"Jobs, Bread, Peace"

For their national convention last week 1,200 Communists hired a dingy hall in Chicago's "Little Poland." There the delegates who had tramped, hitchhiked or worked their way to Chicago raised their fists and sang the "Internationale," cheered the unfolding of a big banner on which was printed in Russian: "Workers of the World, Unite." Only one delegate from Kentucky was there, 14 others having "disappeared" in Pineville. The Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl Browden of New York announced that the war-cry of the Communists' presidential campaign would be: "Jobs, Bread and Peace." Said he:

"While millions starve, Hoover, chief of the Republican Party leads the fight to save capitalistic property at the expense of the lives of the workers, their wives and children. For three years Hoover promised prosperity. This prosperity takes the form of cities of unemployed, homeless millions in packing boxes, in cellars, under bridges, in sewers. . . . The issue of the election is that of work and bread, life or death."

For President the party nominated William Zebulon Foster, twotime (1924 & 1928) Communist candidate; for Vice President one James W. Ford, a Negro whose grandfather was lynched.

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