The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-27
Workers Must Fight
Behind Communists
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istration in Washington they utilize
the republican leader, as when AL
Smith recently obtained permit
from Andrew Mellon for a friend of
his who wanted to build huge Gin
dustrial alcohol plant" From Mel
Ion to the White House is but step,
and 1t is often traversed for favors
to democrats.
The Socialist" administrations in
Reading and Milwaukee manage to
keep their peace" with both demo-
cratic and republican parties in the
same fashion. The foremost charac-
teristic Of capitalist parties every
where is their ability to assume any
color that will best dazzle the work.
ers they exploit.
Sham Capitalist Investigations.
Another indication of this Is the
sham Investigations which they &C.
casionally fling, although very gently,
at one another, and which fool none
but the unwary. Consider the hun
dreds Of pages of newspaper space
which have limited Of Tammany cor
ruption, although the total effect of
the capitalist news has been to dis
guise, rather than reveal, this cor
ruption. Consider the several Sin
designations" which have been started
by democrats and republicans alike.
What has been the net result7 One
judge, Vause, actually sentenced to
Jail - and for tax evasion at that,
rather than the most fragrant kind
of outright thievery.
AS for the investigations" them
selves, one, on food racketeering, was
dropped "for lack of funds" The
same hypocritical reason has crippled
the Ewald jury, and it is now rumored
that the jury will discontinue its "in-
quiry" until after election. The Sea-
bury investigation" has been quest
Joining hundreds Of witnesses and will
continue questioning them until after
election, when the capitalist press will
announce that mo proof has been
discovered to substantiate the charges
that every judge in New York is a
CRATER and a thief" The "inves-
tigation" started by the Commissioner
OF Accounts at Walkers request has
never even broken into the boss press
except to report at intervals of two
or three weeks that progress is be-
ing made"
All Capitalist Politicians Alike.
investigations" of capitalists by
themselves would mean absolutely
nothing even If they were meant te
investigate, which they are not. Ever
if they proved beyond the vestige Of
a doubt that every government of.
fetal lives by grating, both by
personal graft and by permitting cap.
italists to extract the last drop oil
blood from the workers tired body
it would mean nothing. For the next
batch of officials would emulate theii
predecessors.
BY destroying the symptom you
cannot eradicate the disease. There
is no cure for corruption in capitalist
government other than the destruc-
ton Of capitalism itself. Investiga-
tons, reform" administrations, so
cialist" governments are perfect proof
of that.
Workers, Il is within your own
power to change the government,
which enslaves you and brushes yot
in a poverty which is no fault Of your
own. For freedom, for life, for ar
end to capitalist horror, for bread
itself, you must join the growing
army of workers consciously fighting
to overthrow capitalism and to es-
tablish q Workers and Farmers
government, Soviet state! And as
a sign that you are ready to join
the struggle on the side of the work.
ers' revolution, Vote Communist on
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