The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-02


to fight against the imperialist war
which the capitalist class is rapidly
preparing. Your work is part and
parcel of the general capitalist at
tack against the working class.
Workers can appear before you only
as class prisoners before an enemy
tribunal.
You have in this job a complete
united front of all enemies of the
workers who have sold themselves
bag and baggage to the capital
lists.
That agent of the Roman pope,
the ignorant and obscurantist
Father" Walsh, you invited as your
first witness to establish how the
terrible '"foreign bolsheviks" are
undermining American institutions
and as soon as he finished testi-
flying he ran to Rome to report to
his boss, the head of a foreign state,
on the "good work" he had done in
America. You invite Matthew Woll,
whose evidence shows him to be the
central figure of a conspiracy of
white-guard czarist emigres to en-
broil the United States in a war
against the Soviet Union, and who
in his position at the head of the
Civic Federation and simultaneously
as the real head of the American
Federation of Labor, serves his cap
italist brothers-in-arms equally we'll,
smashing strikes and diverting the
working class helpless into the
hands of the bosses. Youn invite the
professional union-smasher a n d
blacklister of workers, Charles G..
Wood. that combination of "concili-
ator of labor" and police agent,
whose work" has aroused even the
protest of more farsighted capital
lists. You make clear to the whole
world that the socialists are also
your allies, those socialists whose
only ambition is to gain the favor of
the capitalists so that they can be
granted the opportunity to rule
more efficiently" in the interests
of the capitalist class.
What is really the force that is
Undermining American institu-
lions" today, that brings hundreds
of thousands of workers into the
street in protest against capital
ism? We have no wish to minimize
the Importance of the activities of
the Communist Party and the rev.
dictionary trade unions.
But the basic factor undermine
ing the stability of capitalism is
that capitalism is unable to feed
the masses, capitalism is starving
the workers in the midst of the
greatest overproductiOn.
You can never make the millions
of workers see the "justice" or the
"logic" of the present system in
which thousands of tons of food in
New York are deliberately de-
stroyed every week in order to keep
prices and profits high, while hun
dreds of thousands of workers are
starving for want of that very food.
The workers think the system re-
sponsible for those things is Grim
inal and idiotic and should be done
away with. This is the force that
is undermining American Capital
ist) institutions.
Why are you so enraged against
the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies? Because that country is a liv-
ing example to the workers of the
whole world, that not only is cap
it&lism a CT: :inal and idiotic sys-
tenn, but that it is unnecessary. In
the Soviet Union the workers have
learned how to get along very well
without capitalists, better than they
ever got along before in all history.
They seized power out of the
hands of the capitalists, estab-
lished workers government and
proceeded to rebuild the economic
system on a socialist basis instead
of capitalist basis.
In the Soviet Union production
increased 80 per cent this year; in
the United States of America pro-
duction decreased 20 per cent. In
the Soviet Union unemployment de-
creased 90 per cent; in the U. S. A.
it increased 200 per cent. In the
Soviet Union the farmers are rapidly
passing over to large-scale social
lied machine farming and are en-
crying from old-age poverty; in the
U. S. A. the farmers are being
bankrupted by the millions by the
agrarian crisis.
The workers of the Soviet Union
showed the workers of all countries
that it is possible, and they showed
how it is to be done. That is why
all capitalists, including those serv-
ing on this investigating committee,
fear and hate the Soviet Union.
1t is not the "conspiracies" of
Moscow that you fear. 1t is the very
existence of the Soviet Power in
Russia, an inspiration to the work
ers everywhere who suffer from I'M
employment and exploitation under
capitalism, that you fear. And one
of your objects, besides your fight
against the demand for unemploy-
ment insurance, besides your fight
to put across wage-cuts and speed
up the workers in the shops, besides
your desire to outlaw the revolu-
tionary workers. organizations-be-
sides all this, one of your objects
| ia to helm prepare war AGAINST the