The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26
z Immediate
Demands Set
In Fall Drive
Fight on Fascist Trends,
For Higher Pay and Job
Insurance Urged
Continued from Page y

use of troops in strikes; for the
workers right to join unions of
their own choice, to strike, to
picket, to demonstrate without
restrictions; for the maintenance
of all the democratic rights of
the masses.
For unemployment and social
insurance solely at the expense of
the employers and the state; for
the Workers Unemployment In
Surance Bill.
For the repeal of the Agricul-
turaI Adjustment Act; for emer-
gency relief to the impoverished
and drought farmers
without restriction by the govern
ment or banks; exemption Of i'm
poverished farmers from taxation;
cancellation of the debts of poor
farmers; for the Farmers Emer-
gency Relief Bill.
Against JIM rOwism and
lynching; for equal rights for the
Negroes and self-determination
for the Black Belt; for the Negro
Bill OF Rights.
Against the sales tax; no taxes
on persons, or their property,
earning less than $4,000 per year;
steepIy graduated and greatly in
creased taxation on the rich.
Against R0Osevelt's war pre-
parednesS program; against i'm
periaIist war; for the defense of
the Soviet Union and Soviet
China.
1.-THE Republican and Democratic
Parties have both failed to relieve
the suffering of the people or to
overcome the crisis" the platform
declares. Their policies have
served only to further enrich the
biggest monopoly capitalists and to
further impoverish the masses of
the people"
Roosevelt and the Democratic
Party took Office to the tune of the
New Deal for the forgotten man,
but their record in office gives the
lie to their promises. The condi-
tons ofa the mass of workers, the
poor farmers, the Negro people and
the lower middle Roosevelt s
forgotten men'-are worse today
than when Roosevelt took Office, y
the statement points out.
The platform statement exposes
as rank imposture the claims of
Republican, Democrat, Socialist
and Farmer-labor groups to rep
ressntation of workingclass inter
ests and declares that for workers
to vote for any of these groups is
to vote for their enemies.
Special mention is given to the
Republican Party's pretense of OPP
position to the New Deal" This
pretense the program dismisses as
mere campaign tricks. to utilize
the growing disillusionment of the
working people"
The opposition" of the Socialist
and Farm-Labor Parties to the
New Deal" is also Dubbed as
mere sham Both of these groups,
the document points out, have adj
hered to New Deal" policies in
cutting relief and using police and
troops against strikers wherever
they have governmental power.
The only way out of the crisis
for the toiling masses is the revolu-
tionary way out" the program
asserts, pointing to the Socialist sue
cesses Of the Soviet Union.
THE program of revolutionary
solution of the crisis is no blind
experiment. The working class is
already in power in the biggest
country in the world and has al
ready proved the great superiority
of the Socialist system"
Declaring that the United States
Is fully ripe for Socialism in all
material respects, the platform
enumerates the revolutionary
changes which would become pos
sible under Soviet government;
distribution of food and clothing
surpluses to the workers; opening
up of unused buildings to the
millions of homeless, immediate
reopening of all factories, mills and
mines to create jobs at constantly
increasing wages and withdrawal of
all armed forces from China, Cuba
and the Caribbean.
Such government, the platform
further declares, would make far
mers secure in their possession of
The land and give them the oppor-
unity for cooperative agriculture
On a socialist basis which would
assure them of the greatest possible
returns for their labors.
1T would also proceed at once, ;"
The document states, TO the COM
,lete liberation of the Negro people
rom all oppression, secure the right
If self determination of the Black
Belt and would secure unconditional
economic, political and social equal
ty."
reinstatement concludes by calling,
n the name of the Communist
Party, on all workers, farmers and
impoverished members of the middle
aass to unite their forces to struggle
lncompromisingly against every re-
luction of their living standards,
very tendency toward fascism, and
III preparations for war.
The platform emphasizes sharply
he Communist attitude toward
folding Office in capitalist govern
nents, declaring that election cam
,aigns must be waged not merely
nth view to electing candidates
nut with view to broadening all
orms of militant struggle in the in
crest of the workingclass.
These struggles for immediate
nD-Oyement of waoeS living ron