The daily worker., 1924-11-07

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strengthens big capital in the seat Of power
in the United States. 1t demonstrates the trem-
endous power Of the ruling class thru its ma
chinery for moulding opinion, the press, the
radio, ETC.. combined with the ability to manip-
ulate the economic factors Of society, to COM
pei the masses to follow its lead. The economic
basis for the victory of reaction was, to con-
siderable extent, the slight revival in agricul-
ture and industry, enlarged and magnifed by
capitalist manipulation and publicity. The
election demonstrates also the cowardice and
political the weakness of middle classes, which,
altho dissatisfied with the hegemony of big
capital and in spite of their grievances pro
duced by the agrarian and industrial crises for
which the republican party offered no remedy,
refused to follow even such a mild course of
protest as the one expressed by the LaFollette
movement. 1t further demonstrated the COM
plete inability of the official leadership Of the
labor movement to enthuse the working class
for any kind of action. Big capital has there
by completed it's task of mobilizing its forces
for continued oppression and exploitation of
the working masses. It is now the duty of the
workers and poor farmers to awaken to the
real state of affairs and to begin the mobiliza-
tion of their own forces for the struggle against
their oppressors.
I'm the election the interests of the working
class were fought for only by the Workers Par
ty. Only the Communists held aloft the ban
ner of the proletarian revolution. For the first
time in history Communism was an issue in
national election campaign, represented by an
organized Communist Party. In this sense the
election was great step forward great
victory for the revolutionary movement Of the
workers, for the world revolution.
The election has furnished striking justi-
fcatiOn of the policies of the Workers Party,
and complete confirmation of the correctness
Of the advice of the Communist International.
1t placed the Workers Party in the forefront
of the struggle as the representative of the in
terests of the working class, gave it political
experience, established it before the masses,
gave it an exceedingly good opportunity to
present its program to hundreds of thousands
of workers. None of these things would have
been accomplished in anything like the same
degree should the campaign have been carried
out under the name and with the program of a
farmer-labor party that was rapidly becoming
non-existent. While the Communist vote will
be small, this can be no measure in this cam
paign particularly, of the importance Of the
campaign. 1t is well known also that the cap
italist dictatorship in America will never count
Communist votes, 0
An outstanding feature Of the election result
is its demonstration of the extent to which the
capitalist press controls the minds of the
masses. This is seen in it's ability to magnify
the insignificant little strikebreaker, Coolidge
into an heroic figure Luckily for the success
of this object of the capitalist class, Coolidge
talked very little in the campaign, but still the
creation of the myth of the "strong, silent
leader" around this petty servant of capital
ism, is great testimonial to the power of the
capitalist press.
The slogan of Coolidge or chaos" was un-
L. -
of voters 1t was threat against the working
class that industry would be closed down and
millions more of workers would be added to
the ranks Of the unemployed, were Coolidge
, not elected. At the same time it served notice
upon the middle classes that their only pro-
lection against the rising of the working class
against the spectre of Communism, was to be
found in strong militant, "open shop"
strikebreaking, reactionary government of big
capital, personified in Coolidge and Dawes. In
the absence of arguments that could convince
fho mo Of 9th h.