The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-23

Of impoverished farmers and tens
Of thousands of Negroes voted Com
muniSt. In Taylor Springs, Illinois,
and in village in Michigan, Com
munists were elected to the city
administration.
The Communist voters represent
the advance section of the American
proletariat. They are already reach
ing the point where they agree with
the Communist analysis of the
present situation. They vote for
the revolutionary way out of the
crisis. They accept the Communist
Party as the leader of the toiling
masses. Yet they are not members
OF the Party. Many of them do
not sufficiently realize that in not
being members of the Party, they
are not helping to hasten it's devel-
opnert, they are not a conscious
factor in bringing about the revolu-
tionary way out of the crisis of
capitalism. They remain as SYM
pathizers of the Communist Party.
Many of them are devoted to the
Party. Some of them consider them
selves as Communists. But there
are no Communists outside the
ranks Of the Communist Party.
If those who vote for the Com
1nuniSt Party on election day,
would also join the ranks of the
Party and become active in it, they
alone could make it the mass party
Of the American proleCariat.
To cite an example: In the city
of Chicago over $4,000 votes were
cast for Foster and Ford in 1892,
yet the Party membership in Chi
cago. is only $500. Another example,
Claude Lightfoot, young Negro
leader of the Young Communist
League, in 1882, received 1000 votes
in the Fifth Senatorial District.
where there are no more than 300
members of the Communist Party
and about so in the Young Com
n1unist League. II these thousands
of Communist voters can be organ
lied in the Party. many splendid
election victories can be obtained
AS it is now, in most cases, our
Party has no contact with these
voters. Therefore, they are not in
volVed in the preparation of the
campaign, nor in the course of the
election struggles. They only regis
ter their support on election day.
1t is to these workers, impover-
ished farmers, and Negro people
that the Communist Party makes
an urgent appeal to join its ranks,
become active members, and help
the Party carry out its election
campaign. If we had only half of
the 10000 who voted Communist
in 1882, as members of the Party
in Chicago, there would have been
no great difficulty in doubling or
TRIPPING the number of signatures
necessary to place the Communist
Party on. the ballot.
Every Communist voter should
seriously consider this question and
answer to himself why he or she
Is not member of the Party for
which he has voted We of the
Communist Party see no reason WHY
you who voted Communist cannot
also be Party comrades. We call
upon you Communist voters not
only to vote Communist and get
others to do likewise, but to Join
the ranks Of the only Party of the
working class, the Communist Party.
Communist voters should realize.
as they undoubtedly do, that the
Communist Party is not a parlia-
mentary party in the bourgeois
sense Of the word. 1t is a reyolu-
tionary party Of the working class.
The Communist Party carries the
struggle not only on election day.
but every day of the year. on all
fronts. You need the Communist
Party to help carry out your strug-
giles. Communist voters, into the
ranks of the Communist Party!