The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-07
Early Reports Show Big Communist Gains in German Elections
"The Capitalists Are Unable to
Operate Industries" Says Foster
Declares Only Communists Offer Way Out!


Day after tomorrow the election struggle in
America is summed up in the voting. The mas
ses will declare which Party they support in
the exercise of State power, in a situation of
mass restitution and starvation for over forty
million men, women and children.
How shall we estimate the parties and candi-
dates in this last hour of the campaign?
There is Hoover His achievement has been
to win universal disgust and hatred. He called
out the army and sent it with tanks. gas bull
lets, and fire. to drive out of Washington in the
dead of night, 25,0 600 eX-sodiers of the world
war with their wives ard babies, because they
dared to petition for the payment of their back
wages His program is frankly, brutally. pro
gram Of starvation ana death for the masses.
"There is Roosevelt His campaign is based
entirely upcn the mass hatred against Hoover
Within few short weeks he succeeded in en-
tirely forgetting his 'forgotten man for the
sake of the embraces of Al Smith. His shallow
demagogv is summed I'D in his slogan for new
deal'-but with the same pack Ct marked cards
To the workers and farmers lie promises an
end to the crisis: to Wall Stree he promises
continuation OF the policies CT Hoover. But if
Roosevelt is elected even before he takes t"n
Pre~'|Nnt's chair the workers and farmers will
be suffering the blows Of new downward
plunge of the crisis new bank failures. more I'M
employment. more s5srvation. And his shadow
cabinet has already promised to Hoover such
close interparty co-operation as to be roughly
equivalent to a coalition government The IL
lusions of the masses regarding Roosevelt will
quickly be sl1attered4 The masses are with FOO
sevelt for today only: tomorrow they will be-
gin to swing to the Communist Party.
Socialism, in Words-Fascism in Deeds"
There is Norman Thomas He is the slick
magician, who promises to make the omelet Of
socialism without cracking the eggs of Wall
Streets private property. He is the nracle-rna
who makes socialism" respectable in the best
society of the bourgeoise. In Milwaukee his
Party cuts wages. clubs and iails the unem-
ployed, and administers the city to the entire
satisfaction of the Chamber of Commerce. In
the needle trades his fellow party members be-
tray strikes enforce -cuts-and openly cam
paign for the election Of the Tammany cand-
date for Governor, Lehman. Norman Thomas
has the Unique distinction of being the first
Socialist leader to be created by the support of
promised the Senate Committee on war policies
that, If we we're on the verge of war he would
probably be for the proposal to place the entire
wealth of the nation at the unconditional dis
posal Of the government. He supported Hoovers
stand against the bonus more theoretically even
than did Roosevelt He openly opposes the mass
struggle for Negro rights on the grounds that it
incites race riots He opposes demonstrations
OF the unemployed on the grounds that they
provoke the development Of fascism' Norman
Thomas is the American edition of a Ramsey
Macdonald in the making.
Norman Thomas and his party give clas-
steal example of that socialism in words fas-
csm in deeds, which we Communists call So
cial-fascism He operates with equal freedom
among his right wing associates who already
openly merge with the capitalist parties Willard
Dubinsky, etc. and with his self-styled left wing
(Muste, Blanchard etc. who cover his treachery