The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-30
BY SAM DON

IN the presidential campaign Of 1928, Hoover
made speeches with the theme of abolition
of poverty" The report Of the Hoover Com
mittee THE Recent Economic Changes" pub
lshed in 1928, spoke of a bright and promising
future" wonderful momentum" reported with
confidence and enthusiasm on the possibility of
doing away with cyclcal crisis and unfolded the
theory of organized capitalism.
At the time of the stock exchange crash last
october, Hoover and the entire capitalist press
were still singing hymns of prosperity and an
immediate improvement in the situation But
as the crisis developed more and more on
world scale with the economic situation continu-
ally becoming ever more aggravated in the
United States, change developed in the policy
of the bourgeoisie and they became more eau
tious in their prosperity propaganda.
Republican STRATEGY"
The chairman of the Republican National
Committee Mr.. Tess, in preparation for the cleo
ton campaign, made statement six months ago
that it was Mr.. Hoover and the republican ad-
ministration that prevented the depression from
developing into a serious economic crisis and
that the world situation was primarily respon-
sble for the conditions in the country; therefore
the Hoover administration cannot be held re-
The placing of the blame on the world condition
and the credit to the republican administration
for avoiding the development of the depression
into crisis seems to have become the keynote
OF the Republican strategy in the election cam
paign.
With no signs for the present OF liquidation
of the crisis, but on the contrary with ever in
creasing signs of its deepening, the above-men-
toned strategy of the republican administration
seems to be weakening so much so that the
majority leader in the senate Mr.. Watson, in
an election rally speech made in Indiana on
September H. said the following: I'VE can
neither foresee nor legislate against collapse
in the price of stocks or a widespread and
disastrous drought or an economic depression
that embraces the whole earth; but for such
sudden, unexpected and unacceptable catastro-
phies we should be enjoying our customary
degree of prosperity" So we see that from the
talk of abolition Of poverty. from the theory of
organized capitalism, to a consideration of the
present crisis, as unacceptable catastrophy.'
1t is precisely the realization and conviction
that the crisis, being world wide with no i'm
mediate signs of liquidation or recovery, that is
driving the bourgeoisie to mobilize their forces
for well organized attack on the working class.
The four speeches of Mr. Hoover were clear
expression and signal for it. At a time when
Mr. Hoover felt that he could make speeches
on the abolition of poverty he could also afford
to call the Bolsheviks martyrs" But in his
speech in the south he already declared that the
enemy within is the greatest danger confront
ing the bourgeoisie and in Boston he called upon
the fascists of the American Legion brand and
of the American Federation of Labor leader
ship brand for holy war against the working
class and its vanguard, the Communist Party.
Lenin long time ago pointed out that the
bourgeoisie rules not only with open force
(Which, of course is its main reliance) but also
by social deception. AS conditions become I'M
bearable and the working class begins to fight,
we see very clearly how the capitalist class in
this country is perfecting its fascist machinery
and open attacks upon the working class (Which
is its main consideration and at the same time
proceeds very energetically in developing social
demagogy in order to denloralize the working
class and primarily to prevent it from following
our Party The speeches of Hoover, as we'll as
the entire policy in this election campaign shows
very clearly on the one hand perfection of fas-
cist methods and on the other hand development
of social and social fascist demagogy.
The relationship between the economic crisis
and the political developments are even
pressed by one of the most optimistic econom-
ists Mr. Irving Fisher In an article appearing
In the Chicago Evening Post of September 29th,
he states the following: When worldwide
business is unhinged by the fall of price levels,
human society feels victimized. The more rad-
cal of each nation come to hate society, gov
ernments are overthrown, changes take place.
The United States is exception to this rule.
(Mr. Lovestone may take lesson from Mr.
Fisher .......... S. ID The administration at
Washington, swept in largely on the issue of
prosperity, may be swept out again on the issue
of hard times. The fall elections may show the
turn unless some concert of minds reaching far
across national borders can be found to dspell
the terrors of def1ation"
Conrade Stain, in his political report TO the
10th Party Convention, said, THE illusions of
the power of capitalism in general and of North
American capitalism in particular are crlmbling
to pieces" 1t is precisely on the background of
steady increase of unemployment with the
perspective Of the blacklist winter that the illu-
sions of American prosperity are beginning to
disappear among the workers and dissatisfaction
and readiness to struggle surges through them.
The capitalist class, conscious of that, have
opened up in the last few weeks well -organized
and concentrated drive of spreading social
demagogy amongst the masses. The Hoover
Unemployment Board, the various state unem-
ployment boards, all sorts of unemployment
charity schemes express the realization on the
part Of the bourgeoisie that they cannot fool
the workers any more with talk of return of
prosperity and that they had better make ges-
lures for relief or else the Communist Party
might succeed in organizing the workers in real