The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-15

pup4lCdn government nave reSorted
to every possible maneuver in order
to falsify, annul and steal tens Of
thousands of Communist votes which
Were cast by the workers and peas
ants in the whole country. Ths
Communist Party therefore openly de-
clareS that it does not recognize the
faxed figures which the government
and its counter-revolution State
apparatus gave out as the sum total
of the votes really cast for the Party.
Big Vote
In spite of the forgeries and the
robbery OF workers and peasants
votes, the official statistics have to
admit that the Communist Party has
polled about 100000 votes in the whole
country. In reality, however, at the
elections of November 10, our PARTY
polled more than 100000 votes, even
If one accepts the fraudulent and
contradictory figures given by the
press and compares them with the
data obtained by our organizations
Our Party received the majority OF
workers votes in the most important
centers, such as Seville, Malaga, Cor
doba, in the important mining dis
tricks of ASturia and the Basque prov
ince, and the majority of the votes
cast by the land workers and peas
ants in many villages of Andalusia,
Estremadure and even in CASTLE.
With the number of votes actually
cast for it, and even according to the
bourgeois election law, the Commu-
mist Party would have obtained more
than 20 seats in the case of proper
tiona1 representation instead of the
one seat actually allotted to it.
BY increasing its votes from $4,000
in July, 1881, to 100000 in November,
1888, the Communist Party has great
ly extended its influence over vast
masses Of socialist and anarchist
workers, submitted to them its revo-
lutionary program of struggle for the
workers and peasants government,
and made a big advance in winning
the masses for the revolutionary way
out Of the crisis.
The considerable increase in the
votes cast for the Right parties,
the monrachist and fascist bands,
AOQRJlGA WILL DllO CHlllCoL IulclllCd@
ton Of the election result, undoubted-
~ means 8 temporary success of the
counter-revolution.
Anarchists Aid Counter-ReyoIutioa
The elections further prove g.
smashing defeat for the republican
socialist block. The so-called Left
groups have been almost completely
wiped out. = The tremendous loss
es of the socialist party would have
been still more considerable If the
socia1-fascist leaders, in particular.
Largo Caballero and consents, had
not resorted to fresh maneuverS in
order to deceive the working masses
and to keep them from joining our
Party. In their use of left dema-
gogic phraseology they even went SO
far as to employ Communist slogans
such as dictatorship of the proletar-
lat, armed revolt, etc.
The elections further proved how
harmful and counter revolutionary
were the tactics Of the anarchist
leaders, who advocated abstention
from the poll. These professional
disorganizers of the revolution are.
together with The socialist leaders,
mainly responsible for the advance
of counter-revolution. 80
Encouraged by their temporary
election success, reaction and fascisfn
are raising their head and are at
tempting to deal blow to the adj
vancing revolution. But they will
not succeed in this. The revolution
is marching on, because not single
one Of the fundamental problems has
been, or can be, solved by the pres
ent regime.
We are on the eve of great strug-
giles, decisive struggles for workers
and peasants power. The fight for
bread, land and freedom Is being
participated in by millions of work
ers and peasants, and must ultimate
ly triumph. 49,
Let us organize our struggles, let
us set up factory and peasant COM
n7ittee5!
Factory Committees
We propose the setting I'D Of
democratically elected factory and
workshop committees. These COM
n1ittees have to organize a strike
movement for higher wages and the
Improvement in the living and work
ing conditions of the toiling masses.
as well as for the decisive fight
against the counter revolution and
fascism.
Setting up Of peasants committees
for the seizure of the land and the
distribution of the land, harvest and
cattle, as we'll as the defence of the
land which has been appropriated.
Setting up Of unemployed commits
tees for the fight for bread, relief
and work.
Setting up Of workers and peasants
self-defence groups in order to pro-
tect the revolutionary toilers and to
fight against threatening fascisrn.
Immediate Demands
1t is necessary to set up the united
front of struggle in order to reaHze
the. following. demands:
Immediate release of all proletarian
political prisoners, class amnesty.
against fascist laws, for the most ex-
tensive right of combination, free
dom of the press. demonstrations and
meetings, and the right to strike;
against unemployment and dismiss
sails, general increase in wages, seven
hour day and 40-holr week without
wage reductions, social insurance for
the industrial and agricultural work.
ers.
Immediate relief for all unem-
ployed, amounting to rs per cent Of
their normal wages and not less than
three pesetas day.
For the immediate seizure Of the
land, the harvest and cattle, and