The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-31
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Offer Hope to
Toiling Masses
By JOHN ]. WATT.

On the sixth day of November, the
workers will march to the polls to
cast their votes for one candidate or
the other, hoping that by that act
they may help bring about better
conditions for themselves and their
families. They are hoping almost
against hope, because of the bitter
experiences they have had in this
prosperous" nation during the last
few years, where especially in the
mining districts, starvation, prose
cution have been their lot. All of
this has been brought about under
the administration of republican and
democratic politicians, who now are
asking to be returned to office to
continue the prosperity" that does
not exist SO far as the working class
is concerned.
The Political Parties, and Their
Candidates. Whom Do They
Represent?
/ find the rank and file workers
in the mining strike areas have a
much clearer understanding of what
faces them politically than do the
workers of other sections who have
not faced the injunctions, evictions,
clubbings, jailings and starvation.
The republican party with it's man
Hoover, is very repugnant to them.
Prosperity is mythical issue to
them,-it does not exist so far as
they are concerned, and with such
support behind the republican party
as Wall Street, Big Doodle, Nom
Union Bosses and Labor Traitors,
the workers see no hope for them in
that party. They view as an "Un-
holy Alliance" the trinity of John L.
Lewis, Andy Mellon and John D.
Rockefeller, lined up behind Hoover.
Haven't they suffered enough under
Lewis, Mellon, and John D. Rookie
Teller in Colorado, Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania.
Workers Have Their Number.
Do these not all stand for Com
pany Unions, and huge monopolies
of capital, for no interference with
Big Business? Sure they do and
the workers have their number.
Millions of workers in America at
the present time are unemployed;
union after union is now being
smashed under the republican adj
ministration aided on the industrial
field by it's trusted labor ,lieuteaants
Of the Lewis type. When the work
ers endeavor to break away from the
old unions that have been sold out
and can no longer serve them be-
cause of the traitors who rule them,
we see this same treacherous leader
ship backed up by the political adj
ministration, with the use of police
and thugs, attempting to prevent the
workers from organizing unions that
will serve them. No clearer demon
stration as to the alignment OF the
labor leadership and the open-shop
politicians is needed than that which
was exposed in Pittsburgh on Sep
TENDER 9, 1928 when the militants
within the miners union (many of
whom had been thrown out of the
old u. M. w. Al met to form real
| fighting union. The reaction airy Of
ficialdom, police and gunmeni tried
to prevent them from doing so. This
was indeed complete exposure and
Ian open confession that John l..
Lewis and Andy MELONS Pittsburgh
police were out for one and the same
cause industrially, as they now are
out for the one and the same cause
politically. Coupling all this with
the iniunctions served, with the eli b.
bings from the cossacks and mine
notice. arrests, evictions, barracks
and starvation, is it any wonder
that the workers in the strike areas
are "off" the present administra-
| ton?
Brown Derby Tammany AL.
On the other hand many workers
are deceived by the campaign put
ON by the democratic party, by their
fake 18th amendment plank, their
sidewalks of New York" candidate.
They are deceived by desire to get
rid of republican rule at any cost.
Yes. the workers are being deceived
and many no doubt will cast vote
for AL Smith, the other Gold Dust
Twin of Wall Street.
What does the democratic party
hold out for to the workers! Moth
ING. It's candidates are supplied with
funds from the same sources as the
republican party, Wall Street. The
truth is that their reports for dona-
tions to the campaign (republican
contributions show the same) almost
without exception enumerate dona-
tons from $4,000 to $4,000 which
come from big business. Further,
more, the gigantic monopolies ana
corporations are equally backing
both parties and some OF the largest
scab coal operators in America are
lined up behind the campaign OF Al
Smith and the democratic party. Can
that kind of an alliance offer any
hone to the toilers of America?
Isn't it fact that in the demo-
cratic state of Ohio, under demo-
cratic governor, the militia was used
AGAINST our mine workers, that our
women folks were lodged in Jail, that
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