The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
MOST ACTIVE Campaign
IN HISTORY COMPLETED
BY COMMUNIST PARTY
W Ork ers Throughout
the U. S. Supp ort
Hammer and Sickle

With more than 30,0OO,O00 voters
going to the polls today in the Con-
gressionaI and State elections, Com
munist candidates, at the wind-up
Of the most energetic election cam
paign ever waged by the Commu-
mist Party. expected to poll the
largest number Of votes ever before
cast for Communist nominees.
From California, where Leo CAL
.Iagher recently polled two hundred
thousand votes running on a Com
munist-supported election platform
and where Sam Darcy. Communist
candidate for Governor. has outrun
the Socialist candidate for the same
office in the Literary Digest poll, to
New York. where Negro workers.
members of Negro Democratic and
Republican clubs have endorsed
Negro workers who are Communist
candidates, the Communist election
campaign has evoked tremendous
enthusiasm and support from work.
ers in all parts of the country.
In Alabama, under conditions Of
the most extreme terror, Negro
worker has been nominated for
Lieutenant Governor by the Com
munist Party. In Illinois, despite
the 10000 nominating signatures
which the Communist candidates
received. the State officials. invent
ing a technicality, ruled the Party
eft the ballot but only increased the
efforts of the local Communists,
who have called on the Illinois
workers to write-in the names Of
the Communist candidates.
In Michigan, led by the Commu-
mist Mayor of Platte, a strong CAM
paign has been carried through
among the automobile workers in
the cities and the farmers in the
countryside. In Ohio, thousands Of
steel workers have evinced their
determination to break away from
the capitalist parties and to cast
their ballots TO- Communists, ard
in Toledo a united front W2s estab-
lished with the Socialists when the
ldbtEl NE-C tUl " VlA lHl[ hJl+AOAs
In the Farm Regions
In Nebraska the Communists are
carrying on what is by far the
broadest campaign ever carried out
by the Party in that state, Com
munist candidates running on a
united front farmers ticket. SINH
larly vigorous campaigns have been
conducted in the adjoining agri-
cultural states, and although full
Communist tickets have not always
been presented to the workers and
farmers, the depth and breadth
of the present election campaign
has in every case surpassed cleo
ton struggles.
In New York. more than ten mill
lion pieces of election campaign
literature were sold and dis
tributed and hundreds of rallies
and parades brought the Commu-
mist program to hitherto untouched
strata of workers.
New AdherentS
Thousands of new adherentS to
the Communist program have also
been gained among school teach
ers and professional workers, as
well as among native-born work
ers on the West Side, who came to
Communist rallies in order to dis
rupt them and remained to buy
Communist pamphlets entitled
why you should vote Communist"
The workers, farmers. profession
ais and white collar workers who
will cast their ballots for the Com
munist candidates will do so with
out any illusions as to possibility
of solving all their problems in a
capitalist polling booth: they know
the impossibility of voting a work.
ers' and farmers Socialist govern
ment into existence. But they also
know, and largely as the result Of
the tremendous campaign of educa-
ten instituted by the Party during
the present. election campaign,
that Communist votes constitute
tremendously effective method of
wringlng concessions from the
capitalist class, that Communist
votes are not merely protest votes,
but votes that are an indication
Of willingness for revolutionary
struggle.
The polls will be guarded by
thousands of Communist watchers,
who will do everything in their
power to protect the votes that will
be cast for the Communists. and
although no one expects that more
than FREQ. ion Of TIE real Com
munist vote will be accredited to
the Communist candidates, there
S every reacon to believe that the
total votes received by the Com
munists today will greatly exceed
those cast in the last election.