‘Colorado Communists Meet in Denver’ from the Daily Worker. Vol. 5 No. 184. August 4, 1928.

COLORADO PARTY NOMINATES SAUL
Communist Convention Held in Denver

Sixty-three delegates from all parts of the state attended the Nominating Convention of the Workers (Communist) Party in Colorado on July 28. The convention was held in the Barnes School Auditorium, Denver. In addition to the delegates scores of interested visitors attended and intense enthusiasm prevailed.

Many Industries.

The delegates came from Atwood, Pueblo, Lafayette, Frederick, Erie, Walsenberg and Denver. They represented exploited farmers, miners, painters, bakers, waiters, clerks, working-class housewives, printers, nurses, packing house workers, boxmakers, teachers, tailors, steel workers, truck drivers, the Young Workers (Communist) League and the Young Pioneers. The convention nominated the following candidates:

For United States Senator, William Dietrich; for governor, George J. Saul; for lieutenant-governor, James A. Ayres; for state treasurer, James Allender: for state auditor, Louis Zeitlin; for secretary of state, Helen Dietrich; for superintendent of public instruction, Haydee U. Zeitlin; for state senators, Anna Gaims, Anna Berkowitz and Aubrey C. Lewis.

The following were nominated for state representatives: Malvinas Lowy, Barney Lowy, Jennie Berkowitz, J. I. Whidden, Jewel Whidden. Dave Feingold, Roland Barta, Max Rabinoff, Lee Lang, Jack Reinhardt, Rose Gart and William Hutton.

Saul’s Report.

In his report on the convention to the National Election Campaign Committee, 43 East 126th St., New York City, George J. Saul writes:

“The convention resulted in increased interest in Communist activities on the part of both comrades and visitors. Banners calling attention to the danger of war, the plight of the poor farmers, denouncing the murderers of Sacco and Vanzetti, were made especially for the convention and will be used throughout the campaign.

Great Enthusiasm.

“Streamers urging the workers and poor farmers to vote Communist in the elections, to help the coal miners organize a new union, to read the Daily Worker, and to join the Workers (Communist) Party were made by comrades and sympathizers, and will be utilized by our speakers from now until November.

“The comrades are enthusiastic over the prospect in the election campaign. The coal miners are embittered over the murderous policy of the state authorities in the recent strike. They have no confidence in the highly paid organizers of the United Mine Workers of America, who are trying to organize them into a company union.

“The socialist party is completely bankrupt and no longer participates in the class struggle. The Workers (Communist) Party alone has the program and the militant membership that will organize the workers for the struggle against their exploiters, for the eventual overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Workers’ and Farmers’ government.”

The Daily Worker began in 1924 and was published in New York City by the Communist Party US and its predecessor organizations. Among the most long-lasting and important left publications in US history, it had a circulation of 35,000 at its peak. The Daily Worker came from The Ohio Socialist, published by the Left Wing-dominated Socialist Party of Ohio in Cleveland from 1917 to November 1919, when it became became The Toiler, paper of the Communist Labor Party. In December 1921 the above-ground Workers Party of America merged the Toiler with the paper Workers Council to found The Worker, which became The Daily Worker beginning January 13, 1924. National and City (New York and environs) editions exist

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