The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-09
ELECTION DRIVEOF
WORKERS PARITY IN
FULL SWING NOW
Mobilize Forces ThruOut Country; Will Carry
Campaign to Every Factory and Farm
Collections in Factories and Street Corners,
Tag Days, Sale of Stamps, Buttons Planned

The launching of drive to raise
b fund of 100000 to place the
Communist ticket on the ballot in
at least thirty states of the union
and carry the message Of Commu-
nlsm into every corner of the United
States was the outstanding feature
of the election campaign of the
Workers (Communist) Party last
week, according to a statement is
sued by the National office of the
Party yesterday.
Never before did the members of
the Workers (Communist) Party
display as much enthusiasm as they
are showing in this election cam
paign. From one end of the coun-
try to the other district organizers
and campaign managers are report
ing to national headquarters that
the comrades are bending to the
task with the energy that spells
success.
Collections in factories and street
corners, tag days, and the sale of
stamps and buttons are some of the
methods that will be used to raise
the 100000.
Prospects Bright.
b. 1t is generally admitted that the
prospects for waging a successful
campaign were never brighter than
this year. The Workers (Commu-
nist) Party has already established
itself as the only party of the prole-
tariat in this election. In spite of
the sentimental squawks that come
from the clerical candidate of the
socialist party, there is no opposi-
tion to big business expressed poll
tically outside Of the Workers
(Communist) Party.
Since the republican and demo-
crat conventions were held the for
mer insurgents in the G.. o. P. and
the alleged progressives who bore
the democrat label have climbed on
the bandwagons of the old parties.
Those Insurgents"
Herbert Hoover-the imperialist
the Hungarian Soviet government
the stool-pigeon who Esed the funds
of the American Relief Administra-
tion in an attempt to overthrow the
Soviet government of the U. S. S,
R,--has been busy purchasing the
disgruntled insurgents who sniped
at Coolidge and Mellon during their
term of office.
The latest "insurgent" to fall into
Hoover's lap is Senator Smith w.
Brookhart of Iowa. Brookhart was
always a thorn in the side of the
administration, but Hoover pulled
his teeth, and the Iowa senator now
pretends that Hoover has the in
terests of the farmers at heart.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin
still poses as progressive, but was
quite cordially received at the Kan
sas City convention. The opposition
to big business inside the G. o. P
always anaemic, has been liquidated
AL Smith, who is as popular in
Wall Street as Hoover, is experienc-
ing a little trouble in the South, but
the opposition to him there is based
on his religious affiliation and his
partiality to the cup that cheers,
This opposition is not serious. The
Southern democrats, hungry for a
chance to plunder the national trea-
sury, are willing to muffle the
southern conscience for material
considerations. They can soothe
their wounded spirits by lynching
Negroes. 1t should not be forgot
ten that Negro was lynched right
In the city of Houston on the very
eve of the democratic convention
and that neither AL Smith nor any
other leader Of the party uttered a
word of protest against the outrage.
Capitalist Line-Up.
The two capitalist parties are now
lining up their forces and mapping
out the campaigns that will bring
one or the other into the executive
mansion in Washington for four
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