The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26
Oil Worker
Is Candidate
FOrGOvernOr
Fig htin g Program Is
Brought to Texas
Workers, Farmers

a strong slate of Texas working class
leaders, headed by Enoch Hardway,
oil worker of Breckenridge, Commu-
mist candidate for Governor; H. A.
VIM, young Negro worker, for
Lieutenant Governor, and L. c..
Keel, Indian worker of Ranger
for United States Senator, the Com
munist Party of Texas has entered
the state and national Congress
sional elections to be held in Texas
November 9th with vigor and en-
thuSiasm. The steady growth of
the Communist Party in Texas,
which has been greatly accelerated
during the last year, has made it
possible for the Communist Party
of Texas to greatly intensity its
work among the workers, poor
farmers and the Negro and Mexican
people, and the election campaign
is bringing to large masses of these
workers the answer to their I'M
bearable oppression, exploitation
and discrimination by the Southern
white landlords and Wall Street
controlled corporations which have
the unbounded natural resources of
Texas in an iron grip.
Candidates Hailed
On October oath a campaign tour
by Enoch Hardway, L. G. Keel and
H. A. VIM began in Waco, ex-
tending through San Antonio, Port
Arthur, Houston, Dallas, Fort
Worth, Lubbock, Breckenridge,
Hamlin, and possibly other points
in Texas. Already in Breckenridge,
Hamlin and towns in West Texas
some of the Communist candidates
have spoken and have been received
enthusiastically.
Along with the national Congress
sional election platform of the Com
munist Party of the United States,
the Communist Party of Texas mas
issued a special election statement
raising special demands for, and
clearly stating the position of the
various sections of the workers and
poor farmers and the oppressed and
terrorized Negroes and MeXicans in
Texas. The statement declares:
Texan farmers are facing ruin.
Parched lands are showing the
mockery of the AA.A. Two hundred
thousand agricultural workers and
tenant farmers in this state. have
been forced off the land by acreage
cuts. Mexican farm hands, reduced
to virtual peonage, are working for
forty and fifty cents day. Texas
capitalists and landlords boast that
Texas can feed the world; but Texas
like other states. finds itself faced
with a population on the verge OF
starvation" The statement also
points out the slashing of wages OF
oil workers, packing house workers
and others, the unbearable condi-
tons on the job, the splitting of the
ranks of the working class by the
bosses by arousing hatred between
the Mexican, white and Negro work
ers. and calls upon the white work.
ers to unite with the Negroes, ito
organize side by side with the Negro
workers on the basis of full equality
and struggle for higher wages, more
relief and better conditions, and
democratic rights for both"
Equal Rights for Negroes
In striking contrast to the policy
of the Democratic Party of Texas,
which for years has had strangle-
hold on the state machinery, and
which was able, through the ruling
of the Attorney General, Democratic
nominee for Governor, to keep
Negroes from voting in the Demo-
cratic primaries (the Attorney Gen
eral saying "the Democratic Party
has always been a white mans
party and I intend to do all that
can to keep it that way'), the
Communist Party of Texas stands
forth boldly for equal rights for the
Negro people and the right of self
determination in the Black Belt.
H. A. VIM, Negro candidate for
Lieutenant Governor, has already
spoken before organizations in
Houston and received pledges of
support. He is a member of the
Scottsboro Defense Committee of
Houston and is exerting all his eff
forts to gain support for the Scots
boro boys.
Special demands are also raised
in the statement for the thousands
of exploited Mexican workers in
Texas, who are used as source of
cheap labor by the Southern bosses
until no longer profitable, and then
deported wholesale back to an
American imperialist dominated
Mexico to live under even more IN
bearable conditions. The Commu-
mist Party of Texas pledges itself
to fight against deportations Of
Mexican workers, and to fight for
"eoual rights, equal relief, equal
wages for the Mexican workers"
with the completion of the Pan
American Highway from Mexico
CITY. through Laredo, to the United
States, one more step toward war
preparation will be taken by the
United States and the bought-off
>cvernlnent of Mexico. The work
along the border between Texas and
Mexico, and joint actions by both
Mexican and American workers
thus assume an even greater i'm
portance. The Communist Party OF
Texas "extends to the workers and
neasants of Mexico international
solidarity in their struggle against
their own landlords and against
American capitalists" That this
solidarity is growing was over
whelmingly demonstrated in the
gigantic May Day international
demonstration of 10000 American
and Mexican workers on the Inter
n.~;<l OF orodn