The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-11
Racketeering "A Capitalist
Government Institution

and failing of unemployed in Milwaukee and
Reading, Pa, takes place at the hands OF the So
cialist administrations. EvctionS starvation and
hunger are rampant in these two socialist con-
trolIed towns. And in Wisconsin. the socialists
have entered into.a coalition with the LaFollette
administration, fer the purpose Of strengthening
capitalism, WITH its racketeerng, With its star
wing Of the working masses.
Socialist lawyers, Morris Hillquit, Charles Sol
ONION and Others use the capitalist courts to
secure injunctions against striking workers The
grating Tammany Hall judges grant them these
iniunctions and with the aid of the socialist
lawyers send the militant workers to jail. Unions
controlled by the social-fascist socialist leaders
the International Ladies Garment Workers,
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and build
ing trades locaIs-work with the racketeering I'M
derworld, club and beat up the militant workers.
Unity of the socialist party, the underworld and
the Tammany Hall police and courts!
And in more recent days. the united front of
the socialist party leaders with the police, the
fascist Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Russian
white guards, to prevent the workers from dem
onstrating on May Day!
We must judge a party not by its statements
alone, but by its actions The record of the So
cialist party, through its leaders. is record
identical with that Of Tammany Hall and the
ism, and in entering into the undertaking bust
ness together with the republicans they hope
to establish themselves better in the eyes-not
of the workers-but of the capitalists as full
supporters and reliable props of the capitalist
system.
The exposure of the racketeering Tammany
Hall machine will not be deep-going one. It
dare not go deep, for it will only arouse the
workers still more against the racketeering sys-
tenn of capitalism, which starves and tries to
crush the workers, lets the unemployed and their
families be thrown into the streets to die forces
wage cuts and speed-up on the workers in the
shops The workers know today that there is
Communist Party, which is unafraid of the
courts, police the jails and penitentiaries; that
organizes them to fight for unemployment in
surance and relief; that organizes them into
the revolutionary unions of the Trade Union
Unity League to fight not only against the rack
eteering Of the bosses but against their racket
eering colleagues in the American Federation of
Labor, and the socialist party There can be no
cleansing of capitalism of capitalist govern
ment 1t is not the capitalist governments alone
that are corrupt: capitalism itself is inseparable
from corruption and graft. Capitalism spreads
the disease Of corruption that seeps down to and
through the working class. Only by the workers
destroying the system of corruption and racket
eering, only by roofing it out branch and limb
will it be possible on the basis of working class
power and of collective production and distribu-
ton for social use, to erect a government, which
not only may be controlled by the workers, but
which has foundation that eliminates graft,
corruption and racketeering
The socialist party leaders Thomas. Hillouit
and Company, are of the same class of racketeers
as Walker, Tammany Hall and the republican
party. The drawing in of Rev. Holmes and
Rabbi Wise does not and connot change the
character of the system one bit. On the con-
trary their very coming on the scene has the
purpose of giving holy" impartial" clean"
aspect to the investigation These people are as
much a part of the racketeering capitalist sys-
tenn as is the underworld, the gan@sters, the
fascist socialist party and the A. F. of L. leaders
1t is all capitahsrn-and capitalism being the
cause of preSent-day mass misery, starvation and
persecution must go and will go when the work
ers at last see through the lies of capitalist poll
ticians of all types and capitalist parties, when
they recognize the methods of struggle and Or
ganize under the leadership of the Communist
Party to sweep capitalism off the face of the
United States and the entire world and in re-
voluhonary struggle, establish Workers and
Farmers Government in the United States
The answer of the workers of New York this
year to the racketeering system of capitalism
must be to build up the Unemployed Councils and
revolutionary unions of the Trade Union Unity
League to fight for unemployment relief and
insurance, against wage reductions and speed-up
and for the 7-hour day with no wage reductions,
against discrimination and jm-crowism of the
Negroes against imperiast war and for the de-
Tense of the Soviet Union. The May Day dem
sonstration of the United Front May Day Con-
ference with its tremendous outpouring of the
workers of New York was the answer of tho
working class to the racketeerng capitalist
system with its misery for the workers We must
answer the racketeering Tammany Hail. repub-
hcan and socialist parties in the coming alder
manic elections by supporting the only party of
the working class the party of the class struggle
THE Communist Party.