The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26


the Congressional election platform
adopted by the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the United States.)
IN THE congressional elections, Tuesday, Novem-
Der Sth the Communist Party, the Party of the
working class, represents the immediate needs and
the broader social aims of the workers, the poor
farmers, the Negro people, and the impoverished
middle class.
For five years the nation has been in the
throes of a terrible crisis. The Republican Party
Of Hoover and now the Democratic Party Of
Roosevelt have both failed to relieve the suffering
of the people to overcome the crisis. Their
policies have served only to further enrich the
biggest, the monopoly capitalists and to further
impoverish the masses Of the people. With the
continuation of such policies the capitalists will
succeed only in placing tremendously increased
burdens on the masses.
The Communist Party is the only political party
which leads in the everyday fight of the masses
of the people for improved conditions; it alone
offers a sound way out of the appalling misery and
suffering brought on by capitalism and capitalist
rule.
Fifteen million people remain unemployed with
still inadequate relief in fact with reduced relief.
The masses still clinging to jobs have had
their real earnings sharply reduced through the
dual process of N r. A. codes and initiation.
The Negro people are Disseminated against
the job and in the handing out of relief; they
undergoing the greatest poverty, suffering, per-
secution and terror
Rooseyelt's A. A. A. has resulted only in more
evictions of farmers from their land in fore
closures and in the further impoverishment of the
mass of poor and middle farmers
The young generation is growing to manhood
and womanhood without prospect of jobs or future
security. The New Deal" for the youth means
militarization and forced labor in camps under
army supervision
The small business men and the lower middle
class have been brought to the point Of ruin while
the New Deal" has greatly strengthened the po-
ston and increased the profits of the big trusts
and monopoes.
On all sides, more privileges and power for
the wealthy and misery, suffering and dis
ease for the masses chacarterize the decaying
capitalist system
Faced with their own inability to solve the
paralyzing economic crisis by ordinary means the
capitalist rulers of the country, the Morgans
Rockefellers Fords, through Roosevelt, who acts
their chief executive, prepare for imperielist
war for new, world slaughter The billions
needed to keep alive the hungry masses are spent
instead on means of murder, on battleships ma
chine-guns tanks, airplanes, poison gas.
Roosevelt Regime Takes Fascist Steps
Faced with the growing discomfort of the
people, expressed in the wave of fiercey-fought
strike struggles, the militant demonstrations of
the unemployed and the determined battles of the
farmers and farm laborers, the bg-banker- con-
trolled regime of Roosevelt is resorting more and
more openly to fascist measures of suppression to
open murder and terror against the masses, to
brazen restriction of the rights of the toiling
population.
Capitalist rule has to offer only-hunger
misery, fascism, war!
In this situation, the Communist Party pro-
poses to the masses an energetic, determined
struggle for the following central demands in the
congressional elections
% Against Roosevets New Deal attacks on
the living standards of the toiers for higher
wages, shorter hours, a shorter work week.
and improved living standards.
90 Against capitalist terror and the growing
trend toward fascism; against compulsory
arbitration and company unions; against the
use of troops in strikes; for the workers
right to join unions of their own choice to
strike, to picket, to demonstrate without re-
strictions for the maintenance of all the
democratic rights of the masses.
60 For unemployment and social insurance at
the expense of the employers and the state;
for the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill
a. For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjust