The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-27


mittee. Published by Workers
Library Publishers. Price lie.
Reviewed by VERN SMITH
HpOTH parties backed Hoover's
u reduction of taxes for the rich;
both have played the power trusts
game; both support high tariffs and
a big navy; both are united to OPP
pose even the wishy-waShy Dyer
anti-lynching bill. Both parties
are behind the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation, and their rep
reSentatives sit on it, handing out
relief to banks, corporations and
railroads" says William z. Foster.
RooseYelt's whole political history
shows him an agent of Morgan.
When Roosevelt was assistant sec
rotary of the navy under Wilson,
he helped send American troops to
invade Soviet Russia, and has never
changed his policy since. At that
time Roosevelt was actually in
charge of the subjugation of Haiti,
and was responsible for the slaugh-
ter by the U. S. Navy of $3.50 Hal
tan Negroes. Roosevelt jim
crowed the Navy, and draws his
strength largely from the lynch
lords of the South.
ROOSEVELT talks of unemploy-
II ment insurance by the States
but no Democratic Party controlled
State has made even the first be-
ginnings toward unemployment in
surance. Roosevelt talks against
wage cuts, but himself cuts wages.
His platform calls for discharge of
% per cent of the federal employees
if he is elected.
Roosevelt has never lifted his
voice against Bloody Thursday"
in Washington, and is known to be
personally against payment of the
veterans bonus.
ROLE OF
DEMOCRATS
The Republican Party, the Hoo
yer administration, have so iden-
titled themselves with the crisis
that there is going to be a big
protest vote this year. The Demo-
cratic and Socialist Parties are the
lightning rods along which this
flaming current of resentment
against starvation is to discharge
itself without harm to the capital
ist structure-at least, that is the
capitalist idea of things. The
speech Of William z. Foster, Com
munist candidate for President,
made in Columbus, Aug. 20, was
devoted wholly to exposing this role
of the Democratic Party, and to
pointing out that the starvation
and hunger policies of the Hoover
regime are actually mirrored, de-
spite certain distortion merely for
the purpose of camouf1age, in the
Roosevelt program. Roosevelt,
Democratic nominee for President,
spoke that day in Columbus, and
Foster was able to quote directly
from his most recent utterance to
prove the Communist position.
THE speech is published under the
4 title words and Deeds of
Franklin D. Roosevelt" in the Com
munist National Campaign Com
mittee's series of penny pamphlets.
Foster points out that either Re-
publican or Democratic Party could
adopt the others platform, and
that Hoover could be a member
of Mr.. Roosevelt's Cabinet, or vice
versa"
All this Foster brings out in his
speech, and proves with a wealth
of concrete illustrations and facts.
He contrasts the Roosevelt Hoover
program of wage cuts, starvation of
the jobless, inperiaist war, terror
against Negro workers, with the
Communist program as indicated
in the six demands of the Commu-
mist platform, as fought for day by
day in countless industrial strug-
giles and demonstrations.
The only fault with the pamph-
let is that since the speech was
made, Roosevelt has committed
himself still further, and these
later admissions of the Democratic
candidate can not get into the
Columbus speech Roosevelt is
now pledged, for instance, to the
20 per cent railroad wage cut. This
pamphlet should have wide circu-
lation, and should be completed
with proper distribution of the
Daily Worker, which shows Roose-
welt exposing himself even more
fully than the pamphlet does.