The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-12
By b. X. GEBERT

THE resolution of the 14th Pienu1n
of our Party analysed correctly
the role of the Democratic Party
in the following manner:
THE two main bourgeois parties
Republican and Democratic) both
fully supporting the policies of fin
ance capital, divide the roles among
themselves in order to prevent the
masses from breaking away from
the policy of finance capital as ex-
ercised, thru the traditional two
party system. The Republican Par
ty, which is the party in power,
is carrying on more openly this
policy of hunger, terror and war
preparations. The Democratic Par
ty, whose present function is to
win the support of the toiling mas
ses and particularly the unemploy-
ed, who are disillusioned by the
Hoover government, has the same
domestic and foreign policy as the
Republican Party"
The state governments under De-
mocratic Party control carry on
the same policy as the Hoover gov
eminent. The Democratic congress-
men and senators vote for all mea-
sures against the working class.
But the Democratic Party, in or
der to fool the masses, is resorting
more and more to the widespread
use of demagogy, particularly with
regard to unemployment relief.
The chief leaders of the Demo-
cratic Party Roosevelt, Baker.
Ritchie, etc. are the most expert
enced demagogs, and in the North,
for example, talk about equality
for the Negro and at the same time,
in the South, support lynch law
and carry thru fully the ruthless
policy of Wall Street.
This analysis is proven by the
every day activity and acts of the
Democratic administrations in the
cities and states. Here in Chicago,
Tony Cermak, in campaigning for
the election of Mayor on Febru-
airy 9, 1881, declared in a speech,
when 1 am elected mayor / will
deal Immediately with the unem-
ployment problem as I am dealing
now with the relief problems"
Bullets For Bread
And how did Tony Cermak,
Mayor of Chicago, deal with the
unemployment problem in the city?
On August 3, 1881, three Negro
workers were murdered in cold
blood by the Chicago police under
the Cermak administration. These
workers protested against the evic-
ton Of 72-year old woman. Thou
sands Of unemployed workers have
been arrested during the Cermak
administration in Chicago for par
ticipation in struggles for imme-
diately relief, against evictions, for
unemployment insurance at the ex-
pense Of the bosses and their gov
eminent. Mayor Cermak is parti-
cularly vicious against the Negro
masses.
In January, 1882, during the
reign Of terror on the south side
OF Chicago, 400 Negro and white
workers were arrested, beaten up,
the headquarters of the Unemploy-
ed Council were smashed, the meet
ings of the unemployed in other
parts Of the city have been equally
attacked. The number of unem-
ployed workers dying from starva-
ton is increasing daily. Wages of
the city workers have been cut.
This is how Mayor Cermak is solv-
ing the problem of unemploy-
ment." Democratic Mayor Cermak
carries out the Hoover program in
Chicago-bulIets for bread!
And he promises more of this.
When this is written Mayor Ger
max is in Washington and before
the officers Of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation made the fol-
lowing statements gait,t