The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-10

'OI JDe American FeQera ton Of La
Dor are sending elected delegates.
The conference Will be held at
Mirror Hall 1876 Northwestern
Avenue, at 1920 am. Robert Minor
will make the chief report. outlin-
ing the platform of the Commu.
mist Party in the coming elections.
Karl Lockner, the Party's candidate
for Mayor. and Sam Hammersmark,
the candidate for City Treasurer
also will speak. Herbert Newton,
Negro candidate for City Clerk, is
at present in jail following his pick
citing activities against racial dis
elimination
While all 81 aldermanic candi-
dates nominated at workers united
front conferences in the wards will
be present, interest will be centered
on the concentration candidates
from the second, eighth and Dist
wards. In the second ward, which
has q large Negro population. the
candidate is Brown Squire, Negro
eX-serviceman who has been one Of
the leaders in the unemployed work
in Chicago This ward, incidentally,
has made the best showing so far
in mobilization for the city election.
Workers Candidate Fired
The candidate from the Eighth
Ward, George RACE, American Fed
Grafton of Labor member, is the
center of a struggle which has be-
come city-wide. AS soon as it was
announced that he had been NOM
mated at workers conference, the
Capitol Dairy, where he was en-
ployed as milk driver, fired him.
Furthermore. the company withheld
his bord of 5000. The workers,
among whom ne is very popular.
are fighting now for his reinstate-
ment.
A broad mass movement has de-
veloped around RACE. At the con-
ference which nominated him, there
we're more than 200 present from
many workers organizations. Be-
cause Of this splendid support, 1t
is possible that RACE can be elected
to the City Council.
The third concentration candi-
date, who will also be present at
the conference Sunday, is Martin
Miskerik, of the Twenty-first Ward.
Miskerik is a member Of the Inter-
national Workers Order, the New
World Educational Association, and
the Communist Party, He is the
announcer of the Sloyak Radio
Circle
Prominent issues upon which in
terest is being conferred in the Chi
cago campaign, are the building OF
subway, and workers, homes, hos
pitfalls, parks and Fairgrounds, all
construction to be done by union
labor at union wages, immediate
winter relief, the right of the I'M
employed to organize, the stoppage
Of evictions, full equality of Ne
groes. and the transference Of all
war funds to unemployed relief
In the elections. the fight for the
immediate needs of the workers as
outlined above, is inseparable from
/ the great fight which has to be
waged against the ever encroach-
ment of fascism, of which Hearst
is an official spokesman. The forces
back of him, and aligned with him,
are becoming emboldened in their
/ attacks on the Communist Party.
The Chicago workers. in the COM
ing elections. must give fitting
answer to the fascist elements by
I defeating the program and candi-
dates of the Democratic Party ma
chine; and by rallying behind the
candidates and program Of the
Communist Party in the city cleo
tons, and behind the workers cam
didates in the wards. The first task
4 in those few remaining days is the
rallying of still more working class
organizations for Sundays election
conference.