The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-28
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Capitalism i'll the United States has been hard
est hit by the economic crisis as expressed in the
unprecedented fall in production and trade, and
in the growth of mass unemployment, which
plunges millions and millions of workers in the
cities and in the rural districts into hunger and
poverty. The crisis is destroying the petty bour-
geois illusions of the masses about the american
standard of living community of interests of
labor and capital, and creates the most favorable
prerequisites for the formation and strengthen
ing of the class front of the proletariat and the
working masses
In its effort to save the capitalist system from
further deepening of the crisis and to find
capitalist way out of the crisis the American
bourgeoisie is carrying on the fiercest attacks
against the masses and is feverishly preparing
for war against the imperiast rivals, and above
all, for intervention against the Soviet Union.
Wege cut after wage cut is being forced through,
millions of unemployed subjected to burger
and poverty and the standard of living of the
masses has already been forced down by more
than SO per cent through wage losses as result
of wage cuts and unemployment. The financial
olgarchy with the help of the state is daily ac-
cumulating more of the national wealth in it's
hands, through the unprecedented mpoverish-
ment of the workers, and at the expense of the
snal taxpayers, farmers and small bourgeoisie
creased tariffs, etc.. The offensive of the capt.
tasts is characterized by sharpened police fascist
and semi-fascist repression and terror against
the workers and their class organizations. Sim
UNANIMOUSLY, the bourgeoisie resorts widely and
systematically to demagogic and democratic"
maneuvers, using more and more the social-de-
mocrats, the 'Musteites'' and the various pseudo
LETS as tool for confusing and disorgan-
izing the workers.
The two main bourgeois parties Republican
and Democratic) both fully supporting the poll
cies of finance capital divide the roles among
themselves in order to prevent the masses from
breaking away from the policy of finance capital
as exercised through the traditional two-party
system. The Republican party which is the party
In power, is carrying on more openly this policy
of hunger, terror and preparations. The
Democratic party, whose present function is to
win the support of the toiling masses and partic-
ularly the unemployed, who are dsillusioned
by the Hoover government, has the same domes-
tic and foreign policy as the Republican party
The state governments under Democratic
Jertv control carry the same policy as the
Hoover government. The Democratic Congress
me,i and Senators vote for all measures against
the working class. But the Democratic party. in
order to fool the masses, is resorting more and
to the widespread use of demagogy, par
ticularly with regard to unemployment relief
The chief candidates for the democratic nomna-
ton for President Roosevelt Baker, Richie
etc. are the most experienced 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 through fully the
ruthless policy of Wall Street
The bloc of ''progressives" representing the
rich farmers and certain sections of small CAPT
talists LA Toilette, Morris etc.) is likewise fully
supporting the policies of Wall Street It's "op-
position is more cowardly than ever These ee-
ments, who in 1924 organized the La Toilette
third party and who are at the moment dividing
their support between Hoover md the Democra-
L party. hone to enter into an Mection bloc with