The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-05
A Campaign for the Revolution

The Communist election campaign, wind
ing up the tours of Foster and Gitlow with
an unprecedented working class parade in
New York streets Saturday and the stirring
meeting at Madison Square Garden Sun
day, was in sharp contrast to the campaigns
of the other parties.
The Garden meeting, to a degree, SYM
bolized the entire campaign. For one thing,
it was one of the biggest election meetings
ever held by any party in New York. Its
character was in sharp contrast to the
scenes a few hours earlier when the Wall
Street-Tammany candidate, Al Smith, in the
same hall, INDUCED in his customary clown
ing while evading every issue, or the scene
of few days earlier when Herbert Hoover,
the sublime flunkey of Imperialism, deliv-
cred one of his masterpieces of sophistry. In
place, of an array of multi-millionaires and
corporation lawyers, the platform at this
enormous meeting was occupied by leaders
and rank and file members of the working
class; instead of evasiveness on every vital
question facing the masses of exploited
workers and farmers, the revolutionary
challenge of Communism to capitalism re-
echoed throughout the vast auditorium
crowded with workers. Instead of the flu
tiity of Norman Thomas and the yellow
middle-class elements who mock the name
of socialism, there was put forth a definite,
comprehensive program of working class
struggle against imperialist despotism.
1t was the penultimate of what is by far
the greatest campaign ever waged in the
United States by the revolutionary political
party, a campaign that was carried to the
farthest parts of the United States and that
evoked the combined hatred of the ruling
class. The problem of unemployment, of
wage-cuts, of speed-up and terror against
the working class was met by the Workers
(Communist) Party. Countless thousands
of workers realize now that only the work.
ing class party offers a solution for their
ills. Our Party has come decisively for
ward as the sole champion of the working
class, as the sole champion of the poor farm
ers, exposing the pretenses of all three CAPT.
talist parties-republicans democrats and
socialists. Ours is the one party in the
United States that fights on every sector of
the class struggle, that stands unequivocally
for the racial and social equality for the
Negro masses, that protects the foreign
born workers, that fights for the organiza-
ton of the unorganized workers and that
leads the masses on the road to the revolu-
tionary overthrow of the capitalist system.
The great Madison Square Garden at
which our candidates for president and vice
president and our principal state candidates
presented the platform of the class strug-
gle, although it is the last great meeting of
the election campaign, is by no means the
end of the Communist drive, but only an
outstanding incident 1t is landmark from
which we proceed to take advantage of the
wide influence we have gained among the
exploited masses in order better to be able
to continue our fight to generate that accu-
mutation of energy, that continuity of re-
sistance and concentration of force that will
deliver the final blow to the rule of the i'm
perialist capitalist class of the United States
and establish in its place a workers and
farmers government
You, fellow workers, you, comrades of the
workshops, factories, mills, mines and
farms-go to the polls Tuesday and Vote
Communist!