The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-20
HOOVER ASKS FOR PEACE

obstruct, but to aid in pulling American capital
ism out of the crisis. 1t is mobilization call
to the capitalists to get together against the ris-
ing discomfort of the masses, workers and Door
farmers, who are fast being dsillusioned not
only as to the republicans, but as to the basis
of capitalism. This is due to their own desper-
ate condition, to the rise of socialism in the
Soviet Union, and to the work of the Commu-
mist Party and the Trade Union Unity League.
Even though the Party and revolutionary unions
have not been able to capitalize the situation
organizationally to the extent that they should
nevertheless, their propaganda and agitation
have convinced millions of workers of the sit
uation and its causes, and modified them ideo-
logically for struggle.
How otherwise shall we explain the orders of
the war department to the national guards to be
in readiness for trouble" this winter? How ex-
plain the registration in the national guards as
to whether their members are employed or I'M
employed, and the efforts to get work for the
unemployed members? How explain the tremen-
dous efforts on the part of the finest citizens
in forming committees and raising relief? This
situation demands united action on the part of
the capitalists, and Hoover appeals for unity in
action against the working class
The democrats, out of partisanship, and hav-
ing conducted campaign on the failure of the
Hoover republican government to avert the crisis
and on its having intensified it by blatant slo-
gans of returning prosperity" do not wish to
accept responsibility for the crisis. On the con-
trary, they wish to profit by it, and prepare the
way for returning to the White House in 1882
But the rebellion" of Senator Glass will not
nateriaIze, for though his partisanship is wrong,
he will be made to understand just as Baldwin
and Lloyd George have been made to under
stand, that unity is necessary if the rising tide
of unrest in the United States and Americas
colonies is to be subdued and capitalism con-
tinue to hold power.
The workers must learn from the elections
Mass discomfort was expressed in the disastrous
defeat of the republican party, and in the il
fusion that the democrats, by adopting anti
Hoover, liberal slogans. would be able to improve
the situation. There are no tissues" between
the republicans and democrats. They represent
different sections of the capitalist class, but in
opposition to the workers and poor farmers and
facing the sharpening situation, they will unite
even if on the surface lines of difference are
maintained.
Both will fight against unemployment insur-
ance-and only yield through the pressure of the
workers. Both favor wage slashes-'revsions,"
both favor war preparations, both favor attacks
on the revolutionary workers and their organ
izations. Alike they will act on the recommended
tons of the Fish Committee, and against the
foreign-born and Negro workers.
Only mass organization with revolutionary pol
icy and leadership will be able to resist the
united attacks of the capitalist parties. Hoover's
appeal for peace in Congress is signal for at
tacks on the workers. The winter will be bitter;
bitter struggle is ahead. American capitalism
will help to destroy more of the illusions that
the workers still harbor.