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mF Platform and Program of the Communist (Continued from Page One) said during the 1928 presidential elections: “A labor government in England was most helpful at a critical time’”—that is, hélpful to the capitalist class. For the same reason that the “New York Times” of Oct. 18 could quote Mr. W. L. Baillieu, “Australian industrialist and financier,” regarding the new “labor government” in that country, that just as “the city of London has accepted Ramsay MacDonald and Snowden with complete equanimity, I feel sure that the cities of New York and London can with equal confidence accept the labor ad- ministration in Australia.” And so could the capitalists with equal confidence accept the Reverend Mr. Norman Thomas of the socialist party, as the same sort of faithful servant of the bourgeoisie—and one more capable of deceiving the working class by phrases of “socialism.” Always elections are used by the bourgeoisie to present several of its own tried and true representatives, from which the workers are asked to pick which one they wish to rule. But whichever one is picked it is the capitalist class that is the real ruler. The present municipal election in New York is no exception to this rule, The capitalist class wants to use these elections to strengthen its | governmental power; it wants power in order to increase its exploita- tion of the workers, to speed up their labor, to squeeze more profits out of them. It wants power in order to prepare a new imperialist war— against its imperialist rivals and before all against the Soviet Union, the only government of the working class, In the name of “democracy,” it asks you to vote for the speed-up, for court and police terror against the workers: ‘In the name of “peace” it asks you to vote for the parties of war préparations. The Communist Party enters this election to smash this deception of the capitalists, to mobilize the working class for its own class in- terests, for its own issues, for struggle against the capitalist class. The Communist Party enters this election to raise the real burning issues of the working class, which are: Fight against the increasing exploitation of the capitalists! Fight against the speed-up, and all forms of capitalist rationaliza- ! Fight against the menacing imperialist war! The Communist Party will use the elections as a means of educat- ng and organizing the workers on these fundamental issues, and lead- ing them in struggles for the fundamental interests of the working class in preparation for the ultimate struggle for all power to the workers. THE IMPENDING CRISIS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WAR DANGER. tion Capitalism produces misery and suffering for the workers. At the same time it produces crises, upheavals and imperialist wars, which arise out of these conditions of exploitation of the working class. This process is proceeding swiftly in the United States, which boasts of its great “prosperity” and “stability.” Capitalist “prosperity” has been built upon rationalization, which is the speeding-up of labor, the fullest possible squeezing out of the workers all their energies in ever-increasing production of wealth for the capitalists, at the cost of the workers’ health, the drawing into in- dustry of immense numbers of women and children, with constantly increasing unemployment (now permanently numbered in millions), and with the ensuing lowering of wages, and general declining of living standards, The workers, deprived of the fruits of their labor, and con- stantly more oppressed, are forced to fight for their very lives. The working class of this country is not submitting peacefully to these new conditions of intensified exploitation and oppression. They are taking up the struggle against their employers and are offering firm resistance to the new devices of bloody oppression. The Negro workers are beginning to struggle against their double oppression. The strikes and the heroic battles of the Gastonia workers, of the textile slaves of Elizabethton, Marion, the pitched battles of New Orleans street carmen, the movements of militant labor for the establishment of industrial unions and a new trade union center, the fight of the needle, food, shoe, metal workers and the stirring of the slaves in the big industrial plants throughout the country are evidence of the fact that the workers are not yielding meekly to the enslaving plans of their masters and to being thrown into the shambles of another world slaugh- ter for the sake of the profits of the exploiters. The very increased production of American industry is bringing a new econoniic crisis for capitalism. The goods produced cannot be sold. The markets are too.small,.they cannot increase to keep pace with pro- duction. Therefore production must slow down to fit the market: More unemployed—a.new shrinking of the market. Already in leading branches of American industry we see a slowing down—i. e., the verge of a new crisis. American capitalists see this problem clearly. Thus Mr. A. P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, reported to his stockholders (May, 1929): “Tt is recognized that the curve of development within the U. 8. must necessarily flatten out—as a matter of fact it already has— as the years progress. The opportunity for further progress in all overseas countries, however, is and will continue to be great for many years to come.” Here is disclosed the motive-force of the tremendous expansion of American imperialism in the last years. Seeking for markets where it can profitably sell its booty, the results of robbery of the American working class, the American imperialist bourgeoisie penetrates into the whole