The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-29
Rank and File A. F. L. Men Discuss Program in Pittsburgh
Whom Shall the Workers SUPPORT in the Elections?
By JACK STACHEL

mart of the class struggle. Each class has It's own
parties and its own program. Only the Communist
PARTY champions the interests Of the working class
The parties who claim to represent the interests
of all classes only try to cover up the fact that
they are the parties of the bankers and capitalists
A. r. of L. Non Partisan" Policy
The leadership of the American Federation OF
Labor. which itself opposes the interests of the
rank and file of the A. F. of L. and Of all workers
who help break strikes through the MA and
arbitration, who oppose Unemployment insurance
are irving to keep the workers chained to the capt.
tast parties by covering up the class character oil
these parties capitalist class with their so-called
non-partisan policy OF support your friends ana
punish your enemies.
BY selecting some politicians and singing them
out for defeat they call upon the workers to
SUPPORT all the candidates of the capitalist parties
In some states the A. F. Of L. bureaucrats support
the Republican Party and in some states the
Democratic Party. Their whole policy Is one Of
hiding the trHe class character Of the capitalist
parties and preventing the workers from breaking
away from them.
In New York for example the Central Trades
and Labor Council endorses the Democratic ticket
headed by the banker Herbert Lehman, in the
state and the LaGuardia-Republcan candidate for
Comptroller for the City of New York. But have
not both the state administration of Lehman and
the city administration Of LaGuardia cut down
relief to the workers, arrested dubbed and jailed
workers for going strike? Are they not taxing
the poor, starving them while always looking after
the interests Of the bankers?
Must Support Glass Interests
Only by supporting the Communist Party plat
form and its candidates, the workers vote for
their own interests in the coming elections. The
conditions of the workers will not be affected
whether the Democrats Republicans win the
elections Because both parties stand for the in
terests of the capitalists.
But however, if a few Communists elected
to Office to Congress, to the state legislatures,
what a powerful force they will be to raise from
the legislative chambers of capitalism the crying
needs of the masses, mobiIizing them for the
struggle for their own interests! The election of
such Communists even big Communist vote
will be a warming to the ruling class that they
must grant the immediate demands of the
workers.
All workers who wish to vote for their own
interests can only do so by voting the Communist
ticket even though such workers may not yet be
fully convinced that the program of the Communist
Party alone offers a permanent solution to the
present misery of the masses The Communist
Party is the best champion Of the immediate needs
of the workers precisely because 1t is fighting to
do away with the whole system of capitalist ex-
ploitation and oppression. To you workers who
have already studied not only the platform of the
immediate demanoS OF the communist Party, put
also our program for way out Of the crisis and
the building of socialist society in the U,S.Aq
modelled after the Soviet Union where the stand
ards of living of the masses are constantly rising
and where unemployment has been abolished where
all forms of discrimination have been wiped out
we have an additional appeal
We appeal to you not only to Vote Communist
but to JOIN THE RANKS OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY and help build YOUR PARTY, the Party
TYA afFon aetr,, Foy
the demands of the Communist Party platform
not only during but also after the elections, and
for the abolition of the whole system of capitalism