The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-27

democratic party to act against the interests
of capitalism and for the working class when
it is soul and body controlled by capitalism?
We already can see the value of these fake
promises of the candidates of the capitalist
parties This is best exposed by the election
in Detroit of Mayor Murphy, an independent
republican who also paraded as "friend of
labor" and prior to his election made promises
for unemployment relief, a job for every
worker, etc. After his election, Murphy re-
piled to the unemployed by driving them out
of the city of Detroit, by giving starving
charity and engaging himself in a STUDY" of
the unemployment question.
Only the Communists have program for the
unemployed Only the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill provides for adequate re-
Who is responsible for the crisis and unem-
ployment? fi -
AT the beginning of the present crisis in
America, the Hoover administration continu
ousy assured us that the crisis is an accident
that it will be solved in period of 60 days,
that there is no unemployment, and the pros
perity of America is not impaired. The deter
mined struggle of the unemployed on March
9th, led by the Communist Party and the revo-
lutlonary trade unions, exposed the lies of the
government and it's agents and forced the rec
ognitlon of the unemployment question
The government has now changed it's tactics
concerning the crisis and unemployment 1t is
forced to admit that there is crisis (they call
it depression), but they say they are not re-
sponsible for this crisis Mr.. Stimson, Score
tary of State, in his keynote speech to the
New York State republican convention stated
that "the world economic crisis is responsible
for the crisis in America" They point out
faa @.o4
revolutionary struggles and the masses are
pauperlzed, that the markets of the Soviet
Union are closed to capitalist exploitation and
in these three countries alone there is concen-
trated half Of the worlds population to whom
American capitalism cannot sell any of it's
products and therefore is forced to close down
It's industrial establishments. This approach to
the causes for the American crisis is not only
an attempt to disclaim responsibility for the
crisis and the misery of the masses, but it has
even more important political Implications
They are: war preparations against the Soviet
Union and endorsement for its mperalistic
policies in the colonies. The ruling class be-
lieves that when they will tell the workers and
farmers of this country that the Soviet work
ers' government and the revolutionary struggle
IN China and India is responsible for their I'M
employment and misery, or that the imaginary
Soviet dumping" is responsible for the bank
ruptcy of tens of thousands of American farm
ers, that by these means they will instill
hatred IN the minds of American masses
against the Soviet Union and also lay the
theological basis for war mobilization and at
tack at the appropriate moment
The American workers and farmers. how
ever, will understand that it is the very poll
cies of American capitalism, the very. nature
OF our present economic system that is respon-
sible for the crisis, unemployment and the ex-
preparation of the land and property of the
American farmers; that the bug-a-boo of
Russian wheat dumping" cannot conceal the
fact that Wall Street is robbing the farmers
of their property, that is charging them ex-
horbitant rates of interest on mortgages, that
it is the American banking and grain trusts
that dictate the price to the farmers and forces
them to sell not only wheat, but other agr:cul-
tural commodities they produce, below the cost
of production. Nothing can conceal the wave.
Of wage cuts, the clubbing of unemployed, jail
ing their leaders, killing workers, the mount
ing wave of lynchng, as the bosses reply to
the demands of the unemployed for relief and
work or wages.
What do the Socialists Want?
The workers of this country have seen the
socialist party in action. They can now Judge
this party on the basis Of it's record in cities
where it controls the administration. However,
today the socialist party is coming out in an
entirely different role. For example, its de-
mands for unemployment relief and social in