world with its capital and commodities—atid where it comes up | against small or weak nations, proceeds’ to subdue them and bring them under its control. This 1s the reason for the outrages in Haiti, Nicaragua, Santo Domingo, and all the countries of the Caribbean, Cen- tral and. South America. This is the reason for the oppression of the Philippines, and the denial of independence to the Filipino people. This is the reason for American intrigue and military intervention in China, against the Chinese workers and peasants. This is the reason for the growing antagonism, the developing war, between Great Britain and the United States. And above all, this is the reason for the prepara- tions for war to overthrow the Soviet Union which has taken one-sixth of the whole world away from the imperialist market seekers. Here is also the explanation for the rising tide of revolutionary struggle of the peoples even of the small and weak countries, the col- onies and semi-colonies, to resist the oppression and exploitation of American imperialism, to regain their national independence. The capitalist class adopts more and more often methods of op- pression resorting to fascist methods for the oppression of the working class. The struggle of Gastonia is the symbol of the widening fronts nd the deepening of the class struggle. The election campaign in New York is part of the international struggle of the working class. Under the banner of class against class, the Communist Party of the U. S. A. will seek to unite the ranks of the workers for more militant action against the exploiting class, to expose the imperialist war mongers and their social fascist allies (the socialists, A. F. of L. chiefs, and Musteite fake progressives) to draw the working class closer to- gether tq combat the rationalization program of the capitalists to or- ganize the unorganized and to fight against the immediate danger of # world war, for the mobilization of the working class for the over- throw of capitalism and the establishment of a workers’ and farmers’ government. What is happening in the United States is similar to what is going on in every capitalist country n the world. That is why, in all these countries, we witness the simultaneous rising tide of strikes and poli-' tical struggles, of deep revolutionary fermentation among the working masses. In this New York election a vote for any of the bourgeois parties, democratic, republican or socialist, is a vote to perpetuate this situa- tion. It is therefore a vote for intensified rationalization. It is a vote for imperialist expanson. It is a vote for suppression of the colonial peoples. It is a vote for imperialist war. For this election is also in- timately bound up with the whole country and the world situation. The instability of capitalism, the development of its crisis, is has- tened by the growth of the Soviet Union. The capitalists of the United States are filled with rage and fear, when they see what is going on in the Soviet Union, which under its working class rule is successfully buiding up socialism. While capital economy is facing a crisis, because it cannot find profitable markets for the enormous production of which-it robs the workers, on the contrary the Soviet Union is enormously expanding every year because it is free of markets and prices, because its produc- tion belongs to its working class. The economy of the Soviet Union is growing ten times faster than the ‘age growth of the United States for the past fifty years. While in the United States, and in all capitalist countries, the con- ditions of the workers are constantly getting worse, wages are being lowered, strikes and conflicts are spreading everywhere,'on the con- trary the workers of the Soviet Union constantly gain better conditions, their wages increase every year, while strikes and conflicts are almost absent because the working class owns its own factories and shops. : While the United States, and all capitalist countries, prepares the materials for a new gigantic world slaughter, a new world war which + will destroy more millions of lives than the last war of 1914-1918, on ’ Page Four OQiSttie Emenee aaa... DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1925 the contrary the Soviet Union stands as a bulwark of peace in a war- mad world. All these things which cause the imperialists to foam with rage against the Soviet Union, because it undermines the very foundations | of capitalism in the whole world, which causes them to prepare to launch a War against the Soviet Union to crush the Workers’ Republic, at the same time calls upon the workers to rally to the defense of the Soviet Union, which is the stronghold, the fortress, of the workers of the whole world, the only land which is building socialism and a workers’ society. In thé New York elections this issue also will be voted on. Every vote for demoéfatic, republican, or socialist parties is a vote for the capitalist attack against the Soviet Union. Every vote for the Communist Party is a pledge to fight to the death for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Issues in the New York Elections. The capitalist parties without exception do not and cannot put for- ward any real issues that concérn the working class. The major issue for the republican, democratic, socialist and square deal patty in the present municipal elections is graft and corruption. fhe republican party ard its mayoralty candidate, Major La Guardia, who openly pro- claims his admiration for fascist rule in Italy make the graft and cor- ruption of the police department, the courts and the district attorney’s office thé major ‘target of their attack. The socialist party is spending most of ifs energies in