The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-17
Latest Capitalist Terror Proves
Communists Are Reaching
Masses

MASSES
The series of terroristic actions against.
the election campaign of the Workers Com
munist) Party, especially in the southern
states, is a tribute to the effectiveness of
our work among the oppressed workers and
farmers of the country. It is not by any
means accidental that some of the most
vicious attacks against our Party should oc-
cur in the south and southwest, where our
platform is calculated to appeal especially to
the Negro masses, exploited both racially
and as the worst oppressed section of the
working class and tenant farmers, The fact
that the forces of reaction are aroused IN
united drive against our campaign is not
surprising. 1t can be taken as the inevitable
register of the fact that our effort to bring
our Party to the masses of the solid south
in this campaign is effective.
Last night our presidential candidate, VIM.
z. Foster, was arrested in Wilmington, Del,
the state of the Du Pont munitions manu-
facturers and the audience forcibly dis
persed for the "crime" of advocating racial
equality of Negroes with whites.
That our candidate for vce-presldent,
Comrade Gitlow, evaded the kidnapping con-
spirators is no fault of the Arizona reaction.
The publication of the report in the Arizona
Gazette and other papers, including the New
York Herald Tribune, that Gitlow was forced
to remain on a train in Phoenix and taken
to an Ell Paso Jail and from there to Nogales,
is of itself evidence that such plot was on
foot and that so sure we're the city officials,
the police, the Legion and the Ku KluX Klan
that their plans would succeed that their
| newspaper associates published the story of
] their plot as an accomplished fact. The
master class of this country is and has been
reacting furiously to the success of the Com
munists on several fronts during the past
few years. AS the reactionary officialdom
of the American Federation of Labor in sew
eral recent crises more than ever before
threw off it's thin pretenses to defending the
interests of organized labor, to be seen even
more plainly as a part of the capitalist ma
chinery of oppression and terror, the Com
munist Party appeared with more compelling
clarity as the one organized force champion
ing the rights of the masses.
The organization of the new National
Miners Union, forged in the fire of the long
miners struggle, was recognized as chal-
lenge to the conspirators who tried to de-
stroy every vestige of uniopism in that in
dustry The convention was viciously at
tackled by Lewis thugs and police
The New Bedford textile struggle aroused
the fury of the forces of reaction in the state
of Fuller, Lowell, Grant Straton, Coolidge
and William Morgan Butler, assassins of
Sacco and Vanzetti.
!. From the very day of the national nomin-
ating convention of the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party the ruling class has endeavored to
keep our Party off the ballot in various
states The past week has seen an inten-
sification of the drive against us. Meetings
have been broken up in dozens Of places and
our speakers and candidates thrown into Jail.
Wheeling, West Virginia; Martins Ferry,
Ohio; Houston, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona;
Richmond, Va, were scenes of attacks by
the minions of capitalism who threw off the
mask of democracy, revealing themselves as
lackeys of capitalist dictatorship.
From Los Angeles comes the report of
systematic terror against the Communist
Party and the Young Workers Communist
League. In that citadel of the open-shop,
boys and girls are brutally arrested, thrown
into iail and their rooms and homes ran
sacked by vandals of the police department,
the immigration department and the United
States department of justice
LET no one be deluded with the notion that
these attacks are trivial that they are mere
localized outbursts of official and semi-offi-
cial idiocy. When we consider for moment
the position of American imperialism IN its
relentless drive forward to even greater
economic and political conquests; when we
remember that every act OF every capitalist
politician and every maneuver OF every
American diplomat on the checkerboard OF
international duplicity brings the world
nearer another catastrophe when we con-
sider the frantic race for ornaments