The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-08
A PRACTICAL COALITION
OF CAPITALIST FORCES

OF CAPITALIST FORCES
Meanwhile, behind all the empty
noise of the campaign, the real
policies of government are being
quietly worked out Jointly by the
men who control both parties.
Such men as AL Smith, John
Raskob, Owen Young, Newton
Baker, have for some time been
organizing a secret coalition with
Andrew Mellon and the other
financial masters of the Repub-
hcan Party. AS far back as last
February, Newton Baker even
prophesied that the national cleo
lions would take place only as a
formality to approve coalition
government already openly formed
by agreement between the Repub-
ican and Democratic parties. This
coalition did not yet come out be-
fore the public eye. 1t was kept
secret for the sake of preserving
the democratic illusions of the
masses. 1t is, however, operating
very effectively behind the scenes.
Already week before the cleo
tons, on Oct. 81, an authoritative
news bureau of finance capital in
Washington, the Kiplinger Agency,
reported in confidential letter to
its Observation-Disclosures, that ar
rangements have been completed
to guarantee that after the cleo
tons the cooperation Of the two
parties shall be so close as to
amount in actual fact to coan-
ton government.
This is only the special American
form of the general process taking
place in most of the large capital
ist countries. In England it took
the form of the Macdonald Bald
win national" government. In
Germany it was the democratic
bloc" for the reelection of Hin
denburg, a bloc which included
also the Social-Democracy.
NEED THIRD
PARTY
The capitalist dictatorship, how
ever, still needs its two-party sys-
tenn to cover its workings as much
as possible. That is the reason
for all of the elaborate forms of a
political struggle from which all
political content is absent. Also
that is the reason why, with the
progressive development of the
coalition Of its most important
parties, the capitalists are giving
more serious attention to building
up loyal opposition" third
party.
That is why in this campaign
neither the Republican nor Demo-
cratic party has conducted serious
political debates with or polemics
against the Socialist Party. In
deed, they have not even made the
pretense of struggle such as they
staged between themselves. On the
contrary, they have openly and en-
ergetically exerted themselves to
build up the Socialist Party in this
campaign. Especially they have
striven to build a mass support for
Norman Thomas.
The capitalist class had an
urgent need for Norman Thomas.
If he had not existed, they would
have been forced to invent him.
Gods greatest gift to the bour-
geoisie in 1882 was Norman
Thomas.
1t must be recorded that our
ruling class has been properly
grateful for this gift. They have
utilized 1t to the full. They have
taken this preacher without pull
pit and, overnight, by the magic
Of the printed word in the daily
press, by the radio, the pulpit, etc.,
they have created out of him what
has all the appearance Of a ma
tional political leader.
PRAISE OF THOMAS OVERDUE
1t is true that the job has been
even a little over-done, for the full
accomplishment of the principal
aim of the capitalist class. Their
praise of Thomas has been so full
some. so highly-pjtched, al to
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