The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-13


CHICAGO, ILL.,, Sept. 12.-
Twelve thousand workers mas
sed in the largest hall of the
Coliseum and heard a ringing
call for a united struggle
against starvation issued by
William z. Foster, Communist
candidate for President.
This call by the Communist
candidate opens a new vista
of struggle on all the main fronts,
against wage cuts, for unemploy-
ment insurance, for payment of the
veterans bonus, for immediate Fed
eral cash relief to the poor farmers,
for Negro equality and against i'm
perialist war.
These demands are not new, they
are in the Communist election cam
paign platform and have been the
basis of many struggles, but Foster
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united front organization to fight for
the demands, that it amounts to
new method of winning them.
United Front Committees.
He called for the broadcast sort of
united front, through anti-wage cut
committees in factories, through
committees of the unemployed in
every neighborhood, in every flop
house and on every bread line,
through committees of veterans to
continue the fight for the bonus,
through committees of farmers to
extend the present farm strike and
fight evictions and forced collection
of rents and debts, through commit
tees of the rank and file workers OF
the A. F. of L.
All these committees should be
started in the factories, on breadlines
ETC.. and united on a broader and
broader basis, city, state and national
as the struggle develops.
Their struggle should take form OF
local actions, demonstrations, strikes,
resistance to eviction, and as it grows
sharper. should take on state and
national scope, leading to the placing
of the demands before congress this
winter, and to nation wide struggle
for them. Delegates to Washington
to place the demands should be
elected by the masses in the united
front in october and November.
Farmers Act Already
One section of the struggle, the
striking farmers who gathered IN
thousands in Sioux City last week,
has already issued a call for a uni
ted front national conference of &C
ton to meet in Washington, Dec. l.,
The ex-servicemen's conference in
Cleveland will probably take some
similar action The unemployed, and
other groups fighting starvation will
no doubt follow this example as their
struggle broadens.
Hathaway Reads Speech.
The huge crowd in the Coliseum
Saturday was disappointed at recelv-
ing news that Foster was too i'll to
appear and deliver his speech. But
the speech in written form was
turned over to G. Hathaway chair
man of the Communist National
Election Campaign Committee, who
read it amidst the cheers and en-
thusiasm of the masses gathered
there.
Frank Hirshey, a miner, and Com
munist candidate for lieutenant-gov-
ernor of Illinois, told of the shooting
up with machine guns of the march
of $4,000 striking miners in Frank
lin county. He declared that class
struggle is the only basis for new
union in the coal fields, and criti-
cized the leadership Of the new Pro-
gressive Miners of America for its
failure to conduct such struggle.
Laura Osby, Negro worker and
Communist candidate from the Sew
enteenth senatorial district assailed
Garveyism and urged the workers
and farmers control of America in
stead.
Herbert Benjamin, National Sec
rotary of the Unemployed Councils
declared. 1.-THE marching jobless
workers have made their voices heard
through the wall of the White House
Terror can't prevent their struggle
now"
John williamson, chairman, reused
the audience to a high pitch of en-
thusiam by telling of the long, VIC
torious campaign to put the state
candidates of the Communist Party
on the ballot. The signatures col
lected now exceed by thousand the
$4,000 needed under the law, and the
mass meeting elected delegation to
carry these signatures to the capital
and file them.