The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-08-31
CTTLOW'S TOUR TO
START SEPTEMBER 3
Will Address Audience at PlentywOOd
September 27-WOrkers Party Can
didate TO Speak Throughout the
Unitdl States.
lFrom The Daily Worketl

(From The Daily Worker)
Benjamin Gitlow, the Communist
vice presidential candidate, will start
his national tour on September 3. He
will speak in the principal cities OF
the country and will bring the mes
sage of communism and the class
struggle to striking textile workers,
coal miners, railroad and steel work
ers, exploited farmers and oppressed
negroes.
Expect Big Audience
Several states are complaining that
they have not been given enough
dates. The membership of the party
is enthusiastic over the Foster-Gilow
tour and are certain that he workers
will turn out enmasse to hear them
Letters froE the midwest and west
express enthusiasm of the class con-
scious workers over the tour A poor
farmer from North Dakota writes:
Comrades: Glad to hear that Ben
jamin Gitlow is speaking in Bismarck
on September %. | know lots of the
farmers will shake up their old fliv-
to hear him. We have been fooled
so often here by glib-tongued artists
who promise US something without
having to put up a fight for it that
we are now beginning to see that no
thing of any value comes to a man
unless he has to put up his mits for it.
! have been reading about Gene Tun-
ney making two million dollars with
his mits and winning a $50,000,000
wife so we farmers are thinking OF
putting on the gloves and knocking
out the capitalists.
Ex-WObbly Writes
From the mining region of Montana
comes a letter from a former wobbly
who now sees that political action j:
a necessary weapon in the arsenal Of
of the working class. He halls from
Anaconda and wishes to have his
name omitted because he believes i
more valuable that he hold his jos
than get little publicity. He writes
, to Foster, who will speak in Butte OF
! September 10:
"Dear Bill intend to be at you
meeting in Butte on September Is un
! less / break my neck in the meantime
: Anything is liable to happen to a fel
q low here. | used to be so much of
syndicalist that | thought you com
munists were no better than the dem
ocrats and republicans. Well. / hav
$ been doing lot of reading and think
: ing in the last year. | saw what tn
q state militia did to the striking mi
ners in Colorado and how useful tn
state was to the mine owners in sur
pressing demonstrations arrestin
= leaders and shooting down pickets.
. 81 also read about the strike in OH
and Pennsylvania and northern Yves
e Virginia and how the state official
is that were elected by the working elias
n votes used the armed forces {
e the state against the striking miner
20 Now | notice that they are doing tn
20 same thing in New Bedford.
e $50 / am for the workers (Con
4 munistl Party in this election can
5e paign because | realize that it dol
N not expect to emancipate the workir
class by putting a sheet of paper
u the ballot box.
s. "Yours for the kind of political a
ST ton that mobilizes the workers on Il
I'd industrial as we'll as on the polite
ps field for the overthrow of capitalism
a GitlOw's Itinerary
ef Scores of letters like this, breat
a ing the spirit of militancy, reach Z
p National Election Campaign Commit
a tee every day at its headquarters,
es East 125th St., New York.
% Gitlow's tour will include the f
n lowing northwestern cities:
IT Duluth, Sept. 10; Iron Range, Sc
e 20; Bismarck Sept %; Plentywo
at Sent. %: Great Falls Sept. &c; 81