The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1934, Page 3

¥ AILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934 Page Three Communist Platform Spurs 7 Immediate Demands Set In Fall Drive Fight on Fascist Trends, For Higher Pay and Job Insurance Urged (Continued from Page 1) growing trend toward fascism; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the democratic rights of the masses. For unemployment and social insurance solely at the expense of the employers and the state; for the Workers’ Unemployment In- surance Bill, For the repeal of the Agricul- tural Adjustment Act; for emer- gency relief to the impoverished and drought-stricken farmers without restriction by the govern- ment or banks; exemption of im- poverished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emer- gency Relief Bill. Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rigats, Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly in- creased taxation on the rich. Against Roosevelt’s war pre- paredness program; against im- perialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. “The Republican and Democratic Parties have both failed to relieve the suffering of the people or to overcome the crisis,” the platform declares. “Their policies have served only to further enrich the biggest monopoly capitalists and to further impoverish the masses of the people.” | “Roosevelt and the Democratic Party took office to the tune of the ‘New Deal’ for the ‘forgotten man,’ but their record in office gives the lie to their promises. The condi- tions ofgthe mass of workers, the poor farmers, the Negro people and the lower middle class—Roosevelt's ‘forgotten men’—are worse today than when Roosevelt took office,” the statement points out. The platform statement exposes as rank..imposture the claims of Republican, Democrat, Socialist and Farmer-labor groups to rep- resentation of workingclass inter- ests and declares that for workers to vote for any of these groups is to vote for their enemies. Special mention is given to the Republican Party’s pretense of op- position to the “New Deal.” This pretense the program dismisses as “mere campaign tricks. . . to utilize the growing disillusionment of the wo-king people.” The “opposition” of the Socialist and Farm-Labor Parties to the “New Deal” is also Dubbed as mere sham. Both of these groups, the document points out, have ad- hered to “New Deal” policies in cutting relief and using police and troops against strikers wherever they have governmental power. “The only way out of the crisis for the toiling masses is the revolu- tionary way out,” the program asserts, pointing to the Socialist suc- cesses of the Soviet Union. “The program of revolutionary solution of the crisis is no blind experiment, The working class is already in power in the biggest country in the world and has al- ready proved the great superiority of the Socialist system.” Declaring that the United States Is fully ripe for Socialism in all material respects, the platform enumerates the revolutionary changes which would become pos- sible under a Soviet government; distribution of food and clothing surpluses to the worker opening up of unused buildin; to the millions of homeless, immediate reopening of all factories, mills and mines to create jobs at constantly increasing wages and withdrawal of all armed forces from China, Cuba and the Caribbean. Such a government, the platform further declares, would make far- mers secure in their possession of the land and give them the oppor- junity for co-operative agriculture on a socialist basis which would assure them of the greatest possible returns for their labors. “It would also proceed at once,” the document states, “to the com- plete liberation of the Négro people 'rom all oppression, secure the right wf self determination of the Black Belt and would secure unconditional wonomic, political and social equal- ty.” -Thestatement concludes by calling, n the name of the Communist Party, on all workers, farmers and mpoverished members of the middle dass to unite their forces to struggle incompromisingly against every re- luction of their living standards, ivery tendency toward fascism, and ul preparations for war. The platform emphasizes sharply he Communist attitude toward tolding office in capitalist govern- nents, declaring that election cam- vaigns must be waged not merely rith a view to electing candidates mt with a view to broadening all orms of militant struggle in the in- erest of the workingclass. These struggles for immediate mprovement of wages, living con- itions and political rights, the latform points out, must become 1 their turn “the starting point in ne workers’ struggle for political ower. . . for a Soviet government 1 the United States.” (The following is the complete text of the Congressional election platform adopted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States.) IN THE congressional elections, Tuesday, Novem- ber 6th, the Commuist Party, the