The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-31
Our Election Campaign and
November

munism This is recognized by the capitalist
powers. A change in tactics to conform with
this situation had to be adopted Therefore, the
cause for the chronic unemployment for the
increased speed-up, lay-offs, wage cuts, starva-
ton and death of American workers is placed
not on the capitalist class in the United States
but on the advance of the Soviet Union.
Every wage Garner in countries outside of
the Soviet Union as well as every owner of
property has reason to view the newest pro-
gram of the Soviet government one de-
vised to subject him to poverty, humiliation
and the economic martyrdOm decreed by Lenin
as preliminary to general political chaos"
To remove unemployment and reestablish
prosperity" necessitates war on the Soviet
Union-is the call of the Public Ledger. The
Communist Party in Pennsylvania must speci-
fically use this propaganda and expose the base
ness of these arguments-the evils of capital
isn-the cause for unemployment by connect
ing it up with the daily occurrences in the fac
tories of our district This must become vital
part of our election campaign to rally the
workers not only for struggle for unemploy
ment insurance, against wage cuts, lay-offs,
speed-up but also to make the slogan of Defend
the Soviet Union one the workers can fully
understand
Conditions in Pennsylvania.
The workers of Pennsylvania are becoming
more dissatisfied discontented with condi-
tons than ever before Daily the capitalist
newspapers list cases of suicide of desperate
workers. Riots and cubbings of Philadelphia
workers looking for work in front of the Victor
Radio Plant. Evictions increasingly The condi-
tons in the factories sharpen the struggles of
the workers and expose the fake prosperity"
eI,<r - kl,1 tl,4 al
these conditions. ,,s.
The Builds automobile plant in Philadelphia
is practically closed down with only half the
workers employed after forced vacation The
Ford plant in Chester working at 80 to 40 per
cent capacity transferred a number of workers
to the Philadelphia plant. But here too the
workers are being laid off and the factory faces
a shutdown. In the Victor Radio the night
shift employing nearly 10000 workers, laid off
the workers-and then began to rehire the same
workers and others at Is cents cut in the hourly
rate In the textile plants of Kensington, the
% per cent wage cut put over by the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Worker bureaucrats in unity
with the bosses is creating great discomfort and
exposing the social fascist leadership of the
union. The sell-out agreement of the I. L. A.
on the Philadelphia waterfront under which the
ongshoremen work at starvation wages two and
three days week-w mean still further
worsening of these conditions
How to Link Them Up.
Z Can these conditions of the workers in Penn
sylvania be exposed in the light of the condi-
lions of the workers in the Soviet Union and
thus make the workers recognize that the enemy
is not the Soviet Union but the American CAPT.
talist class? Can we on the basis of these con-
crete examples, in the factories codnteract the
campaign against the Soviet Union and win the
American workers for the defense Of the Soviet
Union?
Concreteness is necessary in this work We
have been satisfied in the past in speaking OF
the achievements of the Soviet Union by max
ing general statements--but failing in each fac
tory where work is being conducted to tie 1T
up with the conditions of the workers in the
specific factory. In the present election cam
paign we must begin this work.