Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-19
COMMUNISTS PLAN
STANCH CAMPAIGN
Foster, Workers. Party Nom.
inee, viii Speak Here on
October IL.
~ the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, September 1.-THE
national headquarters of the workers
(Communist) Party have announced
that by october 1t would have nue.
speakers than any other political party
In the field. carrying the red nag OF
RELENTLESS. revolution from coast TO
coast and Canadian border down into
the solid South ~.
Their aim is not victory In the
November elections, for that they ADMIT
is impossible, but to utilize the cam
paien for the dissemination OF propa-
canda aimed at the eventual Snatterlng
of the present "capitalistic form OF
Government and the estapnsnment oi
states" behind which, they assert, VIII
stand the red army to enforce the dc
tatorship of the proletariat. Inc
standard-bearers of the Workers Com
nunist) Party are William z. Foster Tor
President and Benjamin Gltlow LOT
The party has aligned itself In the
sclass struggle" not only against the
Republicans and Democrats. the NOM
inees of both of which 1t refers TO as
servants of Wall Street" but just as
much against the Socialists. who they
charge create illusions among the WORK
emancipation and gain their ENDS by
reform. rather than revolution.
Foster and Gitlow have both come to
rrips in the past because of their Com
fnunist activities with the forces 81 law
and order of the society they seek to
overthrow. In their joint notification
address Foster. who Is member OF
the executive committee Of the Com
munist Internationale, Is referred to as
one whose name strikes terror and
hatred into the hearts of the capitalist
class" and a man whom the capitalist
class tried to impriSon in Michigan
Gitlow. a former Left Wing Socialist,
founder of the Communist party and
of the American section OF the COM
munist International. is characterized
in the same address as one who has
spent long years in prison and suffer-
ing in behalf of the working class
emancipation.
Seek 100000 Fund.
The national campaign. which is to be
financed by fund of only 100000, as
against the millions of the major,
parties, will be carried on by IS national
speakers, including the candidates, and
hundreds Of regional orators.
This fund, which is not vet raised.
will be divided to allow $4,000 for
speaker expenses, $4,000 for advertis-
Ing and $4,000 for campaign literature
and printed propaganda. There is no
appropriation for broadcasting, the
radio having been discarded as too
costly.
The national speakers viii talk in
halls furnished by local organizations,
but the district stumpers will depend
almost entirely on soap box oratory,"
the direct appeal to the man In the
sire t from the rear of an automobile
or a small portable platform, 100 OF
which are now In use in this city.
Audiences at these street meetings
will be gathered by the same devices
employed by the old time medicine
SHOW" red fire and the stirring music
Of brass-cornets. trombones and bugles.
The women's division of the party Is
active in this campaign for the first
time. It has organized clubs In trade
unions, established councils of house,
wives, mothers leagues and house meet
anss, and the names Of many women APP
pear on the long list Of stump speakers.
The party will seek In the campaign
20 enlist in its ranks those of the So
cialists whose hope Of betterment by re-
form has dimmed and those regularly
enrolled as Democrats or Republicans
"who approve neither Tammany nor