Party of the working class, represents the immediate needs and the broader social aims of the workers, the poor farmers, the Negro people, and the impoverished middle class. For five years the nation has been in the throes of a terrible crisis. The Republican Party of Hoover and now the Democratic Party of Roosevelt have both failed to relieve the suffering of the people or to overcome ithe crisis. Their policies have served only to further enrich the biggest, the monopoly capitalists and to further impoverish the masses of the people. With the continuation of such policies the capitalists will succeed only in placing tremendously increased burdens on the masses. The Communist Party is the only political party which leads in the every-day fight of the masses of the people for improved conditions; it alone, offers a sound way out of the appalling misery and suffering brought on by capitalism and capitalist rule, Fifteen million people remain unemployed with still inadequate relief, in fact with reduced relief. The masses still clinging to jobs have had their real earnings sharply reduced through the dual process of N. R. A. codes and inflation. The Negro people are discriminated against on the job and in the handing out of relief; they are undergoing the greatest poverty, suffering, per- secution and terror. Roosevelt's A. A. A. has resulted only in more evictions of farmers from their land, in more fore- closures and in the further impoverishment of the mass of poor and middle farmers. The young generation is growing to manhood and womanhood without prospect of jobs or future security. The “New Deal” for the youth means militarization and forced labor in camps under army supervision. The small business men and the lower middle class have been brought to the point of ruin, while the “New Deal” has greatly strengthened the po- sition and increased the profits of the big trusts and monopolies. On all sides, more privileges and power for the wealthy and more misery, suffering and dis- ease -for the masses chacarterize the decaying capitalist system. Faced with their own inability to solve the paralyzing economic crisis by ordinary means, the capitalist rulers of the country, the Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords, through Roosevelt, who acts as their chief executive, prepare for imperialist war, for a new world slaughter. The billions needed to keep alive the hungry masses are spent instead on means of murder, on battleships, ma- chine-guns, tanks, airplanes, poison gas. Roosevelt Regime Takes Fascist Steps Faced with the growing discontent of the people, as expressed in the wave of fiercely-fought strike struggles, the militant demonstrations of the unemployed and the determined battles of the farmers and farm laborers, the big-banker-con- trolled regime of Roosevelt is resorting more and more openly to fascist measures of suppression, to open murder and terror against. the masses, to a brazen restriction of the rights of the toiling population. Capitalist rule has to offer only—hunger, misery, fascism, war! In this situation, the Communist Party pro- poses to the masses an energetic, determined struggle for the following central demands in the congressional elections: (1) Against Roosevelt's “New Deal” attacks on the living standards of the toilers, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work week, and improved living standards. (2) Against capitalist terror and the growing trend toward fascism; against compulsory arbitration and company unions; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without re- strictiéns; for the maintenance of all the democratic rights of the masses. (3) For unemployment and social insurance at ithe expense of the employers and the state; Yor the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill. (4) For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjust- ment Act; for emergency relief to the im- poverished and drought-stricken farmers without. restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impoverished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights. Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply graduated and greatly increased taxation on the rich, Against Roosevelt’s war preparedness pro- gram; against imperialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China, Unity Needed to Win Demands The Communist Party, in putting forward these demands, calls upon the millions of workers and farmers, Negro and white, and particularly upon those workers who until now have followed the mis-leadership of the Socialist Party and strike- breaking officials of the A F. of L., to unite their forces in a determined fight for these demands, Particulerly in every struggle for the most modest demands the workers meet the stubborn resistance of the capitalists who are always supported by the armed power of the state. This united front of the bosses, their government and the strikebreaking A. F. of L, officials can only