The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-30
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''Fifty-Nine Multi-MilliOnaires
Control the Country
By l. AMTER.
prisoner No. 52351)

Communist Candidate in the 23rd Congress
=. siOnal District, Bronx
JAMES W. GERARD, former ambassador to
Germany, says that fifty-nine men are the
"actual power behind the throne" of the gov
eminent. He says these multi mionaires and
bilionaires are too busy to occupy political
office but they determine who should hold such
Offices"
That should be clear to every worker. Fifty
nine men, including Rockefeller, Mellon Nor
gan, Ford, Farrell, Van Sweringen, Raskob,
Insul, Du Pont, Lamont, Owen D. Young, are
running the country They are the bankers
and industrialists who determine the policy of
the government. They are the people who Sc
lect the candidates, put up the money and see
to it that the men they want are elected.
They select the candi lates of both the
publican and democratic parties and decide
among themselves who shall support and fin
ance the republican and democratic party. In
sull supported both parties.
There is no difference between these parties.
Look at the discussions and votes on the London
Naval Treaty. the Smoot- Hawley tariff, the
discussions on the prohibition law. 1t is not
one party against the other, but, if there are
any differences, they are Inside both parties.
Now the Democrats Raise the prosperity"
Issue.
Then why do the capitalists have two parties
and a third party-the socialist party?
They have them for the purpose of shifting
from one 10 the other in of an economic
political crisis, such as we had in 1913 and
have now. AL Smith says: "The democratic
party will soon be in control in Washington
and will makea this happy and prosperous
nation"
The democrats are in control in New York
Not. Al
worst in years. Bread lines, tens of thousands
asking for work at the employment bureaus
few jobs to give; wage cuts; evictions-this is
the prosperity in democratic New York. The
save in republican Philadelphia; dispossessed
workers housed in the sheds at the county fair
at socialist Reading, Pa.
But this is not all. Jacob Panken, candi-.
fdate of the Socialist party for congress, will
be supported by the republican party; Norman
Thomas is being supported by the Times
(Adolph Ochs is the owner and one of the fiji
ty-nne mentioned by Gerard), the Telegram
Howard, the owner is also listed among the
fifty-nine) and the WorIl; Haywood Broun is
supported by the Telegram and by group of
writers, actors and song writer's including
Irving Berlin, son-in-law of Clarence Mackay,
head of the Postal Telegraph Co., Ethel Bar
rymore, Alexander Woolcott, Walter White and
James Weldon johnson TRAITORS to the Negro
race)-none of whom even know what socialism
means, But being that the socialist party is
third capitalist party, they know they are
safe.
The "Soeialsts"-'he Last Reserve of
Capitalism.
All this is,emphaszed by the British labor
party's government acting to the satisfaction
of British imperiaism; in India, Egypt, ETC.
and with the workers at home; the German
capitalists using the cial-democratic party
to lead the government of Germany whenever
sharp turn has TO be made. The same hollis