The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-05
Attempt to Outlaw Communist
Party in Chicago

ployed who marched to the City Hall demanding
work. In another case, they stated that candi-
date, Comrade Bella Clinton was the only Negro
woman candidate ever entered in an election
campaign.
In the Negro territory the Communist Party
put up Negro candidates '
In Ward 25 the present alderman, Bowler fas-
cist boss of the Garments Union, has as his only
opponent, Conlrade Guido Gakissi, an Italian
worker There is great possibility that Comrade
Galassi could be elected to the City Council on
the basis of the support he has received already
by the workers of the 25th Ward. The same can
be said of a number of other candidates.
The capitalist class sees danger in the Com
munist Party consolidating political Influence to
utilize the election campaign to mobilize the
working class for the struggle for the Workers
Cocial Insurance Bill and immediate relief for
the unemployed, against mpeyialist weg and in
defense of the Soviet Union under the main
slogan Of "class against class"
That is why the outstanding capitalist politi-
clans are making charges against the candidates
supported by the Communist Party in an at
tempt to prevent the Communist Party from
ganizng and nloblizing the working class in the
struggle against the capitalist class. The at
tempts Of the capitalist class will be fruitless.
First, these attacks will expose the role of the
finance and industrial capital united with the
fascist leadership of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, the gangsters-Al Capone, Moran, Guzicl
and others. 1t will show to the workers very
clearly that there is freedom in the elections only
for cliques Of grafters and politicians and the
treacherous socialist party at the expense of the
working class and that there isfno freedom of
elections for the working class.
The Communist Party takes the offensive
against these new attacks Of the city government
and mobizes the workers to vote OF Feb "a for
the candidates supported by the Communist
Party, by writing their names on the ballot and
by writing, Il vote Communist" in the wards
where there is no candidate of the Party. At the
,3.., tine the Communist Party calls OH all
workers to boycott the primaries of the repubIi-
and democratic parties for mayor.
Workers have no choice between Big Bully
Thompson controlled by insult and supported by
Al capone, Fitzpatrick and Nelson; fascist
Judge Lyle supported by lingo Chicago Tri-
bune," Mccormick family and other well known
exploiters of labor and all reacionary and fascist
organizations in the city; or Albert supported
by rich real estate owners and manufacturers on
the republican ticket Nor can they support
Anton Cerrnak of the democratic party and sup
ported by the capitalist class and trying to win
the support Of Sam insult. All of these candi-
dates, together With the candidate OF the social
ist party, John Collins, are enemies of the work.
ing class and any vote for any of these candi-
dates is a vote for continuance of the present
misery, starvation and hunger Of half million
unemployed; 1t is vote for wage cuts and
speed-up; it is a vote for war on the working
class in the city and vote for war against the
Soviet Union.
The working class in Chicago must answer the
new attacks of the capitalist class organizing
ma, meetings to demand that the Communist
Party candidates be put the ballot, resolutions
| to be passed by organizations and sending them
to the City Election Commission by giving UNI
limited support to the Communist Party can
| didate, organizing Vote Communist Clubs in
every ward, in factories; election campaign COM
mittees in all mass organizations; by collecting
double the $4,000 signatures needed to put the
Communist Party candidates, Otto Wangerin for
mayor, August Poansjoe for city treasurer and
Lydia Bennett for city clerk on the ballot
Vote for the Communist Party will give poll
tical consolidation of the woe,-ing class and is
vote for the Workers Social Insurance Bill:
against police terror, against imperialist war;
| and for defense of the Soviet Union.
| In view of this, the city mass ratification con-
| ference which has been called for Feb. 8th 10 a.
| m in Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chicago Ave,
| assumes special Importance. The working class
| organizations of the city must not only endorse
| the platform and candidates OF the Communist
| Party, the working class organizations the whole
] working class and Negro masses must unite to
defeat the attempts Of the bosses to outlaw the