be defeated through the united actions of the workers and all their organ- izations. The above immediate demands of the Communist Party can serve as the basis for this united action of all workers and farmers who are being oppressed and starved by the rule of monopoly capitalism, Only united mass struggle—protest ac- tions, demonstrations, strikes, political strikes—can block the capitalists’ attacks and bring victory to the workers and poor farmers, The Communist Party urges you to energetically support and elect Communist congressional can- didates. In Congress they will lead the fight for the above demands and for all the needs and in- terests of the toiling population, Outside of con- gress they will directly aid in building the work- ers’ organizations and in leading the struggles of the toilers for improved conditions, against fas- cism and against imperialist war. Spokesmen of the other parties will promise every- thing, before elections, but afier getting into office they will vigorously oppose the basic demands of the toilers; they will join in authorizing the beat- ing, gassing and shooting of workers who fight for these demands; they will faithfully carry out the dictates of the Wall Street bankers and the heads of the big trusts who completely dominate both the national and state administrations. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party took office to the tune of a “New Deal” for the “forgotten man,” but their record in office already gives the lie to their promises. The conditions of the mass of workers, the poor farmers, the Negro people and the lower middle class—Roosevelt’s “forgotten men” —are worse today than when Roosevelt took office. This fact was confirmed by the investigation and report of the Darrow Review Board. The “New Deal” has benefitted only the nation’s richest men, the heads of the big banks and trusts, by piling in- creased burdens on the backs of the great majority of the population. Side by side with this have gone growing restrictions on the rights of the masses and the letting loose of the most brutal drive of terror and persecution in the nation’s history against the workers, the farmers and the Negro people. Consider the outright murders of workers, deportation drives, strikebreaking, under the “New Deal’—Birmingham, Toledo, Minneapolis, San Pedro, Cleveland and San Francisco. Thus the Roosevelt government stands exposed on the side of the capitalists, the open shoppers, the company unions, against strikes, for the suppression of the workers and their organizations. The Communist Party has been singled out particularly for attack because it is the organizer and fighter for the most elementary rights and needs of the workers. Club- bing, gassing and killing workers hase become a weekly occurrence under the present Democratic Party regime. These are Roosevelt's deeds for the “forgotten man.” Workers Plundered to Aid Rich The Republican Party, the Republicans in Con- gress, have supported all those measures of Roose- velt directed against the masses and for the benefit of the capitalists. Together with the Democratic administration they have pluncered and starved the 6 6 ue TEXT OF COMMUNIST PAR toiling people and handed out hundreds of millions to the rich. With the approach of the elections the Republican Party is trying to appear as an opposition to the “New Deal.”. They even pretend to “criticize” the growing burocracy of the Roose- velt administration. But these are only campaign tricks, efforts to utilize the growing disillusionment of the working people in the “New Deal” to con- tinue to serve the interests of capitalism. The boss class wants to alternate the two major capitalist Parties, posing as an opposition to each other when one is in power and by such means place the dis- contented masses under the control of their trusted Political servants. In the states which they con- trol, the Republicans have used the same brutal ter- ror against those who resisted the lowering of their living standards, Any differences between the two major parties reflect only differences within the capitalist camp on how to continue and increase the robbery and persecution of the poor. The Farmer-Laborites, likewise, while posing as representatives of farmers and workers, with a pro- gram characterized by the most demagogic promises, in Congress and in Minnesota, where they control the state administration, have given the most slavish support to Roosevelt's measures which time has proven were directed against the masses. The Farmer-Labor Governor, Olson, of Minnesota, like his Democratic colleague, Governor White of Ohio, and the Republican Governor Merriam of Calif- ornia, has also sent National Guard troops to break the strike of the Minneapolis truckmen. The Socialist Party, while pretending to advo- cate Socialism, practices outright capitalist politics. In Milwaukee and in Bridgeport, where the Social- ist Party is in control, they have adhered to Roose- velt's “New