The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-21
Congress Does a Good Job
for Wall Street

NH1EL tOIu OOUEINSS WIllCu Ids duot 4OtOCN
up its tents to steal silently away to
the pickings and pleasures ''back home
did pretty good job-for the Wall Street
ruling class.
In the 1876 days during which it set aside
about $4,000, 100000 for present and fu-
ture expenditures expenditures to be wrung from
the masses in tax extortions), it did not pass
single measure effecting the improvement Of the
living conditions Of the daily life Of the millions
upon millions of workers. toiling farmers, small
producers and professionals who make UP the vast
majority Of the population.
On the contrary in every single act this
Congress- like every one Of its predecessors, acted
contrary to the interests of the majority Of the
population and in the interests of a handful Of
powerful Wall Street capitalist mOnopOlies.
This Roosevelt Congress revealed itself to be
what the whole Federal Government is, nothing
but the executive committee Of the capitalist
ruling class the committee through which the
biggest capitalist monOpolies and explOters carry
through their dictatorship the tOilng masses.
Every single action of this Congress showed how
necessary it is, If the hunger and misery of the
masses are to be ended, to overthrow this govern
ment of the Wall Street monopoies and to set up
new kind of government in the interests of the
vast majority of the people, a Soviet Government,
Workers and Farmers Government.
every single workers family in the country by
at least Is per cent thus cutting hole in the pay
envelope of every man. woman and child draw
ing wages.
AS result Of the work Of this Congress, bread,
milk, sugar clothes have risen in price at least 20
per cent.
This Congress created the biggest war machine
ever seen in the history of the country. 1t spent
almost two billion dollars for war machines, for
bullets, cannon, and poison gas
This Congress, at the same time, spat in the
faces Of the 100000 jobless and disabled vets
by refusing to grant cent of Federal Unem-
ployment Insurance to guarantee the jobless and
their children against the agonies of hunger and
insecurity. This Congress slashed $50O0000OO from
the vets and the Federal employees in order to pay
of the Wall Street banks.
This Congress granted more than four billion
dollars to Wall Street banks, mortgage holders in
vestors in farm mortgages, etc. by guaranteeing
the investments of these Wall Street banker usury
sharks.
THIS Congress intensified the misery and degra-
dation Of the vast majority Of the farming
population, through the Bankhead Bill driving
thousands Of sharecroppers Negro and white of
into utter restitution
This Congress approved the destruction Of 70
per cent of the wheat crop last year, 20 per cent
Of the corn crop thus coming profits for the
spectators and big farmers on the hunger of the
masses.
This Congress carried through the Roosevelt
program of Tightening the grip Of the Wall Street
monopoles on the whole economic life Of the coun-
try
But this Congress supported the system of lynch
terrorism against the Negro people.
This Congress witnessed steady growth of fas-
cist reaction throughout the country a steady fas-
citation Of the whole State machine through the
building up of huge military apparatus a nation
wide system of strikebreaking Labor Boards the
unleashing of bloody terrorism against strikers in
Toledo, Minneapolis etc.
In its every act this Congress worked against
the interests Of the vast maio rty of the toiling
population, and in the interests of the ruling
class, the mlionares and biIlionaires
We MUSI GET INTO this Congress to tear the mask
y off its Wall Street servility We must get into
this Congress to gain forum to broaden the fight
for the needs Of the masses for bread for security
against unemployment, to expose their imperalist
war preparations.
Comrade Browder, speaking to the Eight Party
Convention, said quite bluntly:
I'VE still underestimate the value of revoIu-
tionary parliamentarism We are at a moment
when 1t is quite possible for large masses to swing
over very quickly to the support of the Commu-
! mist Party, especially in the Congressional cleo
A tions. Therefore there is utopiansm in sug-
costing the possibility of many successful Com
munist candidates if work correctly and make
serious campaign. :"
The Congressional elections come in the Fall
There must be serious thought given to the choos-
ing of candidates, and truly energetic preparations
for a vide, popular, election campaign with few
main principal demands based upon the needs Of
the masses in the crisis
In the Congressional campaigns we have the
greatest opportunity to make clear to the masses
the need for new kind of government Workers
and Farmers Soviet Government Through the
election campaigns can give the greatest mass