The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26

platform of the Socialist Party, which
accepts the present constitution as a
basis and demands only modern
lied Constitution" is thereby accent
ing the present capitalist State and
the perpetuation of the oppression Of
the working class.
And if there is anything big busi.
ness is unable to push through BY
constitutional" means, it does it un-
scrupulously by unconstitutional
means. Corruption is inseparabIe
from capitalist government. There
are very few countries in the world
which show such a rich picture OF
governmental corruption. The Teapot
Dome scandal, the Sinclair-Bur af-
fair. the dirty deals of Daugherty
and the other members of the Hard
Coolidge cabinet, and the cam
paign funds of the Republican Hoover
and the Democrat Al Smith are but
few examples of the venality Of
leading politicians, And if any Of
them are caught, there are still judg-
es and fixed juries to save them. 1t
is proverbial that no rich man hast
ever been convicted in this country.
Democracy, corruption, and naked
force and violence are the chief meth
DDS of capitalist dictatorship. Gov
eminent by injunction, raids and de=
portations, penitentiaries for politi-
cal prisoners, troops crushing Strikes
frame-ups and lynchings - these are
~ r
stitution. Today it is more true than
ever before what George Washington,
the first President of the United
States, said: Government is not rea-
son; it is not eloquence-it is force"
With imperialism the Government
has grown into a mammoth monster
of Capitalization. The country has
never had such huge gOverame
apparatus. In 1884 the number of
Federal civil service employees was
only 1890; by 1912 it had mounted
to 278,000; while today the figure
! exclusive of army and navy forces)
is not less than 559,138. The number
of Government employees-Federal,
State and local-in the whole country
today mounts up to a total of three
million. This gigantic apparatus of
bureaucracy is entirely in the hands
Of the capitalist. There is a COM
plete merger of trustified capital and
government. The leaders of big bust
ness-Hoover, the efficiency expert;
Mellon, the richest man in the coun-
try; Dawes, the banker; Morrow, the
errand boy of Morgan; Hughes, Of
Standard Oil; Coolidge, the strike
breaker; Fall and Daugherty, the
kept men of the oil magnates-have
or had seats in the Government. Gov
ornamental power is being concern
trated more and more in the hands
of the executive and judicial depart
ments at the expense of the elected
| legislative bodies. The President,
above all, has assumed almost unlim-
tied power. He has control over APP
preparations of funds, over tariff,
runs the foreign policy of the coun-
try, and decides questions of war and
peace. The actual constitutional form
of the "freest" democracy in the
world is today that of an uncOnsti-
tutiOnal monarchy.
The working class in It's struggle
for emancipation cannot "take over"
the present apparatus of government.
The proletarian revolution will de-
stroy this apparatus, and will build
it's own based on the factories as
units of production and not on terri
torial congressional districts. The
State form of the rule of the working
class will be the councils of the work.
ers, which will serve not as talking
shops" but as working bodies uniting
Legislative and executive power.
Demands.
1. Abrogation of government by in
junction.
2. Prohibition of the use of guards,
gun-men, deputy sheriffs, militia or
Federal troops in labor struggles.
8. Unrestricted right to organize,
to strike, and to picket. Unrestricted
right of free speech, free press, and
free assemblage for the working class.
A. Abolition of the Senate, of the
Supreme Court, and Of the veto pow
er of the President.
5. Judges should not be appointed
They should be elected by the working
people, and should be removable at
any time. Legal aid should be gratis
for all wage-earners.
6. Franchise for all foreign-born
and migratory workers and for the
youth between the ages of 10 and 81.
Enforcement of the franchise for the
Negroes.
7. Abolition of the anti-syndicalist
laws and the Espionage Act.
8. Repeal of all industrial court
| laws.
8. Abolition of secret anti-labor or
CARNATIONS.
10. Abolition of censorship over
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