The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-15
Communist Municipal Slogan
Glass Against Glass;

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! workers in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Raymond Clark, now gathering
strike funds in New York City, re-
ceived big ovation, especially when
he stressed the unity of white and
Negro workers.
226 Delegates Seated.
There were 226 delegates repre-
senting tens of thousands of work
ers in the militant working class or
CARNATIONS of the city as well as
the units of the Communist Party.
The speech nominating William
W. Weinstone, district organizer of
the Party, for mayor, was made by
Morris Taft and seconded by Rich
ard B. Moore, president of the Har-
lem Tenants League. There was
no opposing nominee and Weinstone
was named by reclamation.
GLASS Against Class"
In his address of acceptance,
Comrade Weinstone raised the slo-
gan of "Class Against Glass" for
the approaching political struggle,
at the same time reminding the dele
gates that the Communist Party has
no illusions about obtaining control
Iof the capitalist state thru the
ballot.
"Not pieces of paper but the class
war will overthrow capitalismn he
said.
Weinstone was made chairman
and Sam Darcy secretary of the
platform committees, while Comrade
Alexander headed the resolutions
committee, Rebecca Grecht the COM
mittee on ways and means, and
Morris Taft the nominations COM
mittee.
William Weinstone next delivered
the report of the platform COM
mittee.
Weinstone Outlines Sharpening
Struggles.
Weinstone pointed out the world
wide sharpening of the class strug-
gle, the growing exploitation and
suppression of the workers, and con-
nected these with the growing
danger of imperialist war on the So
Wet Union, which is now the con-
Germ of every worker.
War is actually at hand" he said.
"The workers must rally to the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union, the So
cialist fatherland of the proletariat."
Showing up the Walker and Roose-
welt administration as a strike-break-
ing government and Hoover as head
of the government of efficient
mobilization for war;" Weinstone
said that "the socialist party, the
small business mems party, is the
ally of these capitalist hirelings."
Attacks Whalen's Spy System.
He attacked czarist spy system
established by Whalen as a new,
more heinous institution for crush
ing the militant labor movement"
Rent profiteering, the school and
housing situation were paid special
attention in his speech, as was I'M
employment.
"New Orleans and Gastonia are
red streaks across the sky, illumin-
ating the growing chasm between
labor and capital, showing that the
workers in America are marching
along the path of the world prole-
tariat for an offensive against the
bosses.
"Only the overthrow of capital
ism, the establishment of the rule
of the workers through a Soviet
form of government, can emancipate
the working class from the sham
bles of war and from the horrors
of the wage system"
The credentials committee brought
forward a list of 152 delegates from
the units and the district executive
committee of the Communist Party,
20 from the militant trade unions,
including the marine, food, shoe,
needle trades workers. unions; dele
gates representing the American
Negro Labor Congress, the Harlem
Tenants League, the United Council
,of Working Women, the Trade
Union Educational League, various
workers clubs and the international
Labor Defense, total of 226 dele
gates, who were seated without a
dissenting voice. In addition, many
fraternal delegates were present in
the hall.
Discussion Over Platform.
A broad discussion was brought
out when Sam Darcy, speaking for
the platform committee, elaborated
on the planks of the class struggle
platform, which was adopted unani-
Imously and referred to an editorial
committee.
Seven resolutions were presented
by the committee on resolutions
dealing exhaustively with the Trade
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