The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-23


Roosevelt was hailed by the bour-
2eoisie and its reformist agents as
he beginning of decisive recovery
rom the economic crisis, the begin
ling of the return of prosperity"
md the ending of the misery Of the
masses. 1t was accompanied by g
campaign of social demagogy through
which the bourgeoisie tried to con-
vince the masses that through the
new deal capitalism is overcoming
the fundamental capitalist contra
dictions, is developing towards plan
ned economy, etc. There is no foun-
jation for all these predictions. Even
n the face of the upturn in pro-
juction. which occurred in the sum-
mer Of 1888, the misery of the masses
has increased. On the contrary, all
The measures of the new DEAF far
from solving the economic crisis,
have only intensified the general
crisis of capitalism.
The recent increase in produc-
lion is in the main explained by:
al war preparations, the enormous
increased production of war nlateri-
ais, supplies and munitions; b. the
pouring of billions of the State Trea-
sury into industry and agriculture;
g the gigantic speculative market
created by imitation liberalization Of
the dollar, etc.; d. the slashing Of
the wages of the workers, increased
Speed-up system; in the recent in
crease of production the operation
Of the internal economic forces eX-
pressed itself to an infiniteSinal de-
gree in the field of production of
capital goods, the only basis for a
normal cyclical recovery of CAPT
calisln
2-The intenSifcation Of the gen.
eral crisis Of American capitalism is
indicated in the continuation of the
Industrial and agrarian crisis and the
GROWING dispropor ion between the
productive capacity and the con-
sumption Of the masses, the new
forms and sharpened character of
competition and anarchy in produc-
ton the enormous rise Of the gov
c~rmenN dehcit. the growth Of inf,a-
ton the sharpening struggle for
markets, as well as the rise of the
class struggles within the country
and the @i-imperialist struggles Of
the masses in the colonial and semi
colonial countries dominated by
Yankee imperialism.
Mass Starvation and Misery
Sixteen million workers stand
Idle outside closed factories, mines,
suffering from the lack of the very
things they could produce in these
industries. The total income of the
working class is less than 40 per
cent of what it was four years ago.
The oppressed Negro masses are SUI
faring new economic. attacks, and a
rising wave Of lynch terror. Large
sections Of poor and middle farm
ers are being driven off their land
or reduced to the position of tenants
and poems for the bankers and
monopolists. Great numbers of the
middle class intellectuals, profession
ais. teachers, white collar workers,
have likewise been cast into poverty.
Especially hard hit as a result of
the crisis is the youth of the work
ing class, farmer and middle class
Millions Of working class children are
suffering undernourishment and &C
tual starvation, unable TO go to school
because of lack Of food, clothing and
even school facilities, which are
everywhere reduced.
New Deal-Program of Fascism
4--The New Deal" Of Roosevelt is
the aggressive effort Of the bankers
and trusts to find way out of the
crisis at the expense of the millions
of toilers. Under cover Of the most
shameless demagogy Roosevelt and
the capitalists carry through drastic
attacks upon the living standards of
the masses, increased terrorism
against the Negro masses, increased
political oppression and systematic
denial of existing civil rights, and
are strengthening the control of the
big monopolists over the economic
and political life of the country. The
New Deal" is q program Of fasciZa-
ton and the most intense prepara-
tions for inperialist war. It's class
character is seen in the policy of
the subsidies to the railroads, banks,
and insurance companies, accom-
panied by increased psrasitism, cor
ruption, and bTeaucratisn. The de-
valuation OF the dollar has resulted
in rapid rise of prices of conmodi-
ties, and the lowering Of the real
wages The NR.A machinery, with
its labor boards on the one hand,
and the most brutal police and mill
tary force on the other, has been
used for the purpose of breaking up
the workers struggles and their Or
carnations. Strike struggles, not only
of these of the independent class
unions, against whom the attack has
been most vicious, but also the strug-
giles of C4le workers in the A. F. of L.,
have been violently suppressed. It's
farm policy has enriched the big
farmers and capitalists at the ex-
pense Of the agricultural workers, the
poor and middle farmers.
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