The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-29
By ELIZABETH LAWSON


Tie national political conventions OF three
Parties viii be held this summer. AL three will
take Tlacs in Chicago. AL three will present
platlons and nominate candidates.
But between the conventions Of the Republican
and Democratic parties and the national no.
ra.natng convention called by the Communist
Psrty, for May 28th, there will be a guf of me-
thods and interests that is as wide as the gulf
between the interests of the bosses and interests
Of ,te workers.
The conventions Of the Republican and De-
raoa-atc parties will be conventions devoted
to The preservation OF the system of wage-sav-
cry, to q policy of continued wage-cutting Of
starvation Of refusal to grant unemployment in
surance to the jobless Whatever floWery phras-
ing the orators Of the Republican and Democra-
tic conventions may use, the ssence Of the matter
is this: these TWO conventions will be dedicated
to continued misery, continued lynching, and to
continued high profits for the bosses, out Of the
sweat OF the working class
And in sharp contrast with the flood Of de-
rragogy that VIII flow from the lips of the CAM
paign orators Of the bosses parties, the Com
nlunist Party raises in unmistakable language
the slogans Of the working class.
"Fcr working class unity in the election CAM
psigni Against the hunger and war offensive
of the capitalists"
For workers Observation-Disclosures of the Com
nunist Party-against the candidates of the
bosses!"
What delegates viii sit in the conventions Of
these three parties?
Capitalists Grafters AS Delegates
The delegates that attend the conventions Of
the Rcpublca nand Democratic parties are
chosen fer their faithfulness to the boss class
The most successful ward hcelers and grafters;
the most successful strike berakers; the most
capable Of starving the iobless and haf-starving
the employed. the men most devoted to the in
terests Of the big bosses-these are the men who
viii 81 in Chicago conventions of the Republican
and Democratic parties, this year as every other
year
Rorker-Delegates
But when 600 delegates gather in the Peoples
Auditorium in Chicago, on May 28th, to draft
platform and nominate candidates for the Com
munist Party, there will be among them no slave
drivers no expIoiters Of labor, no grafters no
ward-heelers. Every one Of the thousand can
didates to this convention will be working man
or a working woman. The delegates will be
chosen, not by the maneouvers of the grafters,
but directly by the workers in the factories,
farms, mines and Plantations. They will be sent
from unions, from workers frathernal groups
from workers aid societies, from organizations Of
Negroes Seyenty-five per cent Of them will not
be members Of the Communist Party at all
Among the delegates to the nominating con-
vention Of the Communist Party will be large
number Of Negroes. Already the arrangements
committees Of the Republican and Democratic
parties have seen to the Jinl-Crowing Of the
Negro delegates. With the lily-white movement
making swift Roadway in the South, it may be
foreseen that extremely few Negro delegates will
be present at these two conventions.
Works. Convention to Welcome Negroes
But the convention arrangements Of the Com
munis5 Party call for the presense, among the
delegates, Of q large number Of Negro workers
workers and farmers--to a determined struggle
against Jim-Crow, lynchingi and national OPP
preston. Special measures are being taken in
the convention city to see to it that the Negro
delegates are NOT Jim Crowed that on the
contrary, they play an extremely important part
in the deliberations
One Of the main jobs before the political con-
ventions Of the Republican and Democratic par
les is to obscure the issues before the majority
of the people-the workers. 1t is for this reason
that the matters closest to the daily life of the
workers are slfrTed over It is for this reason
among others, that the boss parties make much
OF prohibition, and attempt to drown in whiskey
and beer any discussion of the things most fun
damental to the welfare of the workers. 1t is
in bold contrast to this practice of the capitalist
parties that the Communist Party, in its pro-
posed election platform, raises sharply the fun
damental Issues that face the workers today: