The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-28

The keynote of the Platform of the Class
Struggle" the National Platform of the Work
ers (Communist) Party in the 1928 elections,
issued yesterday by the National Election Cam
paign Committee of the Workers Communist
Party, is one of relentless uncompromising
struggle against capitalist society.
The platform was adopted at the Nominal
ing Convention of the Party held recently in
New York. This is the platform on which
William 2. Foster, Communist candidate for
president, and Benjamin Gitlow, Communist
candidate for vice president, will stand before
the workers and exploited farmers of the
United States in the election campaign, against
the democratic and republican candidates as
well as the reformist socialists, who have be-
trayed the workers by renouncing the class
struggle and allying themselves with the reac-
tionary bureaucracy in the American trade
union movement.
Analyzing the parties of big and small bust
ness, the platform says in part:
with the exception of the Workers (Commu-
nsD Party all political parties and groups de-
tenders of the present capitalist society. The two
capitalist parties, the republican and democratic,
twin brothers in the expression of the interests
of the bosses.
THE republican party, which in the interests of
the then revolutionary capitalism conducted a war
against chatte slavery is today working in the in
terests of the oeunter-revoutionary capitalism
for the perpetuation of wage slavery. The repubE-
party of today is nothing but the party of
trusts of finance capital, of the biggest business
interests of the country
THE democratic party in the early stages
of its history the party of slavery, against north
capitalism and in the interests of the southern
plantation owners Today though many times
Sked with of audS
the perpetuatiOn of the peonage of Negroes in the
south and for the maintenance of wage slavery
throughout the country.
There real political differences between
the two big political parties. Both parties of
the enemies of the working class. The very exist
ence of the two-party system is the most reaction
airy factor in American politics. is of the fac
tors which responsible for the lack of an indie
pendent mass political party of the working class"
The platform brands the attitude of the So
called progressives as cowardly. It states that
they have gone back meekly into the old CAPT.
talist parties. After calling attention to the
support of the Smith candidacy by Wheeler to
the action of Borah in mouthing against i'm
perialism and then supporting the Coolidge pol
icy in Nicaragua, to Senator Shipstead posing
as farmer-laborite though actually a republi-
can, the Communist platform states: "All these
progressives and semi-progressives serve as a
prop Of the present capitalist society and must
be combatted by all honest workers.
The platform brands the official leaders of
the American Federation of Labor as part
ners Of the bosses" and charges them with
sabotaging the work of organizing the unor-
ganized. "They have come out openly" it
states, ''for policy of common exploitation of
all Latin American peoples by the capitalists
and workers of the United States"