The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-07
By BURCK

they have answered with terror;
the Party section organizer was
kidnapped and whipped and is now
being bounded from place to place;
he telegraphs that the signatures
will be filed in accordance with
the laws on Tuesday, Sept. 6. Here
we may expect further legal bat
tie.
WISCONSIN-this progressive
LaFollete Socialist state, the State
that prides itself on it's liberal
isn," is among the dirtiest in its
efforts to keep the revolutionary
Party of the workers off the ballot.
BY an Interpretation of the cleo
ton laws given by the LaFollette
Attorney General, the Communist
Party must secure 10000 signatures
in order to win a place on the bal
lot. Our comrades now have one
third this number on hand and
emphatically declare that before
october THE last filing date
they will answer the Socialists" and
the "ProgreSSives" with many moe
than the required 10000 signatures.
1t is this spirit that the Socialist
failed to take into consideration
when they started their whispering
campaign about the Communists
only being on tn beallot in IL or
IA States"
IDAHO.-Here it is necessary to
hold a convention of two hundred
delegates with representatives from
all counties before September 18th;
our organizers at work in the State
declare that the convention will be
carried through and electors named
and duly filed before that time. We
will see whether they can do it.
OREGON.-H ere the require
mentS were increased from 1000 to
1000 signatures in an effort to keep
us off the ballot; but the local COM
rades with only 26 members in
Portland are working night and day
with the help of comrades from
Washington; the last reports showed
that they had reached 1000, were
still going strong, and determined to
go over the top. They made good
fight and deserve to win.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thou
sand signatures are required and a
State convention was held with 81
delegates present; the drive for
signatures is now onl somewhere
about 5000 signatures have been
secured; the balance must be got
ten before october fifth. Work
here must be speeded up; Chicago
must give help Missouri, despite
the difficulties, must be put over.
NORTH CAROLINA-Here 10000
signatures are required to place the
Party on the ballot, according to the
Interpretation of the election laws
given by the Attorney General;
electors have been secured; petit
lions are being circulatedfi and
legal battle has started in an eff
fort to force che printing Of our
electors on the ballot.
SOUTH CAROLINA.-Here elect
ors have been secured and will be
certified to the Secretary, of State
Committee of the Communist Party;
a legal fight will most likely be
necessary here also to force our way
on to the ballot
MISSISSIPPI.-A convention is
the only requirement; our conven-
tons is now being organized; elect
ors are being secured. Here it may
be possible to get on the ballot.
Out of the last eight states
named we must get on the ballot
in minimum of five-most likely
Kentucky, Wisconsin. Idaho, Oregon
and Missouri-to reach our minim-
UNI goal of 40 States.
California, Kansas, Louisiana and
Nevada are lost. In these states
we failed to get ON the ballot be-
cause of failure to really inves-
tigate the election laws in time and
to an opportunist capitulation to the
obstacles thrown up by our en-
emies. In Oklahoma, after having
suffered defeat, the comrades are
trying to retrieve themselves by
new drive for signatures with the
aid of a legal battle.
This survey OF tho, situation shows !,
that there issstill a. lighting dhanoe