The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-14
By EUGENE SAYLOR.

WHEN the story of Americas ruling class is
WHITEWATER the immediate objective of
destroying it has been accomplished - it's
cynical ferocity towards the workers will
mark it as the most brutal in all history.
Its two representatives most in the public
eve at the moment are Herbert Hoover and
AndrewMellon The first is Quaker who is
modifying TO imperialist war; the second al
though estimates of his wealth start at $500,
100000, continues to levy heavy tribute upon
every family in America that uses an alum
mum utensil.
The executive officer of 120,000,000 people
has been called thief IN the floor of the
senate for his relations with the packers trust
while he was food administrator during the
war While in charge of European food relief
he did his modest bit to prevent the "scourge"
of Communism from spreading over Europe by
refusing to feed any starving workers who
were suspected of being Bolsheviks. He is
multi millionaire, but no one, not even the
republican national committee, has ever been
able to discover how he made his fortune, al
though it is rumored that part of it was "earn-
ed" by floating worthless railroad stocks In
England.
Andrew Mellon, the next foremost represen-
tative of capitalist in our democratic" gov
ernment has publicly and privately violated
every article in the constitution he has faith
fully sworn" to uphold. He is secretary of
the treasury despite the express provision of
law which declares no secretary of the treas
ury shall engage in business. He is the alum
mum trust in America, the sole producer of
a commodity that is utilized in every home in
one form or another. In addition to owning
so per cent of the worlds supply of aluminium
he has a greedy finger in a hundred indus
tries pies, most of them il Pennsylvania. He
and his family control most of the largest
banks in that state and he also controls the
Gulf Refining Co. and no one has ever counted
the number of workers who have ben tortured
and murdered by the coal and iron police who
protect Melons Pittsburgh Coal Co.
Envious boss senators have northumberland
have offered proof-that Mellon has forced
steamship companies to carry his aluminium
without freight charges to ports all over the
world in return for which Mellon has re-
duced the steamship firms government taxes
to corresponding degree.
Mellon was a great whiskey dstier before
the prohibition law was passed. He still is.
There are at least SO Washington newspaper
correspondents who are willing to swear that
a good part of the liquor seized by revenue
forces off rum row has mysteriously found
its way into MELONS warehouses in Pennsyl-
vana, where it soon became indistinguishable
from mellOH 5 OWN GOOD OVeTHOlt'
In his official capacity as secretary of the
treasury he repeatedly encouraged gambling
in the stock market. There are those naive
enough to believe that he did so to strengthen
the waning faith of the doubling bourgeoisie
in Americas prosperity. And yet the New
York Times carries a report that Mellon
made $500, 100000 during the inflated stock
market which he helped build up.
Representative Garner has charged in the
House that Mellon has refunded scores of
millions in taxes to companies in which Mel
Ions family has owned the controlling interest
Garner himself puts the matter very quantity;
EITHER Pennsylvania has the most ignorant
people who do not know how to make out their
income tax returns or they are the most IA
vored" Imagine the U. S. Steel Co,which
ceived almost $100,000,000 in refunds from
Mellon, being 'too ignorant" to make out its
income tax returns.
To spend more time Mellon would create
the impression that he is different from other
capitalists ant from representatives of these
capitalists in "our" government. He is not
He has stolen more, simply because he has had
more opportunity. Capitalism breeds Melons
and Hoovers just like filth breeds plague.
Deodorants like socialist parties throughout
the world, simply take the smell away only
Communism can tear the poisonous system out
by the roots.
The present economic crisis-it is crisis
not in the sense that it is a rare thing, but
because it is an accentuation of the disease
normal to capitalism-has increased the num-
Der of unemployed to over 100000, Of course
Melons good friend Green admits to only d.
100000, and a deliberately distorted census
count reports under 100000, but the Russell
Sage Foundation which doesn't know the diff
ference between Communist and an anar-
chst, agrees with the Daily Workers figures.
These seven million workers without jobs are
suffering for lack of food. Disease-dread
tuberculosis in particulars attacking their
families. (The sale of milk in many cities has
dropped more than Is per cent?. The funds
of paternalistic charities are almost depleted.
Bread lines and soup kitchens being dis
continued m many cities because of "the drain
on the treasury" as st. Louis charitable or
CARNATIONS nut it when it announced last week
that it was closing it's doors.
What have Hoover and Mellon done about it?
Their first reaction to situation that &C.
cording to leading bourgeois economists will
contpue to grow worse for at least two more