The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15

WORKERS PARTY PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE SCORES A. F, OF |.
LEADERS" FOR AIDING ATTACK
Urges Mass Struggle Against New Offensive
of Capitalist Class

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Oct 14.-William z. Foster,
Workers Communist Party candidate for president of
the United States, who is here his national
pagn tour issued the following statement regarding the
against Benjamin Gtow, vice-presidential cand
date who kidnapped in Arizona and has not been heard
from since last Tuesday night:
'NIy running mate on the Workers (Communst)
Party ticket Ben GitlOw has been made the victim of
sinister capitalist plot We know that he has been kid
Mapped but his whereabouts remain unknown. An As
ISOLATED Press dispatch states that Gtlow is held in jail in
Nogaes Arizona but the Chief of Police of Nogales denies
any knowledge of his Imprisonment. Under such condi-
ons there IS ground for fear that GioW has been
murdered
while the details remain obscure, the outstanding
fact gares in the face of the whole working class The
fact stated in the Arizona Gazette phoenix Arz) is
that police officials labor bureaucrats hundred percentes
of the ctizenry and other reaconary elements made
attack Gtow when he arrived by train Phoenix Ariz
Oct 10 to address election campaign meeting of
Party The Gazette expressly declares that the purpose of
the attack to Arizona from campaign on behalf
of the militant workers revolutionary program.
Link In Terror Chain.
"The attack on Gtlow is not an isolated incident It
is link in the chain of anworkng class activities carried
these United States Where federal state njunc
tons federal and state military forces utilized break
the workers struggles for better fe where the Ku Kux
Klans crimes openly encouraged where raids mill
tant labor unions are an everyday occurrence where
workers election meetings forciby broken up by the
American Legion fostered by the of the United
Sates where the oppression and ynchng of Negroes
taken to be matter of routine and civic duty and
where labor bureaucrats shaeuly cooperate with the
dictionary forces against the working cassthese attacks
militant leaders in state like Arizona notorious for the
brutal treatment of 1000 miners in Bzbee 1917 is
not at all surprizing
Trade Union Bureaucrats to Blame.
On the labor bureaucrats rests next to the govern
ment the guilt for the hideous attack the vcepres
dental candidate of the workers 1t the labor bureau
Gratis who by resong to the power of police detectives
and sggers to protect their jobs whenever workers mani
fest militant spirit by taking to their bosom the Amer
hIrc
activities OF Wall Street have made such actions the plot
against Gitow possible 1t is the labor bureaucrats who
discriminating against coored fellow citizens and coun
tenancing and encouraging racial and other minority op
pressions, have made terrorism their daily practice The
hand of the labor bureaucras is also revealed in this their
latest atrocity.
Workers Must Rally.
In vocing my protest and that of the hundreds
of thousands of workers supporting Party am con-
fdent that the working class of the United States will
learn the lesson of this plot and will be modified in full
force both in the election campaign and outside of it.
around the only Party that leads the workers in its class
battles, the Workers (Communist) Party"