The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-01

Foster, cool, deathlessly loyal, in
corruptible labor leader who cap
tanned the strike Of 100000 steel mill
workers in 1919. Young Ford, Negro
war veteran and grandson of a lynch
ed Alabama Negro worker,
1t is a historic moment, and all
feel it, The depression has made
desperate every American worker
They are sick of capitalism; they
have nothing to lose.
Another war dsrkens the horizon
Soon all will be called to the colors
to die for Wall Street again.
And the tide of terrorism against
workers grows, especially against Ne
groes. Now the Communists answer
by nominating Negro for Vice
President the first time in American
history and by challenging wage cuts,
unemployment, war
Tense and FatefuI
The crowd is singing Solidarity, a
labor song whose words are set to
the tune of John Browns Body. And
the atmosphere is as tense and fate
full as that as the famous conven-
ton held by John Brown and his
abolitionist partisans in Canada Just
a short year before the Civil War.
At this very moment James Ford,
the young Negro worker is being
carried around on the shoulders Of
white workers while the $4,000 cheer
his triumphant march around the
vast hall. Young Negro and white
Pioneer kids follow him, with red
kerchiefs, and arms about each
other. And behind them, the ban
ners of all the states in the Union
Texas, Maine, South Carolina, Ne
braska, Kentucky Pennsylvania, New
York, Louisiana, darkest Georgia,
darkest Ma5sachusetts-all of them,
the roster Of America, Communism
has penetrated everywhere-it is a
theory no longer, but a living move
ment, part of American life.
Workers Speak
The speeches of the rank and file
delegates this morning were moving
and convincing At the Socialist
convention only lawyers and min
listers and other prosperous liberals
debated. AT the Republican and De-
mocratic conventions the bankers
and grafters and professional words
fingers will be the stars. Here at
the Communist convention spoke
miners, Negroes, steel workers, sail
ors, teachers, textile weavers, house
wives, Stockyards workers, farmers.
and child workers. Yes-America-the
America of the dispossessed the AM
erica whose voice is heard nowhere
else, the America of deep-rock, sup
pressed wrongs which some day will
be avenged, to the utter amazement
OF the subtle statesmen, spoke here.
Wilson, miner CT Kentucky, said:
Fifteen Of us started out" he began
quietly, but only three of us made
it. The thugs beat up the others.
We do not know what happened to
them. I'm no speaker, never spoke
to such congregations OF thousands.
But, brothers, we, coal diggers in
Kentucky, are with the Commun-
lists"
Bauman, a lean, blue-shirted farm
er OF Minnesota, with the dirt of
ploughed fields on his battered shoes
and overalls: "The bosses and bank
ers once called our own Clearwater
County the land of prosperity and
clover. Now we call it the farmers
poorhouSe. And we re behind the
Communist Party and Foster and
Ford"
Bradley, steel worker OF Spar
rows Point, Md; young, dark, in
tense: Life itself shows that the
Communist program is correct. My
fellow workers will vote for you out
OF their blood and hunger"
Veterans for You
SLENDER, the secretary of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League,
the veterans are tired Of being
fooled. And they're hungry. They're
breaking from the Legion and other
boss organizations, they're with you,
Communists"
The Negro delegates seemed TO
make the most impressive speeches,
full Of fervor. Laura Osbee, a stock
yard worker of Chicago, thrilled the
great crowd when she said: I'VE look
back in history and cannot find that
ever member of my poor, oppressed,
downtrodden race has ever had the
chance TO run for Vice President.
This Communist fight is not for a
lousy SIS week, and We Negroes
know it. It's fight for equal hui
man rights and social equality. I
don't talk much, because when / get
thinking about the oppression OF my
race only want to fight. But I've
learned to line up with the comrade-
party against the boss-party. And, |
when war comes, and they give us
guns TO turn against other races,
we'll turn them on Wall st. We have
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