The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07

Russian Revolution last night
at the huge Madison Square
Garden.
Inside the Garden and for
blocks around it, the scene vas enc
Of the greatest enthusiasm and mil
itancy as workers surged toward the
Garden from nearby subway and
elevated exits, coming from all parts
of the city. many of them under the
banners of their organizations.
Scores of demonstrations preceded
the opening of the meeting, with Ne
gro and white workers, young workers
end children marching and cheering
for the Soviet Union, and for the
Communist Party of the U. S. A
and its standard bearers in the cleo
ticn et1'uggle, william 2. Foster. ma
t'-~ol secretary of the Trade Union
Unity League and leader of the great
steel strike, and James w. Ford, his
running mate. Negro worker and
prominent leader of the revolutionary
movement in this country.
Clarence Hathaway, national cam
paign manager of the Communist
Party opened the meeting.
Hear Foster Over Telephone.
Unable to be present at the meet
ing. William 2. Foster. Communist
candidate for president. addressed
the huge assemblage from his sick
bed over a telephone-radio hook-up.
CHS complete speech is printed else
where on this page) He called upon
the workers of America to contrast
the achievements Of the Soviet mas
ers, led by the Russian Communist
Party, in abolishing Unemployment,
successfully building up socialist in
dustry, with the progressive decay of
the capitalist system. the closing
down Of capitalist industry, bank
failures and general chaos, marked
with an increasingly savage attack
on the standards Of the workers and
their political rights.
He declared that this completely ex-
ploded the hoary lie that industries
cannot be run without the capitalists.
They are even unable to keep their
banks open. America, the giant Of cap
italism the model for capitalists all
over the world. is sinking into a chaos
which is destroying the life of mil
lions OF men, women and children.
Capitalism can no longer feed the
people"
Thunder of Applause.
A thunder Of applause swept thru
the garden as Foster concluded his
speech with the slogans:
Vote Against the Three Capt.
talist Parties.
Build the Communist Party,
Vote Communist on November 8!
Forward in the Struggle Against
Starvation.
Forward to 4 Soviet America"
Israel Amter, Communist candidate
for governor Of the State of New
York, and one Of the main speakers
at the meeting, declared that the
workers and farmers Of New York
State and the entire country we're
facing most momentous decision on
November 8.
Anter exposed the role of the So
cialist Party and the bureaucracy Of
the American Federation of Labor
as brake on the revolutionary
struggles Of the masses against
starvation This reformists had be-
trayed the workers. The $1,000
cloakmakers of New York who were
willing to fight were sold out by
Dubinsky, the socialists, with the aid
of Morris Hillquitt and Lieutenant
Governor Lehman, the democratic
candidate for governor. THE $4,000
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of
New York were sold out by Hllman
and the socialists who accept the
wage-cutting policy Of Hoover and
Roosevelt and the bosses OF the coun-
try"
Donavan Tool Of Utility Trust.
Donavan, the republican candidate
for governor, he exposed as an open
tool of the utility interests in New
York State, and a bitter enemy of
the ex-servicenlen in their struggles
for the payment of their back wages,
the bonus. Lehman, he declared,