The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
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Communists
Name Slate
In Chicago
Party Presents ll-POint
Pro gra m in Spring
Election Campaign

Election Campaign
CHICAGO. Ill, Nov. %. - The
District Committee of the Commu-
mist Party has nominated the fol-
lowing candidates for offices in this
city.
For Mayor, Karl Lockner, the
outstanding mass leader Of the I'M
employed.
For City Treasurer, Samuel T.
Hammersmark, active for 40 years
in the labor movement, former
secretary of the Farmer = Labor
Party of Cook County, at present
District president of the Interna-
tional Workers Order.
For City Clerk, Herbert Newton,
Communist Party leader among the
Negro masses, known for his lead
ership in the struggles of the I'M
employed in the present struggle
against the cut in relief and who
has been arrested on the picket
line in front of relief station.
Demands Listed
The Communist Party enters the
election campaign with a program
Of the following demands:
u For the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill HR. 1898.
q For Public Works; (a) Build
ing of q subway in Chicago, Cb)
Building of workers homes, (c)
Building Of hospitals, schools, parks
and Fairgrounds. All workers on
such public work projects to be en-
ployed at union wages and condi-
tons, with a guarantee of 80 hours
per week.
81 Pending passage of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill
H.R. 1898. direct cash relief to be
paid to all unemployed, at the rate
of SO per week for single workers,
$13 per week for a family of two
and So for each dependent.
A. For immediate winter relief.
shoes, new clothing, coal, blankets
and other necessities.
81 For the right of the workers
in the shops, on public works, work
relief and unemployed to organize
into unions and organizations of
the unemployed. For recognition of
representatives of the unions and
organizations of the unemployed at
the Relief Stations.
g. Abolition of the Red Squad,
against police terror, for the repeal
of the sales tax, vagrancy laws.
pauper act and the Illinois Criminal
Syndicalist Law.
y Against evictions and fore
closures of workers homes. For
the Farmers Relief Bill.
81 All funds appropriated for war
and military purposes to be turned
over for unemployment insurance
and relief. Payment of soldiers
bonus.
81 Free hot lunches and clothing
for the children of the unemployed
and part time workers.
100 For full social, political and
economic equality for the Negro
people. Against Jim Crowism and
segregation. Against discrimination
OF foreign born workers. -
III Against fascism, and impe-
rialist war. For the defense of the
Chinese people, the Chinese Soviet
Republic and the Soviet Union. For
the withdrawal of the United States
army and navy from all colonies.
For the support of the struggles of
the Cuban masses against Yankee
Imperialism.
The Communist Party will in
cooperation with other working
class organizations in every work.
ing class ward in the city, nominate
united front candidates for alder
men on the same platform. The
ward conferences will take place in
December and city wide confer
ence will take place in the middle
Of January.
Minor Is Chairman
To properly organize the election
campaign in the proper direction.
an Election Campaign Committee
has been elected consisting of Bob
Minor as chairman, A. Guss as
manager, and the members of the
committee are Karl Lockner. Her
bert Newton and Beatrice Shields.
Ninety-one thousand signatures
are required to place the Commu-
mist Party candidates on the ballot.
The collection of signatures will
start at once and end about Febru-
airy 21st. The Communist Party
calls upon all voters in the city of
Chicago to sign the petition of the
Communist Party and for united
front candidates in every ward and
to abstain from voting in the pri-
maries for Mayor, City Treasurer
and City Clerk on February 26th.
We urge and call upon all voters in
every ward to go to the polls and
vote for the united front candidates
nominated in every ward.
The election campaign headuuar-
tiers will be located at 101 S. Wells
Street, Room 702.