The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-23
Miracle" Election Publicity

Al Smith publicity agents flooded Sundays
capitalist press with the story of the boy who
was struck by an automobile and would have
died-if the blow had not been softened
through the miraculous chance that pack
age of poster pictures of Al Smith were under
his shirt!
This takes the place of the old miracle"
story of the young soldier whose bible, carried
next to his heart, stopped bullet that other
wise would have killed him.
Instead of such tonmyrot, why does not
Mr.. Raskob, the Smith campaign manager
who is also one of the chiefs of the open shop
movement, tell the workers frankly that the
election of Smith, just as much as the election
of Hoover Cor of Thomas, if there were such
chance, would mean free hand for the
scab automobile and other manufacturers to
use even more than ever before the full
power of the government to smash the trade
unions, to Jail and shoot discontinued work
ers and to carry on a reign of terror against
the working class at home while preparing
more imperialist wars abroad?
1t is safer to dish out miracles"
And it is not surprising to learn that the
candidate of the yellow socialist party has
the same taste for miracles" in place of
plain truth-telling in this campaign The
latest report is that the Reverend Norman
Thomas, when speaking at New Haven, find
ing several fellow-preachers in his audience
which otherwise consisted mostly of pious
business men affiliated to local churches,
closed his socialist" campaign speech with a
prayer to God"
Meantime the Communist presidential and
vice-presidential candidates, Foster and Git
low, are touring the country and tearing the
hide off the two capitalist flunkeys, Smith
and Hoover, and their little petty-capitalist
brother, the Reverend Norman Thomas, on
the straight and plain issues that face the
working class in this campaign.
Never mind about "miracles!' p What about
the injunctions and government strike-break-
ing? What about the right to organize
What of the imperialist war that is being
prepared? What about the unemployed
millions? What of the millions of farmers be-
ing appropriated by the money sharks?
Both capitalist candidates and their little
socialist" brother candidate are for injunc-
tons ('eXcept" when the Raskobs and the
Rockefellers find injunctions unnecessary
in breaking strike), are against the organi-
cation of the millions of unorganized workers,
are for the coming imperialist war, are
against doing anything real for the unem-
ployed, and are against any solution of the
farm crisis except the appropriation of the
farmers.
The only party that stands and fights for
the interests of the working class, for the
interests of the farmers, for the complete
political and social equality of the Negroes is
the Workers (Communist) Party. 1t is the
only Party that will fight against the coming
imperialist war and in defense of the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics which the i'm
periaists will try to destroy in that coming
imperialist war. 1t is the only Party that
does not stoop to the befuddling of the minds
of the working class with religious mysticism,
making them easier victims of capitalist op-
preston. That is because the Workers Com
munist) Party is the one and only Party of
the exploited masses-the class Party of the
working class.
Vote for Foster and Gitlow, and for your
state and local Communist candidates.