trying to prove to the capitalists that it can best clean the stench of “official” corruption in the city government and thus strengthen the rule of the bosses. The ex-Tammany police chief Enright algo makes his main plea for support on the issue of stamping out corruption from the city government principally the police depar- ment. Tammany Hall and the mayor of the city of New York, Jimmié Walker, put forth their best boosters to prove that there is not a trace of graft and corruption to be found anywhere in the city government and point to their record of “economy” as the chief reason why Tam- many should be maintained in office. The “unsolved” Rothstein mur- der case is the symbol of the political issues put forward by the repub- lican, socialist and square deal parties in the present elections. While not by any mzans_a part of the campaign material, empty phrases about five-cent fare and the housing situation complete the issue of the capitalist parties. It is no accident that the major issues in the présent campaign cénter around the graft and corruption in the courts, the police depart- ment and the district attorney’s office, and their connection with the underworld. It is becausé the bosses are more and more interested in centralizing their state machinery, and the proper utilization of the underworld fascist thugs in theit attacks against the workers. This is made necessary by the growing struggles and their ever sharpened class character in the present period. The offensive of the bosses and the consequent resistance of the workers requires that the police depart- ment, the courts and the district attorney’s office work smoothly and swiftly. It requires that the underworld thugs be subordniated to and made an integral part of the capitalist state machinery. ALL PARTIES, THE REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRATIC, SOCIALIST AND SQUARE DEAL ARE OUT TO PROVE TO THEIR MASTERS, THE CAPITAL- ISTS, THAT THEY CAN BEST CARRY THROUGH THE REOR- GANIZATION AND ADAPTATION OF THE STATE MACHINERY TO THIS TASK IN THE PRESENT PERIOD. The Capitalist Strikebreaking Government. The Walker government during the four years of its administra- tion of the city and the Tammany Hall administration working with the democratic party of the state, Lehman and Roosevelt, has subor- nated every piece of state machinery to the strikebreaking and labor- crushing aims of the employing class of the city and state. The Walker government has érushed the strike of the traction slaves, has estab- lished a reign of terror against the needle trades workers, has arrested over 1,500 workers in the short period of the food workers’ strike. Workers of all industries have felt the heavy hand and the crushing blows of the Tammany Hall police system. Utilizing the most brutal methods of suppression, the Walker government, togéther with the thugs and gangsters and in alliance with the labor bureaucracy and socialist party, has been employing. fascist methods against the work- ing class. Under their regime, the slum conditions of the workers have grown worse, the tenants have been burdened with new evils of capi- talist landlordism, and the traction barons have been enabled to coin greater profit out of the traction slaves and from the worker pas- sengers who are made to endure ever greater congestion and suffoca- tion of a vile capitalist-dominated traction system. Overcrowded schools, regimented in military fashion, tyranny over city employees, complete disregard of children in industry and the newds of working women, everywhere greater brutality against the workers, have been the lot of the labor under the rule of the capitalist class of the city ahd state. The democratic and republican party government of New York City and state have been pursuing the same policies as the government at Washington. The Hoover administration is the government of the big bankers and trusts. His agents have been strikebreaking against the carmen of New Orleans, it has been intimidating foreign born workers through the Department of Labor, and in the Elizabethtown strike, the Hoover government showed its naked strikebreaking and war making policy in selling out these workers engaged in a war industry. Phe Hoover government is préparing war against the Soviet Union, raising the living costs of the workers through the new tariff bill, expressing the colonial peoples and the true representative of the bourgeisit, above all, of finance capital. The capitalist govern- ment, whether in control of the republicans of democrats in Washin; ton or New York, or the socialists in Milwaukee and Reading, are in- struments for keeping the capitalist class in power and suppressing and crushing the working class. These capitalist parties of big business in their policies of sub- jecting the working class to increased exploitation have been aided by the lackeys of the employers, the trade union officialdom of the American Federation of Labor and by the Socialists. The trade union officialdom, led by the Greens, Wolls, Ryans and Sullivans, has worked hand in hand with the Republican and Democratic state machinery and with the employing class for devitalizing the trade union movement and for converting the trade unions into company unions. They have conspired together to prevent the organization of the workers. The New York Central Trades and Labor Council, led by the reactionary A. F. of L. officialdom has been used by these officials as a strike- breaking auxiliary of the employers of the city. The A. F. of L. officialdom are part of the ¢apitalist state machinery and their so-called non-partisan political action is a fraud perpetuated to keep the capi- talist politicians in power and prevent the workers