The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-08
Who Are the Sane?

There will never be enough good dwellings
for the workers at the price they can afford to
pay as long as the wage system lasts. Capital
ism will no more give the workers pleasant and
sanitary dwellings than it will give them plenty
of food and clothing.
To do this would remove the incentive"
furnished by the desire to keep soul and body
together. That this sacred tenet of capitalism
the alleged need for war on others of his
class-reduces the worker to the status of
dog fighting for bone is of no Importance to
the capitalist class.
That class never felt so secure in the pos
session of its loot as when there were two
workers for every job. 1t long ago eliminated
competition in the basic industries and from its
struggle in doing so it learnt the lesson that
competition for the necessities of life makes
worker fight worker.
1t learned the lesson little too we'll for its
own good, however, and the cunning machin-
cry that threw the workers onto the streets
now works for the destruction of its owners.
Capitalism has destroyed competition in its
own ranks and it has also smothered the last
spark of hope in the breasts of millions of
workers 1t has taught them the tragic futility
of struggle with their own kind and they are
demanding, in ever increasing numbers, the
possession of the machines and the wonderful
plentitude of the things they have made.
Hungry workers at the factory gates are no
longer measure of the security Of the wage
system; they are now menace to it and they
even dare to raise their voices against the
power of government that protects the wealthy
against the starving, but the Industrial ma
chinery works on and only horrible war can
bring a scarcity.
War, too, is a new danger for capitalism. 1t
hesitates to arm the millions that hate it and
give them new grievances in the shape of the
torn and bleeding bodies of their loved ones.
+, The defenders of capitalism, in the face Of
worldwide failure, are panic-stricken. The
plan of salvation proposed one day is discarded
the next; they all talk at once and say moth
ing; thousand well-advertised panaceas are
tried and found wanting; the newspapers try
to allay the alarm but succeed only in proving
that there is reason for alarm; one capitalist
statesman after another tries to stem the tide
Of popular discomfort, struts for few mo-
ments and then fees from the madhouse at
mosphere of capitalist parliaments.
Capitalism is no longer able to control the
mental processes of the masses and in the abb
sence of dumb acquiescence is helpless and
afraid.
In this chamber of horrors but one organized
lANASN ~ eAAS WNAAN i"NSo VIC luIuAC WITH COll-
fidence-and a program. The Communist
International is the only sane organization in
the whole weller of confusion because it has
faith in the driving power of the masses, it
knows that only the workingclass possess the
key that will unlock the gate of the future and
that organized for struggle against the scat
tered remnants of capitalism the workingclass
will win under Communist leadership not only
everything that capitalism has deprived it of
but still greater victories as the result of an
unfettered science and industry that is the
basis Of Communist economy and culture.
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