Deal” policies, meeting the strikes and demonstrations of the workers against those policies with the same ruthless terror as is prac- ticed in cities and states under Democratic, Re- publican and Farmer-Labor rule. Their present criticism of Roosevelt and his policies comes only after the real class character of these policies became evident to the masses, when it was no longer possible to pretend to be “Socialist” and still openly sup- port Roosevelt. But the rejection by the Socialist Party of the only possible road to Socialism—the road of revolutionary mass struggle as proposed by the Communist Party—inevitably keeps this party bound to the fundamental policies of Roosevelt, of the capitalists. Their fear of revolution, of mass struggle, of powerful strikes and demonstrations by the workers, causes them to accept lower wages and lower living standards and to agree to the taking away piecemeal of one set of workers’ rights after another; it leads them inevitably to policies which pave the way for open fascist dictatorship as was the case in Germany and later in Austria. Behind phrases of “democracy” and “socialism,” and while pretending to be a workers’ party, the Socialist Party renders the most loyal servite to the capitalist exploiters and oppressors of the workers. The Democratic, Republican, Socialist and Farm- er-Labor Parties—together with the American Fed- eration of Labor through its so-called non-partisan policy which has as its aim to keep the masses chained to the capitalist parties—will each appear in this year’s election campaign in different garb; each will promise measures immediately beneficial to the masses, Workers Must Break With Old Parties The Communist Party calls upon the workers to break decisively with these parties of hunger, fas- cism and war. It calls upon the masses to defeat the Republican, Democratic, Farmer-Labor and So- cinlist candidates in the congressional elections. Elect Communist candidates. Send fighters for your demands, for your class interests to Congress! ‘The Communist Party calls upon the millions of workers and farmers, Negro and white, not only to elect Communist congressmen and all other Com- munist candidates, but to boldly and determinedly take up and broaden the mass fight for the im- mediate demands set forth in this platform. This alone can win immediate and substantial victories for the toilers. More than that, the mass fight for these de- mands is the starting point in the workers’ struggle for political power, for a workers’ government, for a Soviet government in the United States, which alone will bring the present capitalist crisis to an end in a manner beneficial to the masses. The only way out of the crisis for the toiling masses is the revolutionary way out—the abolition of capitalist rule and capitalism, the establishment of the Socialist society through the power of a revolutionary workers’ government, a Soviet govern- ment. TY ELECTION PLATFORM The program of the revolutionary solution of the crisis is no blind experiment. The working class is already in power in the biggest country in the world, and it has already proved the great su- periority of the Socialist system. While the crisis has engulfed the capitalist countries—at the same time in the Soviet Union, where the workers rule through their Soviet power, a new Socialist society | is being victoriously built. It completely abolished unemployment and tremendously raised the ma- Serial well-being and cultural standards of the toil- ing masses. Upon the basis of its Socialist system, the Soviet Union has become the most powerful in- fluence for peace in an otherwise war-mad world. every material respect, the United States is ripe for Socialism. All material conditions exist for a society which could at once provide every necessity of life and even a degree of luxury for the entire population. In fully The first acts of a revolutionary workers’ gov- ernment would be to open up the warehouses and distribute among all the working people the enor- mous surplus stores of food and clothing. It would open up the tremendous accumulation of unused buildings—now withheld for private profit—for the benefit of tens of millions who now wander homeless in the strets or crouch in cellars or slums, Such a government would immediately open up all the factories, mills and mines, and give every Person a job at constantly increasing wages. Social Insurance for All Unemployment and social insurance at full wages without special cost to the workers would imme- diately be provided for all, to cover loss of work due to natural causes outside the control of the workers government, as well as due to sickness, old age, maternity or other disabilities. Jobs would be provided to all able-bodied workers under planned economy. Such a government would immediately begin to reorganize the present anarchic system of produc- tion along Socialist lines. Such a Socialist reor- ganization of industry would almost immediately double