from assuming independent political action for their class interests. The Hillmans, Schlessingers, Shiplacokks, Dubinskys are the twin brothers of these. A. F, of L. chieftains and work hand in hand to destroy the labor movement. Under the rule of these: trade union officials, New York City has become one of the worst open shop centers. The food and metal industry, the transport nad waterfront and the chemical in- dustries, the decisive sections of the trade are unorganized—the work- ers are at the complete mercy of the trust magnates; while the needle trades have been converted into company unions and the workers sub- jected to new and more terrible sweatshop conditions, , The workers are realizing that the practices of these labor lieu- tenants of the bosses mean only long hours and low wages, and their influence among the workers is waning. The Muste movemet appears on the scene to prop up the class collaboration schemes and to deceive the workers, to steer their discontent away from the militant and fighting sections of labor. It is a more dangerous group because it tries to screen its real aims with radical phrases. By it tivities in New Bedford, Passaic, Elizabethton, and Marion, it has already shown its real treacherous character in selling out the workers. SOCIALIST PARTY—THE PRETTY BOURGEOISIE PARTY The Socialist Party pretending to be in opposition to the capital- ist parties, is indeed their best ally. The Socialist Party of New York City, the party of small business interests, of a section of the labor aristocracy, professioncls, etc., is a third party of the capitalist class. It stands: for the protection of capitalist law and order and in its proposals for the reorganization of the police system of New York affords to the reagtionary city government the best weapon for in- creasing the terror and the “efficiency” of the police against striking and fighting labor, ‘ 5 The Socialist Party has abondoned any pretense of the class strug- gle. It has heen the champion and the defender of the union breaking policies of the bureaucrats. In its ranks are the Socialitt trade union ‘officials who have employed gangsters, collaborated with the Tam- many Hall police and bosses to assault workers, to throw them out of the factories and sentence them to long imprisonments. The Social- ist Party is an enemy of the Soviet Union and a friend of the League of Nations—that is of the robber imperialist powers. Its poisonous pacifist propaganda serves ane disarm the workers against the ist Party is pas. of the md In- growing war danger. The 8 Party for the New York Municipal Elections ternational of which the German social democracy has shot down dem- onstrating workers on May Day, has built cruisers for German imperial- ism and whose British section in power, the MacDonald Government, put through greater exploitation and oppression. The endorsement of Norman Thomas by the bourgeois Citizens Union shows ¢learly the capitalist character of this so-called Socialist Party. THE ONLY’ WORKING CLASS PARTY. The Communist Party is the only working class, Party—the Party of your class. It enters in the present election*campaign to turn this campaign into a mobilization for a relentless struggle against cracy and treacherous Socialist Party, against capitalist rationaliza- tion and the capitalist state. In the 1929 election campaign, the Com- | munist Party of the city and state fights for the following election | program representaing the interests of the working class: THE FIGHTING POINTS OF THE COMMUNIST PLATFORM. I, Rationalization. In the struggle against rationalization, the speed-up and unem- | | ployment, the Communist Party demands and fights for: | 1, The 7-hour day with further reduction of hours in specially hazardous occupations. 2, Five weeks vacation with pay every year for all workers. 3. Organization of Councils of Unemployed to fight for all meas- ures of relief and together with the employed workers for better con- ditions. = 4. Unemployment insurance to provide full wages for all unem- ployed workers for the entire period of unemplyoment. 5. The establishment of health insurance to provide full wages tor all workers too ill to continue at their jobs for the entire period of incapacity. 6. employment for the entire period of disability. ‘ _ 1. Prohibition of the use of pneumatic drills in rock drilling and stone cutting industries and the prohibition of air-spray guns in. the house painting industry and in all other industries until devices have been perfected and installed which will render it impossible for workers to be exposed to the deadly effects of these instruménts. 8. Election of inspectors by the workers on every job from among. their fellow employees to protect the workers against speed-up and enforce safety regulations. ‘ 9. Enforcement of an old age pension bill to provide a minimam of $25 per week to dependent men and women 55 years of age and over, fund to be administered by a commission of workers representing trade unions, shop committees and workers benefit societicz. 10. Prohibition by law of night work, over time and job work for all working women and.children. 11. Maternity allowance of full working wages for # month be- fore and a month following child birth. : 12. Prohibition of employment of women in all processes and occupations that endanger their health. 18. Equal pay for equal work for all women and youth workers. 14. Prohibition of work foryall children under 15. 