The daily worker., 1932-12-16

cricy of his campaign promises.
the entire capitalist press is dill
gently trying to explain that he
has so many problems that he
cannot solve all of them at once,
hence the workers should patient
ly wait and Starve until the busy
preSident-elect gets around to do
ing something for them The New
York Tribune, the republican Or
gan that pilloried Roosevelt dur
ing the campaign as a weakling,
now changes its tune and says the
reason he cannot do much in the
legislative session is because he is
too busy thinking about what he
will do when he becomes pres
ident. Says Walter Lippmann in
the December issue of the
Tribune:
Barely three months remain
before he (RO0sevelt) must as
sumo the administrative burdens
of the presidency. In these three
months he has an opportunity
for study, reflection and consid-
cred planning such as he will
never have again"
We are asked to take such driveI
seriously; asked to believe that
prosperity depends upon the deep
study and mature reflection of the
president. AT the highest level of
production in the days of relative
Stabilization of capitalism we had
Coolidge. Surely no one would at
tribute to Silent Cal" the ability
to plumb any subject to very
great depth. At the same time AL
Smith was democrat governor of
New York, Huey (Kingfish) Long
governor of Louisiana, Alvin T.
Fuller was governor of Massachu-
sets, Len Small governor Of Him
ois. A host of others of similar
intellectual attainments occupied
the high political places of the
country.
TT is one of the jobs OF the cap
italist press to perpetuate the il
lusion that prosperity depends
upon good or bad, competent or
incompetent Office holders; that
change of capitalist government. a
new president and cabinet and
democrat maj jority instead of a re-
publican majority will turn the
tide. Communists insist. as Lenin
said, that all fundamental quest
ions of capitalist policy are never
decided by parliamentary institu-
items, but by the banks and the
stock exchange. Lenin also said,
in July. 1917:
"The history of the bourgeois
parliamentary and bourgeois
constitutional countries shows
that change of ministers means
very little, for the real work of
administration is lodged in the
hands of a colossal army of bu-
reaucrats, and this army is per-
meated with the anti democratic
spirit"
1t is this bureaucratic machine.
which does the real work of ad-
ministration, that functions to car
ry out one uninterrupted imperial
ist policy no matter how often
the elected Office holders change.
1t Is this machine which consists
of the bureaucracy, the judiciary
the armed forces of the state, the
jailers, the hangmen, etc, that
carries out Wall Street policy -
this is the organized machinery Of
capitalist violence against the
working class.
AS against the deceit and the
violence Of capitalist democracy,
the toiling masses must wage re-
lentless struggle.
The fight against the Roosevelt
program in New York State is of
great political significance, mas
much as it shows the workers and
farmers exactly what they can ex-
pect from his administration of
the federal government after next
March. The Roosevelt deception
Is put forth to fool the workers of
the country into waiting for the
new administration, to cripple the
mass struggle against hunger. If
this can be accomplished there will
be unleashed the most ferocious
offensive against our standards of
life ever known. To avert this
new vicious attack the workers,
farmers and ex-soldiers must close
their ranks, build powerful local
organizations, intensity the local
struggles for relief, organize coun-
ty hunger marches, stage great
demonstrations and marches at
the opening of the regular ses-
sions Of the various state legislat-
lres in January.
To stop further attacks against
We there must be built such O. pow