The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-30
DRIVE ACTIVE
REPORTS FOSTER
Candidate Tells of
Growing Struggles

CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 29.-Pass-
ing through here on his campaign
tour William z. Foster, presidential
candidate of the Communist Party,
brought the message that latter three
months of campaigning from coast to
coast, feel that our election cam
paign has all the aspects and oppor-
tunities Of developing into an in
tense working class offensive for an
Immediate mass struggle Tor all the
demands as outlined in our plat
form"
The Communist candidate for pres
ident told Of the unprecedented size
of the audiences of workers and
farmers who are attending Commu-
mist meetings, listening eagerly, and
stirred by the militant Communist
program for a workers and farmers
government.
Unemployment and Farm Fore
closures.
"The Communist demand for IN
employment insurance and it's mill
tant program to make this demand 9
living ISSUE" said Foster, "haS
brought large numbers of the unem-
ployed within our reach, as they real
ize that only through fighting pro-
gram can unemployment insurance
be made reality. The Communist
Party is being looked upon more anc
more by the workers OF America as
their party. The same thing exist:
among many sections of the poorer
classes of farmers. They are being
foIfrlosed daily and walk out Of
their small fam and into the ranks
of the unemployed. In Mississippi
alone, the banks and state forecIosed
on 10000 farmers in one day for non
payment of mortgages and taxes. The
planks in the Communist platform on
both unemployment insurance at the
emergency relief for the poor farm
erS, and exemption from taxes and
from forced collection of rents OF
debts is a way out, of the crisis for
them, and a realization that the
Communist program is their pro-
gram"
Anticipating Southern Tour.
Foster is greatly anticipating his
tour into the South where for the
first time in the history Of America
a presidential candidate will bring
forward the program of equal politi-
cal, economic, social equality for the
Negroes, and self-determinatio fol
the Black Belt. His tour will take hin
into the heart of many sections Of
the Black Belt, where the Negro
workers and many whites are reaiz-
ing that the only hope of freedom
from the yoke of the white landlord
class is in the unity of all workers.
Widespread Terror
The Communist presidential can
didate has been arrested three times
in the course of his election tour.
1.-THE Republican and Democratic
parties are the open tools of capt.
talism in their campaign to perpetu-
ate the existing state of society with
its fifteen million unemployed, arc
starvation and misery for the over
whelming majority of the people in
the United States. They are for wal
and the destruction of the Soviet
Union.
"The Socialist Party is the third
party of capitalism, and with its
demagogic program, using working
class phrases, is betraying the work
ing class of America in the same
manner as the socialist parties in
England and Germany are doing
The socialist leaders are constantly
attacking the only working class
country in the world, the Soviet
Union, and supporting counter-revo-
lutionists when they come to Ameri-
ca to collect funds to overthrow the
present Russian government. The So
cialist trade union leaders openly
declare that they are opposed to the
workers and farmers government in
the Soviet Union, and Norman
Thomas, their presidential candidate,
member of the Second Interna-
tional, in conjunction with the So
cialist press, is at present lighting
the antiwar congress that lie now
meeting in Europe at the beheSt Of
Roman ROLAND, the French writer,
where many militant working class
organizations have their delegations.
This Is Nc.man Thomas, the paci-
fist"