The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-07
Militarists Try to Keep Workers
Party From Ballot in Six States
Jail Leaders, Break Up
Open-Air Meets
in Kansas
). P. Is Not Molested
Mill Barons Back Anti
Communist Drive

Having succeeded in placing
states on the Com
munist ballot and with the
probability that no less than
thirty-five will be put in the
red column in this election cam
paign, the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party is now fighting in
several states the attempts of
the black forces of reaction to
throw the Party off the ballot
in their effort to prevent the
only revolutionary political
party in the field to bring its
program of militant ella IS
struggle before the exploited
m sses and organize them
politically and industrially for the
fight against the capitalist system
and their political instruments.
Alexander Trachtenberg, chair
man of the National Election Cam
paign COMMITTEES, in report to the
Political Committee of the Workers
(Communist) Party yesterday stated
that in the states of Nebraska, Okla
homa, Texas, Kansas, Massachu-
sets, and New Hampshire, fascist
organizations and employers, work
ing in cooperation with the author
tiles, are using every possible means
at their disposal to prevent the
secretaries of state from accepting
the Communist petitions.
Thousands Sign Petitions.
Trachtenberg called attention to
the fact that, whereas in 1924 the
Party ticket was on the ballot in
fourteen states only, this year it is
already on in seventeen states, the
great majority of them for the first
time. A small army of organizers
was sent out by the National Elec-
tion Campaign Committee into sec
tions where the masses never had an
opportunity before to hear the Com
munist message, and thru the ac-
tivity of these organizers thousands
of workers and poor farmers signed
their names to the Communist petit
tions and gave other valuable assis-
tance to the election campaign.
Trachtenberg, in his report,
pointed out that in no place has the
socialist party been interfered with,
for the good reason that the plat
form on which Norman Thomas, the
Socialist Party candidate, is running
is a petty-bourgeois platform, which
stands fundamentally for the per-
petuation of the capitalist system
and favors the major policies of
world imperialism, including the
League of Nations, the World Court,
and the imperialist Kellogg anti
war" treaty.
While the socialist Party platform
and its presidential candidate, Nor
man Thomas, would only clip the
claws of the capitalist beast and
trim the Tammany Tigers whiskers,
the ruling classes of this country
are aware that the Workers Com
munist) Party aims to abolish the
capitalist system root and branch
and build a socialist society on it's
ruins under the direction of a
Workers and Farmers Government.
Socialist" Cities.
The socialist candidate holds up
as an example of the courteous
treatment the capitalist system
would receive under a socialist ad-
ministration in Washington tn e
municipalities of Reading, Pennsyl-
vania, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Immediately after the election of the
socialist ticket in Reading the new
administration announced that the
police force of the city would be at
the service of the employers. In
Milwaukee, strikebreaking on the
part of the socialist" police force
is traditional, and in no other city
are the employers given more
privileges than in socialist" Mil
waukee.
In view Of these facts it is not
surprising that the American Le-
gion, the World War Veterans, and
other reactionary auxiliaries of the
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