The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-12
Bx sEYMOUR WALDMAN

WASHINGTON. - Assured of a
rubber stamp majority of two thirds
in both houses of Congress, the
Roosevelt big business adninistra-
ton machine will arTogate to it
self greater executive control of the
entire government apparatus. The
new Congress can be expected to act
on crucial matters only when poll
teal expediency dictates the en-
ployrlent of the demagogy Of par
liamentary voting to reinforce aids
to banking and industry and to
minimize aid to the unemployed
and destitute.
Tuesdays elections showed that
great numbers of workers and
farmers still have illusions in the
New Deal despite its anti-worker
and anti-poor-farmer record, and
that, despite the sharp cuts in re-
lief and the police terror against
those who protested against such
cuts, they hope against hope that
the program of the Presidents
Committee on Economic Security"
will afford them unemployment in
surance notwithstanding clear
White House intimations to the
contrary. Nearly all Washington
understood that if jim Farley and
the President planned to sponsor
genuine unemployment insurance,
such as is proposed in the Commu-
mist Party-initiated Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill, it would
have been plastered all over the
country before the elections.
However, to say that the cleo
torate chose not DISTINGUISHED by
unemployment, through antiNegro
terror in the South, through resi-
dental and other restrictions) voted
for the New Deal would over
simplify the situation. Confronted
with the TRADES of the Republican
Party campaign committee shout
ing for even less relief than the
Administration is giving-a national
average of $40 a month direct re-
lief for a family of at least four
peeple-the voters, still sufficiently
Observation-Disclosures to overcome
their intrinsic opposition to the
Presidents anti-labor and anti
farmer administration and not
yet convinced by the program Of
the Communist Party, the only
basic opponent Of regime which
reveals new fascist tendencies
daily, were prompted to vote for
the New Deal in the unfounded be-
lief that they were thereby protect
ing what little relief they are get
ting.
Amused by RantingS
Finance capital, the oligarchy of
banking and industry, blessed by
Roosevelt at the recent bankers
convention, Of course, laughed at
the stupid and blatantly denagogic
rantings of the Republicans, who
professed to believe that the Reose-
welt administration was going So
cialist, Communistic and what-not.
With a tighter control of the State
apparatus in name and in fact and
with public recommendations to the
people from the President that
the driving power of individual
initiative and the profit motive are
as sacrosanct as ever, whether or
not 100000 unemployed are with
out economic moorings, the big
money boys supported the President
as their champions indeed he is.
That nearly all the successful cap
italist Congressional candidates I'M
derstood the set-up is emphasized
by the fact that they ran as sup
porters of the New Deal. Nearly
every one of those who opposed the
New Deal-eyen Republican Senator
David Reed of Pennsylvania, here
tofore the capitol spokesman for the
Mellon steel, oil, banking, coal and