The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-27
FOSTER, FROM
PRISON, CALLS
FOR CLASS WAR
Accepting Nomination
Urges Election Fight

| resist wage cuts, increasing speed
up and exploitation.
On the contrary, the coming cleo
lions offer splendid opportunity to
organize the masses of disconnected
workers, to awaken their class con-
sciousness, to unite them under the
leadership of the Communist Party
for struggle against capitalism. For
the first time our Party was ac-
cepted by great masses Of workers
lover a million) as their leader. The
PARTY must enter the present cleo
ton campaign with the utmost vigor.
American and world capitalism is
today, in deep economic crisis
which capitalism can't solve. Over
100000 workers are now unem-
ployed and the number is increas-
ing. Millions of men, women and
children are forced to starve. New
York state has it's full share of
these, over 100000. The lies of
Hoover and his agents can't conceal
this crisis. With the approach of
fall and the shutting down of out
side work, undoubtedly industry will
drop into far deeper sag than that
of last winter.
The bosses are putting the burden
of the crisis on the workers. The
unemployed are forced to starve.
The speed-up is increasing. Wages
are slashed. The tax burden is more
and more shifted by direct and in
direct means on to the backs of the
workeN and poor farmers. To
break the resistance and militancy
of the workers, to destroy their
spirit of struggle for better con-
ditions, the bosses are resorting
more and more to fascist means of
terror and suppression. A wide
campaign of terror and lynching is
initiated by the bosses against the
Negro workers.
To the demands Of the millions of
unemployed fighting under the
leadership Of the Communist Party
and the revolutionary trade unions
for work or wages and social insur-
ance, the bosses have answered with
an investigation of Communist &C
tivity in the United States. This
is only a part of the general cam
paign of the bosses to defeat the
workers by crushing the revolution
airy leadership of the working class,
the Trade Union Unity League and
particularly the Communist Party.
Free speech and free assembly
have become only memories. The
right to organize and to strike are
being rapidly liouidated. When the
workers strike, they confront iniunc-
tions, police, and armed private
thugs. Their leaders are jailed by
hundreds and given ferocious SEN
fences. Powers and Carr in Georgia
actually facing the electric chair for
organizing white and colored work
"rs, while the Doheneys, Falls, etc,
-obbers of hundreds of millions, go
rec. The courts brazenly show
heir capitalist class character.
When the unemployed demand re-
EFF they are ridden down by mounted
1olice or insulted by Governor
Rcosevelt's pauperising old age PEN
: on bill or by Wagner's hypocritical
oil to take a census of unemployed.
Night sticks bread lines, jails, fake
satisfies, are the capitalist answer
70 the unemployed. In New York
he Tammany Hall administration,
t. expression of IT, reaction and
terror of the bosses is clubbing and
killing workers because they dare
to demonstrate against unen1ploy-
ment. Whalen, the Chamber of
Commerce, and all other agencies of
the bosses have forged documents in
order to discredit the Communist
Party and to create war sentiment
against tUG SONlcI OHlOiis
In the present bosses attacks
against the workers they have in
listed the support of the American
Federation of Labor and the Social
list Party. The American Fedora
ton of Labor, the vice-president Of
the American Federation of Labor
has united with the most bitter open
shop and fascist enemies Of the
working class. The American Fed
Grafton of Ishor and its history of
countless betrayals of the struggles
Of workers, has today proven very
clearly and definitely to the "''tire
American working class that in its
policy and reactionary leadership il
is an openly fascist and bureaucrat
organization working hand and
glove with the bosses against the
working class.
While the United States is the
scene Of paralyzed industry, mass
unemployment, and growing fascist
terrorism, world capitalism shows a
similar picture of crisis. The vari-
Gus capitalist countries driven on by
internal crisis and an Unsuitable
thirst for markets and world con-
troll, come into violent conflict with
each other. They fight by building
tariff walls against each other, by
building up larger armies and navies
and ruthlessly suppressing the col
onial people. They are now partic
ularly preparing a war against the