The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-02
Capitalist State Is No
Longer a Tool of the
Capitalists, He Says
Bv MILTON HOWARD.

II leadership of the Socialist sec
ond international think so.
Speaking the other day in Paris
before the Congress of the second
international, Vandervelde, Socianst
leader, proclaimed joyfully that ne
could clearly discern in the Roose-
vent NRA codes and program as
tinct "anti-capitalist tendencies.
And the English Socialist, Bralls-
ford. thinks he sees in RooseVelts
program Socialism without Social
lists"
But It is our own Norman Thomas
who has given the most open ex-
preston to this Socialist" interpre-
tation of Roosevelt's program.
Writing in the August 10 issue OF
the New Leader, he said:
"The Roosevelt program has
achieved certain things. 1t has re-
established a banking system when
it was on the verge of ruin. 1t has
given hope and some more substan-
tial advantages to farmers ana
workers these things do not
constitute Socialism, but State
capitalism, although kind OF
State capitalism unquestionabiy IN
fluenced by Socialist influence and
agitation"
1T gives the workers chance
to so forward in an orderly fash
ion. The great hope of the
New Deal is that it may make 1t
l;tslc easier to advance TO-
ward a truly Socialist society"
Such is the picture of the Roose-
welt program which the Soclalist
leaders paint for the workers.
It is a false picture. 1t is pic
tue winch fits in beautifully with
the ruling class purposes OF the
Roosevelt government. With such
an Interpretation Of the New Deal.
the Socialist leaders DO nothing but
hand the workers over to their ex-
plciters, bound hand and foot.
GLsOFE and substantial advantages,
y SAYS Norman Thomas. Let us
see. The coal and auto codes, be-
hind the thickets of their legal jar
gen. gGa-ancee and legalize the open
shop. The coal miners have already
discovered that. In the fixed bayon-
cts ard machine guns of the Penn
sy-vaoia State troopers, the coal
miners very recently learned how
r1ucn CT Socialist influence" there
is il the Roosevelt program.
Right at this rloment in Utah, ten
thousand miners ere facing the po-
lice and armed forces OF the State
because they dared to join a union
the National Miners Union-not to
tie lil1ing of the State officials. This
latest attack on the workers proves
in a language no workers can mis-
understand, that the supposed right
to organize and join unions under
the MA codes is trap and fraud
And the entire military machine Of
the government ifs ready to crust
any attempt OF the workers to resist
the e-~lcitation OF their capitalist
masters.
When Grover Whalen, the former
Tanmaly Folice Chief, and nov
NRA administrator of New York
blurtsd out the ether day, that the
MIRA ccdss outlaw the right tt
plClAGO, IlS OAlly OCC4dlCu, III Lis
crudcnes3, what an impartial judge
has confirmed in learned decision
Judge Stone of New York has al.
ready declared that picketing of &
bakery shop which flies the MR.
flag is nuisance"
Let but the workers raise theil
heads against the exploitation of tn:
employers, and with unparalleled
swiftness the MIRA is sending it.
"arbitrators" to break the strike
And behind the "arbitratorf stane
the police and the troops with ma
chine guns.
The MIRA flag has now become the
ensign which flies over factories pro.
claiming to the workers that Nov
ve are protected against strikes"
Coated with lying phrases abou
rnions and the right to organize The
TIA codes are gigantic effort tt
abolish forever the right of the work.
erS to strike.
And it is not without meaning, tina
the Roosevelt government has seer
fit to clamp the codes down on thu
workers at this time. For, it is a
this time, more than any other tint
during the last four years Of crisis
that the State and the capitals
class are grimly determined to re-
store the profits of the capitalists
mc-e grimly determined than eve
to Chamber out of the crisis upol
the backs of the working class.
The capitalist, depressing govern
ment attempts to crush strikes will
machine guns. Norman Thoma.
pleads with the workers that "thi
is not the time to strike"
The net, practical result of both i
the notwithstanding, at tim,
when the capitalist class has NOR
tai fear Of strikes.
ICUBSTANTIAL advantages" say
y Norman Thomas. A govern
3dont- sanctioned starvation wag,
level of sl1-sl5 week, legalized ant
fixed under the codes as a minimum
hrt actually as the maximum.
Substantial advantages-the legal
ization of the stagger plan through
reduced working time for ever,
worker Substantial advantages
wage cuts for millions of worker
through the slashing of the worl
week without any proportional In
crease in wages.
fnd speed-up such as even tn
boJ fortoriae of E,ord hora ~