The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-06


Lovestone, 1T is apparent that
the Workers (Communist)
Party has made considerable
and tangible gains. None of
our Communist candidates will be
elected today-we did not expect anv
such results.
The results we did expect we
have more than realized. The party
has reached sections of the work
ers, especially in the South. with
whom we have never before had con-
tacts. This invasion of the South
has laid the basis for the organiza-
ton Of new units of the Workers
Party where there has never been a
revolutionary party, among workers,
both white and Negro, who consti-
tute the most exploited section of
the American working class. Es-
pecially important to our Party are
the connections we have made there
during this campaign among the
Negroes.
Party on National Scale.
This election campaign has es-
tabiished the Workers Communist
Party as a working class political
party on a national scale. The sec
ton of the working class which has
previously supported the socialist
party is leaving that middle class
liberal organization in disgust and
rallying to the red banner of the
only revolutionars party in America.
This is the first time in history
of the United States that a working
class party, frankly and thoroughly
revolutionary, rejecting categori-
caliy parliamentary reformism, op-
portunism, has waged a campaign on
national scale. The Workers
tCommunist) Party has inherited
the best traditions of the American
labor movement, of the Knights of
Labor, of the Haymarket martyrs.
of the l. w. w. in its most revolu-
tionary period, of Bill Haywood. the
best traditions of Eugene V. Debs.
of Sacco and Vanzetti, and of our
dead leader, Comrade Ruthenberg.
"The Party of Communism, the
Party of Leninism in United States,
registers real progress for the cause
Of the working class on this election
day. We have made only begin
ming, but it's good beginning in the
face of the most powerful imperialist
enemy. Our slogan class against
class is our motto all year round.
Shop Papers Grow.
ut is interesting to note that the
shop papers published by shop
nuclei have increased in number no
per cent and in circulation 40 per
cent, since the beginning of the cam
paign. This increase has taken
place largely in the heavy industries,
steel, mining, rubber, and automobile
industries particularly.
Zone great achievement is the in
terest that has been aroused in the
real issues as opposed to the fake
issues stressed by the three parties
of capitalism. Particularly, Com
munists have aroused masses of
workers to the reality of the war
danger-both the threat of an at
tack on Soviet Russia and the in
evitable imperialist war growing out.
of the antagonisms among the i'm
perialist powers.
"The close of the election cam
paign will mark the intensification
of campaign for increased member
ship in the Workers (Communist)
Party. AS a result of the campaign
we will in all probability get at
least 5000 new members. This again
will be the beginning of an increased
and intensified campaign to fight
the war danger, for the organization
Of the unorganized, mobilization
of the workers by the party for ever
sharper struggles against the capi-
talist class"