The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-22
One or the Other
The Struggle Between Two World Systems
AS Seen In the Conventions of the Republican
Democratic and Socialist Parties

else. 1t is no mere coincidence
that at the conventions of all tho
capitalist parties, the Socialist Par
ty included, "radicalism" was an
ominous theme. Dickinson could
find no better praise for Hoove,
than his concern. to maintain
social order" 1t is here that Hoover
displayed his power of insight, &C,
cording to Dickinson:
with the knowledge that every
major economic CONFUSION In
the past had been attended by
strikes, riots, bloodshed and
death, President Hoover's next
concern was to maintain social
order. To this end he summoned
to the White House industrial
leaders of the nation and OBJ
tanned from them their promise
to maintain existing wage scales
as long as it was possible. On
the same day leaders of organ
lied labor, sitting around the
same conference table, gave their
pledge that there would be no
industrial wage disturbances"
HOOvER'S WAC CUT /
CONSPIRACY
HooverS eulogizer now admits
what the president and the lead
ers of organizer labor" tried to
conceal and what we have been
pointing out from the very Begin
ming: that the conference ito
maintain existing wage scales"
was a fraud (notice the phrase:
ito maintain existing wage scales
as long as it was possible') and
a conspiracy for the purpose of
disarming the workers against
the vicious wage-cut offensive.
But apparently the Hoover
Green wage-cutting conspiracy
succeeded only partly in MAIN
tanning social order" for at pre-
sent, three years after that con.
ference, the watch-dogs of c,pit-
alism are worried more than ever
about the struggles Of the muses.
against starvation. Governor
Roosevelt took full cognizance Of
this condition in his speech OF &C
ceptance, in the passage dealing
with wild radicalisln"::
LIBERAL IN TALK; REACTION.
AIRY IN FACT
"The failure Of the Republican
leaders (read-"thc failure Of
capitalism"-N.B.) to solve our
troubles may degenerate into un-
reasoning radicalism. 80. Wild
radicalism has made few con-
verts, and the greatest tribute
that I can pay to my countrymen
is that in these days of crushing
want there persists an orderly
and hopeful spirit on the part Of
the millions Of our people who
have suffered so much. To fail to
offer them new chance is not
only to botray their hopes bu to
: misunderstood their patience"
But Roosevelt himself is appar-
emily not treasured concerning the
extent of wild radicalism" and in
the next sentence he speaks about
the danger of radicalism and the
way to meet it:
ITO meet by reaction that dan
ger of radicalism is to invite dis
aster. Reaction is no barrier to
the radical. 1t is challenge,
provocation. The way to meet the
danger is to offer a workable
program of reconstruction, and
the party to offer it is the party
with clean hands."(D
One need not, of course, take Sc.
'iously Roosevelt's objection to re-
action. An examination of his poll
cies in the state of New York will
disclose enough reactionary mea-
sures on behalf of the plutocratic
corporations to satisfy any Wall
Street magnate. The fact
that A. Mitchell Palmer, the noto-
rious reactionary and labor-baiter
of the Wilson administration,
wrote the platform for Governor
Roosevelt and his party, and the
fact that the governor of Kentucky
was among the most enthusiastic
supporters of Roosevelt at the Chs
cago convention are further evil
dence of Roosevelt's reactionary
inclinations. 1t was Roosevelt who
picked for his running mate an
avowed reactionary, Speaker Gar
ner, after he had published his own
program of repressive measures
against the revolutionary workers
modelled along the lines of Palmer
ism. In picking Garner for vice.
presidential candidate Roosevelt
automatically acquiesced in the
peaker's thesis that
"the constantly increasing ten
dency toward socialism and COM
munism is the gravest possible
menace. The government should
use every means within Its power
to prevent their further spread
and they should receive no en-
couragement from any American
citizen, high or low
Yet Roosevelt knows whereof he
speaks when he says by reaction
alone the tide Of revolt against the
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