The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-31
ELECTION STAMP NEARING SPEAKS.
PROVES POPULAR AT CONFERENCE
WITH WORKERSOF FEDERATION.
Proceeds for 100000
Workers Party Drive

ORDERS are beginning to pour into
Communist campaign headquar-
ters at 43 f. 125th St. for books of
campaign stamps. These stamps
printed in three colors with the
Soviet emblem and the pictures of
Foster and Gitlow, have caught the
imagination of workers Immediately
In shops and factories, on rail
roads and even by radical seamen
on board ships, the stamps are being
pasted surreptitiously on walls and
pillars, much to the chagrin of the
bosses who sometimes contribute to
the gayety of the workers by at
tempting to tear them off their
sticking places.
Many Orders.
But the stamps, as is obvious, are
printed on gum paper, and it is al
most as hard for an Infatuated boss
to remove them as it is for workers
to get raise without the aid of a
strong union and a militant strug-
gle.
Not a piece of literature leaves
the National Office of the Workers
(Communist) Party without
VOTE COMMUNIST stamp. And
the Workers (Communist) Party
turns out no mean quantity of litera-
ture.
S. Essman, the secretary of the
Rochester local of the Party, writes
in for $50 worth of stamps.
A worker in Passaic textile fac
tory, with the memory of the great
strike fresh in his memory, had
good look at the proletarian emblem
of the first Workers Republic and
the presidential and vice-presiden-
tial candidates of the Party, and i'm
mediately got busy among his COM
rades to raise the price of ten books.
eighty stamps to book. He sent in
ten dollars with the following letter:
workers Party of America:
I am not a Communist yet, but |
remember what the Communists did
for us when we were in the long
struggle against the mill bosses,
backed by the Democratic and Re
publican Party politicians. From
reading the Daily Worker l learned
that Foster and Gitlow were work
ing actively for US as well as the
whole party. / never heard that Al
Smith or Hoover raised a voice in
our behalf. We were dubbed and
arrested by Democratic and Repu-
blican policemen, convicted by
Democratic and Republican judges
and jailed by Democratic and Re-
publican wardens. The textile work
ers of Passaic would be crazy to
keep on supporting these capitalist
parties. A great number of them
will work and vote for the Com
munist Party in this election, and
we will stick up so many stamps
here before the campaign is over
that the bosses will be cockeyed."
Subway Scenes.
This worker does not want his
name published as it would mean
immediate dismissal
The writer observed clever stunt
in a subway train few days ago. A
passenger stuck a VOTE COM
MUNIST stamp when nobody was
looking in his direction, and after he
gave it a chance to get firm hold
turned around and gazed at it with
the greatest curiosity. The brake
man also got curious. l never saw
one that was not. While the train
was rafting on to the next stop he
came over and scratched his head
"Who the hell are those birds ?" he
asked. 1t was anybody's answer, so
the stamp-sticker, who also had
copy of the Daily Worker conspi-
cyously displayed, gave him the
necessary information in good
natured, tolerant manner. The
brakeman was puzzled why his pas
senger wouldn't vote for AL Smith
but was shaken in his devotion to
the fellow in the brown derby by the
time he got to the end of the run
And he carried a copy of the
Daily Worker with him.
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