The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-10


and petty bourgeois anti-capitaIism
alike turned against AL Smith in the
South. The first because it con-
sldered Hoover more clear-cut rep
resentative of trustified capital; the
second, because it considered All
Smith the destroyer of the old agrar-
ian, anti-industrial traditions of the
democratic party.
However, one section of the Solid
South remained true to the democra
tic party. AL Smith was able to
carry six states of the South. mostly
those states which have majority
of or very large Negro population,
such as Alabama with 80 per cent.
Louisiana with 80 per cent, Georgia
with Al per cent, South Carolina
with 81 per cent, and Mississippi
with 81 per cent Negro population.
The fear of the Negro masses, who
constitute the majority of the whole
population or at least the bulk of
the toiling population in these states
is still so strong that it kept the
white masters in the camp of the
democratic party. Hoover and the
republican party did everything to
appear in the South as "lily-white'
organization. Still the recollections
of the emancipation of the slaves
are so strong, the oppression of the
Negro masses is of such vital i'm
portance to the white master class
that they are still upholding the
democratic party as the safest cham
pion of white domination.
THE Conservative Landslide"
To sum up the whole analysis:
The class Interpretation of the cleo
lions reveals big victory for trusti-
fled capital, big victory for capital
list reaction. The democratic party
is party of capitalism, and it did
everything to appear as party
which is "safe. and sane" for CAPT
talism, and still it was defeated, be-
cause finance capital and it's repub-
lican party was able to hold its grip
on the overwhelming majority of the
voting population. The New York
World is right in stating that the
victory of Hoover was "a conserva-
tive landslide" that it was the re-
suit of "a deep-seated aversion to
change" 1t was vote for the pres
ent republican prosperity"
The socialist party did not chal-
lenge the existence of capitalism. 1t
4 only promised some reforms, and
though it suffered heavy losses, it
was able to maintain itself as a
party of small businessmen and in
tellectuals, and was even able to
rally the support of those working
class elements who still harbor the
illusion that the socialist party has
something to do with socialism.
Working Class Party
The Communist Party of America
was the only force which represented
the interests of the working class
and put forward the program of
overthrowing capitalism. The Com
munlst Party raised the five basic
issues of the present situation: the
ooi a6 SiC az diilot wal, Ilic
abolition of wage slavery, the fight
against the oppression of the Ne
groes, the fake capitalist democracy.
and the defense of the Soviet Union.
The Communist Party gained in the
election struggle. 1t was on the bal
lot in 81 states as compared to ID
states in 1924. 1t was able to spread
the propaganda of Communism in
hitherto untouched sections of the
country. 1t was able for the first
time in its history to attract the
attention of the Negroes by its plat
form of racial equality and national
self-determination. 1t penetrated for
the first time the Solid South. 1t
wages an Incorporating struggle
against capitalism and its Socialist
and A. F. of l.. servants.
Three basic facts stand out in an
/ analysis of the situation:
1.-The bulk of the American
working class is still in the camp
of the capitalist parties.
1.-THE Communist Party is, in
growing degree, the political ex-
preston of the widespread dis
content of increasing masses.
ga temporary triumph of
imperialist reaction.
Increasing Reaction-Increasing
Resistance.
The real class meaning of the cleo
ton of Hoover, of the republican
landslide, is given in an editorial in
the republican New York Herald
Tribune:
"The moral for the nation looks
afar. America stands at the thres-
hold of new era. Already rich in
the promise of welfare for all its
citizens at home, the country turns
overseas to the markets of the
world for its future growth. 1t
must so turn or fail, and upon the
cooperation of its Federal gov
eminent depends in large measure
the success of this new develop
ment.
at would have been tragic
blundcr if at this critical moment