The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30

say, personally you are Damn nice fellows, but col
lectively, you are scoundrels.'
Politicians collective" ScoundreIs
So it is with these politicians. Personally, they
may be fine fellows, and their hearts may bleed
for the suffering workers but just get them together
collectively to make policies and decisions and in
every case, the decision goes against the workers
and in favor of the bankers Collectively they are
capitalist politicians it doesn't do any good to
vote for the good man.
And then the worker asks "1s there any use in
voting for the Communist Party? Their candidates
haven't any chance to get elected. You will waste
your vote when you vote for Communists"
In the first place is it possible to waste your vote
more than to vote for the Democratic Party and
the Blue Eagle? You may be casting your vote for
winning candidate but you will be casting your
vote for something that is very bad for you Surely
that is the worst waste in the use of vote The
same thing applies to voting for any Party that
doesn't stand for what the workers want and need.
vote for the Communist Party may not elect the
candidate yet, but it will be vote for what we
want not vote for what we don't want
But who said that Communists can't get elected?
1t is true that there haven't been any Communists
elected to Congress yet but we must remember that
there are hundreds of thousands and millions of
workers who are just waking up to the fact that the
Communist Party is the only one that brings for
ward program which is in favor of the workers
OF course, if we would all wait until we saw a Com
munist elected Communists never would be elected,
but if all of us would begin to vote Communist who
are thinking along Communist lines, we would be
electing Communists on November g.
Possible to Elect Communists"
1t is possible to elect Communists, but voting
Communist is very practical thing even when we
don't elect Communists. You may not know how
practical it is but the capitalists know They know
these things better than some workers Just sup
pose you run up a strong vote for Communist
candidate? Do you know what would happen the
day after election? There would be an emergency
meeting of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Bankers Association. The capitalists would be
frightened and they would say THE workers are
turning red! They turning Communist! It is
necessary for to do something for them in order
to keep them from making revolution"
This is not an argument out of my own head
1 am speaking from experience. 1t was only few
months ago in the State of Illinois, that we had an
example of this. They said there I'VE have no
more money for relief We are broke We can't give
you any more" They prepared to close up the re-
lief Offices.
The Communists made United Front with all
the unemployed organizations and brought $4,000
workers into the streets in big demonstration of
protest. The Mayor of Chicago sent telegram to
the Governor of Illinois. The Governor called
special meeting Of the legislature immediately say
ing we must have s4oO0OO00 at once! If we
don't get it we will have a Communist uprising" y
The same legislature that had said week previ-
cusly that there was no money in the State inside
OF twenty-four hours found the forty million
dollars!
Voting Red Is Practical Move
1t is possible to win relief! 1t is possible to win
Unemployment insurance. You don't even have to
progress so far that you elect a majority of Com
munlsts in Congress. majority is not necessary
to get the Unemployment Insurance Bill in Just