The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
A Labor Party in the 1928 Election!
Coolidge Presents Capitalist Program Against Work
ers in Message to Congress
The Workers Answer Must Be Independent Political Action in Sup
port of Workers Program
Statement of the Workers Communist Party

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE has again told congress
l what he believes the policies Of the government
should be for the coming year. thru his annual mes
sage.
The program which President Coolidge has laid
before congress has its purpose strengthen the
Of the capitalists and the system thru which
the capitalists take for their enrichment the larger
portion Of the wealth produced by the workers and
farmers.
The president made clear in the opening words
Of his message that the workers and farmers need
have no expectations that the government will use
lts power to help them. He advised congress that:
what the country requires Is so much
new policies steady continuation Of those
which already being crowned with such
abundant success"
What thfse policies which the president asks
congress to continue
The results Of these policies are to be seen on all
sides in the concentration Of more and more Of the
wealth Of the country In the hands Of the corpora
tIons controlled by the big capitalists.
They are to be in the profits which
practically all Of these great corporations report
ing
They to be in the fact that while the
wealth produced by the workers and farmers is in
creasing by leaps and bounds they are unable to
any Improvement in their standard of life.
but the contrary must continually fight to prevent
the capitalists from reducing their STANDARD of life
thru cutting wages and increasing hours of the work
ers, and thru more intensified exploitation Of the
farmers.
The declaration Of President Coolidge for con-
tnuation of the policies Of the past is declaration
for the capitalists and against the workers and
farmers.
It Is challenge to the workers and farmers, which
says to them that II they wish to improve their
standard Of life they organize their power
against the capitalists, against Coolidge and the
publican party, and against the democratic, party
which stands for the system.
The specific recommendations for governmental
action made in the presidents message are Of the
same eharacter-FoR THE CAPITALISTS,
AGAINST THE WORKERS AND FARMERS
Tax Reduction-for the Capitalists.
THE president endeavors to make the workers and
L farmers believe that the tax reductions made by
the government have benhtted them. The president
argues:
Everyone. who is paying for the bare neees-
stiles of food and shelter and clothing, without
considering the better things Of life, Is Indirectly
paying a national tax"
This is largely true, but the method Of tax reduce
ton proposed by the president Is one which will give
the benefits Of the reduction to the big capitalists
and not to the workers and farmers.
The president proposes that the surplus Of $685.
100000 In the national treasury shall be returned In
tho form Of rebates to those who made the pay
ments. This means that the capitalists will get back
part Of the taxes they have already passed along
to the workers and farmers thru higher prices, and
the workers and farmers will get nothing OF the
reduction.
The capitalist tax reduction program expressed
by Coolidge is to further enrich the capitalists and
to leave the burdens the workers and farmers
great before.
Uphold American Inperialism--for the
Capitalists.
DREsDENT COOLIDGE boasts Of the fact that we
are spending seso,ooo,ooo year to maintain the
army and navy. The army and navy he argues "is
Of the police power to guarantee order and
the exeoutionrof the law at home and security to
citizens abroad"