The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-06

denounclng the parties of capita
sity Of the working class to sup
port their own cause in the
coming election.
The statement in full reads:
The two parties of American i'm
perialism, smeared with oil graft and
polluted with sewer graft, have fin
ished the task Of nominating their
national candidates for the next Pres
idential term. Wall Street is we'll sat-
isfied with both-with AL, the ex-fish
peddler and leader of Tammany Hall,
and with Herbert Hoover, the eff
cheney man who came from some
tumbled-down shack in the west-as
they like to boast.
The Republican Party recently went
through the farce of holding a con-
vention to elect standard-b bearers.
Wall Street had already decided that
Hoover was the man, so after a few
native sons were carried out on
stretchers no other than the "unholy"
Bill Ware of Philadelphia was used
as Wall Streets instrument in break
ing down all obstacles against the
nomination of finance-capital's favor
ite son.
The Ohio Gang
1t was Harry Daugherty, the
crooked Ohio politician, afterwards
labor-baiting attorney general, who
brought about the nomination of
President Harding for the Presi-
dency. And under the Harding
regime the Ohio gang became notori-
Gus. Now the Pennsylvania gang
under Ware will probably take the
place of the Daugherty crowd.
And If Tainmany Hall gets iates
the White House what story there
will be to tell four years hence! The
Democratic Party is as corrupt as
the G. o. P. and equally willing to
serve the interests of the capitalist
class.
Wall Streets Liberal
The Democratic Party is also
backed by Wall Street. AL Smith,
who has been considered liberal in
the liberal and socialist press, enjoys
the complete confidence of Wall
Street.
Both parties are equally corrupt.
While the Republican grafters took
to the oil fields, the Democratic graft
ers dove into the sewers for their
loot The Democrats did not have d
chance for eight years to loot the
national treasury, and the Tammany
Tiger is now purring with pleasant
anticipation of four years of national
pillage.
Exploitation Chief Robbery
But while the graft and corruption
that goes on under those two parties
makes good copy for the press and
proves that capitalist politicians are
frauds and hypocrites when they talk
of patriotism, the robbery that chiefly
concerns the Workers (Communist)
Party is the robbery of the workers
at the point of production.
The capitalist governments function
as strikebreakers for the employing
classes, and it does not make a par
ticle of difference to the workers
which set of politicians are in power.
Both will break strikes, issue injunc.
tions through their compliant judges,
persecute the Negroes and the for
eign-born, and wage war against the
peoples of weak nations in whose ter
ritories are deposited resources that
can be exploited to the profit of
American imperialism.
Challenge Capitalist Parties
1t IS on these fundamental issues
that the Workers (Communist) Party
challenges all other political parties
in the field, including the degenerate
Socialist Party, and calls on the work
ing class to organize for the over
throw of the system which those par
ties serve.
The Socialist Party has repudiated
the class struggle, nominated a can't
ing clergyman for President and sup
ports the reactionary officialdom in
the labor movement, which constitutes
the strongest bulwark between the
working class and the revolutionary
movement which aims to overthrow
capitalism. Under socialist admin
istration the government apparatus
would be used to crush strikes and
send warships to Nicaragua and
China.
The social-democratic government
of Germany crushed a proletarian
revolution, and under the premiership
OF Ramsay Macdonald the British
government dispatched warships to
China to crush strike of Chinese
workers.
s. p. Capitalist Party
The Socialist Party would maintain
the machinery through which capt.
talist government operates. This ma
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