The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
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list War Day, and demonstrate in
their thousands in Union Square as
protest against the coming Hoover
war.
"Not man, not gun, not a
cent for the imperialist army and
navy" demands the Communist
Party. "Abolish the mercenary
army and navy and state militia,
and fight for q toilers' militia" it
advises the workers. "Withdraw L.
S, troops from Latin-America, from
China, from the colonies in the Pa
cific, and give the colonies and
semi-colonial peoples full indepen-
dence," is its program on the colo
NAL question and as a means of
avoiding further Nicaragua cases.
Labor Misleaders.
"New York is a city of supreme
wealth and supreme poverty says
the platform adopted. The Walker
governments place in this city is to
subordinate every bit of official ma
chipery to strikebreaking purposes.
Aiding Walker in this are the be-
trayers of labor, the VOLS, Greens,
Ryans, Hillmans, Schlesingers, Ship
lacoffs, Dubinskys, ETC., whether
they call themselves democratic or
socialist. Against them is a rising
tide of workers militancy, which is
not confined to the city but spreads
throughout the country, from Gas
tonia to Chicago.
The Communist Party, in this cleo
ton campaign carries on the strug-
gle for the workers, against govern
ment by injunction, against Whalen's
new spy system, against the wage
cuts and union smashing, conducted
by the city hall itself.
Workers Insurance.
Along with the fight against
speed-up and unemployment go de-
mands for social insurance paid for
by the employers and the state, and
administered by the workers, insur-
ance for unemployment, accidents
and occupational diseases, and for
old age, with prohibition of danger
Gus methods of manufacture and use
of poisonous substances.
The platform scores the high
rents, firetraps and slums main
tanned for workers under the present
system, and demands new buildings,
and municipal fixing of rents not to
exceed a tenth of the workers in
come.
The Communist Party raises the
only voice in this campaign, explain
ing the maneuvers conducted by
Tammany around the seven cent fare
and fighting flatly for the right of
traction workers to better wages, to
organization, without a raise in
fares.
Real schools and enough of them,
real protection for young and old
women workers, and for full racial,
social and political equality for
Negro workers are part of the de-
mands made by the Communist
Party. Otto Hall, a Negro metal
worker, is the Communist Party
Candidate for City Controller, and
there will be many other Negro
workers running on the Communist
ticket for assemblymen and alder
men.
The convention was opened by
Ben Lifshitz, recently released
from prison, who introduced
Fred Biedenkapp, general manager of
the Independent Shoe Workers
Union of New York, as chairman,
with Harold Williams, director of
the New York Negro Department
of the Communist Party as vice
chairman, and Lena Chernenko,
secretary.
There were numerous greetings
from the spokesman of different or
CARNATIONS including Morris Taft,
chairman of the New York Joint
Board of the Needle Workers In
dustrial Union; from Richard B.
Moore, president of the Harlem
Tenants League; from Michael ODER
meier, organizer of the striking
Cafeteria Workers; George Pershing,
district organizer of the Young
Communist League, New York Dis
trict; Ruth Yukelson, district organi-
yer of the Young Pioneers; Juliet
Stuart Poyntz, secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense, recently
returned from Gastonia, North Caro-
lima; Benjamin Lifshitz, New York
organizer of the Trade Union Educa
tional League; Raymond Clark, of
the Gastonia strikers now in New
York City; j. Louis Engdahl for the
Daily Worker and others.
All the speakers laid stress on the
growing imperialist threat of war
against the Soviet Union in Man
churia and the struggle of the textile