The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-21
Red Nominees
To Lead Fight
On New Deal
Will Support Workers
Tickets W b erever
They Are Formed

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CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 2O.-n a
resolution defining the relation of
the Communist Party to the Work
ers' Ticket in the coming Spring
elections of 1885, the District Com
mittee declared that the Communist
Party will support the Workers
Ticket wherever it exists in the
state, but that this support must al
ways take place with the under
standing that the Communist Party
always acts as fully autonomous
party with its own revolutionary
program.
In entering the united front cleo
ton ticket, the Communist Party
will concentrate its fire against the
New Deal, the policies of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor leaders
and the leadership Of the Socialist
Party, the District Committee de-
clared.
The full statement follows:
RESOLUTION ON THE
WORKERS TICKET IN ILLINOIS
adopted by the District Commit
tee, Communist Party, Dist. No. 8
Dec. 8 and 8, 1884
The District Committee of the
Communist Party, District No. s,
declares that in the Spring, 1885,
municipal elections in the State of
Illinois, the Communist Party has
the task of developing, organizing
and leading broad united front cleo
ton struggles.
1t must unite around the burning
issues confronting the workers and
toiling masses in each and every
community all the trade unions,
workers in the shops and mines, or
CARNATIONS of the unemployed, To-
Gals of the Socialist Party, Negro
mass organizations, youth, women,
all other working class organiza-
tions, organizations Of veterans,
small home owners, small deposi-
tors, etc.
To accomplish such unity in the
industrial and mining eommuni-
ties, we can enter into the election
campaign on the Workers Ticket
where a base for such 8 broad
united front exists.
Workers Ticket No Substitute
Under no circumstances is the
Workers Ticket to be substitute
for the Communist Party ticket
This means that in localities where
we are not in a position to develop
broad mass united fronts with the
trade unions, organizations of the
unemployed and other working class
organizations, there shall be no
Workers Ticket, but the Communist
Party shall enter into the municipal
elections on its own program, with
its own candidates, developing
united front for the support of the
Party platform and candidates, ap-
pealing to the masses Of workers to
support the Communist Party in its
struggle to establish the united
front.
Where the Workers Ticket is es-
tablished, the Communist Party has
the task and duty not only to par
ticipate and be part and parcel of
the Workers Ticket, but also indie
pendently develop election struggles,
directly by the Communist Party by
leading struggles, organizing mass
meetings, issue leaflets, in support
OF the Workers Ticket and bring
forward the Party program. The
Communists who are nominated on
the Workers Ticket must carry the
campaign as Communists.
Under no circumstances can the
Communist Party enter into the
united front on citizens" PRO
gressive," or any other similar tick
cts, which blunts the class charac-
ter of the election struggle, nor can
the Communist Party be committed
to the policy Of supporting any kind
of progressive" liberal" or So
called labor candidates. The candi-
dates, who are to be nominated on
the Workers Ticket, should be
known militant workers, members
of working class organizations,
workers from the shops or mines,
trade unions, unemployed organiza-
tione, members Of the Communist
Party or Socialist Party.
United Front for C. P.
In the city Of Chicago, in the al
dermanic elections, united front
working class conferences are to
nominate working class candidates
in the so-called non-partisan cleo
tons. 1t is our task to have such
united front ward conferences to
endorse the Communist Party ticket
in the city elections, Karl Lockner
for Mayor, Samuel T. Hammers
mark for City Treasurer and Her
bert Newton for City Clerk.
All the united front conferences
in the State of Illinois at which the
Workers Ticket is to be established
and candidates nominated in all
wards in the city OF Chicago, shall
be combined with big mass meet
ings which shall conclude the con-
ferences and the decisions, platform
and candidates set by the confer
ences shall be endorsed by such
mass meetings.
The main task of the Communist
Party where it enters as the Com
munist Party in the elections, or
together with other working class
organizations in the Workers Tick
ct, is to center the attack upon the
New Deal, upon all kinds Of social
demagogues and such movements as
the third party" the policies Of the
Socialist Party leaders, the policies
of the bureaucrats Of the American
Federation Of Labor, Railroad
Brotherhoods, and the Progressive