The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-26
Gushing Hypocrisy

THE maudlin hypocrtcal gushing Christmas spirit"
which reached its apogee in Dickens at precisely
the stage when capitalism in its early phases
making life horror and a nightmare for millions
dn1mortaly described in Engel' Condition of the
Working Glass in England in 1844) comes readily
to the lips of the demagogue Roosevelt.
Decaying, dying capitalism, with its 100000 I'M
employed in the United States, with its N.R-A wage
slashing with its preparations for world slaugh-
ters wants its wage slaves to starve meekly and
refrain from fighting in the spirit of Christmas"
While the rich parasites the coupon clippers in
their palatal mansions in these holidays pour cham
payne freely capitalism pourS the blood Of the
working tens of millions Of workers and their
families shiver in cold and hunger with their whole
future life uncertain.
Well these leeches celebrate, with their profits
rising and the workers wages falling. Well can they
celebrate their rapid preparations for new world
plumber Nor will they fail to toast their faithful
lackeys. Messers Green, Lewis Hillman-and Norman
Thomas.
OVERLOOKING the fact that the country has Just
gone through one of the btterest and sharpest
strike in its history, with the dead strikers in
Arabrdge, Philadelphia, Southern Illinois, Fayette
County Pa unforgettable martyrs of the deepening
class war, Roosevelt in his Christmas message has
the gall to declare:
Even more greatly my happiness springs from the
deep conviction that this year marks greater national
understanding of the significance in our modern lives
os the teachings of him whose birth We celebrate"
The greater national understanding of growing
fascist attacks the working class brings Happiness
to Wall Streets president
On the breadlines, deep in the pits of the H c.
Frica Coal Co. in the Ford and General Motors
factories in the jals where hundreds of class war
prisoners rot-wherever millions of workers are en-
gazed i'll the mighty struggle for bread, for organza
Ton and against capitalism - Roosevelts meaIy-
neaslel sermon Of class peace will come like acid
pcl-Sd deep and open wounds.
ITO more and more of us the words Thou shalt
love they neighbor myself have taken on meaning
tat is showing itself and proving itself in pur-
TE5 ed daily lives says the New Deal president
RI HAS always been the function of the priest and
the deragogues Of the capitalist state to urge the
slaves, the producers of wealth to love the enemy
that Yields the lash and the gun. They have always
extoied the crumbs of charity that fall from the
masters table.
Nor the daily sermons of Messers Green, Lewis
s. Co. about the partnership of capital labor and
the government, much different from this despicable
Of the very Roosevelt who promised the work.
ers Unemployment insurance and gives them greater
Starvation at a higher price.
Yes, there is 40 doubt that in these critical days
OF capitalism, the whole priesthood of the property
owners the ruling clique the betraying A. F. of L,
labor eutenants pray with might and main for class
peace for nonresiance of the workers the growing
attacks of the capitalists.
But the American workers have already shown
their mettle The past huge strike wave is only the
beginning. The miitancy of the American workers
is growing. They are not meekly submitting to the
yokes of slavery and fascsm devised by Roosevelt
With his oily, priestly phrases
The new year that is dawning promises to be one
OF growing struggles of increasing strength OF the
American proletariat and with the firm and correct
leadership Of the Communist Party the revolutionary
forces will grow, making it impossible for the whole
hierarchy of capitalist dictatorship to achieve its goal
and whthe perpetuation of capitalist slavery at the
expense of the great masses of toilers
NJ All the lying demagogy of Roosevelt and his cotere
will not feed the starving millions, will it stop
the advance Of the working class striving for the
revolutionary out of the crisis through the victory
OF the proletarian dictatorship