The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11
''The House Was
In An UprOar''
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almost equally divided, republicans
and democrats IN the House today
FLASHED over proposals for unem-
ployment relief, with Presidents
Hoover's policies the main target of
attack and defense"
The digerence in the positions of
the democrat and republican spokes-
men in the debate, it is evident from
dispatches, consists only In the differ
ence between demagogy and openly
expressed reaction.
The Opposition"
Following the traditional policy of
capitalist party oppositions the world
over, the democrats are reckoning to
the millions of workers plunged into
misery under the Hoover regime with
gestures of sympathy and support for
unemployment insurance and federal
appropriations for relief. Huddleston
of Alabama calls for grant Of $780,
000000 for President Hoover to use
as he desires in direct relief for The
needy-cash, food, shelter, clothing"
What It Would Mean.
The utter shamelessness OF such a
proposal in the face Of Hooyer'S OBJ
vious hatred of and disregard for the
unemployed millions Of American
workers, his refusal to listen to their
demands and his open attempts thru
the secret service and the department
of justice to suppress the Hunger
March, is like giving Mussolini $780,
100000 to organize a strike against
the wage cuts put through by his fas-
cist government.
If history teaches anything, Hoover
could use part Of the $1oO,00o,00o to
finance a scheme for selling spoiled
food to the unemployed like he is
said to have done in connection with
feeding the starving Belgians."
The other part could be used to
finance new suppressive agencies, spy
systems and war plots against the
Soviet Union-just as Wilson used the
$100,000,000 emergency fund given
him by congress in the war period.
But there was great applause from
the democrat congressman for this
proposal. It reads well in the print
ed speeches sent out to their con-
stituents.
Hunger March Echoes.
In the halls of congress there still
echoed yesterday the thunderous
chant Of the 1910 Hunger Marchers,
from every section of the United
states, who on Monday, surrounded
by the armed forces mustered en- mas
Sc to intimidate them, but surrounded
as we'll by scores of thousands Of
sympathizers, repeating over and over
for an hour, as their elected delega-
ton was elected from the capitol
building, 1--WE Demand Unemploy-
ment Insurance"
Demand VIII Not Down.
This demand will not die down. 1t
will impinge upon the ears of the
donkey and the elephant alike for
many a day to come and make them
FESTIVE In the marble stable with its
armed grooms provided for them by
Wall Street.
AS always when the voice of the
working class is heard in crisis per-
Tod indicted in measured and deter
mined tones not merely an admin
istration but a system, the thin veneer
of capitalist culture is skinned off
and the gentlemanly and ladylike
representatives of the various groups
within the capitalist class, quarreling
over the division of the depleted pro-
fits wrung from the working class,
snap and snarl at one another like
hungry hyenas.
GAL 2-House was in an uproar
Patriotism at High Tide.
The capitalist shibboleths like pa
triotisrn" and "AmericaniSm' are
hurled about freely and each tries
to prove that his loyalty to '.all that
America stands for" is greater and
finer than the other. Let us take a
sample of the debate which took place
yesterday as the number of hungry
unemployed rose to new high levels,
as steel production dropped to the
new low level Of Is per cent Of capac-
ity.
1.-THE House was In an uproar', says
the Hearst correspondent. Dignity
was thrown to the winds. Up rose
Underhill Of Massachusetts, yelling in
a manner shocking to the Goldfish
aristocracy of his state: "The party
Of Jefferson has abandoned Jeffer-
sonian principles for those Of Karl
Marx"
II he meant the -Four Marx Broth
ers-he was about half right when
one considers the weird mixture OF
.Klansmen, Catholics and conflicting
economic interests which make up
the democrat party. Then came Nc
Kewon Of Oklahoma replying to Uns
derhill with what was probably sup
posed to be devastating criticism:
IF the republicans don't cooper
ate with the democratic majority
in the House any better than they
did with President Wilson In the
World War, God help America"
s California CapitaIism's Contribu-
ton.
% rose Mrs. Florence r. Kahn.
member OF the house Of representa-