The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 3

b p i i] i i | i THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 18, 1928 The Communist Party Asks for $10,000 For the Communist Election Campaign To Every Member of the Communist Party! _ To All Working Men and Working Women! _ The election campaign has reached its last stage. The capitalist terror against the working class candidates, against the Communist Party, is becoming ever more brutal and ruthless. Big business is spending millions publicly and tens of millions un- der cover to finance both of its political parties. Even the Socialist Party, the party of small business, is receiving its crumbs from the table of the rich. Thirty-five million copies of the boss press are vomiting each and every day their capitalist poison, their anti-Communist bias. Even the Socialist Party and its preacher candidate receive their daily morsels of “respectable publicity.” The election campaign of the Communist Party serves only ‘one goal: the mobilization of the masses of workers against the master class. The aim of the Communist candidates is not to grab offices but to spread the propaganda of the class struggle, to expose the cele- brated American capitalist democracy in all its ugly nakedness as a capitalist dictatorship. The Communist Party is already on the ballot in 34 states. Our speakers and organizers have penetrated such new sections of the working class as had never before heard the teachings of Commun- ism. The election campaign of our Party, the propaganda of our candidates is penetrating the “Solid South.” The Negroes, the most oppressed section of the American masses, are beginning to see the Communist Party as their fearless champion, as their spokesman against white oppression. During the whole course of the election campaign the major capitalist parties, and likewise their small brother, the Socialist Party, have faithfully kept the “gentleman’s agreement” to maintain a deadly silence on the Negro question. The election cam- paign of the Communist Party in the South violated this aristocratic “gentleman’s agreement” in the most plebian, most revolutionary way. For the first time since the Civil War there now appears in the South a political party which declares its struggle for the liberation of the Negroes. The election campaign of the Communist Party is first of alla relentless struggle against imperialist war. The agencies of the rul- ing class. as also the American Federation of Labor, are making in- creasingly active propaganda for the imperialist war. The socialist party is a partner to the capitalist war conspiracy. Only the Com- munist Party is fighting imperislist war; only we are trying to spread anti-militarist propaganda among the military forces. Our anti-war literature is being distributed in scores of thousands of copies throughout the whole country. CUT OUT ALONG DOTTED LINE Workers (Communist) Party Election Drive-Anti-Terror Emergency Fund $10,000 needed at once Subscription List For President Wm. Z. Foster DEFEAT THE CAPITALIST TERROR HELP GET A BIG COMMUNIST VOTE FINANCE 2 MILLION LEAFLETS VOTE AGAINST IMPERIALIST WAR The master class is béginning to realize that the Communist Party is a new factor in the political life of the country. For the first time ir the oistory of this country there appears a really revo- lutionary party uf the working class, a party which conducts its election campaign not for parliamentary gains but for revolutionary aims. The growing wave of capitalist terror against the Communist Party is nothing but the receivt for our uncompromising revolution- ary election campaign. In 1919-20 the post-war terror against the Communists was a sign of our weakness. In 1928 the increasing terror against us is mptom of our growing strength. The state apparatus is trying to force our Party off the ballot. In several states we are still engaged in a struggle to put the Ham- mer and Sickle on the election ticket. The Communist campaign meeixzs are broken up everywhere. Our candidates, speakers and are going to jail by scores. Leading Communists are being jailed in the southern states, because they appear as the cham- pions of the Negro peonle. Communist rank-and-filers are dragged before courts, because they are the most courageous leaders in every strike, on every picket-linc. Members of our Party and of our: brave Young Workers (Communist) League sre being imprisoned, beaten up, tortured in jail for the distribution of anti-militarist, anti-war leaflets. Communist Party headquarters are being raided, Com- munist Party organizers are being arrested, because our Party is the only party of proletarian class struggle in this country. The socialist party enjoys the complete protection of capitalist law. Not a single meeting of the socialist party has been raided, not a single speaker or organizer of the socialist party has been jailed throughout the whole election campaign. The master class is not afraid of the socialist party. Rather it gives a helping hand to its willing errand- boy, and is not stingy with occasional little trips for prompt and efficient servic ‘ Comrades, workers! We are in the midst of a big struggle. We must now inerease our activities ten-fold, hundred-fold. Our great- est weakness is lack of funds. Despite all the sacrifices of our mem- bers and the workers generally, who have always contributec most generously to the campaign of our Party, we are-now faced with the grave danger of being unable to consummate our big election struggle and our fight against the capitalist-terror because of shortage of funds. The Communist Party asks you to give immednately $10,000 for our COMMUNIST ELECTICN-DRIVE, ANTI-TERROR. EMER- GENCY FUND. We need the money at once to print two million leaflets. Ben Gitlow HELP BRING THE COMMUNIST PRESS TO A MILLION WORKERS BUILD A WORKERS SELF DEFENSE CORPS VOTE AGAINST NEGRO OPPRESSION AND LYNCHING Vote for All National and Local Candidates of the Workers (Communist) Party Sign your name and contribute what you can yourself and get your shopmates and friends to follow you For V.