The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01

humanitarianism. A humanitari9n~
ism arrayed against all the mighty
forces of money and power and
greed" which the Honorable James
A. Farley, Postmaster General,
Chairman of the Democratic Ma
ttonal Committee and former boz
ing mogul Of New York. sees ops
posed to the New Deal, in the ins
Vulnerable speeches uttered by him.
A Farley speech may mark the
laying of a post-office conversions
in Hogwash, Mississippi, or it may
simply be intended to "acknowl~
edge my appreciation OF the driving
spirit, the firm, courageous and
loyal leadership Of your own Mayor
Frank Hague Of Jersey City" the
Democratic National Committee
man who conducted the police ter>
ror in his city against workers
! peaceful picketing.
But, whatever the occasion, Far
ley, Roosevelt mouthpiece and pow
erful New Dealer, is always glad to
have the cogs Of his machine "on
our side, fighting with us against
a common enemy-the selfish forces
Of money and power and greed
the blind reactionaries that today
are banded together under the ban
ner of the Republican Party" We
want you with us. We want you
with us this Fall, and every cleo
ton day . Wen Try to show you
that the liberal background and
/ liberal history Of the Democratic
/ Party is more than a mere name;
it will bring you the satisfaction
4 that here at last is a philosophy
Of government that puts human
values first august Is, 1884, Sea-
/ grit, N. j., speech.
What the N.R.A. Has Done
Great numbers OF American
workers and farmers still believe
that Roosevelt is radical in the
sense that he wants to do some
thing about unemployment insur-
ance, that he wants to produce the
better life, that he wants to tilt
with evil as personified by the re-
pudiated Hoover COP. The bar
rage of demagogic publicity attend
ing the birth, youth and adolescence
Of the New Deal was so intense
that these workers and farmers be-
lieve all this despite the Roosevelt
Administration codification of near
starvation wages in the n. r. A.
codes, despite the increase in profits
accompanying the appreciate drop
of workers real wages, despite the
sacrifice of the little to the big
farmer, despite the imperialist war
preparations, despite the leading
part played by it in the fascist ter
ror which helped the business exec
utives' Industrial Association sweep
the general strike from the Pacific
Coast after the signal was given by
N. r. A. Administrator General
Hugh S. Johnson.
This is the stage on to which the
popular dissatisfaction with the
New Deal, resentment toward the
fascist deeds Of the Roosevelt Adj
ministration and of the California
employer class, and a strong feeling
for real change dropped Upton
Sinclair, former Socialist Party
luminary who effected his change
Of political habitat painlessly.
We need not discuss the monu-
mental demagogy Of a capitalist
party nominee who promises to
lend poverty in California" to end
disease inherent in capitalism
within the framework Of a capital
ist state. Nor the contradiction in
volved in the brscketing of the New
Deal with a program ostensibly de-
signed to efface poverty.
"a Good Democrat
At this time it is important to
stress to the thousands of work
ers and farmers who voted for Sin
clair the righteousness of a pro-
gram which processes to seek TO
bring the Democratic Party nest
ing place of Vincent Astor, Teagle
of Standard Oil, the Hartmann,
Gerard Swope and others OF their
kidneys. W. Of California into
line with the forward looking prin-
ciples of the New Deal"
OF course, the press report that
Sinclair changed his registration
from Socialist Kat September be-
cause he believed in the determine
ton Of President Roosevelt to mako
the New Deal reality" and Fed
eral Relief Administrator Hopkins
statement, What do I think Of it2
think it's great stuff. Sure, I'm
for him. He's on our side. A So
cialist2 OF course nctl He's a
Democrat. A good Democrat il
Illustrates how nicely Sinclair fits
into the Roosevelt scheme of things.
They also illustrate that the only
way out for the workers and farm
ers in California and the other AZ
states is a workers and farmers
government, the program of the
; Communist Party-genuine unem-
pioyment insurance as provided for
in the Workers Social and Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill; the rights
of assemblage and free speech sup
posedly guaranteed under the con-
stitution; and measures against
capitalist terror and imperialist war.
AS far as the interests of the
working class are concerned, Sin
clair is also a good Republican"
despite yesterdays rush of Senator
Hastings, co-chairman Of the Re-
publican Senatorial Congressional
Committee to broadcast the state
ment that Mr. Sinclair is So-
cialist and disciple OF Karl Marx"