The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-14
PENNSYLVANIA AND MINNIE
SOTA STATE CONVENTIONS

I'm Sunday, July 10JI, Jhe COMMUNIST AIRY
" of Pennsylvania and Minnesota held their
state conventions to ratify the election plat
form and candidates for the coming elections
These conventions must not be viewed as mere
gatherings for "pure and simple" parlia-
mentary campaign. They are notifications
for struggle. They are means through which
the Communist Party wants to utilize the field
of revolutionary parliamentarism in order to
expose the true nature of capitalist democracy;
in order to prepare and lead the workers and
farmers for struggle against wage cuts
against bosses terror, against the expropra-
ton of the farmers by finance capital. The
conventions had seriously to consider the pol
itical situatio, in these two states and the
economic conditions of the workers and farm
ers.
MELONS, State.
The capitalist brutality and corruption of
the Pennsylvania state machine controlled by
the steel trust and the Pennsylvania Railroad
is known not only to the workers of this coun-
try but to the workers of the entire world
The armies of MELONS private thugs and coal
and iron police continue to kill and slaughter
workers and their families. In no other section
of the country has the judicial and police state
machine pursued such an open ike-breaking
course The persecution of foreign-born work
ers, imprisonment of workers for their militant
class activity, raiding of headquarters of the
revolutionary workers organizations breaking
up of workers demonstrations killing strik-
ers, smashing picket lines are characteristic
of the bosses rule in the State of Pennsylvania
The convention likewise exposes the role of
the A. F. of L. and the socialist party in the
state of Pennsylvania. Still fresh in the mem
DRY of the workers remain the betrayals of
the United Mine Workers of America, the
trEachery Of the International Longshore-
mems Association, the recent A. F. of L. be-
travail of the Pittsburgh Taxicab drivers, the
cooperation of the A. F. of L. and the police
in framing up workers, all of which proves
the strke-breaking and fascist role of the
A. F. Of L.
Especially must we intensity the struggle
against the socialist party, which pursues a
no less treacherous and strike breaking course
The hosiery workers strike in Kensington,
Pa, is good example Of the role and purpose
of the Musteites and the socialist party. The
heroic hosiery strikers were stabbed in the
back and openly betrayed through the Music
socialist policy of non-mass picketing, arbit-
rations and cooperation with the Davis repub-
lican state machine.
Social-Fascists Smash Strike.
Still more outstanding is the role of the
socialist city administration in Reading, Pa.
There the socialists jailed workers who col
lected strike relief, broke up meetings, smashed
strikes and openly co-operated with the bosses.
The fact that the Communist state ratifica-
ton convention took place in the socialist con-
trolled city Of Reading, Pa, marks the be-
ginning OF delivering a death blow and expos
ing in all its nakedness the aims of the social
list party and establishing more firmly the
influence and organization of our Party.
The election campaign must reflect the de-
yeloping struggles of the workers in Pennsyl-
vania. We must take into special considera-
ton the discomfort and the coming struggles
of the 100000 anthracite miners against wage
cuts and the betrayals of Lewis; the miners in
the bituminous field, the movement of organi-
cation among the steel workers. The Party
has now an opportunity to raise the economic
struggles of the workers to a higher political
level The campaign for the Party platform
and candidates means a fight for the legal
existence of our Party, a fight against the
police terror and the Lewis thugs, fight for