The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-25
For Y.-President

critical slur at the economic conditions of the
Soviet Union, counting on the misinformed
masses ignorance of the phenomenal accom-
pliShments of socialist industry there. Hoover
participated successfully-in the bloody
overthrow of the workers government of
Soviet Hungary; he knows that the forces of
proletarian revolution are real Through
Hoover'S speech glimmers the understanding
of one elemental thing-that there exist two
poles of social forces in the world: the capt.
talist Imperialism of the United States con-
stitutes one pole, and the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics constitutes the opposite
pole.
Hoover shows that he regards the coming
administration Ito head which he assumes he
will be elected) as one in which the presi-
dency of the United States will be the office
of leadership of world struggle between in
ternational capitalism, organized, coerced and
led by the gigantic Wall Street autocracy, and
the working class and inferior" nationalities
of the entire world. His talk of "abolishing
poverty" his machaevelian lies about the
supposed possibilities of Happiness" and per-
manent prosperity" to the American work.
ing class-are merely efforts to bride the
aristocracy of labor as permanent &C
complete of the bloody world imperialism he
hopes to lead.
He dreams of easy mobilization for war
against the rival empire, Britain, and the
seizure of the right to re-ensave it's colonial
slaves he schemes for "labor-imperialist'
allies for war for the conquest of Asia.
Hoover has been in China, too. He un-
derstands the colossal natural resources of
that immense country, and the super profits
that can be had by enslaving 400O00,000
people at wages ranging from 10 cents for
fourteen-hour day of the labor of an eight
year-old child, to 40 or so cents for the six
teen-hour day of an adult Hoover knows
that the heroic Chinese workers and peasants
are the natural allies of the proletariat in the
world-strugge that is coming; he hopes with
few crumbs of super-profits of colonial ex-
ploitation to buy the support of the venal
labor leaders" with direct personal reward
and the upper strata of labor aristocracy
with the radio-and- automobe standard of
living.
/ Why does Hoover attack his fellow
Wall Street candidate as putting forward a
program of Estate socialism" Of course this
is only the small-change of demagogy. The
three points at issue under the head of estate
socialism" are: Agriculture, in which Smiths
program is precisely the same as that of
Hoover and specifically endorsed by Hoover's
running mate, Curtis; Hydro-electric power,
in which Smiths program even in words
differs from Hoovers not in any essential
point and not to the displeasure of the
finance-capitalists kings and in which again
Curtis, the republican candidate, has en-
dorsed Smiths proposal; and prohibition, in
which Smiths proposal of the right of in
dividual states to handle the question subject
to certain limitations is no more Estate So
cialistic" than prohibition itself. None of the
hideous projects of capitalist state control of
a section of industry for the better enslave-
ment and defeat of the working class, of
course, has anything to do with socialism.
But Hoover's voice when he expresses the
consciousness of the American bourgeoisie,
replete as it is with lies, boasts and inanities,
is nevertheless to be taken as serious ex-
preston. Is the blood-thirsty project of
American world-empire an idle fancy? Is
the CHASTITY plan of world-war halucination
Absolutely MOI The nightmare capitalist
Utopia of blood and iron and world-slavery
is not a halucination at all-except insofar
DIS IHe Revolutionary forces Ol LIE WORKING
class, the exploited farmers and the ex-
plotted and suppressed colonial peoples make
it so by fighting against this capitalist night
mare with all the strength of their hundreds
of millions.
Only to the extent that the workers rally
to their own cause as still more active force
than the bourgeosie ITSELF more steadfast
and aggressive in the struggle-can the
world-savery of which Hoover prattles Tor
the complete destruction of the civilization
ITSELF be defeated
Hoover throws his program into the cleo
ton campaign.
We throw our program into the election
campaign as the only alternative.
! Vote Communist