The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-28
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THE November 9th elections have
1 resulted in the Democratic
Party, Party of capitalism, obtain
ing control of the national govern
meut elections of President,
majority of the House OF RepreSen-
tatives and Senate and the ma
jority of the State governments Gin
our district, Illinois, Indiana and
Missouri.
In view OF the deep-rooted dis
content Of the toiling masses, the
capitalists applied different meth
DDS to keep the masses in the frame
of the tWo-capitalist parties. The
Hoover-Republican government was
diScredited and the Democratic
Party was assigned the task, under
demogogic promises and speeches
Of Roosevelt and other Democratic
leaders and candidates, to parade
before the masses as opposition" to
Hoover, creating an illusion that the
Democratic Party will improve con-
ditionS.
The Socialist Party, altho it did
not receive as large a number of
votes as was estimated by the lead
ers of the Socialist Party and pre-
dicted by the capitalists, neyerthe-
less shows growth. The S. P. in its
election campaign carried on
policy OF assuring capitalists that it
has no aims to endanger the CAPT.
taliSt system but to improve it and
spread faith in the soundness of
the capitalist system, and serve as
a safety valve; on the other hand,
because of the rehabilitation Of the
masses, it paraded among the mass
es under the slogans for classics
society,"" "for Socialism, and that
it stands on the principles of the
class struggle. Many thousands of
workers who voted for the Social
list Party were under the illusion
that the S. P. is a working class
party-workers whom we as yet did
not reach and win for the working
class party, the Communist Party.
INCREASE IN COMMUNIST VOTE
The vote for the Communist
Party has increased in 1882, in COM
parison with 1928. In Cook County,
Illinois, by 1900 lin 1928 Foster
received 1,009 votes-in 1892, 1877
votes. In Lake County, Indiana,
Calumet Steel Region) the Com
mtnist Party won a permanent
place on the ballot, receiving GAG
votes, while in 1928, in the whole
state of Indiana, Foster received
only 246 votes. Likewise, 500 votes
in East st. Louis, Ill, and votes in
other cities shows growth, with the
exception of st. Louis, where the
Communist Party got only 361
votes. In Missouri the Party was
on the ballot for the first tiIne),
AS yet we have no full report of
votes cast for the Communist Party.
The increase of the Communist
vote is an expression of the growing
revolutionary trend among the toll
ing masses. However, the increased
vote for the Communist Party does
not correspond with the growth of
the militancy, activity and reyolu-
tionary upsurge of the masses, and
this once more shows our isolation
from the masses, because of our
sectarian approach to the masses.
THE Communist Party entered the
i election campaign with clear
cut revolutionary program, and set
as its task to develop the election
struggles on the basis of developing
struggle for unemployed and social
insurance, against wage cuts, for
farm relief, against persecution of
the masses, for Negro rights and
Self-determination for the Black
Belt, against imperiaIst war and
for the defense of the Soviet Union.
The Communist Party program
called for revolutionary way out
of the crisis. That is, the Com
munist Party is the only anti-capi-
talist Party and its task was to Or
ganize and lead the struggles of the
masses against hunger and war,
against capitalism. But in the cleo
ton campaign the Communist Party
did not come sufficiently into the
forefront as the only anti-capitalist
Party and did not sufficiently carry
the struggle against the capitalist
system as a whole, undermining it
among the masses and in doing so,
it was necessary to concentrate the
main fire against the social-fascists
Is. P, Music, AFL, Farmer-Labor
Party, etc..
UNITED FRONT POLICY
To carry such struggle success
fully it was necessary to unite the
broadcast masses in struggle, that is,
to carry in practice the policy Of
the united front from below. First
of all, in the factories against wage
cuts, among the unemployed, farm
ers, Negroes, eX-Servicemen, work.
ing women, etc. In our district the
factories were completely forgotten
in the election campaign. No con-
centration, no special activities in
connection with the election cam
paign among the masses of workers
in the stockyards, Western Elec-
trio, steel mills, mines, railroad, etc.
With the exception of the united
front Of the unemployed Cook
County Hunger March on October
31st, the local struggles of the I'M
employed in Chicago, as well as in
other cities) there was no united
front activity. Not a single group
Of the workers of any significance,
ss.Il A
ers following the Socialist Party,
Music, or unorganized workers in
the shops or poor farmers were Or
ganized around the demands of the
Communist platform and developed
struggle and therefore support the
G. p. in the elections. Even mass
organizations close to the G. p.
such as T.U.UL., Unemployed Coun-
ellis, LID language mass organiza-
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