The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-19
Calvin Coolidge Steps Out

house. and the capitalist press now doing the right thing
by the wreched fellow about whom they tried so hard
during the past six years build up sembance of what is
called the dignity required in the official head of capitalist
nation mo president has stood often before camera
says newspaper caption and the press full photographs
of the skinny face of the little lawyer whose
national career started with the breaking strike of police
men and reaches its apparent Washington two
weeks from The peaked neurotc mouth peer
Wsttuy from under the feathered headgear of an Indian
chief the weak chin snuggles manfuy in the collar of cow
boy suit under tengaon hatsurey the future genera
tons of children in the Soviet schools of this country will
laugh at this nfantile clowning
But it would be mistake to pass this ludicros f;ora
OH as merely clown the role that he has played Quite
the contrary is necessary. Srkebreang and imperias
war are not cownng and Coolidge has an international
srkebreaker and imperast warord cabre not to be
nderestimated If there something in the claim that a
mad to fall back the of Silent Ca to keep from
exnlotlng certain lncapacy to speak without making
TOOL OF hmse-t would nevertheless be foolish of the OBJ
server to think that this little unable to function in
the role that history allotted him.
The past six years during most of which period COOLIDGE
was president have been tremendous worlds history
ana one OF the of the period is the swinging
Oh Inc prush Yankee imperialism into such position among
lmperiast nations can be described as the of
the capitalist world During this time Coolidge has functoned
entirely satisfactorily to big monopost bankers and trust
magnates who placed him the position The predatory i'm
perlast role that United States Imperialism pavs has been
ueVeloped TO degree beyond anything in the past.
Inc GRAB little man who often poses in wild west"
Wl0n gun IN hand IS not listed war president
is
beng made by the United States government during the
Coolidge administration The marines whose commander in
eI Coonoge are now engaged in murder and plage
Nicaragua Bolivian and Paraguayan workers and peasants
now routing IN the forests of the borderne as result
OF military clash which received its impulse from Washing
ton chinese workers and peasants uncolnted numbers
nave oeen slaughtered by native mercenary tools of United
states imperialism and many have fallen under the gun-re
OF Yankee Warships Only conventionav has there been
no war IN Coodges admnlsratonony because there were
no wars officially recognized as wars United States i'm
mar in cuftu
OF unprecedented marzaton Aggressive advance is the
order OF Yankee imperialism all along the wordront and
the advance is simultaneously diplomatic financial COM
mercal and military with the direct correspondence
between the export of capital and the big navy Developments
between the strengthening of the fighting and the tight
eng OF the financial screws between all of the
lions and the amagamaon of the government apparatus
with the structure of nterkng drecoraes of the trusts
and banking monopoies.
Within Coodges administrations has come the third
period of the world political and economic situation in
which capitalism shows itself having exceeded the pre-
war level of production This stablizaton-the very fact
OF the growth of output and trade the that technical
progress and the possibilities of production are increased
while the world market with it's limits and with the spheres
Of influence of the Individual mperas groups remains more
or less stablejust these facts entail very acute far
reaching crisis of international capitalism pregnant with
new wars and endangerng the existence of all stabzation
Not smooth and uniform advance of all imperalist
countries comes out of this partial stabizaton but very
uneven advance in which capitalist countries hang back
and others advance with leaps and bounds exceeding the
preWar level OF production In this period of precarous
very shay stabzaton the Wall Street power which the
little Coolidge is the chief executive Exercising more
real than any monarchy position of
hegemony in the capitalist world Especially the advance
United States Imperialism at the expense the British has
upset the balance of the distribution of colonies and spheres
of influence for export capital and exploitation and the rapid
accumulation of the materials for the military clash pro-
ceeds
Little Coolidge has done his job for Wall Street in this
tremendous epoch of world history For his masters Wall
Street he has cleared away much of the Anticipated rubbish
OF democracy the decks of ship cleared for
His administration has laid the surveyors lines around
colonial empire intended to be made of twenty Lan-Amer
lean republics 1t has passed the big navy BILL has merged
the Identities OF Wall Street and the White House, has
prepared the diplomatic ground for the coming world
and the gigantic assaults to be made with the detectives of
destroying the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and
quenchng the Chinese workers and peasants revolution
Little Coolidge steps out Hoover, commissioned to en-
large strengthen and through to bloody conclusion the
plans of American empire steps into his place with voub
talk about permanent captaismwith theories of world
rule by Wall Street which he dreams not only of attaining
but also of perpetuating But with the very advent of
Hoover also the sharpening of the contradictions which
swiftly and surely bring the collapse of the colossal slave