has secrets from the millions of toilers.
The Communist Party today becoming thoroughly known
TO the advanced sections of the working class such the coal
miners the textile workers and the needle workers as the foremost
leader of all the struggles of the zig workers that
going that have occurred during the past several
The announcement yesterday Workers (Communst)
May 25 significant of it's present role in the struggle of the
this country. The Communist Party engages the
political struggle including participation in the elections The big
national nominating convention dramatizes this fact
The Communist Party is radically different however
of participating the elections of capitalist
For the democratic the republican and the social
t parties which defend and wish the of
the capitalist class the elections furnish upon which they
conduct masked parade and from which they and
build the masses illusions of democracy for all where
only dictatorship by the capitalist class really exists The Com
munist Party this stage in sharp contrast the
parties of capitalism The Communist Party declares openly
the working and exploited farmers that democracy for these
% be attained only the forbe overthrow of existing
social conditions
The contrast between the Communist Party and the socialist
party particular significance because maintains
thin pretene that also represents the working While
the thooed preacher who is the nominee for the presidency
for the socialist party pipes his pous dread revolution
the revolutionary path towards liberation sounded boldly by
the Communists and their candidates will probability
be William Foster and Ben Gitow While the socialist party
with the ractionary bureaucracy break strikes
Workers Communist Party stands on the picket line
The Communist Party couples its election with grim
tiles of the struggle of the workers This election of 1928 is for
the Communs Party redoube its
ges fighting the front line with the coal miners
textile workers and with the needle trades workers and all workers
engaged daytoday struggle right organize
and for the protection of their standards of living
For the 1928 election campaign the socialist party
all reference to the class struggle from its constitution For the
campaign the Workers Communs Party issues the call
redoubng the fight the oasis of the class struggle of the
kers fcr zna freedom and for their daytoday demands
Communist Party points out the character
capitalist elections and calls upon the workers poticaize
their struggle which must be developed toward pro-
for the taking of political by the working class in
alliance with the working farmers.
The national nominating convention of the Workers Com
munist Party will be Of Importance the
workers and farmers 1t must be made vehicle of launching
election campaign which will stir the working of America
and bigger BUSINESS of its historical role.