The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-05

PARTY APPEALS
FOR AID IN WAR
ON PERIALISM
Calls For Support Of
Workers and Farmers

Pointing out that the Workers
(Communist) Party enters the cleo
tion campaign as the leader Of the
workingclass struggle against cap
italism, the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Party has issued a
statement announcing a drive for 4
100000 election campaign fund.
The statement follows in full.
Big business, trustified industrial
and finance capital, rapacious, brutal,
bloody American imperialism has
spoken. They have nominated their
two candidates. Mr.. Herbert Hoover
who has won fame crushing the
revolutionary working class upris-
ings in Europe, an exponent Of cap
italist naturalization, efficiency
speed-up, ETC., through the intensi-
fled exploitation of the workers-is
the candidate of the Teapot Dome
Party, the Republican Party. Gov
ernor Alfred E. Smith of New York
-Tammany Hall politician, favored
son of the New York traction inter-
ests, Wall Street bankers, etc.-is
the candidate of the Democratic
Party.
Big business, says Mr.. Raseob,
general manager of General Motors,
one of the largest industrial com
bines in the United States, has moth
ing to fear from the election of
Smith. Mr.. Schwab, head of the
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, de-
clares: "'I am not afraid that politics
is going to hurt business" Of course
not. The two old parties are the
Gold Dust Twins of big business, its
4 most faithful servants. 1t is the
Eorkers and poor farmers who sweat
and toll who have everything to fear
from the oppressive and corrupt rule
of Republican and Democratic poll
tics.
Aides of Capitalism
Mr.. Norman Thomas, a minister of
the Gospel, is the candidate of the
Socialist Party. The Socialist Party
no longer recognizes the class strug-
gle. 1t no longer nominates a worker
and a fighter like Debs for its stand
ard bearer. 1t bows before the labor
takers. 1t blesses the class collab-
oration, the friendship and co-part-
nership between the capitalists and
the labor bureaucracy 1t opposes
working-class, independent political
action. 1t stands for capitalist law
and order. 1t is opposed to proleta-
rian revolutionary action, and loudly
proclaims its support of capitalist
democracy.
The Socialist administration in
Reading has assured the capitalist
exploiters, open-shoppers and enc
mics of the working-class that it will
defend its property against attack on
the part of workers during strikes
The Socialist Party libels the name of
Socialist.
1t has degenerated into a petty
bourgeois party of capitalism. 1t has
driven out of its ranks the valiant
and heroic fighters in the American
class struggle. The party is to be
despised and bitterly fought by every
militant, class-conscious worker 1t
is a party of betrayal and treachery
to the workers.
The Workers (Communist) Party
! is the only party in the United States
that is conducting a campaign against
the capitalists and their strikebreak-
ing government. 1t has nominated
two valiant fighters in the class
struggle, William z. Foster and Ben
jamin Gitlow. Both are workers and
members of trades unions. Both
have been the objects of hatred and
I persecution on the part of the cap
italists.
Champion of Workers
The Workers (Communist) Party,
the party of the class struggle, en-
ters this campaign as the champion
of the workers and poor farmers, of
Negro and white workers, and of
foreign-born and American-born
workers. It's interests are identical
with the interests of these millions
of oppressed and exploited masses in
the United States who comprise the
majority of the population.
American imperialism, whose
hands are dripping with the blood of
Nicaraguan workers and peasants.
fat with the profits extracted from
the millions Of workers employed in
its trustified industries, and from the
tribute it collects from all parts of
the globe-can no longer boast that
its mass production, efficiency meth
DDS and world expansion are in the
interest of the great masses of the
people. Capitalist prosperity is now
exposed for the fake that it is. Over
four million workers are unemployed
in the United States. No provisions
whatsoever are made by the capital
ist government for these unemployed.
The Capitalist State
In land boasting billions in prof
its drive is being made against the
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