the existing productive forces of the country. Such a revolutionary government would secure to the farmers the possession of their land and pro- vide them with the necessary means for a comfort- able living; it would make it possible for the farm- ing population to unite their forces in a co-opera- tive Socialist agriculture, and thus bring to the farming population all of the advantages of modern civilization, and would multiply manifold the pro- ductive capacities of American agriculture. It would Proceed at once to the complete liberation of the Negro people from all oppression, sécure the right of self-determination of the Black Belt, and would secure unconditional economic, political and social equality, The revolutionary Soviet government would im- mediately withdraw all American troops and battle- ships from China, Cuba and the Carribean. It would immediately grant complete independence to the Philippine Islands, Hawaii and other American territorial possessions. The efforts of the capitalists to get out of the crisis lies along the way of wage cuts, speed-up, denial of unemployment insurance, cutting of re- lief, discrimination of the Negroes and foreign-born, strikebreaking, fascism and war, The revolutionary way out of the crisis begins with the fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, for wage increases, for relief to the farmers—through demonstrations, strikes, general strikes, leading up to the seizure of power, to the destruction of capi- talism by a revolutionary workers’ government. The Communist Party calls upon the workers, farmers and impoverished middle classes to unite their forces to struggle uncompromisingly against every reduction of their livthg standards, against every backward step now being forced upon them by the capitalist crisis, against the growing menace of fascism and war. The Communist Party leads and organizes this struggle, leading toward the final solution—the establishment of a workers’ govern- ment, Enter the election struggle under the leadership of the Communist Party! Support the Communist Platform— fight for its demands! Vote for all the Communist candidates! Join the ranks of the Communist Party! By BILL GEBERT ng (E real wages of the workers throughout the country, under the Roosevelt administration, have declined. We will take fch ex- ample the economic position of the Chicago working class. In the Chicago slaughtering and meat packing houses, employment, based later.” National of goods sold, however, was de- clining quite as steadily. I knew that meant trouble, No wonder, therefore, that Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First Bank, Roosevelt's New Deal had been put “Second-to-none-Navy” and the “second-to-none air fleet” and other armaments in the person of Con- gressman Fred A. Britten, a Re- publican congressman of the 9th Congressional District in Chicago, who, by the way, represents the Chicago gold coast and the interests of the ammunition manufacturers. sooner or shortly after on 1925-27 average, stood in March, 1933, at 78.4 and in March, 1934 at 106.5 which shows an increase in employment by 281 Wages in March, 1933 stood at 60.2 and in March, 1934 at 92.1 showing very concretely a discrepancy between temporary seasonal pick-up in the packing industries and wages paid to the workers. In iron and steel we see the fol- lowing: In March, 1933, employ- ment stood at 56.9 and in March, 1934 “At 78.9 And wages, in March, ek at 22.4 and in March, 1934 at 3. The total index of employment in all factories and industries in the city of Chicago in March, 1933, stood at 48.2 in March 1934, 64.2. And wages in March, 1933 at 25.7 and March, 1934 at 14.4. | In addition to this it must be} clearly understood that the value of the dollar has declined -and the murderous speed-up has been in- tensified in every factory in the city. To what extent the increase of prices of commodities affects the re- tail trade has been declared by one of the large Chicago merchants: “Our sales graph showed a big- ger total in dollars and_ profits into operation, declared: c “There is more security in the new deal, whatever that may be, than there is in the communism of Russia, which might be our program if we failed in the old stand pat program in which you and I believed.” In addition we must add that ac- cording to the admission of “The Chicago Daily News” there are more than one million persons in the bi of Illinois dependent upon re- lef. Negroes Hardest Hit The Negro workers suffer even more under the New Deal. This is frankly admitted by the St. Louis supervisor of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in his confi- dential report to Washington, in which he declares: ' “Negroes were not eligible for the higher paid skilled jobs on which union labor was used ex- .clusively because St. Louis locals (A. F. of L.