The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-02

Keynote
Pamphlets
By vERN SMITH.

the Communist Party election cam
paign. One is the platform adopted
by the 1900 worker and farmer, Ne
gro and white delegates at the Ma
tional Convention called by the Com
munist Party.
Here in the platform is the Com
munist Party Central Committed
analysis Of the situation which makes
the six central demands in the cleo
ton campaign real live issues now.
The Keynote-"The Fight for Bread
There are now published the key
note speech made at the first seS-
sion of the convention, The Fight
for Bread, by Earl Browder, selling
for one cent. The speech of c. Hath
away, Communist election campaign
director, nominating for the first
time in history Negro worker for
vice president of the United States,
has appeared in pamphlet form, who
Are the Friends of the Negro People, .
also sells for one cent. Then there
is a pamphlet containing the accept
ance speech of the Negro worker
James w. Ford, and also the accept
ance speech of the comrade ,nonlin-
ated for the presidency of the United
States by these 1900 delegates-Wil-
liam z. Foster, general secretary OF
the Trade Union Unity League. This
pamphlet-"F Foster and Ford for Food
and Freedom sells for two cents.
Certainly hundreds of thousands Of
copies Of these pamphlets can be sold
during this Communist election cam
paign.
providers speech points to the main
issue: THE greatest economic crisis
ever known"
"Hcoverville Prosperity"
During this crisis the Republican
Party has been in power. For three
years." says Browder, Hoover prom
ised prosperity in 60 days. This pros
perity takes the form of cities of IN
employed, homeless outcast millions
living in paeking-boxes, in cellars, un-
der bridges, in sewers. Hundreds OF
these cities all over the country, have
very properly paid homage to the
fame and glory of the Great Engin-
eer in the White House by adopting
the name 'Hooverville.' The very
name Of this man has become a SYM
Dol of degradation and misery for the
masses"
The issue of the elections is the
issue Of work and bread-of life or
death for the workers and farmers
Not Ballots Alone
That is the keynote Of the conven-
ton. The speech is full of informa-
alton and logical argument and this
S carried out by Foster, in accepting
nomination.
go Per Cent Worse
During the past two years the liv-
ing standards of the American work
ing class has been cut by at least sc
per cent" Foster announces. 1.-THE
income of the farmers has been cut
from y million dollars in 1929 to I
million in 1881. The farmers, like the
workers are starving, and are being
stripped Of their meagre possessions
Foster cites Henry Ford's 80 PEI
cent unemployed and when his work
ers demand break, he slaughters them
with machine guns"
Slaughter AS Way Out
Foster goes deeply into the starva-
ton and industrial collapse, and en-
phasizes that the capitalists look tc
a spreading of the war, already going
on in China, as a way out Of the
crisis, a way to destroy the Soviet
Union, the country they dread be-
cause it points to the workers a work
ers' way out.
Foster describes the sham battle
the Republican and Democratic Par
ties will fight, and the sham battle
against capitalism the Socialist Party
puts up.
"Who Are the Friends of the Negro
People,
Hathaway, nominating James w
Ford, Negro worker, for vice-presi'
dent, describes the horrors of jim
Crowism, of lynching, of tenant
slavery in the South and discrimina.
ton in the factories of the North.
Nation of Outcasts
Ford, in accepting the nomination
gives a detailed though brief account
of the determinations practised or
the Negro toiler, of the life of go
cial-outcast nation" of toilers.
He analysed, too, the Republican
Democratic and Socialist Party dis.
elimination against and oppression o.
the Negroes, and exposes the treach.
erous role of the Negro capitalists
the. misleaders, the National Associa.
ton for the Advancement of Coloret
People
Who can describe these speeches.
They are compact, full of informa
ton, full OF explanations and argu.
ments. Get them and read them
put them in the hands of the voter,
of all the workers.