The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-16
California Socialists Want TO
''Make Them Talk in the
Coming Elections
By EVA SHAFRAN.


involved in the political campaign. In "oppo-
sition" to the big business candidate, the
religious maniac, James Roph, Jr they have
as their candidate Upton Sinclair, the "real'
socialist
In circular addressed to "Dear Brothers.
(who is not 'brother" to the "socialists"-
except workers? y they state:
eff labor wants the real issues that inter
ests them discussed (our emphasis) in this
campaign, they will, have to build an opposi-
ton party and this, according to he cir
cular, is the socialist party.
And what more:
"When the socialist party poed a huge
vote in the state of New York, it sent
SILVER c) up the backs of the old (our
empasis-the socialist party, according to
the circular, are the politicians) Give
politicians: they Immediately began to pass
some labor legislation for fear that the
workers would rally to the socialist party
and put into power an administration run
for the benefit of the workers"
Labor Legislation" of Tammany Hall.
The workers of New York will answer the
Socialists" about the "labor legislation the
New York Tammany Hall has introduced
after the "huge socialist vote"
If the socialist party means the abolition
of the jury system in revolutionary work
eds trials; if they mean the increased police
brutality in working class demonstrations;
then they are right. Tammany Hail. as we'll
as the entire capitalist class in this country,
has introduced Especial labor legislation" re-
garding the revolutionary working class
outlawng workers organizations, throwing
leaders of the workers for long years in
Jail, for fear that as result of the deepen
ing of the economic crisis and the worsenng
of the conditions of the workers, the probe
tor; of +Lo ii C+a+o, L.
and deal heavy blows to capitalism.
AS for a Socialist administration that
would the interests Of the workers."
the workers of Milwaukee and Reading, Pa,
can testify.
In California, where unemployment is wide
spread as throughout the country, where
slavery in the agricultural fields exists to
an unimaginable extent, where scores of
working class leaders fill the filthy, lousy
jails for their working class activities, the
workers and poor farmers can expect and
await nothing from the socialist party as
well from the other capitalist parties in
the coming elections.
The only party that the working class and
the laboring farmers can look to in Califor-
MIA as throughout the country, in the coming
elections is the Communist Party.
The Communist Party in California Gas in
the country as whole) is not out "to make
the politicians TALK about unemployment
and other problems and demands of the
working class. On the contrary-we say
enough cheap talk! We were fed with talk
long enough!'
The Communist Party is out for real
| fight for social insurance; fight against
wage cuts, speed up and unemployment, with
| all the mseries it brings upon the working
| masses We are out to fight the vicious
Crip Sod hat
throw scores of working class fighters into
| prisons for long years.
In California, where six leaders of the
| Agricultural Workers Industrial League, the
| Trade Union Unity League, the Internation-
| al Labor Defense and Communist Party are
| in Jail for to AZ year &erms because of
organizing the bitterly exploited agricultural
workers, on the charges of criminal syndcal-
| ism; where workers arrested at DEM
| onstrations or picked up on the streets and
| charged with criminal syndcalism and faced
| with long years of Jail; in California the
fight against criminal syndicalism, the free
dom of the Imperial Valley prisoners and all
other class war prisoners will have to be
a major part of our election campaign.
Workers, Vote for Communist Party.
Workers and working farmers of Califor
| MA rot vote for any of the capitalist
| partes-may it be republican, democrat or
Socialist" They are all alike vote for
the Communist Party is blow against
capitalist oppression; is voting for unem-
ployment and social insurance; is voting
against the beastly criminal syndicalism
laws is voting for the freedom of the I'M
perial Valley prisoners, condemned to AZ
years in Jail!
This is the message that must reach hum
| dreds of thousands of workers and labortng
farmers in the state Of California during
the present election campaign. For this we
must organize, strengthen our Party appa-
ratus, modifying the whole membership and
all militant workers in the coming two-three
months.
That we can mobilize masses of workers,
working farmers behind the election pro-
gram of our Party becomes clear when we
look upon the miseries facing the tong
masses in this part of the country. The
workers will listen to the word of our Par
ty in this state if we will only come to
them in time, and talk to them-only bring
| them our message.