—B. G.) do not admit Negroes.” The New Deal may be seen in exactly the same light as practised by the Kelly-Horner machine, When the Roosevelt, administration spends two billion dollars for arma:rents, each week., The physical volume 1 it has a staunch supporter of the The Illinois State Assembly, un- der the Horner administration, p- Ppropriated additional hundreds of thousands of dollars for the National Guard for the purpose of breaking strikes of miners and struggles of the unemployed in the State of Illinois. The records of the Illinois State Senate shows that Richard V. Graham, Democratic Senator from the 19th Senatorial District of Chicago, who is the floor leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, introduced a bill for appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars “for National Guard policing mines.” Democratic State Senator Harold Ward of the 31st Senatorial District of Chicago later introduced an additional bill for appropriation of $250,000 for the same _ purpose, which bill is known as S. B, 334 also passed by the State Legislature. Both of these bills got the support and recommendation of the “great humanitarian” Governor Horner, These facts, taken from the offi- cial records. very conclusively show the promises and deeds of the Re- publican and Democratic parties. end to this it is necessary to add that for insie>se, Democre ‘it Con- gressman Leo Koclalkowski of the } Gangster Tactics of Illinois Capitalist Parties Contrasted With Communist Campaign for Workers’ and Negro Rights 8th Congressional District of Chi- cago, voted against the bonus for ex-servicemen and for all measurés of the Roosevelt New Deal. He very frankly admits that politics is a racket. De Priest Tool of Insull For instance, the Negro Republi- (Oscar Nelson) (powerful Serritella, “In that conference [with Al Capone — B, G.] besides himself were Brundage Republican man—B. G.] State Senator Daniel Jerry Horan Patrick Sullivan, labor leaders, and an unamed labor old age pensions, for the right to organize and strike, for repeal of the criminal syndicalist law, for the farmers relief bill, for the Negro rights bill, for increase in wages and shortening of the working week, against imperialist war, for defense of the Soviet Union. machine | and chief. The can Congressman, Oscar De Priést of the 1st Congréssional District of Chicago, according to the Chicago Tribune report from Washington, received in the year 1926 from the Insull fund between ten and fifteen thousand dollars for “lining up the black vote.” Together with this Negro misleader, others that are involved in the same graft are State Senator Richard J. Barr and Superior Court Justice Harry Miller of Chicago. The politics of the capitalist class parties in Chicago cannot be dis- associated from gangsterism. They are part and parcel of the whole Democratic and Republican Party machinery. The “Chicago Daily News” in an editorial on Monday, June 4, 1934, writes: “Al Capone gangsters aspire to five seats in the House and two seats in the Senate.” Oscar Nelson, vice-presiden: of the Chicago Federation of ‘abor, Republican alderman of the 43th Ward and the floor leader of the Republican Party in the City Coun- cil, in a racket conspiracy case re- cently held in Chicago, very frankly admits his association with Al Ca- pone. The “Chicago Herald-Ex- aminer of April 20, 1934, reports as follows. ° prosecutor asked: “Was that meeting before or after Capone was sentenced?’ “ ‘How do I know’, the Alderman answered; “he was foot loose and free apparently’.” These are the records. These records must be made known to the working masses. The full meaning of them must be explained. This shows clearly the direct connection which runs from Wall Street down to Al Capone. It is also inierest- ing to point out that Oscar Nelson, who openly admits his association with Al Capone and is still vice- president of the Chicago Federa- tion of Labor, and who is already being boosted by the officialdom of the Chicago Federation of Labor as next “Labor” candidate for Mayor in 1935, is also the one who gives fullest endorsement to the use of the National Guard against the workers. Communist Election Platform Against the Repubiican and Dem- mocratic parties, as well as against the Socialist Party, whicn nomi- neted a couple of preachers and p:0- fessionals as their candidates, the Communist Party enters the elec- tion campaign on the platform of struggle for the workers’ unemploy- ment insurance bill H, R. 7598, for It is around these issues that the election campaign is carried on by the Communist Party. We are entering the election cam- paign with €@lection victories al- ready gained. In Taylor Springs, TL, the Communist Party elected 5 out of 7 members on the Village Board. In Benld, Illinois, Commu- nists have been elected as alder- men. The Village Board of Taylor Springs, under the leadership of the Communists, led struggles not enly for the unemployed workers in Taylor Springs. but all over Mont- gomery County. have been arrested with 9 others and thrown into jail and held on $8,000 cash bond because of their participation and activity in behalf of the workers. Compare the record of the mem- | bers of the Village Board of Taylor Springs and the Communist alder- |man of Benid with the record of the “labor” alderman in Chicago, Oscar Nelson. Compare it with “Socialist” Mayor Hoan of Mil- | waukee, who used police to shoot down striking workers. The workers of Illinois must not judge by words, but by deeds. Two members of the Village Board , Fight on N.R.A. Hunger Deal —— é Ohioans Ready for Convention ‘Set for Sunday | Campaign for Nominat- ing Signatures Shows Improvement CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 25.