The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-05
A LETTER FROM PRISON ON
APPROACHING ELECTIONS

of the workers, despite threats against the
even now shamefully low standards of the poor
farmers crushed by burdens of taxes and mort
cages, despite capitalist governmental fury
against the rising working class and threats
to take away more of their so-called rights and
to prosecute the Communists-the struggle
will go on!
Glass Against Class.
The election campaign must be the vehicle
for mobilizing the militant workers of New
York State for struggle With the program
of struggle and under the leadership of the
fighting Communist Party, we must put up our
slogan against all the enemies of the working
class-the capitalist class and its government,
the A. F. of L. offcialdom, the socialist party,
Music and Communist renegade groups-the
slogan of class against class!
In this struggle we must pay particular at
tention to the masses of exploited Negro work
ers, women and men. The treachery of their
bourgeois race leaders, their continued betrayal
by the A. F. of L. and S. P, the unending ex-
ploitation of these masses, discrimination, jim
growing ETC., have awakened these workers.
Through the struggles conducted by the Com
munists throughout the country in behalf of
the Negro masses, uniting them in struggle
with the white workers, the Communist Party
has demonstrated in action that it is the sole
champion of the Negro race.
Keenly remembering the demonstrations of
March 9Th and May list, with their issues and
slogans, with their police terror and cossack-
ism and capitalist persecution of the masses,
we must go into the election campaign with
the following issues coming from the struggle
of the workers against capitalism:
l. For unemployment insurance
2. For the 7-hour day, 5-day week.
3. For the unrestricted right of free speech,
free press and free assemblage.
4. For the unrestricted right of the workers
to use the streets and squares of the vities.
5. For the unrestricted right of all workers
to organize, strike and picket; complete and
immediate abrogation of the use of injunctions;
abolition of the yellow dog contract.
6. Full economic an@social equality for the
Negroes.
7. Against the persecution of the foreign
born workers.
8. Immediate abolition of the criminal
anarchy law.
The workers suffering from the oppression
of capitalism must be modified for the strug-
gle for these issues and for their immediate
enactment into law
Against Imperialist War.
We must recognize however, that the strug-
gle against this oppression is also the struggle
against the preparations of the imperalist
governments for new world war; particularly
against the Soviet Union. Therefore our
struggle against the capitalist class and its
lackeys in the fight of class against class in
the struggle against imperialist and war
preparations and for defense of the Soviet
Union.
Our aim must be the overthrow of the de-
structive, life-crushing capitalist system and
the establishment of Workers and Farmers
government in the United States.
Comrade Delegates and Workers of New
York State. All forces must be modified in
the election campaign. Every nook of the state
must be reached with our propaganda and or
ganizaton. Our Party literature for workers
and poor farmers, the Daily Worker, leaflets
and pamphlets must reach every city and viii
lage. We must build up the revolutionary in
dustrial unions and leagues of the Trade Union
Unity League. And above all we must build
up the Communist Party and Young Com
munist League, drawing in young, militant
white and colored workers, men and women,
of city and land. Election campaign commit
tees - united front organizations - must be
formed in every shop, factory, store farm,
ETC., in every union (also of the A. F. of L.,
club, fraternal organization, etc. The whole
revolutionary working class must be modified
and activized for and in the campaign.
Forward, Comrades, to work, with the con-
seriousness that only the Communist Party and
the Communist International under the banner
of Marxism- Leninism can free the working
class from the oppressive power of capitalism.
Fraternally,
NEW YORK UNEMPLOYED DELEGATION
VIM. z. Foster,
Israel Amter,
Robert Minor,
James Harold Raymond