The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-26
FOSTER SPEAKS
IN IOWA STATE
THIS WEEK END
To Expose BroOkhGrt'S
Fake Remedies

The workers and exploited
farmers of Iowa will have an
opportunity to compare the
social nostrums advocated by
Smith w. Brookhart, alleged
progressive senator from that
state, with the Communist pro-
gram of the Workers Party,
when William z. Foster, Com
munist candidate for president
of the United States speaks in
Sioux City and Des Moines on
the 2oth and 3oth of this month.
The meetings will be held in
the following places: Sioux City
Labor Lyceum, sos Jennings
Street, Friday, August 20, at
8 P. M.
Des Moines-Grotto Hall, 721 Lo-
Gust Street, Saturday, August 3Oth,
p. m.
Mr.. Brookhart, republican sena-
tor, has long posed as a progressive,
but a statement issued by Joseph
Manley, William 2. Fosters campaign
manager, charges Brookhart with
confusing the workers and poor farm
ers with his illusory reforms and
points out that his progressiveness is
so shallow that he refused to speak
on the same platform with the genu-
inc radical, Alexander Howat.
Manley's statement follows:
Smith w. Brookhart, Farmer-Labor
senator from Iowa, is like many of
the so-called Farmer-Laborites His
glib progressive sounding words and
schemes, are calculated to do moth
ing but confuse the workers and poor
farmers who are in a mood for real
rebellion against capitalism and de-
lude them into continuing to follow
capitalist business methods and poll
ticians.
The panacea Of Brookhart for the
economic ills Of the exploited farm
ers is cooperation. His particular
brand of cooperation is similar to
that emasculated form that employs
modern capitalist business methods
and is run by high priced experts"
like Sapiro, who seek to Guido the
capitalists in the practice Of sharp
business acumen and exploitation.
His Pet Scheme.
Brookhart's pet scheme is to have
Congress appropriate s204, 100000 to
be used in starting: "a farmers and
laborers' cooperative national re-
serve and banking system"
The money is to be drawn from
the profits made by the United States
Grain Corporation and from the sur
plus of the Federal Reserve banks.
And to give proportionate represent
alton to farmers and laborers on all
Federal Reserve Boards"
This kind of bunk peddled by
Brookhart has done more to confuse
the minds of the poor farmers and
workers of his native state Iowa, than
all the propaganda Of the railroads,
trusts and other reactionary infiu-
ences. How much of a friend of la
Dor Brookhart happens to be, can be
Jou6ON W LIS dONAOA OA last LdDOT
Day, when he refused to speak at
Springfield, ILL.,, because a genuine
radical like Alexander Howat was to
appear on the same platform to adj
dress the large gathering OF miners
and their families.
Expose Fake Scoops"
William q. Foster will speak in two
cities In Iowa, Des Moines and Sioux
City. The Workers Party candidate
for president, will expose Brookhart's
fake cooperation an dtell his aud
fences Of the real workers and farmer
cooperation as practiced in Russia
under the Soviet Workers and Farm
ers Government.
Both Brookhart and Foster have
been in Russia Foster twice and
Brookhart marveled at the tremendu-
Gus co-operatives of the Russians, but
all he learned was TO prostitute the
name Of the cooperative idea to serve |
the best interests OF the capitalist
system.
Foster returned from Russia, a |
Communist, a champion of the Com. |
munist International and a real fight. |
er against capitalism. Foster will tell |
the workers and farmers of Iowa of |
the Russian system OF cooperation |
and denounce all such false friends
of the working masses--as Brook. |
hart.