Chevrolet Campaign

Among all the third-party candidates destined to be defeated and forgotten in next week's Presidential election, Socialist Laborite John W. Aiken of Chelsea, Mass. has the distinction of expecting the fewest votes from the U. S. electorate. Though it claims to be the oldest established radical party in the land and has had a ticket in every Presidential campaign since 1892, the Socialist Labor party polled only 33,276 votes in 1932.

Son of a shoemaker, John Aiken left school at 14 to enter a furniture factory. Today, at 40, he is an expert polisher of hardwood furniture. Meanwhile, he has served as top sergeant in the Motor Transport Corps during the War, has married, has fathered five children. At night he has studied anthropology, sociology, history, economics, law. For 24 years he has been reading Karl Marx.

The Socialist Labor Party scorns the Socialist Party for advocating pacific reforms, scorns the Communist Party for advocating violent reforms. It advocates no half measures. Its motto is "Capitalism Must Be Destroyed," by which it means a "peaceful approach" to a complete "Proletarian Revolution." As such it claims to be the original and only true party of Socialism in the U. S.

field today.

Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump the U. S.

from coast to coast. Emil F. Teichert, Vice-Presidential nominee on the Socialist Labor ticket, undertook a similar tour, had an automobile accident after four speeches, was laid up until last week. Nominee Aiken, however, is still touring, has visited over 100 cities. Last week he was in Altoona, Washington, Baltimore, Reading and Philadelphia. This week he speaks in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and winds up where he began, in Manhattan, for as he solemnly says : "If our message is un heeded and the Reaction is victorious, never can it be said of the Socialist Labor Party that it ... failed at this historic hour to keep alive the revolutionary spirit." Next week his ticket will be on the ballot in 18 to 20 states, depending on last-minute legal decisions.

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