The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-21
WORKERS FLOCK
TO HEAR GITLOW
Poor Turnout Country
Rally to Red Drive

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who recently put over a sell-out
agreement on the coal miners, tho it
is clear that majority of the coal
diggers voted against it. Gitlow
linked up Fishwick, president of the
U. M. w. of A., Illinois district, with
Frank harrington, former Illinois
miner, now the $4,000 official of
the Peabody Coal Company. The
speaker told of the National Min
ers' Convention in Pittsburgh to take
the place of the U. M. w. of A. now
wrecked by the treachery of Lewis,
Fishwick and Company.
"Fishwick falsified the returns in
the recent vote on the agreement
submitted to the coal miners" Git
low declared. "There is no doubt
but the sell-out policy of the takers
at Springfield was repudiated by the
great majority of the coal diggers.
The miners of Illinois must build a
powerful section of the National
Miners Unlon, he SAID.
Unemployment Grows.
Gitlow assailed the miserable con-
ditions of the workers in st. Louis
According to the police, unemploy-
ment is rampant, four thousand ap-
plying for jobs last week and only
four hundred jobs available.
The speaker urged solidarity be-
tween the Negro and white work
ers for the common fight against
the employers.
Despite a tremendous downpour
of rain several hundred steel work
ers listened to Comrade Gitlow in
Gary, Indiana. Great enthusiasm
prevailed and there was storm OF
applause when the vice-presidential
candidate called on the steel work
ers to form mill committees and
prepare for the mighty task of or
ganizing the hundreds of thousands
of steel workers into militant in
dustrial union.
Fake S-Hour Day.
Gitlow ridiculed the fake eight
hour day Concession" made to the
workers in the steel industry by the
late Judge Gary. Some of the work
ers in Gary are working an eight
hour shift while others work ten
hours. Those on the eight-hour shift
are paid fifty cents an hour while
those working ten hours only receive
forty cents an hour. Thousands are
working part time.
The speaker urged the steel work
ers, white and black to stand
shoulder to shoulder against the
steel barons. He exposed the illu-
sions of capitalist democracy, de-
clared that the Socialist Party had
deserted the class struggle and nc
longer had right to pose as a
party of labor, that a vote for Nor
man Thomas was vote for CAPT
talism and that the Workers Com
munist) Party was the only revolt
tionary political party in the cleo
ton campaign that stood on the
basis of an uncompromising strug.
gle for the overthrow of capitalism
and the establishment of a Workers
and Farmers government.
Still Strong.
Gary was one of the battle grounds
of the great steel strike, led by
William 2. Foster, Communist can.
didate for the presidency. During
the strike Gary was an armed camp
with great force of military on the
ground under the leadership Of
General Wood, the notorious mill
tarist who was afterwards rewarded
for his services to capitalism by 6
post as governor-general of the
Philippine Islands.
In Lansing, Ohio, a mining town
Gitlow addressed a large audience il
Taylor's Grove. Owing to the &C
Invites of the Workers (Commun
ist) Party in the coal strike, the
miners are actively participating il
the Communist Election Campaign
Forty per cent of those present al
the Gitlow meeting were young
workers and rs per cent American.
born.
Big Meetings.
The Gitlow meetings in Cleve.
land, Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio
were enthusiastic for the Commun-
list ticket and it's election program
Those great industrial cities offer
splendid opportunities for Commun.
list propaganda and Party organiza-
ton. In Ohio, as elsewhere the so.
cialist party ekes out a precarious
existence, hardly functioning in an
organizations sense and owing
whatever sign of animation it shows
to a few old lawyers who come tc
life during election campaigns.
Comrade Patterson, candidate for
governor in Ohio, spoke with Com.
rade Gitlow at Toledo. The Over
land automobile works in that city
employ $4,000 workers. The Official