15. Six hour day and 5 day week for all workers between the age of 16 and 18 to include 2 hours of schooling a day. II. Struggle Against Imperialist War and for the Defense of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party calls upon the workers ‘to take up vigorously the fight against imperialist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. The Communist Party demands and fights for: 1, -Not a man, not a gun, not a cent for the imperialist army and navy. 2. Immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Latin America, the Philippines and China. 8. Complete and immediate independence for all Ameri¢an col- onies and semi-colonies. 4. Abolition of the regime of United States custom control or supervision of finance in Latin America. 5. Active support of the resistance of the Latin American peoples against United States imperialism. 6. Right of soldiers to vote to join political organizations and right to organize and form soldiers committees. 7. Fight against the whole system of the infamous Versailles treaty. Down with the Young Reparations Plan. 8. Defond the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—Fatherland of the working class of the world. Organize anti-war committees in the. factories. 9. Recognition of the Union of Socialist Republics. Ill. AGAINST POLICE TERROR, GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION, FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. The city government of Walker and Tammany Hall and the state government of Roosevelt together with the republican party are the arms of the employers to keep the working class in subjection and to prevent the workers from improving their conditions. The workers are being subjected to ever greater fascist methods by the capitalist state. The Communist Party demands and fights for: 1. Destroy the anti-labor injunctions by mass violations. 2. Unrestricted right of free speech, free press and free assem- blage for the working class. 3. Unrestricted right to organize, to strike and to picket. 4, Organize workers’ defense corps to resist capitalist terror. 5. Against the use of private police, gunmen in labor struggles. Against the secret anti-labor organizations. 6. Release of all workers imprisoned because of strike and labor struggles. 7. Immediate release of all political prisoners. 8. Right of all civil employes to organize into a union. 9. Abolition of all discrimination, of system of fines as a means of discipline of civil employes, of the establishment of the weekly pay- ment of wages, and of establishment of suitable safeguards against summary discharge. 10. Against persecution and discrimination of the foreign born workers. 11. of birth. IV. FIGHT AGAINST THE OPPRESSION OF THE NEGROES AND FOR FULL SOCIAL, RACIAL AND POLITICAL EQUALITY. The Negroes in the United States form the most bitterly exploited and oppressed section of the American working class. Given the lowest wages, the worst jobs and the most intolerable living conditions, they are in addition subjected to a complete system of race discrimination through Jim Crowism, segregation, disfranchisement, and are treated as “outcasts,” the victims of a brutal capitalist order. In New York City alone there are now over a quarter of a million Negroes. Harlem contains more Negroes to the square mile than any other urban center in the world. The Negro illness rate in New York is ten times that of the white. Negroes die from tuberculosis six times faster than whites, and deaths from pneumonia and heart disease are also considerably higher. Because of the low wages paid Negroes and their restriction to certain employments, the proportion of Negro women in industry is four times that of white married women. The infant mortality rate in Negro Harlem is more than twice that for white babies. One-half of the Negro workers’ pay envelope in New York City goes for rent. The Negro workers suffer the double evil of segre- gation and miserably crowded unsanitary dwellings. The right to vote for all workers irrespective of age and place creasing under the city ruled by the capitalist parties. The attempts to organize are met by severe brutality by the police, while the A. F. of L, bureaucrats and socialist officials act in the treacherous role of strikebreakers (Pullman Porters). .. The Communist Party alone fights relentlessly against all forms of race discrimination and is the only Party that can lead the Negroes to.emancipation from racial, social and political oppression. In those southern states in which Negroes are the bulk of the population the Party fights for the right of self determination of the Negroes, until the right of formation of a separate state. The Communist Party likewise fights for the organization of the unorganized into trade unions. The Communist Party demands: 1. Full social, racial and political equality—against all forms of Jim Crowism, segregation, ete. 2. Struggle against all restrictions which force Negroes to live in segregated districts. 8. Against discrimination against Negroes in rent by charging them higher rates than are charged white tenants, or in refusing to make adequate repairs or maintain houses in sanitary condition. 4. Expenditure of public funds for paving streets, for parks, play- grounds, water supply, sewerage, lighting and other city improvements in proportion to the population of a particular district regardless of race or color. \ 5. Compulsory opening of all occupations to Negroes. 6. The right of every Negro to a free, adequate education fitting for any occupation or calling he desires. ie keeps India in suppression and rerves the English ruling class to | the old parties of the bosses, and against thé corrupt labor bureau- | Full compensation for all workers injured in the course of their | The violence of the capitalist police against Negroes has been in- 7. Compulsory opening of all institutions of training, ineluding [ colleges to Negroes. 8. Immediate abolition of “Jim Crow” schools. 