The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17
CThe Republican and Democratic Platforms
for New York State)
By Moissaye ]. OLGIN.
Communist Candidate, 10th Congressional
District, Brooklyn)


Two groups of politicians. Each one has
made the federal and state administrations
one vast racket. Each is looking upon its pr
rates booty as upon legitimate reward for
dutiful service in the employ of finance capt.
tai. Both have a record as black as scab's
conscience. Yet both have donned the cloak of
friends of the people" They are all public
service all one great care for the welfare of
the masses, they aver. They do not solicit
votes. No. They only tell the masses why
it is in their own interests to elect such I'M
flinching champions of the public.
Both Equally Lying.
They recite achievements; they pledge them
selves to policies and measures.
Says the democratic platform: The present
crisis is ''due in great part to the inefficiency
and the economic and political falacies of
republican rule,"-and this is a lie, because
nothing a capitalist government can do will
prevent a crisis springing from the iron laws
of capitalist economy, and because the demo-
Gratis were partners to every major step under
taken by the republican majority in Congress.
Says the republican platform: eve par
ticularly commend it (the Hoover administra-
tom for the action taken to minimize the
suits of worldwide economic depression, and
this again is lie because the Hoover adj
ministration undertook nothing outside of
campaign of malicious propaganda against the
Soviet Union.
Some Truth About Each Other.
Both groups of political marauders lie; but
this after all, is their only weapon the
eve of elections.
Says the democratic platform: "The repub-
lican administration has disastrousy failed.
T. is bankrupt in leadership and achieve
nents, and this is true far as its at
titute towards the vast masses of the popula-
ton is concerned. But when the republican
platform says: Nothing has so shocked the
public as the recently exposed purchase and
sale of judicial offices and the administration
of JUSTICE under the democrats in the city of
New York, and that Roosevelt was, bluntly
speaking, an accomplice to these dastardly
crimes, they are also right. Both are birds
of a feather.
Both Shielding Each Other.
Both groups deal with a number of crimes
committed by the other, but in reality each
group shields the others most murderous &C.
tons. The republicans speak of the prison
riots in the state of New York but they do
not mention the March crime of the New
York democrats against one hundred thousand
workers in Union Square. The democrats
blame the republicans for "scandalous legis-
lation," they place unemployment at the door
of the republicans who they say, encouraged
Lne ln1laClOn anu WlUe SpeCuldIlOH NHlCH Cul-
minated in the present collapse" but this is
only maneuver to divert the attention of
the masses from wage cuts, the heightened
labor day, the increased speed-up, the anti
strike injunctions, the general worsening of
working conditions. Both robbers groups are
as one when it comes to the real issues of the
workers.
Nothing About Strikes, Injunctions, Lynchings.
Not word in both platforms about police
interference with strikes, about police and the
underworld manhandling workers, about work
ers being murdered on the picket line, about
workers leaders thrown into the dungeon Not
a word in both platforms about the lynching
of scores of Negroes All this prattle in the
platforms is intended to cover up the actual
conditions, to interest the masses in such bogus
issues as prohibition, in such Indifferent mat
tiers as whether the capitalists should exploit
the consumers of electricity only through pri-
waite agencies distributing the electric current
or also through private ownership of the
sources of water power, or to rivet their at
tention to such trifling questions as whether
the term of governor should be two or four