The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
FOSTER, GITLOW PLACED
ON TICKET IN COAL AND
STEEL KINGDOM OF u. S.
William J. White, Steel Worker, Named Red
Candidate for Senate
Communist Ticket Now On Ballot In 16 States;
Plan Active Campaign

Another great industrial
stronghold, the state of
Pennsylvania, the center of the
steel and coal industry and the
scene of some of the greatest
conflicts in American history
between the employing classes
and the workers, has been
placed on the Communist ballot
according to a telegraphic
report received at the Com
munist National Campaign
headquarters, 43 East 125th
Street, yesterday.
With the addition of Penn
sylvania, the Communist ticket
is now on the ballot in Is
states, the others being,
Delaware, West Virginia, Mary
land, Michigan, Illinois, Texas,
Montana, Arizona, New Jersey,
Iowa, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas,
New Mexico and South Dakota.
Strikers Collect Signatures.
One Of the outstanding features
of the success in placing the Com
munist ticket in this reactionary
semi-feudal barony of the Mellon
family in Pittsburgh and the Ware
machine in Philadelphia is that
most of the 5000 signatures
required were secured from, and
collected by, striking miners, only
comparatively few of them being
members of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
The enthusiasm with which these
embattled workers entered into the
drive to place the Party ticket on
the ballot was due to the active
part played by the Communist
Party on the side of the striking
coal diggers in their long struggle to
maintain the Jacksonville scale and
the working standards they had won
in previous fights with the coal
barons. Not only were the Com
munists active on the picket line, and
lin organizing the ranks demoralized
by the treachery of the Lewis
Pagan machine of the United Mine
Workers of America; not only We're
they in the front ranks of the
struggle, rallying the men and
women to sterner resistance against
the employers and the state gov
ernment, but they took a leading
part in supplying the miners and
their dependents with the necessities
of life which enabled then to stand,
out for fifteen months against
starvation and persecution.
Communist Party Wins Workers.
The National Election Campaign
Committee calls attention to this
fact and points out that only thru
participation in the struggle of the
workers against the employing
classes can a revolutionary party
be built up. While the Workers
(Communist) Party has won the
enthusiastic support of the miners
in Pennsylvania, the Socialist Party
has fallen into a state of complete
decentralization as is evidenced by
the surrender of his position as
president of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor by James
Maurer, socialist candidate for vice
president to John Casey, a reaction
ary labor faker AMI congressman
from the anthracite region on the
G.. o. P. ticket.
Though the final date for the
filing of petitions is September
5th Max Jenkins, of Pittsburgh,
campaign manager was able to file
5000 signatures at Harrisburg on
August 2Sth, five hundred more than
the needed number.
Labor Party for Foster. Gitlow.
Not only is the national ticket of
the Workers q ,mmunist) Party on
the ballot in ennsylvania but the
ticket is alsol Siorsed by the Penn
sylvania Lab ocParty, and acknow-
Judgement Z ashis action has been
received FRI sh,he secretary of state
by the Ma steal Election Campaign
COMMITTEE so,The Workers Com
munist) rty agreed not to
nominate y other candidate either
for state Nt4fice or for congress and
to give its support to the Labor
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