9. Uniform expenditures for all scheols in propértion to popula- | tion regardless of race or color. | 10, Compulsory treatment of all persons needing medical, hospital, | or nursing care, by hospitals, doctors and nurses, regardless of race | or color. | 11. Admission of Negroes to all restaurants, theatres, hotels, parks, playgrounds and other places of recreation. 12. Immediate removal of all restrictions in all trade unions | against membership of Negro workers. t ‘ 13. Abolition of all laws forbidding inter-marriage of persons of different races. Y. HOUSING, TRACTION AND SCHOOLS. The Communist Party Demands and Fights for: | (a) HOUSING: : | 1, Organization of Tenants’ Leagues. i | 2, Struggle against evictions. - | 8. Struggle against increases of rent. 4. Limitation of rental rates, and free rent for unemployed, (b) TRACTION: 1. Provision of safe and adequate transit, with a five-cent fare | and transfer to all junctions. i 2. Seven-hour day, five-day week as a maximum for transit em- ployes, six-hour day for those in especially hazardous occupations and in underground work. 3. Crew of one man to each car. 4, Dissolution of the company unions, abrogation of the yellow dog contract and establishment of the right of all traction workers t& organize and join labor unions. (ce) SCHOOLS: \ 1. Immediate construction of sufficient schools to accommodate comfortably all working class children in their immediate neighbor- | hoods, without part time, free transportation for all school children. | 2. Immediate increase of the teaching staff and a maximum of | twenty pupils to every teacher. | 3. Minimum wage of $2,000 a year for all teachers, with equal salary advance for all grades. 4. Free and adequate medical, dental, optical and other health services for all pupils. Provision by the government for free food, clothing, transportation and school supplies. 5. Abolition of religious and military training. No diserimina- 6. Right of teachers to organize in labor unions. tion against teachers. \ 7. The right of children to organize into working class organisa- tions. 3 3 THE PLATFORM OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE. ‘a for the establishment of dictatorship of the proletariat as a pre- requisite towards the building of the socialist society—this is the pro- gram of the Communist Party. Our platform is the platform of the class struggle.' The Communist Party puts forward its demands in the | present city and state election campaign. But none of tl demands nor the total of these demands exhaust the program of the Communist Party. We declare to the workers that even the smallest of these demands can only be gained by struggle, by organizing and using work- ing class power against the capitalist state. We call upon the workers to rally around the Communist Party in a relentless struggle for these demands, which would protect the toiling masses against some of the most harmful effects of trustified capitalism. Only the full realization of the entire program of the Communist Party, towards which this ing class. Unemployment cannot be abolished under capitalism; low wages and poverty is the permanent lot of the working class under capitalism. Only the overthrow of capitalist rule, the conquest of poli- tical power by the working class and the establishment of the dictator- ship of the proletariat can overcome the misery and oppression of the millions of toilers. The aim for which the Communist Party fights, the aim of the Communist International under whose banner the toiling | masses are uniting for the battle for liberation is expressed in the | world program of the Communist International. This is the aim of the Communist Party. The working class of the world is on the path to the accomplishment of its historic task. The revolutionary struggle against imperialism grows in all countriés. The world crisis of capitalism grows more acute, the working class is taking up the struggle for its emancipation. The resistance of the suffering peoples of the colonies and semi-colonies is arousing further gigantie forces for the overthrow of world imperialism. : The workers of New York, the leading city in the U. S., must show the way for the exploited of the entire country. Forward to a workers’ and farmers’ government. Forward by means of relentless class struggle: ae Working men and women, make this campaign a rallying of the working class force against its exploiters. Bring the issues of the election campaign put forward by the Communist Party in the shops and factories. Organize meetings of your fellow workers to discuss the issues raised. See how these issues are part of the struggles you must wage in your factory. Distribute the platform of the Communist Party | in your shop. | Bring the Communist campaign into your trade union. Expose the A. F. of L, bureaucrats and the socialist labor leaders as the enemi of the workers and the tools of the bosses. oe All militant working men and women: The Communist Party is your Party. It asks you not only to vote for the Communist Party platform of struggle, but also to join its ranks. Help build the Com- munist Party, the American section of the Communist International— the World Party of the Working Class and Toiling Masses of the World. | The Communist Party is the Party of class struggle. It fights for | the complete unity of the working class, for the united struggle éf native born, foreign born and Negro workers against the common enemy—capitalism in all its forms. y see © PLATFORM OF THE CLASS STRUGGLE. Workers of New York: Fight against your enemies, the big and small parties of capital, the republican, democratic and socialist parties. 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