The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-22
Rabbi Waldman and the Pope's
Encyclical

try, of cultural social and political life in the
Soviet Union. with the growing pauperization
misery, unemployment, degradation OF the
masses together with the parasitical, degen-
eracy of the capitalist class in the capitalist
countries. He sees that the workers and poor
farmers are responding to the policies and slo-
gans of the Communist Party in the capitalist
and colonial countries. A volcano of revolution
is erupting in many countries of Europe and
Ashland therefore the Pope comes to the help
of capitalism to stay the disaster to the present
system that stares it in the face.
The Pope is shrewd: he damns liberalism-and
yet he speaks the language of liberalism. This
is the naaneuver of the .so-caIled "left wing" of
capitalism, which tries to counterfeit the grow
ing wave of revolution by radical phrases, but
counter-revolutionary actions. The Murray But
lers Shipsteads, Pinchots, BrookhartS, Borahs
are more dangerous to the working class than
Hoover, Mellon, Grundy, or the like, The former
speak the language Of the liberal" who sees
the many sores" of the present system, and
talks about cures-"radical' cures, cures OF
democracy" The masses are suffering, and
these people take advantage of their misery to
create pipe dreams about the possibilities of the
capitalist system, which must be reformed;
and thus they try to bind them to the system.
The Pope repeats the words of Pope Leo about
zone class being forbidden to exclude the other
from share in the profits. This sacred law is
violated by an irresponsible wealthy class who,
in the excess of the good fortune, deem it a Just
state of things that they should receive every
thing and the laborers nothing"
Proceeding along this line, the Pope declares
that "unless serious attempts be made, with all
energy and without delay to put them into prac-
tice, let nobody persuade himself that the peace
and tranquility Of human Capitalist Al So
ciety can be effectively defended against the
forces of revolution. j.. u. Let employers, there
FORE and employed join in their plans and eff
forts to overcome all difficulties and obstacles,
and let them be aided in this wholesome en-
deavor by the wise measure of the public
thority.' emphasis mine-I.A) in working
class language and experience, it denotes: class
collaboration with the aid of the government
Cancellation board-if not the military!
1T is the primary duty of the state and of
all good citizens to abolish conflict between
classes with divergent interests and thus foster
and promote harmony between the various ranks
of society"
These are principles on which the socialists
can and do stand-in word and practice. In
Germany, England, France the United States
they preach and practice these policies. Nor
man Thomas pleads for more tolerance of the
Schlesingers, Hillmans, Mustes work with the
bosses and accept the INTERPRETATION of the
government conciliator. Ramsay Macdonald
tries to abolish conflict between classes" in In
Ola with guns, in England with the military
In Spain, the socialists in the government shoot
down the workers and poor peasants to whom
the bourgeois democratic revolution Ghe one
that has just taken place and with the aid of
the workers and peasants has taken power away
from the landlords and put it into the hands of
the capitalists) was to mean a release from
their misery. But it means more struggle
against the capitalists and their socialist, an
archist, syndcalist allies.
The class struggle is not only here-but is be-
coming more acute. owing to the general break
down of capitalsn-its inability to grow and
develop-and the acute economic crisis, which is
driving the workers to revolt and revolution.
And no bull of the Pope socialists and liberals
can abolish it.