The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-11
10000 WORKERS IN
n. Y. RALLY BACK
RED CANDIDATES
Meeting Lays Basis for
Aug. l Demonstration
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ed 10 minutes after Ford was carried
triumphantly to the platform.
About 5000 workers were in the
stadium as the meeting opened, but
thousands more poured in as the rally
got under way, attracted by the pa
rade of ex-servicemen which marched
for two hours through the streets of
Coney Island just before the opening
of the demonstration.
Hits ISLANDERS.
Ford opened his speech with an
attack on the Socialist Party whis-
perers who slandered the Commu-
mist Party with the charge of oppor-
tunisn in the nomination of a Negro
for the presidency.
"I want to say to those people, and
to those who have listened to them,
that the Communist Party is not stu
pid," Ford said. 1.-THE Communist
Farty knows that of the twelve mil
lion Negroes in the United States, at
least eleven million are disfranchised.
1t would be poor piece of strategy
to play for votes which do not exist.
The lily whiteness of the Socialist
vote-vatchers shows they know that,
too. The Communist Party, in nomi-
mating Negro to run with William
z. Foster, throws challenge to the
parties of capitalism, which have dis
franchised these workers, to divide
the workers, the better to exploit and
repress and starve them. In nominal
ing a Negro for this office, the Com
munist Party expresses its funda-
mental principle of solidarity between
all workers, Negro and white"
Ford outlined and discussed the
six demands put forward by the
Communist Party in the election
campaign. Each point, as he read it,
was greeted by cheers from the work
ers in the stadium.
1.-THE capitalist relief agencies" he
said, "have offered the fifteen mil
lion starving unemployed of the
United States sample menu on
which it is claimed they can subsist.
1t consists of wheat porridge, wheat
soup, wheat croquettes, and wheat
coffee. But what is handed out in
practice to the starving millions is
more nearly like water soup, water
porridge, water coffee, and bubble
cakes for dessert. And that is what
they will soon be advising in theory,
too"
William w. Weinstone, Communist
candidate for United States Senator,
dealt with the demagogic platforms
and records of the Democratic, Re-
publican, ard Socialist parties in his
address. Instead of the chicken in
every pot promised him in 1928
Weinstone said, the workers now face
ten times as much starvation, misery,
unemployment, and terror as four
years ago.
1.-THE capitalist class has dressed up
the Democratic Party as liberal
party" he said, land offers a fake
platform, and presidential candi-
date who, as assistant secretary OF
the navy under Wilson, was respon-
sinle, among other things, for the in
vasion and occupation of Eaiti, and
with the threatened invasion of Mex
ico in 1916"
He quoted the record showing
dozens of relief bills put through by
Roosevelt in New York State, every
one direct dole or relief to wealthy
corpor alton.
Thomas and Hoover.
He quoted Norman Thomas words
in 1928, denouncing Marxism and
predicting unending prosperity for
the working class in the United
States. st don't know whether Hoo
yer has moved closer to Norman
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