-President NAME AMOUNT NAME AMOUNT We need the money at once to print one million copies of a special election issue of our Party press. We need the money at once to tour the many hun- dreds of Communist candidates throughout the country. We need the money at once to organize everywhere Workers’ Self Defense Corps to protect the right to free speech and assembly for the working class, to pro- tect working class meetings against the gangsterism of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Legion. We need the money at once to finish our fight to put and maintain our Party on the ballot. , We need the money at once to continue our revolution- ary invasion of the “solid®south” of the capitalists and plantation-owners. We need the money at once to continue the distribution of our anti-militarist, anti-war literature. Comrades, workers! It is an emergency situation. It is the duty of every class-conscious worker to help meet the situation. It is the duty of every militant fighter on the front-line of the class struggle to help us defy the brutal terror of the master class. And, first of all, it is the bounden duty of every member of the Communist Party to jump into the first-line trench of the struggle. Every Communist must help our Party now! Members of the Workers (Communist) Party of America, we, the Central Executive Committee of our Party, conscious of our full responsibility, call upon you to do your duty and fulfill at once the following tasks: 1. Send immediately your contribution, of not less than one dollar, to the COMMUNIST ELECTION- DRIVE ANTI-TERROR EMERGENCY FUND. . Collect as much money as possible in your enon, mans union and fraternal organizations, 3. Send the money without any delay direct to the National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 125th Street, New York City. It is the duty of every party unit to take up a collection for the Emergency Fund at once and to send the money to the National Election Campaign Committee. Every unit must assign comrades to do their duty in the trade unions, fraternal organizations, and factories. --- Against the Capitalist Terror The Red Election Sundays and the house. should be utilized to establish the Communist Terror Emergency Fund. WORKERS, COMRADES! DON’T LET DOWN ON YOUR FIGHT! Every worker’s dollar sent to the Com- munist Election Drive Anti-Terror Emer- gency Fund is a slap in the face of the master class. Every dollar bill sent to the National Election Campaign Committee today is a punch in the nose of the sinister forces of capitalist terror. Help finance the distribution of anti-militarist leaflets. Help finance the printing of one million copies of the Communist press! A big Communist vote will be a great triumph for the whole working class. The first answer of the working class to the capi- talist terror must be a big Communist vote. Defy police terror and Ku Klux Klan and American Legion gangsterism! Organize Workers’ Self Defense Corps everywhere! Resist the terrorism of the American Legion and the Ku Klux Klan! Vote against imperialist war! Vote for an anti-lynching fight! Vote for the platform of the ci CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WORKERS (COMMUNIST) PARTY OF AMERICA. struggle! SEND AND ADDRESS ALL FUNDS AS YOU SEE ON THIS SAMPLE ENVELOPE NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Workers (Communist) Party Place 2 Cent 43 East 125th Street New York, N. Y. SPECIAL NOTE:—PUT YOUR RETURN ADDRESS ON THE ENVELOPE WHAT TO DO WITH THIS CONTRIBUTION BLANK 1. Cut out the CONTRIBUTION BLANK. 2. Fill out your name and address and the amount of your contribution. 3. Secure your contribution in the form of cash money or check. 4,. Put the contribution together with the blank in the envelope. . Address envelope same as sample envelope printed here. Place a two cent stamp on envelope and mail immediately. Join In A Campaign to Rouse the Workers and Podr Farmers to Revolutionary Struggle Against the Capitalists and Their Government TIME IS SHORT! MONEY IS NEEDED AT ONCE! Send your contribution DIRECT to the National Election Campaign Committee, Workers (Communist) Party, 43 East 125th Street You can send cash if you wish in an ordinary envelopg with 2c postage and it will reach us the same as a registered letter. ——— ss WHAT TO DO WITH THE SUBSCRIPTION LIST 1. Cut out the Subscription List. 2. Collect in shops, trade unions, fraternal. organizations and from individuals as much money as possible. 3. Secure the full amount collected in form of cash, money order or check. 4, Put the contribution together with the blank in the envelope. 5. Address envelope as sample envelope printed here. 6. Place a two cent stamp on envelope and mail immediately. , WORKERS ,(COMMUNiST) PARTY ELECTION DRIVE ANTI-TERROR EMERGENCY FUND $10,000 NEEDED AT ONCE Contribution Blank COMRADES, Enclosed herewith please find Anti-Terror Emergency Fund. TIME IS SHORT! --Dollars as my contribution to the Election Drive- Fraternally yours, Address MONEY IS NEEDED AT ONCE! Send your contribution DIRECT to the NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, WORKERS (Communist) PARTY, ' 43 East 125th Street, New York City You can send cash if you wish in an ordinary envelope, with two cents postage and it will reach us the same as a registerefl letter. NATIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN COMMIT 4 WORKERS [COMMUNIST] PARTY 43 EAST 125TH STREET