The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-21
PLATFORM
UP FIRST AT
NOMINATING
CONVENTION
Jobless Insurance
Main Issue; Negro
Leader to NOmi-
nate Foster

The National Nominating Con-
Vention called by the Commu-
mist Party will open here at 10
q. m, May %, at Peoples Au-
ditorium.
The big hall will be packed with hun
dreds OF delegates from workers mass
organizations OF every sort, particu-
larly from unions, A large section
OF the delegates will be, however,
from local conferences, which have
been held or are now being held. in
practically every large industrial city
in the country. The local conferences
are made up of representatives of
union locals, shop groups, shop COM
1nittees, organized opposition move
ments in unions led by reactionary
officials and every variety of work
ers' organizations; clubs, fraternaI Or
ders, cultural societies, sports organ
izations, Unemployed Councils, mu-
tual aid ana insurance and language
organizations, eX-sericemen's organ
izations, etc.
From certain sections of the coun-
try. the delegates will arrive in
body; in caravans of trucks, and from
the Atlantic states, the Anthracite and
parts Of Ohio, hundreds Of delegates
will arrive on & special train over the
Erie R.R. The train leaves New York
at noon, May 27, and stops at Sus-
quehana, jamestown, Youngstown and
Akron, to pick up delegates.
Proposed Order of Business
The Communist Party proposes the
following order of business to the con-
vention.
In the first session Of the conven-
ton, Earl Browder, OF the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
will report on the proposals Of the
Party for a national campaign plat
form, and will submit the draft plat
form, adopted by the Central Com
mittee and printed in full in the
Daily Worker dated April %. The
planks il this platform are:
l. Unemployment and Social III
surance at the expense Of the state
and the employers
?. Against Hoover's wage cutting
policy.
3 Emergency relief for the poor
farmers without restrictions by the
government and banks, exemption of |
poor farmers from taxes, and from
forced collection of rents or debts
4. Equal rights for the Negroes
and self-determination for the Black
Belt.
5. Against capitalist terror; against
all forms of suppression Of the po-
ltieal rights of the workers.
6. Against imperialist war; for the
defense Of the Chinese people and of
the Soviet Union,
Discussion on the platform will con-
tinue until p. m, at which time it
is proposed to take a vote on its
adoption.
Big Hall
The second session OF the conven-
ton will open at p. N. in the Col
iseum, where the hall heats $4,000.
1t is expected that the seats will be
full of Chicago workers coming as
visitors. Browder will briefly describe
for them what accompanied in the
first session, and then AInis, a Negro
worker, and district organizer of the
Communist Party in Cleveland, will
make a speech, placing in nomination
William z. Foster for president of the
United States.
G. Hathaway will then propose
James w. Ford. Negro worker, as
nominee for yicepresident Of U.SA.
Other nominations if any, will be re-
ceiyed, securing speeches will be made
for Foster and Ford, by workers from
factories, from the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, etc. During the same session
both Foster and Ford will speak.
All sessions OF the convention on
May % will be again at Peoples Au-
ditorium, and will be devoted to Or
gsnizatiou and preparation Of the
campaign on practical questions OF
finances, propaganda, etc.
In the fourth session the conven- Il
ton will split into separate confer
ences, on mining, metal and various
j industries on women, youth, Negro
work, etc. and in the fifth session,
there will be reports on the confer
ences and general summary.