The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-29
CAM PAIGN
COR NER

the ballot IN great industrial state
where the law calls for the filing of
a large number of names. Five hun
bred of the total number required
are already in their hands, and they
intend to have the 10000 necessary
to put the Party on the ballot inside
of a week. The Cleveland comrades
are making arrangements to have
Gitlow speak on the radio when he
arrives for his September 9th meet
ing There will be a picnic on Sep
TENDER 3rd which is expected to at
tract a large crowd.
In New Hampshire a few COM
rades in one day collected 300 of the
1000 signatures required to place
the Party ticket on the ballot. At
this rate New Hampshire should be
"over the top" by Labor Day at the
latest.
Comrade Charles Mitchell, acting
district organizer in Connecticut, re-
ports that the Nutmeg State will be
filed in a couple of weeks. It takes
4,500 signatures to do the job in
Connecticut, but our comrades are
cunning for 5000. There is more
Joy in cracking one hard nut than
in squeezing one hundred soft ones.
This is the attitude our Connecticut
comrades are taking.
Comrades who thot we were
biting off more than we could digest
when the National Election Cam
paign Committee announced that it
would get the Party ticket on the
ballot are now beginning to cheer
up. With fifteen states already
filed and ten more totering on the
edge, the only question now is: How
many states in addition to the thirty
aimed at, will have the Communist
ticket on the ballot?
oor~ade Harry Rather writes
from Sioux City, Iowa, about the
lans of the Party organization
here, to wage an intensive cam
paign. The comrades intend to
cover every town in the state with
Communist literature. Headquarters
have been engaged. Among the
speakers who will tour the state are
Comrade J. Patton, candidate for
Governor, Comrade Roy Stephens,
Sub District Organizer, Comrade D.
E. Early and Comrade Stanley
Clark. There is a Young Pioneer
nucleus of 20 members in Sioux
City and they are doing excellent
work distributing literature.
Comrade Rather reports that Sen
ator Brookhart who was formerly
the idol of the exploited farmers is
no win bad odor with a great many
of them because of his support of
Hoover who stands for the very
policies that made the name of Cool
idge anathema to them. The more
radical of the farmers now regard
Brookhart as traitor and one lead
ing farmers organization recently
refused to give him a hearing. The
Communists are getting out a
special leaflet exposing Brookhart
as traitor who camouflaged him
self with progressive colors only to
flop over into the camp of extreme
reaction when an opportunity pre-
sented itself.
Comrade Jakira, district organizer
in Pittsburgh, reports that the Dis
trict Committee has sent out in
structions to all Party units to Sc
cure permits for open air meetings
in their respective cities or towns.
Efforts to secure the public schools
auditorium in Pittsburgh for the
Gitlow meeting on September 7th
have so far proven fruitless, but
when the authorities were advised
that protest would be made against
this discrimination against a work
ingclass political party, they asked
our comrades to make out an APP
plication. Pittsburgh is a strong
hold of the Mellon interests and the
open-shop coal and steel barons. The
radio broadcasting station is nov
controlled by the big department
stores, and their owners are thoroly
reactionary.
Contributions to the 100000
Communist Campaign Fund ar,
pouring in. This fact is published
not to serve notice on the supporter
of the Workers (Communist) Part!
ticket that they can now rest OIL
their cars, but in order to stimulat,
them to increased activity. l will
just quote from two letters, on
from a 76-year old compositor ant
the other from a hobo. The com
positor writes: Enclosed find on
measly dollar. Don't waste postag
on me. l am an old man (seventy
six) and work at my trade for
bare living. If l can raise anothe
buck, you'll get it. / have made
note of your address. Good luck t
you" And the hobo writes wit