The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-26

larger before nevertheless the proportion of the
total the 1928 elections for the parties claiming repre-
sentative of the working class h socialist party reality petty
capitalist party and the Workers (Communst) Partythe part
of the working cassl has not been SO small sine 1904
sections of the working class and sections of
poorest farmers did not assume sufficient class consciousness
break thru the framework of the twopary system The big eect
the democratic party the existence large
of discomfort This discomfort has not yet assumed the chaact
a rehabilitation In considering the attitude
elections attention must be given to the fact that paramena
mirror mo
poeaan sections of the working class Millions fregn-bo
i forced ran wo+prs to Vote sosne bei oa IN
capitalist parties of mpor
lowering the vote recorded for the revolutionary party
quen process rehabilitation the depths of tn
proetarian could expression vote
The stubborn economic struggles of the miners textile
needle trades workers. adequate evidence the
rehabilitation which, though not yet politically sazed yet
national and general is however, the most promising
growing class consciousness Of important sections of the working
class
emphasized by the big role which bgory religion and the
churches played in the elections
Hoover election changing
function.
ton of eastern capitalists and western farmers under the hegmony
the G mustered IN the 1923 elections the support of Easter
the South and the petty ourgeoe the rural sections and
over the various genuine and staged farm evolt means more
complete domination Of the republican party by finance capital than
ever before
The democratic party had been, since Civil
Of the Southern and the petty burgeose of the
Ocrcy organized and led by the American Federation
today under the leadership section OF the big Eastern capital
And the republican party got the of the petty boge
bourgeosie big Ia comparison
that the big cities Al Smith comparatively
part of the farmer vote the northwest which increased
support the lowest region
portion of the South those
Negroes form the bulk to being the majority of the
class still strong enough bar the of the republican
The 1928 elections show the reign of the infamous twopary
system full swing The American bourgeoie still able to utilize
the wopary systenwhch zone of the powerful methods
preventing the foundation independent labor that is genuine
socialist party ennto bar the capitalization of classconscous
the bulk of the working class.
has little differentiation
big capitalist parties The lack of real differences policies
powerful for the dngraton of the wopary SYSTEM
parties Tin
under the hegemony the capasts still
system hut the World War 6ouebt about fh roanpe f this e
The LaFoee thirdparty 1924 able to mobilize
large but terminated by the strengthened world hegemony
position of the United States The inevitable sharpening the class
anagonsms and the crisis will break coalition
classes The petty bourgese the farmers and first of all the
will longer be willing accept political
leadership finance capital and that will produce the disruption of
The 1928 elections show that the Farmer parties of the
Northweswhh bo of difference classes (weto-do
of pettbourgeo and bourgeois eemen lost all
ncance for the working class and had become tools
in the hands of the capitalists
The Socialist Parwhch the past attracted the
of the aonscous section of the workers the cities
completely and has lost the largest portion of its working class
the small business and especially among
fessionas and cera of the big cities 1t is significance
that after the elections this dropped it's
socialist party leader Norman Thomas stated clearly
the socialist longer the
to the bea elements the republican and democratic parties
went far change the either
liberal" or progressive"
The election of capital
throwing all its former wells ubteruges taken
helm of the frankly its
big though temporary victory of capitalist reaction leads
precedented increase of mpat aggressienes vehement
struggle for greater share of the world market
The determined attempt of United States imperialism
the Latin
already sharper vicious FORMS
Hoovers trip the Cumberland the
Nicaragua the plans build Ncaraguan canal the
With Sandno troops the bloody suppression of the Colombia strike
he conference Washington the of the Unite
states in the Bolivia Paraguay conflict.
The antagonisms especially
America and Great Britain have already been sharpened
degree the Hoover election Codges
europe answered by attempt alliances of
against the United States shift the
the burden America The big program
being contaminated.
The basic of the business government
will strengthened which
Hoover Hoover will complete the job will
super-rusts.
classification will go with greater
speed Already there before
Interstate Commerce Commission railroad
revise the Sherman which already
but for the of the organization
The high tariff will through
There will be definite change the direction of the
capital essenng the of of capital Europe
concentrating greater degree Latin America and Asia