The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
BY EARL BROWDER

impossible The workers have stood this for five
years now; it Is the beginning of the sixth year OF
this crisis. How many years longer can it drag
along, with millions Of people starving?
u. S. Needs Socialism
In the United States, we have the richest coun-
try in the world. There is no excuse for anyone
to be out Of job or to lack for clothing shelter
in the United States. We are first in all the pro-
ductive forces Of the entire world We have mil
lions of skilled and trained workers We have
everything that is necessary in the United States
to make good living for everybody if we all just
worked few hours day to produce 1T. But we
can't do it now because all of these production
forces all of this wealth. is the private property OF
a little group of capitalists who hold it away from
us and refuse to allow us to produce. We have
everything we need for prosperous Socialist sys-
tenn except one thing: workers government, Soviet
power
Does anybody think today that there is any truth
in the old argument of the capitalists that they
have to control the industries, in order to show
us how to keep them running? Does anybody be-
lieve that workers don't know how to run the in
dustries? But 1t is the capitalists who have shown
they don't know how to keep the industries rum
ming If we had the industries, We could give
everybody job. They say our trouble is over
production, that we produce too much food. This
is why millions are starving. We produce too much
clothing, and that is why we cannot buy new
shirt. We produce too many houses, and that Is
why we are doubling up in flats and moving from
flats into cellars That is the logic of the capitalist
system.
Soviet Union Shows the Way
This is not true everywhere in the world. Over
in the Soviet Union they were fighting difficulties
because it was backward country. They have
built it up through hardships and sacrifice. They
have fought VIGOROUSLY against starvation. They
have no crisis no unemployment. But over there,
the more wheat they produce, the more they have
to eat; the more clothing they make, the better
dressed they are the more houses they build the
better apartments they move into. They have hope!
They progressingl Everybody is at work Every
body is full of energy Production is mounting 20
to Is per cent every year. and every year things get
better and better The more they produce the more
they have, because they are producing for them
selves. In the United States, the more produce,
the worse off we are
The Communist Party has program to solve
overproduction in the United States. We solve
it in "a hours. We say that all that is necessary
to get rid Of all overproduction is just to open up
the doors Of the warehouses and let everybody who
needs these stored up goods to come and get them,
1 will guarantee that in "a hours the warehouses
will be emptied and there will be no more over
production And will that be a disaster if the
warehouses are emptied2 mol That just means
that we will have to open the factories again and
solve unemployment and fill the warehouses up
again. The only reason we can't do this sane and
simple thing is because the factories and ware
houses are owned by the capitalists. The Commu-
mist Party proposes that shall take them away
from the capitalists. They shall belong to the
workers. The workers shall operate them.
Workers Must Seize Power
This is the program of the Communist Party.
This is what the Communist Party will do when
it has power. 1t will take all of this wealth and
AI.a.a faa
of everybody, and in a few weeks we will have
plenty for everybody, that is after we have power