The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-15

prets its victories of November 4th as a mandate
to lead the country out of the crisis and solve"
unemployment The democrats have already
themselves declared their methods of solution
do not differ from that of the republicans. The
general plans of capitalism will only be carried
out more effectively, under the cover of prog
ressivism." The Scripps- Howard press heralded
the democratic victory as "a great progressive
victory" The bourgeois socologst, Professor
Barnes, expect the democratic party :" to
fling overheard the vestiges of reaction and step
forward boldly the representatives Of liberal
American political ideas and practices"
The republican party, however, has not ex-
pressed any signs of uneasiness and apprehen-
sion with the contemplated democratic legisla-
tive proposals in the new congress. Not only
will not the democratic party propose any legis-
lation concerning unemployment insurance,
lynching injunctions. ETC., but one will even
dare to raise any question not in harmony with
capitalist interests One of the outstanding re-
publican newspapers in the country the New
York Evening Post declared editorially on the
day after the elections:
1--WE not letting into national control
an outfit of Bryanistic radicals. Al Smith
took care of that during the last presidential
elections, when he changed the democracy
fundamentally toward the side of con-
servatsm'
The democratic party has no responsibility
towards the workers and farmers. Their objec-
tive was only to misead the workers and get
their votes. In this they have succeeded. The
day after the elections the seven leading figures
of the democratic party FASTENED to repudiate
any promising gestures that have been made
during the elections. and rushed to assure all
business interests that business should not be
frightened" and the policies of Wall Street will
be uninterruptedly carried out with their full
cooperation
-. the 72nd congress will not be an OBJ
Structive body. 1t will not seek to embarrass
the president of the United States, but will
be glad to cooperate with him and with the
members of the opposite party in House and
Senate in every measure that conduces to
the welfare of the country"
The offer of cooperation of the democratic
party was enthusiastically accepted by the re-
publicans. In reply to the democratic state
ment, Senator Watson, the whip of the Hoover
administration, stated,
Is. we are faced with national situation
where the only patriotic solution lies in CO.
operative action, and I welcome it, and I am
sure my colleagues will welcome it also"
Do these statements mean that all inner
differences of American capitalism disappeared
that no struggle will take place between the
various capitalist groups for their special inter
ests? Of course not. After the publication of
these statements of the democratic and repub-
ican parties, leading democratic congressman
Immediately declared that they will not accept
the decisions Of their party leaders that they
will also have something to say Senator Brook
hart, of Iowa. also issued statement in which
he declared,
the progreSsives of both parties will fight"
This shows that the inner-capitalist differ
ences cannot and will not be abolished On the
contrary, with the deepening of the crisis, the
lnner-captalst differences and antagonisms will
become more sharp, particularly in regards to
the policies to be pursued in placing the burden
OF the crisis upon the shoulders of the masses
However, we must remember that the present
situation holds grave dangers for capitalism as
whole, that calls for a united struggle of all
capitalist forces against the working class
The capitalists not monolitic class as
the working class yet in the face of an emer-
gency, such as the war preparations, the deep
enlng crisis, and the rehabilitation of the
working class they will agree to cooperate Be-
cause of this the New York Times said editor
tally on November 9th:
There is really as good a reason today to
sink party differences and unite for COM
mon national purpose as there was in the
Great War"
Upon completion of the reports from the dis
tricts, we shall discuss the role of the Commu-
mist Party in the elections in another article