The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-21


excess of the required total.
A statement on behalf of the
Communist election committee de-
clared today that there is strong
possibility Of electing several of ths
red legislative candidates to office.
The two chief local and state is
sues in the campaign will be the
repeal Of the State Jim Crow laws
and the fight for state unemploy-
ment insurance. Planks have also
been written into the State Com
munist platform offering farmers,
miners and the Negro population Of
the East Shore effective weapons
for defending themselves against
the effects of the crisis.
Bernard AIDES, attorney who fear
lessly led the defense for Fuel Lee,
Negro farmland railroaded to his
death by the East Shore courts,
has been chosen as the Communist
nominee for Governor. Samuel
Gale, Negro longshoreman widely
known on the Baltimore water
front, is candidate for United States
Senator These two will lead in
raising the demands of the Party
for the abolition Of Maryland's bar
barous Jim-Crow laws.
State Candidates
other State candidates are: Roy
Howell, seaman, for Comptroller;
Thomas Pinkerton, young Irish
American worker, for Attorney
General; Bruce Parker, young Me-
gro worker for Clerk of the Court
Of Appeals.
Petitions have been filed for
twelve out of a possible sixteen of.
fees in the Baltimore local cleo.
tons. The nominees for these of
ficeS are: Wilson Kesterson. Clerk
of the Superior Court; Edward
Russell and Oscar Raboysky, Clerks
OF the Circuit Courts; Robert Hol-
loway, Clerk of the City Court;
Edgar Brown, Clerk of Common
Pleas Court; William S. Henson,
Register of Wills; Elmer French,
Surveyor; Charles Isaacs, Mary
Roberts and Jean Whitney, judges
of the Orphans Court.
Candidates also have been en-
tered in three of the six Legislative
districts. Two of the three districts
in which no candidates were en-
tered are silk stocking" districts
and the Party election committee
thought 1t better to concentrate its
forces on the three most important
working class sections.
The legislative slate consists Of:
Legislative Slate
Walter Potrzuki, Polish needle
needle trades worker, running for
State Senator in the First District,
which includes the waterfront and
steel industries and the Polish and
Italian working class residential
sections. In this section the fol-
lowing six were nominated for the
State House of Delegates:
Anton Becker, seaman; Joan
Hardy, steel organizer; Solomon
Hurvit, clerk; Frank James, sea-
man; Clarence Prince, steel worker,
and Alexander Sylvester, needle
trades worker.
In the Second District, in East
Baltimore, John Fedd, cement
finisher and leader among the
Negro workers, was chosen for
State Senator. The following six
were chosen for the House of Del
egates:
Milton Bertholdt, Harry Blank,
Needham Horton, Mabel jackson,
Joseph Kralik and Benjamin Kuhn.
In the Fourth District Leonard
Patterson, young Negro seamen's
organizer, is the nominee for State
Senator and the six candidates for
the house of delegates are:
William E. Hinton, John w.
Gates, Samuel Hoffman, Charles
Raffeld, Isadore Samuelson and
William P. D. Whitney.
Criticizing the weaknesses dis
played in the early stages of the
campaign, the election committee
pointed out that 95 per cent of the
petitions signatures came from Me-
gro workers and that little or no
attempt was made to reach white
workers with the petitions.
The committee also stressed ths
failure Of the Party to place cam
didates for Congress on the ballot
and urged that this failure be
remedied by concentration on the
effort to elect State legislative cam
didates.
Sympathizers have not been
lined UP in the campaign, the COM
mittee declared, pointing to the fact
that only two of the thirty eight
candidates are not members of the
Communist Party. The failure to
arouse the interest of larger groups
Of white workers was attributed in
part to neglect in swinging the
sympathetic organizations into ac-
ton. Only the Relief Workers Pro-
tective League signed the petitions
as a group, the committee said.