The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-05
By GEORGE ]. SAUL.


DENVER, Colorado, (DeIayed).-
Thousands of workers and farmers
in Colorado heard the message of
Communism last night when Will
liam 2. Foster, Communist candi-
date for the presidency, delivered a
radio address over station KFXF
and spoke to 500 workers in Taber-
nacle Hall.
Foster was greeted with enthus-
iastic applause when he was intro
duced as the man who was kid
mapped by state rangers under the
notorious Pat Hammock several
years ago and deported out of the
state. The man who is so detested
by the authorities of Colorado that
he was warned against entering the
state, returned to Denver last night
to be hailed by the militant workers
as an outstanding leader in the
Workers (Communist) Party which
is recognized by the class conscious
workers of this stronghold of in
dustrial feudalism as the only party
of the class struggle in the United
States.
The spirit shown at the meeting
indicated great revival of the mill
fancy that characterized the work
ing class movement of Colorado in
other years when the great revolu-
tionary labor leader, Bill Haywood,
led the embattled miners in many a
bloody contest with the employers.
The labor-haters who deported Fos-
ter will some day be confronted with
the organized power of revolution
airy labor, which is developing under
Communist leadership and the time
will come when the deportees will
not be revolutionary labor leaders
but the parasitic exploiters.
Scores Socialists"
Fosters speech was a clear ex
position of the policy of the Work
ers (Communist) Party in the class
struggle. He denounced the reac-
tionary trade union leaders for their
treachery to the miners in the re-
cent strike against the coal oper-
ators in Colorado, their support of
the government that called out the
militia and their support of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company,
whose gunner shot down the strik-
ers at the Columbine mine.
The speaker told of the organiza-
ton of the National Miners Union
in Pittsburgh to take the place of
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea which was wrecked by the cor
rupt Lewis machine, which brought
about the defeat of the striking
miners of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Illinois and Indiana in the
great bituminous strike.
Comrade Foster urged the coal
miners of Colorado to line up in the
National Miners Union and to fight
against the labor lieutenants of capt.
talism in the trade union movement.
Foster attacked the socialist par
ty for it's alliance with the trade
union bureaucracy and its support
of the inperialistic maneuvers OF
the United States government. He
showed that in this support of the
League of Nations, the World Court
and the Kellogg "anti-war" treaty
the socialist party like the socia
democracy thruout the world, hat
become the political handmaiden o.
imperialism and was not fundamen
tally different from the democratic
and republican parties.
Hits Thomas.
Norman Thomas delivered
speech here recently which resulted
in a loss of membership to the so
cialist party The socialist meet
ing was poorly attended and lacking
in enthusiasm. Those who hearc
Comrade Fosters speech declared
that they were convinced that tn,
Workers (Conmuuis) Party wa
heir to the revolutionary tradition o,
Eugene Y. Debs, which is disownec
by the socialist party Of today. Nor
man Thomas rarely mentions Debi
in his speeches bat holds up the
bourgeois politician LaFollette a:
the ghostly leader Of the socialist
party.
Foster attacked AL Smith as ar
agent Of Wall Street. Smith spoke
here recently and attracted much at.
tention. His demogogical appeal t.
the workers, making use of the en-.
dorsement of the New York labor
takers, got him a hearing but Eos
ter's expose Of the role of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor, as a bull
wark against radicalism and the