The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-15
THE MEANING OF THE
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY"

The victory of the democratic party can be
attributed to the following main factors:
ID The industrial and agricultural crisis.
ca The collapse Of the Hoover administration
Ia its wake and. OF course futile efforts to solve
the crisis and unemployment.
60 The shllful demagogy of the democratic
party and the so-called progressives, in making
the masses believe that they are going to do
something for them.
"a The conscious help of American capitalism
to the democratic party in order to weather the
crisis, at the expense of the masses and to head
off the mass discomfort
90 The revolt of the petty bourgeoisie against
trust domination, which is squeezing them out
Of the economic system.
OF course the change from republican con-
troned congress to a democratic progressive
coalition is not rehabilitation. On the contrary
1t Is strengthening of reaction.
The American workers. however, have dem
onstrated thier rehabilitation in the course of
the very class struggle in the country. This was
shown in series of strikes, in the mass dem
constructions for unemployment relief in the strug-
gle against wage cuts and the brutal capitalist
speed-up. The fact that the Communist vote
from all indications, will be above 1OOOoo-more
Khan doubling the 1928 vote, in spite of the fact
that we were on the ballot in eight states less
is in itself not only an important indication of
rehabilitation OF the working class, but also
shows an increase in the number of class-con-
scious workers in the U. S. 1t must be remem-
bered that the democratic landslide, the in
creased vote of the socialist party, came as
result OF widespread mass discomfort with
present conditions which capitalism temporarily
succeeded to head off into safe channels but
which in itself, already contains all the ele-
ments Of establishment of the masses, leading
10 their further rehabilitation and political
maturity.
The bourgeoisie is conscious of this situation
For example, if we are to take Detroit mayoralty
as an indicator, we will see that the ruling class
is very much afraid of the reaction of the masses
after they will find out that Murphy, the out
standing demagogue of all the capitalist candi-
dates in the elections, never intended to carry
out the promises he made to the masses par
1cularly to the unemployed prior to his election.
The Detroit Saturday Night, the outstanding
open shop paper in the country, therefore
warned capitalism of the consequences
What will happen when thousands of
other jobless appear to collect on the Judges
I tMurphy's) promises. {. 1t is certain that
most OF those who voted for Murphy in the
expectation of having their pay envelopes
filled up again, are doomed to receive jolt"
We therefore must state that for the present.
the rehabilitation of the American workers is
not yet crystallized politically. Masses of work.
ers who follow the Communist Party in their
economic struggles were msled by the social
demagogy of the democratic and socialist parties
and voted for the capitalist candidates with ex-
pectations of immediate betterment of their
conditions. There are two reasons for this
situation:
ID The methods used in the campaign by the
Communist Party itself. The inability of our
Party to concretize our general political slogans
so that vote Communist" would also mean to
the worker an expression of struggle for his
daily immediate demands and needs such as
struggle against wage cuts, struggle for imme-
dlate unemployment insurance, for emergency
unemployment relief etc. -.
20 The working class still has not broken
with the old political parties To date, while
millions of workers are ready to fight off the
attack OF the bosses on their standards of living
while the workers are ready to follow our lead
ership for unemployment relief, yet it must be
recognized that only small section of them are
revolutionary conscious. the vast majority of
them are still under the influence of the bour-
geos political theology as forced upon them by
the still powerful bourgeois party machinery
The real meaning, of the democratic landslide
Tor the workers and farmers, is a further
Strengthening of capitalist exploitation and an
increase of their own misery The democratic
party will only further carry through the process
OF 1aSclzatlon OF the state apparatus. 1t inter-