The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
A Capitalist Congress

THIS AFTERNOON, the regular session of the 7Srd
Congress will open The eye Of every worker should
be turned upon its proceedings. For the Congress Of
the United States the place where Wall Street gives
its orders to its legislative servants.
Every act of Congress viii be, in one form or an
other act to protect capitalism and the profits of
the capitalists at the Of the toiing masses
OF the people the workers and impoverished farmers
The present Congress Of rich lawyers, capitalist
politicians lackeys Of the utilities and industrial
monopolieS presents instructive contrast to the
present sessions of the Central Executive Committee
Of the Soviet Union, where the Soviet workers from
the factories collective farms mines, and railroads
gather to plan the advances Of the Second
Fiye-Yesr Plan.
The United states Congress is exactly what Marx
called all capitalist democrscies-"the executive
mittee of the capitalist ruling class"
The Soviet Congress is the governmental organ of
the toing masses Of the Soviet Union and its every
Act is in their interest in the interest OF building
better life for those who toll.
ROOSEVELT has been holding preliminary converse
~ tons the agenda for the Congress.
On the life and death question OF relief for the
100000 lobleSs workers and their families, Roose
welt has not said word Unless the starving work
ers through organized activities and protests
force the Congress to act the Roosevelt government
will let it pass without taking the slightest action to
feed the army Of unemployed, and to provide them
with adequate unemployment insurance as protection
against the capitalist curse of unemployment
But there is one subject on which Roosevelt has
expressed himself rather clearly, the subject Of
to plug up the vast deficits Of the growing
eranent budget crisis
More taxes to fan with crushing weight on the
hacks Of the workers and ruined farmers! That will
be che Of the biggest items Of the present Congress
The present Congress will approve Roosevelts
strengthening the strkebreaking powers of the MIRA
viii approve the growing Fascisation of the capitalist
State power.
ROOSEVELT has just handed a s1+O,O0OOO0 tax gift
to the dividend collectors and rich corporations by
relieving them Of the dividends tax and corporation
'2pissi cation tax.
q TO make up for this to pay for the huge sub
sides the EC has been handing out 20 the bankers
and railroads to pay for the mountaineering billion
dollar war building program to pay the hundreds Of
bond interest to the Wall Street bondholders the pre-
sent Congress will effect new Roosevelt taxes to be
paid by the masses
There will be various disputes within the Congress
the precise type of imitation that Roosevelt ought
to pursue. But that the main objective, to cheaper
the workers wages through dollar devauation will have
to be continued. there will be no dispute at all.
Taxes on the masses to pay for the profits and
losses of the Wall Street nOnopolies to pay for
this is the main objective of the present Congress- 1t
is against this which the masses must organize-to
demand adequate relief and unemployment insurance
to demand that the government make Wall Street pay
for the crisis which its capitalist rule has brought upon
the masses with its train of hunger and misery, to
make these Wall Street capitalist masters who are
reaping increasing profits through the Roosevelt MIRA
and New Deal" to make these capitalist parasites
responsible for the welfare of the toing masses of
the workers and their childrenl
The crisis brought about by Wall Street capitalism
has brought starvation and suffering to the masses
Make Wall Street pay to protect the masses from the
effects of the crsis That is what we should organize
to tell the present Congress.