The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
BY THEODORE DRESSER


tioning in this country.
In the first place, the political
programs Of the republicans, demo-
Gratis and socialists, no matter how
skillfully camouflaged, reflect only
minor differences as to how to carry
through the American capitalist
program. In other words, how give
to the few the wealth and privilege
in unlimited degree, and at the
same time persuade the masses to
accept ignorance, hunger, and ter
ror.
GREED, BRUTALITY
Capitalism, in the face of the
greatest opportunities ever offered
it by any land or nation, has failed
to use the enormous wealth and
power accumulated by it in any hui
name or socially constructive way.
1t has failed as a system of gov
eminent. In land overlooking
with natural resources which could
have been developed and organized
for the mental and physical well
fare of the nation, it has contented
itself with greedily and brutally re-
serving for the few the opportun-
tiles and privileges which mere de-
cency would have suggested be ex-
tended to all.
Twelve million workers ready and
anxious to work and capable of pro-
ducing food, clothing and other
goods so urgently needed by the
people, are now suffering from
forced idleness, and, in many cases,
hunger. Eighty-five per cent of the
employed are working only few
days week, and only fifteen per
cent of the employed have full-time
jobs. One out of every five farms
in America has been foreclosed. (My
authority is Gov. Dan Turner Of
Iowa. Taxes so high that not even
state and national, let alone private
mortgages due can be met. Yet the
corporation-picked delegates, con-
vention leaders, and spokesman of
the the Democratic and Republican
Parties now concentrating on the
issue as to whether a robbed and
generally deprived citizenry is to
be allowed to have liquor.
THEIR GOVERNMENT
But never word, if you will note,
as to lower charges by the greedy
and really thieving and buccaneer
railroads and their associates, the
steel trust, the oil trust, the beef
trust. and those now still larger
combinations that deal in milk,
bread, and food generally. Taxes
for the private individual on tele-
phone. telegraph, and radio mes
sages, as well as on electric and gas
light meter bills. But not one word
as to a reduction Of charges by these
same monopolies which accumulate
for themselves the major portion of
the savings Of the land.
Rather, for these combinations,
greater and more safe and sure re-
turns. For it is they who run the
government, select its nominees for
office; its president, congressman,
governors, judges, officials, and so
called representatives genera ! ly.
Republican and Democratic Parties
alike, organized and controlled as
they are by these super capitalist
powers, have in this period Of Sc
we're crisis, exposed their complete
bankruptcy. In fact, our American
corporations and these, their poll
teal henchmen Of both parties, re-
main in this hour colby unconcern-
ed about the suffering OF the mil
lions whom they have exploited. At
this very moment, they are think
ing only Of protecting the profits
taken in the past and insuring their
return in the future. Their way out
of the crisis is to bring poverty
and misery to the workers and
farmers and petty clerks the land
over, as well as twelve million Ne
groes already. greatly Disseminated
against, jim-crowed, and often
lynched, the while the few rich Of
our banks and corporations sit
above in aristocratic. comfort and
control, richer and still more power
full. In short, their way out of the
crisis-the capitalist way, out
means direct help and protection
not to the poor but to the rich.
AID BANKS, RAILROADS
If you doubt this, consider the last
session OF our American Congress;
the democrats controlling the House
and Mr.. Hoover, approving, as Pres
ident, appropriating billions of dol
lars for direct aid to the rich. Mr..
Hoover's Reconstruction Finance
Corporation alone making two bill
lions available for the big bankers,
their railroads and other troubled
corporations. But not single word
as to any national five-hour day
or five-day week, which would at
once and most beneficially give the
twelve million unemployed Of today
something to do.
On the contrary, under the guise
of economy for themselves. cateeori-