The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-14
WRITERS IN
SUPPORT OF
COMMUNISTS
Biggest Names in Art
Literature and
Education
SCORE BOSS PARTIES
Pledge Support to
Foster and Ford
SCORE BOSS PARTIES

NEW YORK.-A group of educa-
tors, writer's, architects and artists
issued call today for the formation
Of committees throughout the coun-
try in support in the national cleo
tons of the Communist Party and
it's candidates, VIM. z. Foster and
James w. Ford" The call signed by
the group including Lincoln Steffens,
Winifred L. Chappell, Executive Sec
rotary, Methodist Federation of So
cial Service; Prof. Newton Arvin,
Smith College; Sidney Howard,
author of "They Knew What They
Wanted" Pulitzer Prize winner;
Prof. Frederick L. Schunan, Univer-
sity of Chicago; Bruce Crawford,
editor, "Crawford's Weekly, Norton,
Va; Sherwood Anderson, John Dos
Passos, Theodore Dresser, novelists;
Adolf Dehn, Alfred Frueh, artists
and Maxwell Hyde, architect, stated,
chat the only effective way to pro-
test against the chaos, the appalling
wastefulness, and the understandable
misery inherent in the present eco
nomic system is to vote for the Com
munist candidates"
The statement in full reads:
"We are convinced that both the
Republican and Democratic Parties
represent the interests of the mon
eyed classa~ that is, of the big man.
ufacturers, capitalists, and bankers,
and not the interests of the people
at large; that there is no way out
of the crisis through either of them.
Both parties are hopelessly corrupt,
and both will try to save the profits
of the rich at the expense Of the rest
OF the population.
"The socialists aim, in theory, to
abolish the present system, but are
doing nothing to organize a labor
movement by which this may be &C
eomplished. They have no con-
vincing plan. And the example of
the British and German socialists is
far from reassuring. In Great Bri-
tain and Germany, the socialists
went to the side of the rich as soon
as the capitalist state seemed in dan
ger.
Vote Communist.
"We believe that the only effective
way to protest against the chaos, the
appalling wastefulness, and the in
describable misery inherent in the
present economic system is to vote
for the Communist candidates.
1.-THE Communist Party alone is
working to educate and organize the
classes dispossessed by the present
system, SO as to make them an eff
Gent instrument for establishing a
new society based on equal oppor-
tunity to work, equable distribution
of income, and ownership by the
people of the national resources.
Form Committees.
"We therefore pledge our support
in the national elections to the Com
munist Party and its candidates,
Vim. 2. Foster and James w. Ford
and call upon all educators, writer's,
engineers, social workers, artists, ar
chitects and intellectuals in general
to join us in this move and form
Foster and Ford Committees thru
out the country"
(Signed)
Sherwood Anderson, Newton Arvin,
Emjo Basshe, Slater Brown, Erskine
Caldwell, Robert Cantwell, Winifred
l.. Chapel, Lester Cohen, Louis Col
man, Lewis Corey, Henry CoWell,
Malcolm Cowley, Bruce Crawford, H.
w. l.. Dana, Adolph Dehn, Alfred
Frueh, Miriam Allen De Ford, How
ard N. Doughty, Jr., John Dos Passos,,
Theodore Dresser, Waldo Frank,
Murray Goodwin, Horace Gregory,
Louis Grudin, John Hermann, Gran
vile Hicks, Sidney Hook, Sidney
Howard, Langston Hughes, Maxwell
Hyde, Orrick Johns, Matthew JOS
ephson, Alfred Kreymborg, Louis
Lozowick, Grace Lumpkin, Felix Nor
row, Samuel Ornitz, James Rorty, Is
idor Schneider, Edwin Seaver, Fred
erick L. Schuman, Norman Simpson,
Lincoln StefIens, Charles R. Walker,
Edmund Wilson, Ella May Winter
Robert Whitaker.