The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-25
HOPEFUL HOOVER AND THE
HOLY WAR"

appetites on this cannbalistic hors d'oeuvre,
sally forth to battle for Wall Street, popes,
preates and preachers, to put down with
blood and fire the prOletarian government
of the Soviet Union which alone holds and
defends the torch of freedom for worker
and peasant, black, white and yellow, in all
lands.
This is the answer of the black-robed. breth-
rem of the cross to the jobess and starving
millions of working class men, women and
children in the United States-an answer car
rying the imprmatur of his holiness, the pope,
side by side with the great seal of the Amer
lean republic, placed there by Herbert Hoover,
the lying prophet of capitalist prosperity.
The Answer of Wall Street and the Social
Fascists.
The answer of the government proper, aided
and abetted by the clergy as at all times since
government and religion arose, is clubs, tear
gas, machine guns, policemen, jails and prison
sentences for the workers and the leaders of
workers who protest
The answer of the socal-fascsts Of the
American Federation of Labor and of the So
cialist party is to entwine themselves still
closely into the suppressive fabric of
Wall Street government, to take part actively
in suppression of the masses or to distract the
attention of workers with hypocritical phrases
while cop nails them with club from
behind
The Communist Answer.
The answer of our Party is organization
and struggle. Work or wages The fight for
the organization of the millions of low paid
and jobless workers into unions of the class
struggled Our Party fights and will continue
to fight for every single inch of advantage
our class has won in years of struggle. "Com-
munists disdain to conceal their aims" and we
organize and fight openly, under the standard
of the World Party of Lenin, the Communist
International, for power for our class, for the
dictatorship of the working class as against
the dictatorship of the capitalist class.
"Out of Their Own Mouths"
No figures have been used here that are
not furnished by Hoover's own government
departments. No statements have been as
cribed to him that are not from the lips of
Hoover himself, or what he wished published,
or from the article by his fellow disciple in
the Wall Street faith, julius H. Barnes
On the basis of the evidence we must con-
clude that these two spokesman of American
imperialism are trying, by specious and lying
statements, to cause further misery for mil
lions of our class by leading them to believe
that relief for their poverty and hunger is in
sight when no relief on the basis of their pro-
gram is possible
The Hoover program is a program for CAPT
talist rulers-for the class for whom $4,000
600 in taxes were RENTED while black paup-
erism invaded the dwellings of thousands. of
workers.
An lmperialist War Program
The Hoover program is a war program-war
on the working class, war on the Soviet Union
war on imperialist rivals
Taken in connection with the rabid denuncj
alton Of the workers and peasants government
OF the Soviet Union by the clergy and their
dupes and the mobilization of their followers
which, like the attacks on the unemployed and
thelr communist leaders, is rapidly taking on
fascist character, taken in connection with
the sharpening imperialist antagonisms mark
ed by the collapse of the London Naval Con-
terence, the Hoover program as outlined in
ms recent interview, is war program
The Working Class War Program.
War against imperialist war is the program
of the Communist Party and in every action
ranging from the organization of the smallest
shop committee to mass strikes and demon
strations, the struggle against imperialist
war, and for the defense of the Soviet Union
comes to the forefront showing with crystal
clearness the exact process by which in this
period of wars and revolutions" in the
strongest imperialist nation, the daily strug
giles for the even smallest demands of our
class become political struggles.
The period of permanent prosperitv.p thrp
the ntensificaton of the contradictions of
capitalism, has become in the United States
a period when the political strike is ON tbe
order OF business of the working class.