The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-27

the workers. In England, the LABOR
Party now shows the classical role
of the socialists and is trying to
drown the Indian revolution in blood.
In Berlin, on the first of May year
ago, the Socialist chief of police,
Zoergiebel, completely outdid Wha-
len by having his police murder
thirty demonstrating workers. The
Socialist Party in every capitalist
country is the bridge to the estab-
lishment of the fascist dictatorship
of capitalism.
The Communist Party is the sole
Party which defends the interests Of
the working class. 1t alone has a
program both to defend the interests
of the workers now under capitalism
and to ultimately smash the capital
list system and emancipate the work
ers. The Communist Party is the
American Section Of the Cono'''',,2ist
international. The election program
of our Party represents the basic i'll
terests and demands of the workers.
1t is a program which every class
conscious worker should support.
While fighting for the immediate
interests Of the workers, the Com
munist Party warns the American
workers not to have any illusions
that capitalism can be reformed OF
that the misery of the workers can
be completely abolished under the
rule of the bosses. Only the pro-
letarian revolution can completely
emancipate the working class.
The coming elections must there
fore serve as a mobilization and pre-
paration of the American workers
to prepare themselves for -'-'-'~~la
against capitalism. In this election
campaign we must fight for unem-
ployment, insurance, for social in
surance against old age, sickness,
accidents, protection of women, etc.
For the seven-hour day 5-day week.
The six-hour day for young workers.
We must fight against the iniunc-
ton, the criminal syndicalist law,
for the right to strike, picket and
defend themselves from the attack
of the bosses and their thugs. We
must demand the release of all
political prisoners. The adjustment
of all criminal syndicalist laws and
all other class legislation prepared
by the bosses against the workers.
One of the great tasks that now
faces the American workers in this
election campaign is to fight against
race discrimination, segregation and
all discriminatory laws of capitalism
used against the Negro workers. We
must fight for the vigorous suppress
sion of lynchings. The defense of
the Negro workers against the ter
ror of the white ruling class must
be the task of the entire American
working class. Against the feverish
war preparations of the bosses we
must mobilize the toiling masses to
fight imperialist war, and to defend
the Soviet Union.
Tho the bosses succeeded in put
ting me and other members of the
New York delegation of the March
9th Demonstration of the Unem-
ployed, together with hundreds of
other working class fighters, in jail,
they will not succeed in breaking our
revolutionary determination a n d
loyalty to the working class.
While we are kept in Jail we see
the working class, under the leader
ship of the Communist Party and
the revolutionary trade unions con-
tinuiug the struggle against canital-
ism and for the program of the
Communist Party. No matter what
brutality and terrorism the bosses
might use they will not succeed in
breaking our confidence in the
heroic revolutionary struggles of
the masses.
The workers must answer the
bosses by joining the Communist
Party, by making this Party mass
Communist Party of revolutionary
action, and by building up the Trade
Union Unity League.
All the bosses terror and reaction
will be wined aside by the revolu-
tionary struggle and sacrifices of
the workers, and in the place of the
blood thirsty oppressive capitalist
system, living upon the sweat and
toll of the millions of workers and
farmers, there will be established
a Workers and Farmers Govern
ment.
With Revolutionary Greetings,
(signed) WILLIAM z. FOSTER.