The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-04-27
RED CONVENTION
TO PICK TICKET,
ADOPT PROGRAM
7oster and Gitlow Like
ly Candidates
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the campaign. Propaganda and or
ganization have been intensified to
an unusual degree, even in sections
as remote as some of the southern
states where the Workers Party has
been making substantial Roadway.
Special emphasis has been laid by
the Party upon the need to win over
the sections of exploited farmers. In
the wheat and the cotton belts the
Workers Party has put scores of or
ganizers into the field where they
are consolidating the poor farmers
for political action against their eX-
ploiters. In spite of the difficulties
to be overcome in this work, the or
ganizers report everywhere consider
able gains.
In the south the organization and
political development of the Negros is
being pushed forward successfully
and recent months have seen real
progress.
Driving against the other parties on
the grounds that they are the agents
of the American capitalists, the
Workers (Communist) Party will en-
ter the election campaign as the de-
fender of all the workers and farm
ers in the present period of class
struggle in the United States. Not
only wherever the struggle is taking
on militant forms, as in the mines and
in the textile or in the anti-interven-
ton campaign in Nicaragua, but
thruout the length and breadth Of the
country.
Foster May Run.
The presidential and vice-presiden-
tial candidates of the Workers ,(Com-
munist) Party will be selected by
the convention.
1t is expected that William z. Eos
ter and Benjamin Gitlow, the presi-
Dental and presidential candi-
dates of the Workers Party in the
1924 campaign, will again be month";
ated. Among the membership of the
Party, the 1924 nominees are gener-
ally considered as the logical nom
inees this year. At the National Of
flee, however, suggestions have been
received favoring the nomination of
Scott Nearing, Charles Taylor, a
member of the Montana state sem
ate, and Lauderdale of Texas, prom
inent in the farmers movement in
the cotton belt.
Other suggestions for vice-presi-
dent have been Juliet Stuart Poyntz,
of New York, prominent in labor
education circles, Lovett Fort White
man, of Alabama, formerly chairman
of the National Negro Labor Con-
gress, William F. Dunno, of Butte,
Montana, prominent in northwestern
strikes and Robert Minor, editor of
The DAILY WORKER. That Foster
and Gitlow will be nominated, how
ever, is the general opinian.
Campaign Fund.
A campaign fund of 100000 is
being collected to cover the expenses
of the national campaign. The Party
branches in the various cities thruout
the country will raise their own funds.
The 1928 campaign is one of the
greatest the Workers Party has ever
waged in the United States. Plans
have already been completed for Sc
curing thousands of new voters for
the Party in this gigantic undertake
ing Leaflets, demonstrations and
parades will be utilized in arousing
the voters, and corps of speakers,
among whom are large number Of
prominent Negroes and trade union
lists, is being modified to jump into
the campaign fight earlier than any
of the other parties in the field.