The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
CANDIDATES TELL
OF VITAL ISSUES
FACING WORKERS

md leadership of the Communist
Party in scores Of outstanding strike
1truggles is convincing proof that it
S to the best interests of the work
IS to support the Party on election
lay.
James w. Ford, candidate in the
list Congressional district, told of
he increasing militancy of the
Negroes in Harlem in their strug-
giles for relief and against discrini
nation.
The Scottsboro Battle
Around the Scottsboro case, !"
Ford said, "the Communist Party
has developed a real mass struggle
for the liberation of the Negro
people. This campaign extends far
beyond the limits of this State,
for we find in Alabama-in the
heart of the lynch terror-our
Party has nominated a Negro, Com
rade Davis, as candidate for gov
ernor."
A stirring ovation greeted Will
llama Burroughs, militant Negro
teacher and candidate for Iieuten-
ant Governor, when she arose to
speak. She told of the fight of the
Communist Party for political. eco
nomic and social equality for the
Negro people and recounted her
experiences in the public school sys-
tenn to show the persecution of Ne
gro working class families and
their children.
That the Communist campaign
does not end on election day, was
emphasized by Charles Krumbein,
district organizer of the Communist
Party. 1.-THE struggle will not end
Nov. g." he said. "It will be re-
newed with greater energy on the
basis of the chief demands of the
Communist Rarty. We shall con-
tinue to fight for the immediate
needs of the workers-in shops, fac
tories and off1ces-and our cam
paign will not cease until the abo-
lition Of the capitalist system and
the establishment of a Soviet
America"
Briehl Tells of Farmers Lot
Fred Brialll, upstate farmer, who
is the Communist candidate for At
torney- General, described the mort
gage-ridden lives of the farmers of
the state. Government loans are
obtained only after the most heart
breaking efforts, and then it is nee
esSery for the farmer to mortgage
his life away" Briehl declared that
some people accuse the farmers of
practising confiscation when they
don't pay their debts. During the
war the capitalists confiscated lives
to protect their property. I say that
now is the time to conf1scate prop
erty to protect our lives"
Briehl declared that it costs New
York state dairy farmers five cents
to produce a quart of milk for which
they are paid three cents, and which
sells in the city for from Is to 16
cents. 1--WE farmers" he concluded,
can no longer be called men with
weak minds and strong backs, for
our minds become strong as we join
the ranks of the Communist Party"
Isidore Begun, expelled school
teacher and Communist candidate
for city controller, told the Garden
audience that thousands of teach
ers, technicians and other white
collared workers are recognizing
that their fate is linked up with
that of the working masses" Ee
told of schools being closed down
throughout The state, of cuts in
educational services, of classes in
creased, Of the building program
being halted, of the closing of train
ing schools and recreation centers.
All the capitalist parties are
united in cutting wages of teachers
and civil service employees, he said.
AS for the Socialists, Begun charged
that the Socialist administration
in Milwaukee had instituted two
cuts in teachers wages, and on one
occasion civil servants were not paid
for three months.