Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

Negro people and the lower mid
die lass-Roosevelt's forgotten
men"-are worse today than when
Roosevelt took office. This fact
was confirmed by the investiga-
tion and report Of the barrow
Review Board.
Roosevelt promised social in
suranee before the elections; this
promise was never fulfilled. His
promises today again made for
election purposes, have the same
value as those of 1882.
The New Deal" has benefited
only the nations richest men, the
heads of the big banks and trusts.
by piling increased burdens on
the backs of the great majority OF
the population. Under the New
Deal" the rich have grown rich
er; the poor have become poorer.
Side by side with this have
gone growing restrictions on the
rights of the masses and the let
ting loose of the most brutal
drive of terror and persecution
in the nations history against the
workers, the farmers and the Ne
gro people. Consider the out
right murder of workers, deport-
alton drives, strikebreaking, I'M
der the New Deal,"-Birming-
ham, Toledo, Minneapolis, San
Pedro, Cleveland, and San Fran
cisco. The reign OF terror of Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike, aid
ed by the ALL bureaucrats.
against the San Francisco general
strike shows up most glaringly
the loyal strikebreaking service
of Roosevelt to the bosses.
Thus the Roosevelt govern
ment stands exposed as the tool
of the capitalists, the open shop
pers, the company unions, against
strikes, for the suppression of the
workers and their organizations.
The Communist Party has been
singled out particularly for at
tack because it is the organizer
and fighter for the most element
AIRY rights and needs of the work
ers. Clubbing. casing and killing
workers has become a weekly
occurrence under the present
Democratic Party regime. Those
are Roosevelt's deeds for the for
gotten man."
WORKERS PLUNDERED TO
AID RICH
The Republican Party, the Re-
publicans in Congress, have sup
ported all these measures OF
Roosevelt directed against the
masses and for the benefit OF
the capitalists. Together with the
Democratic administration they
have plundered and starved the
toiling people and handed out
hundreds of millions to the rich.
With the approach of the cleo.
tons, the Republican,, Party is
trying to appear as an opposition
to the New Deal" They even pre-
tend to criticize" the growing
bureaucracy of the Roosevelt adj
minstratiOn. But these are only
campaign tricks, efforts to utilize
the growing establishment OF
the working people in the New
Deal to continue to serve the in
terests of capitalism. The boss
class wants to alternate the two
major capitalist parties, posing
as an opposition to each other
when one is in power and by
such means place the discomfort
ed masses under the control of
their trusted political servants.
In the states which they control,
the Republicans have used the
same brutal terror against those
who resisted the lowering of their
living standards. Any differences
between the two major parties
reflect only differences within the
capitalist camp on how to con-
tinue and increase the robbery
and persecution of the poor.
The Farmer-La bOrites, likewise
while posing as representatives
of farmers and workers. with a
program characterized by the
most demagOgic promises, in Con-
gress and in Minnesota, where
they control the state administra.
ton, have given the most slavish
support to Roosevelt's measures
which time has proven were d.
rected against the masses. The