The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05
ELECTION DRIVE
TASKS OUTLINED
IN PARTY APPEAL
Instructions Issued to
All Units

The Central Committee of the
Workers (Communist) Party yester-
day issued a very important state
ment to all units of the Party, in
structing the Communists in the con-
duct of the 1928 election campaign.
The full text of the statement is:
"TO ALL PARTY UNITS.
Dear Comrades:
THE Central Executive Committee
has decided that our Party is to enter
the election campaign in the coming
elections under its own banner and
will nominate candidates for presi-
dent and yice-president of the United
States.
'This decision of the Central Exc
cqtive Committee is based on the
analysis Of the situation in the United
States today, showing quite definitely
that we cannot expect that there shall
be formed a Labor Party on a natio-
nal scale during 1928.
This does not mean, of course,
chat there will not be in many To-
caities, the United Labor ticket, or
even local labor parties.
ALSO, the Central Executive Com
Z mittee has decided that the Labor
Party shall be one of the central slo-
gans to be used during the election
campaign by our party in its work.
The Election Campaign ard Other
Party Campaigns.
"The party's election campaign will
be based upon all the other campaigns
that the party is conducting at the
present moment, and organically tied
ZIP with all the struggles of the work
ing class of this country at the pres
ont time. The most important activ-
tiles of the party and struggles of the
masses upon which the campaign is
based. are the following:
~ Mining campaign.
"2. Unemployment.
"3. Organize the unorganized.
a. Struggle against war-Nica-
aeua,. China, defense of the Soviet
Union
IS. Textile and needle trade strug
gles, etc,
keynote--Class Strhggle.
"The keynote to be struck by our
9arty throughout the campaign must
he the class struggle in connection
with the dropping Of this slogan by
the Socialist Party at its last con-
vention held in New York during the
month of April.
"The election campaign must pre-
sent our party as the champion of
all sections of the working class
strikers, unorganized~ workers, Ne
groes, youth, women, children Our
Party must appear in the election
campaign as the single revolutionary
working class party, as the sole fight
ing force against the reactionary
trade union bureaucracy, as the or
ganizer of the unorganized, as the
deadly enemy of the Socialist Party.
THE campaign should not restrict.
itself to our immediate demands, but
we should stress all our final aims
before the working class. We should
raise the issues of a Workers and
Farmers Government, the overthrow
of capitalism, the problems of a Com
alunist society. We have to throw
all forces Of the Party into the cam
paign. and at the same time, have to.
guard ourselves against all kinds of
parliamentary illusions. To gain
seats in the various legislative bodies
is very important for our Party be-
cause we can utilize them as mass
tribunes to reach out for the workers,
but we should not forget that our
basic aim in this campaign is the
mobilization of the broadest masses
possible.
Nominating Convention.
"The National Nominating Con-
yention of the Party will be held in
New York on May 25-26-27. About
700 to $50 delegates will be present.
The bulk of the delegation will come
from the industrial states ard from
those agricultural districts which
contain a large exploited farming
population. A minimum of 40 states
will be represented.
Order of Business at the Convention.
Il. Adoption of the election plat
form of the Party.
30 Nomination OF Presidential can
didate.
"3. Election Of a National Cam
paign Committee.
"The Nominating Convention will
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