The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-06

on the day the Communist candidate
arrives.
An energetic campaign is being
made here not only for the national
candidates of the Communist Party,
but also for the local candidates who
are stressing the local issues facing
the thousands of unemployed Negro
and white workers. E. G. Taylor, a
Negro worker, is the Communist
candidate for Congressfnen-at- large
Stanley J. Clark, a renegade, is run
ming against Taylor as respectable"
Democrat, at the same time trying to
give the workers the impfe ssion that
he stands for some "Red IDEAS"
In an active campaign. Clark is
being exposed, along with Gov.
Alfalfa Murray and other denla-
yogic enemies of the workers. Muir
ray was elected by the independent
oil operators of Oklahoma, backed up
by the Tulsa World.
200 Hear Ford in Stamford
STAMFORD, Conn, (By MaiD =
James w. Ford, Negro worker and
candidate for vice president on the
Communist ticket, was greeted with
songs and cheers Il IL e railway
station here by truckload of uni
formed pioneers and a group of
Stamford workers. The pioneers, pre-
ceding the auto in which Ford was
taken to Pythian Hall, drove thru the
main streets singing revolutionary
songs and shouting "vote Communist
for Unemployment Insurance and
against Wage Cuts"
Earlier damned Court
Two hundred workers paid admis-
sion to hear Ford Earlier in the day
many of them had helped TO jam the
city court room where Ceres Willis, a
Negro worker, was being tried on a
charge of intimidation with intent to
kill because ne had tried to organize
the laborers constructing the Long
Ridge state road against 10 hour
day at thirty cents an hour. Ford
cited this as an example to snow
that the Democrats, VINO are in
power i'll Connecticut, carry out the
same capitalist hunger program as
the Republicans.
The beautiful trees and the fine
green lawns of Stamford cannot hide
the suffering Of the unemployed and
part time workers. The chief in
dustry in this town of $4,000 in
habitants is lockmaking, centering in
the Yale and Towne Lock Co. of the
5000 formerly employed, only TOO to
800 left. One Yale and Towne worker
told Ford she makes dollar q day.
She got cut again and again and IS
were laid off in her room alone,
leaving only girls.
Three years ago the present state
Commissioner of Labor Tone, who is
now shedding hypocritical tears over
the sweatshops of New Haven, was
accused by the workers of Yale and
Towne of robbing them of over $4,000,
under the pretense Of organizing them
into the A. F. of L. Tone collected
imitation fees from thousands Of
workers, promising to lead them in
strike. The day on which the strike
was to hive taken place, Tone left
town. During the shipments strike
on the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, the workers dis
covered that Tone was the payroll of
the railroad company. The Demo-
cratic Party and the bosses rewarded
him for these services by making him
state Commissioner Of Labor.
Forced Labor for Relief
One young worker told Ford about
the miserable relief given to the un-
employed workers q, Stamford.
Every morning. the state cops go up
to the town hall and take the workers
waiting there to do outside work to
make up for their relief check" of
about 81 for four days work each
week. The workers are virtually
prisoners.
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