The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-16
WOLFE EXPOSES
."PROCRESSIvES"
AS LABOR'S FOES
Raps COP Prosperity
Claims as Lies
Continued from Page One

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Dome? What about Ware anc
Smith? What about the Ohio gang
and the corrupt cabinet in which
Hoover sat for eight years? Why
did Sinclair give your son a job
about the time the Teapot Dome in
vestigation began which he has held
ever since at fat salary without
doing anything besides being the
son of his father?
A Common" Issue.
Between the republican party
3 and the democratic party corruption
7 is no issue. We Communists de-
clare that under the capitalist sys-
tenn where everything is for sale in
GLIDING the labor of children, the
writings of editors, the sermons of
preachers and the sex of women,
the conscience Of capitalist politi-
clans is no exception. Only the
abolition of the accursed capitalist
system with it's production for sale
and profit in place of for social use,
will put an end to political corrup-
tion."
Curtis declaration that America
is the richest country in the world
and that prosperity is the main issue
Of the campaign was answered by
Wolfe with the demand to know why
the richest country in the world,
made rich by the sweat and blood of
its workers, cannot do for its unem-
ployed, aged and injured in industry
what the Soviet Union does.
Degeneracy of Socialist Party.
The speaker then took up the third
party of capitalism which he de-
scribed as of especial significance
in the state of LaFollette and Ber-
ger. He showed how Berger and
LaFollette were supporting Smith.
He described the degeneration of
the socialist party and read from
its platform it's endorsement of the
League of Nations with reservations
and the Kellogg Pact. He compared
the three capitalist parties on all
the major issues Of the campaign
and showed that there is no differ
ence of a fundamental class charac-
ter between them.
Norman Thomas was afraid to
mention the name of Eugene V.
Debs when he spoke here" Wolfe
reminded his audience, "but disputed
with the younger LaFollette who is
the inheritor of the tradition of re-
peated betrayal of the masses of
workers and working farmers by the
elder LaFollette. Let him dispute
for the right to be considered the
third party of capitalism. Let him
dispute with Smith and LaFollette
junior for the shady traditions of
LaFollette senior. We claim the
support he dare not claim-the rev.
dictionary anti-capitalist vote cast
for Eugene V. Debs. Whatever was
worthwhile in the Debs tradition we
have inherited as the only party of
the class struggle"
Religion, a Fake Issue
The speaker then cited utterances
Of various local capitalist politi-
clans and preachers on the religious
issue declaring that it was a fake
issue calculated to divide the work
-ers and distract their attention
from the main issue, that Smith like
Hoover would not take his orders
from Rome but from Wall Street,
that religion is the opium of the
people calculated to distract their
attention to "pie in the sky by and
by" in place of the problem of max
ing better world on earth here
and now; that the pacifism of the
church was just as dangerous as the
pacifism of Kellogg or Norman
Thomas in that it told the masses
they can end imperialist war and Sc
cure peace without fighting for it.
"We Communists are engaged in
twin struggle on the question-on
the one hand struggle against all
forms of prejudice and persecution
and on the other battle against
superstition and for culture and the
spread of scientific understanding
of life.
Wolfe ended with an exposure OF
the Kellogg Pact, the significance
of the American ultimatum to Eng
land and France and the war plans
of the government. He described
the invention of new gases ano
methods of disease germ dissemina-
ton, the preparation of the various
powers for war on the Soviet Union
the use of government pacifism as
a means of war preparation. He
called for support of the Workers
Party in its struggle against imper.
>ialist war and it's plans to turn the
next imperialist war into war on
behalf Of the workers against the
bosses for the abolition Of imperial
ism and war and the building of q
better order of society under the
rule of the workers. Virtually the
entire audience pledged itself to
protect and defend the Soviet Union
from attack by any and all imper-
ialist powers including the United
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