The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-01
ConVention Animated by
Real evil to Struggle"

, tlStlCS Will SHOW that many Of them
have just recently joined the revolu-
tionary movement. Less than hall
are Party members, and these are
probably the youngest as far as Party
life is concerned. Behind every ut.
terance, however, you feel the exist
ence OF a mature, undaunted, UNI
flinching, revolutionary spirit. The
result of many years of intense Party
struggles. The difficult years of prep
aration are yielding results.
BroWder speaks. Clear words spoken
with emphasis, Every sentence la
den with meaning. Every paragraph
can be developed into a pahmphlet
Yet the speech is simple Every work
er can understand it. Every worker
will feel its Importance, for it speaks
directly from the very heart of the
working class. At last our Party has
learned how to put important thought
into lucid, understandable words
Such words must and will find re-
| Spouse.
Some phrases impress themselves
on the mind with particular force.
"The issue of the elections is the
issue of work and bread-of life or
death for the workers and farmers"
only the fight of the masses can
win these demands. Every party that
tells the workers to depend upon
representative in Congress to give
these things to them, is fooling the
workers, is trying to keep the work
ers quiet while the capitalists con.
tinue to rob them and Cypress them"
There is no other practical strug-
gle for immediate demands except
the class struggle led by the Com
uunist Party"
The convention listens in tense ST.
lence. Every demand, every powerful
expression is punctuated by an out
burst of applause. Yet the crowd is
disciplined. The transition from a
roar of approval to complete silence
is almost instantaneous.
At times Browder manifests grim
humor. Thus he says about the
"block-aid" plan. -. Pierpont Nor
gan spoke over the radio for it, and
said: You give a dime and 1 give a
dime, and we aoll share equally" or
about the homeless living in holes:
Hundreds of these cities, all over the
country, have very properly paid
homage to the fame and glory of the
Great Engineer in the White House
by adopting the name 'Hooverville'."
The convention breaks out in a
chorus of derisive exclamation.
Laura Osby, Negro working woman
with an outspoken Southern accent,
makes, perhaps, the SgnoSt colorful
speech of the day. She looks plain;
she speaks without orstory; but every
phrase is full of cutting satire, and
she serself is so full of the meaning
and significance of what she is say
ing that she carries these thousand
workers with her like a man. She
speaks about the Negroes as "the
most oppressed nationality" She
points out that never in the history
of the United States has any Negro
had a chance to be nominated for
the presidency until the Com
munist Party came into the field.
Such simple truth-but so full of
historic meaning! And how about
the old capitalist parties? Says Com
rade Osby: 1.-THE difference between
a republican and democrat is this,
that the democrat will set trap
for you while the republican will pull
the trigger" About solidarity be-
tween black and white workers, Laura
Osgy says: when the stomachs are
empty, what difference is there be-
tween one empty stomach and the
other2n Every sentence of the
speaker heightens the spirit of the
delegates; every word is full Of pro-
letarian scorn and proletarian shock
troopers onslaught.
Only the Communist Party could
call TO the front such fighters and
such expression of pre- etarian pride
in-struggle More al a more are COM
ing.