The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
URGES A UNITED
s I R u G GLE ON
HUNGER AND WAR
Fight for Right to Live
This Winter, Says
Candidate

NEW YORK. Hoover says no one
will be allowed to suffer this winter;
we have heard that before from Hoo
yer and last year more rosily than
this year." said William z. Foster,
Communist presidential candidate, in
an interview with the Daily Worker
yesterday. Foster is at his home, re-
operating on doctors orders, from a
serious illness which hindered tenn
porarily his election campaign tour.
The Communist candidate continued:
Hundreds of thousands, millions
will be starving if the Hoover pro-
gram goes through Hunger will be
more intense than ever Foster has
just returned to New York from his
tour which he was compelled to tenn
porarily discontinue as the result of
illness. He In resting at his home.
Sc Day Relief
"The Hoover policy of rugged in
dividualism' and local relief means a
hunger diet of &c per day which pre-
walls in Syracuse; lie day in Bing-
hamton; in the state administered by
Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is one
third of what prisoners get in the
county jails. Hooyer's policy will
even reduce this starvation level. The
Communists will do everything to
stimulate the struggle against this
condition and Hoover'S policy. They
will develop the maximum of forces
through the Unemployed Councils to
organize demonstrations and fight
70 radequate relief and unemployment
insurance.
"There is no doubt that the united
front call issued in Chicago by the
Communist Party will find its echo
in the localities and factories in the
farming regions. This winter will see
the sharpest struggles. Hoover's pol
icy supported by Ntwton D. Baker,
democrat, expressing the policy of big
bankers and of the capitalist parties,
whether republican or democrat, will
drive the workers and farmers to close
ranks as they will realize that only
upon their own resources and activ-
tiles can they escape from the DELHI
crate policy of starvation.
I'm considering the rank and file
call for action and the program of
Hoover, the rank and file will respond
to the call for action. To rely upon
the American Federation of Labor
and Railroad labor chiefs, means to
receive wage cuts"
Bonus Fight Significant
Commenting upon the action of
the American Legion in overwhelm-
ingly reversing the stand of its last
convention and adopting the bonus,
censuring the war department, Foster
stated that: This was an indication
of the deep undercurrent that is
sweeping the rank and file workers,
impoverished farmers and ruined
middle class elements At the same
time, he stated, "to allow the leader
ship of the American Legion to con-
duct the fight, means to ditch the
bonus. The American Legion leader
ship is no more for the bonus than
the A. F. of l.. is for unemployment
insurance, although the latter was
compelled to give lip service to this
popular issue among the workers. The
Legion leaders are only for the bonus
in words. They will make no strug-
gle for it and will attempt to break
up the rank and file movement for
its achievement. The success of the
struggle for tn ebonus lies in the
organization of the rank and file
within the Legion and the establish
ment of united front of struggle
between them and the militant vet
Grams inside the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League. The convention of
the WESL will be signal for more
united and intense struggle for the
fight for the bonus"
Hoover Roosevelt Farm Program
In regard to the question of Roose-
velt's stand on the farmers, Foster
pointed out that the program of
Roosevelt does not depart in any re-
spect from that of Hoover. His vague
assertion and general program is in
line with the policies that have been
put forward by the bankers and grain
trusts from time to time. The farm
ers can find nothing in Roosevelt's
program to lift them out of the deep
going crisis.
Vote Communist
Asked who would win the election
Foster stated that undoubtedly Roo
sevelt would capitalize upon the dis
content of the country. (That is why
he has been put forward with a de-
magogic PLATFORM. Foster stated that
he found no enthusiasm for Roose-
velt's position. He emphasized that
Roosevelt's platform was identified
with that of Hoover's and that there
was choice between tweedledee and
tweedledum. Only by turning against
both Of these parties and taking up
the banner of Struggle under the
leadership Of the Communist Party
could the workers hope for way out