The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

On the farming situation Smith shows a
bankruptcy Of even the empty words he finds
for other questions. He admits he is for pre-
cisely the same thing Hoover is for, and that
he does not care to say what this is. He can
not say publicly that the program of the
masters of both Hoover and himself includes
the progressive ruin and appropriation of
the farmers. Therefore in the several hun
dreds Of words he used, he suggested not one
single concrete measure. Concrete measures
he says, will be found latter election" See?
On the questions pertaining to water
power there appears specifically to be a
difference, but the program which Smith in
dicates that he would carry out is not in the
least out of accord with the interests of the
Raskob and du Pont type of industrial-finan-
cial kings, and in practice would be the same
program that Hoover would carry out
In regard to immigration it is amusing to
find Smith using almost the same words as
some that are used in the socialist party
platform, Smith being against "the harsh
provision which separates families and the
socialist party being for changes to permit
the reuniting of families" and both uphold
ing the American imperialist immigration
bar upon the working class right to move
from one country to another.
1t is true that Smith appealed to republican
voters holding illusions concerning liberals
like Roosevelt and LaFollette and their party
insurgents, but the Old Guard republican
machine also has restored Young Bob to
the fold and equally appeals to such elements
to remain with the republican party.
On the tariff question no one takes seri-
ously any mild contentious that there is a
difference; there is none the democratic
party has admitted that it accepts the re-
publican tariff program, which is, after all,
no more fixed program than it is an obi
cation to take orders from the same masters.
Wall Street can lose nothing in the election
of Smith, and can lose nothing in the election
of Hoover. If Hoover is its choice for the
head of the traditional party of the trusts
and biggest banks, Smith has has been the
choice of the same trusts and banks as gov
ernor of New York. in which position Wall
Street has tested him in four terms and found
him a good servant of such open-shop trust
magnates as DUPONT, Raskob and Woodin.
The only possible manner in which
worker or farmer can cause the slightest
ripple in the temper of an international
banker and trust magnate by the mere cast
ing of ballot is by voting for that night
mare of all bankers and trust magnates-
Bolshevism.
A big vote piled up for Foster and Gitlow,
for the Communist ticket both national and
state, is the workers only means of register
ing the slightest effect in this election. That
is-the only means except that of utilizing
the election campaign to bring thousands of
members into the Workers (Communist)
Party, and to strengthen the working class in
all of its struggles, in the mine fields, in the
textile strike, in the organization of the un-
organized.
Make the election campaign campaign to
rally the masses to conscious class struggle.
Vote Communist. Join the Communist Party.
Make the workers see the connection of Com
munist politics and the struggle on the picket
line! Work for Bolshevsm against the
Siamese twins of Wall Street!