The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-28
Foster and Gitlo1O Carry the Red
FLAG to the American Masses


the Communist Party campaign candidates also
1924 and these the wosted fighting men OF our
they then But otherwise there vast difference
The Communist Party is something than was in 1924
Communist campaign the and who best embody
the aims and policies and leadership OF the Party are CHOSEN
candidates. reality it not individuals but the Party it.
self which the candidate And the Communist Party OF Amer
passed through tremendous of development in
the past four years.
The Communist Party of America has during past
years gone through fire. the test Of actual leadership
of of workers in struggles against the capitalists In ev
important strike that has occurred in the United States Tor
four years. the Workers Commun Party has played leading
role every the red line of Communist workers has been
the line of erce attack and hardest resistance the picket
line So in the Passac strike, which was lghtnngtash
the world of American labor marking the storm which now
is raging several fields of struggle The intense struggle
the needle trades of New York Chicago and other big cities was
again in which the Workers (Commun Party inevitably
became the backbone of the workers forces.
great strike progress the forces of
reaction openshop Bosses the the state Zoos
sacks and the bureaucratic traitors the labor movement tes
W less plainly than the desperately fighting mine workers
themselves that without the activities of the Communists led by
their Party the mine workers would have been cushng defeated
many months ago.
All of these struggles have by
greater and everowng participation of the government local.
federal direct violent repressve and
the accompanying legal forms against the workers. and second
appearance trade union bureaucracy clearly than
before in history the role of violent obey
the central direction which leads the individual coal
and every captain of coal and iron police city
The results inevitably the establishment of thou
sands and of thousands workers begin realize the
nature of class collaboration When bosses and
trade leaders openly counsel for the
admitted of breaking strike when the affdavts of
officers of trade unions appear on warrants for the arrest
pke ordinary phenomenon when trade union bueaucras
openly declare that union wishing to elect other officers than
agents of the employers shall be deprived of its chartethen the
of the mind of the large sections of
vtaby begins the Communist Parys activity is sufficiently
positive
At the time the operation of nunctons po
lice state troops and federal courts presidents and medato
in and fragrant action against the working class in
general and against each strike observation-disclosures to
the illusions and to poticaze the working The
the capitalist state expressed in the cold booded murder of
and Varz and the ceremonious welcome the agents
fascm by democratic funconares of the state
less slowly undermine the stupid faith of muudes of toers
capitalist democracy The opening of against
the peoples Latin America dssoe the mist peaceful pa
tro and the png ornaments huger than his
tory, slowly open millions of eyes.
In 1924 the old and prisonortured Eugene Debs
loved by the American working class because he represented
their everything to which the socialist party antagonsc
could still be pamed off the eader of that party
and then also possible for the traitors the
ent for independent political action OF the working class by
sentng the LaFoette peycaptast republicans the labor
party But in 1923 the socialist party the
workers the Hqut party the Berger party the party of the
Reverend Norman Thomas the party of Morris Sigman
Little Augie the party which fully
Identifies itself with the Lewis bureaucracy in destroying the
United Mine Workers and breaking the strike short
thousands of workers know today what concealed from them
beforethat the socialist party repuaes the struggle
lines up with reaction nationally and internationally
When the working class the open purchase pre
dents of the United States with brbes when the working class
Harry Sinclair the bride gver walk the crnna
while the capitalist Mooney and Billings
lifelong Imprisonment and send Sacco death
before the working class of the United with pro
of living class struggle This program the needs OF
e of the working class 1t reflects all there is of workngas
evolutionary tradition and at the time reflects all
of resistance to the capitalist which
striving crush the labor nohingness
Our Party and standard bearers, Foster and Gtlow
speak this election campaign with the only that can be
called the voice of the working class.
With stronger and seasoned Communist Party am
with field in which there is not sembance any
claim the loyalty of the working class and with working
which through dung
the standard of Communism should
a tina .tar of
nd the
the
beate
the growing exploitation sfd repression