— | Final arrangements have been made, it was announced today by W. C. Sandberg, chairman of the Ohio Communist state election com- mittee, for the state ratification conference to be held in Youngs town on Sunday morning. | all organizations are to be re sponsible for paying the tramspore |tation of their own delegates, Automobiles and trucks are being | mobilized here for a caravan which will carry ajl Cleveland delegates to the conference. While the nominating petition signature drive here and in other parts of the state has shown im- provements during the current week, there is still grave danger that the required total of 50,000 ‘signatures by Aug. 1 will not be ach}:ved unless still greater en- ergy is thrown into the work, | Sandberg said today. Announcement was also made today of the slate for Summit County by the Communist local campaign committee in Akron. The slate is: Fred M. Yale for clerk, William Fisher for commissioner, David Couts for auditor, Nina B. Wilcox for records, Sam R. Bachtel for treasurer, Joseph Tesitel for sher- iff, William J. Doran and F. M, Lovelace for State Senator, and E, G. Quist, Hassie Fisher, 8. Adam- son and J. L. Ferguson for state representatives. Indiana Communists Open Petition Drive INDIANAPOLIS, July 25.—Rais- ing demands for unemployment and social insurance, for the right to organize and fight against Negro discrimination, the Communist Party of Indiana has launched its election campaign with a drive for nominating petition signatures to assure its state candidates a place on the ballot. The slate adopted at the recent state conference consists of: Wen- zell Stocker, Hammond __ steel worker, for United States Senator; Fay McAllister Allen, Indianapolis housewife and mother of four chil- dren, for Secretary of State; Ruth L. Griffin, Negro housewife, for State Treasurer; Allen Puckett, In- dianapolis imillwright, for State Auditor; Herbert Nuss, gas station equipment repairman of Terre Haute, for Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction. New Jersey Election Campaign Is Launched NEWARK, N. J., July 25—The election campaign of the Commu- nist Party in this state is now under way as a result of the recent state ratification conference which was attendéd by 172 delegates from 114 organizations from all sections of New Jersey. Rebecca Grecht, organizer of District 14 of the Communist Party, gave the principal report, clearly bringing forward the basic points of the Communist Party election program—the fight for the Work- ers’ Unemployment and Social In- surance Bill (H. R. 7598), for full equality for the Negro masses, for workers’ rights, against injunctions, for the right to strike and organ- ize, ete. One of the high points of the conference was the report by Don- ald Henderson, National Organizer of the Agricultural and Cannery Workers’ Union, who headed 4@ delegation of Bridgeton strikers. The committee of strikers brought. greetings to the conference and pledged its solidarity from the South Jersey workers. Alexander Mills, District Organizer of District 3, Philadelphia, was also present, bringing greetings from the Phila- délphia District, of which South- ern New Jersey is a part. | On the Strike Front Gulf Oil Strike Being Crushed PHILADELPHIA, July 25.—The strike of almost 1,000 Gulf Oil workers at the Girard Point refinery is slowly being crushed between decisions of the National Labor Board and hypocritical scoldings by the N. R. A. The company has rejected a decision to rehire all strikers “without discrimination” and referred it to the Compliance Board, where it may stagnate for several months while the strike is broken. Immediate militant mass action, spreading the strike to the neigh- boring Atlantic Refining plant, an exposure of the N. R. A.’s strangling red tape, while so obviously neces- sary, have not as yet been adopted as tactics by the strike committee. Se eee Scabs Drive Staten Island Busses Staten Island bus strikers re- mained out solid yesterday, as other bus companies increased the num=- bers of vehicles driven with strike- ‘breaking drivers. Over 100 aré on strike, eee N. R. A. Approves 32-Cent Wage WASHINGTON, (F-.P.).—In com=> mon with other codes sponsored by the anti-union Machinery and Al- lied Products Institute, N.R.A. has approved a 32-cent minimum wage for the south for three more ma- chinery codes.