The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-29

protection given by the capitalist
government to the socialists in their
election efforts. There's a reason.
And it's to be found in the basic
class difference, the difference in
class interests, for which the Com
munists and the socialists speak.
Throughout the country, the agen-
cies of republican and democratic
government welcome socialist speak
ers. Throughout the country, the
agencies of capitalist government
are doing everything in their power,
utilizing all conceivable methods to
interfere with and disrupt the Com
munist election activities.
3.-Fake Democracy and Its
Blessings.
State authorities, American Le-
gion organizations, representatives
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
are working feverishly tc keep the
Communists off the ballot in those
states where, despite almost insu-
perable legal technicalities, set up
by the capitalists to disfranchise the
workers, our Party has succeeded
in getting on the ballot. The case
of Nebraska is typical. Here the
Party complied with ali the legal
regulations. Here our comrades
worked well and overcame sundry
technical obstacles. No sooner was
this achieved than the government
authorities, inspired by the .Ameri-
can Legion and the Veterans of For
eign Wars, took ours Party off the
ballot. In Montana, technical pre-
fences of ridiculous character are
invoked against the Communists in
order to hide the implacable hostil-
ity of the capitalists, Of the copper
barons and the bankers to our
Party. In Montana, we complied ex-
actly as the socialist party did with
the election requirements, yet we
are taken off and the socialist party
is put on the ballot.
How is it that the socialist party
cannot point to single state where
the government is trying to keep it
off the ballot? How is it that the
socialist party has no difficulty in
getting on the ballot, while our
party has to fight every inch of the
way in order to secure even the
slightest opportunity to appear be-
fore the workers in the coming cleo
ton campaign? Here we again
have a class question. The socialist
party no longer has anything to do
with the defense of the interests of
the working class. The capitalists
are past masters in the art of well
coming new friends and new sup
porters. And that is why the path
of the socialist party in the election
campaign is so smooth. That is why
we Communists face so many diff
culties.
4.-Who Are the Socialists?
The Workers (Communist) Party
is carrying its election fight to the
factories, to the Negro masses, to
the masses in the mills and mines,
to the striking textile workers, to
the battling miners, to the poverty
stricken farmers. But the socialist
party is simultaneously merged with
the reactionary trade union bureau
crazy which is responsible for the
destruction of some of the basic or
CARNATIONS of the American work.
ing class, like the United Mine
Workers. The socialist party is
busy fighting for LaFollettism. 1t
is claiming that it is the inheritor
of the LaF'ollete tradition. 1t is an
nouncing from the housetops that
the LaFollette vote, largely petty
bourgeois, especially in certain sec
tions of the country, will go to the
socialist party.
The socialist party is deliberately.