The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-14

kind of argument? The fraud Is
that the workers can only fight
their misery, can only fight the
whole yoke Of capitalist oppression
by fighting all employers, by fight
ing that particular employer who
Is exploiting them. It is impossible
to fight the system" without fight
ing the employer who exploits you
as an individual worker.
1t is precisely by fighting your
employer for better conditions
that you, at the same time, are
aba to carry the fight to higher
revolutionary level against the
whole system. And conversely,
there Is no known way Of lighting
the capitalist system without wag-
ing stubborn, daily warfare
against the employers for better
wages, for shorter hours, for ade-
quate relief and unemployment
insurance. These daily fights are
the skirnfshes In the larger class
battle that prepare the working
class for the abolition of the whole
system.
Good" Employers
Utilizing this technique, ColHhlin
can defend Henry Ford, for ex-
ample. as being a victim of the
wicked" Wall Street bankers. Ford,
1t Is true, has some differences with
the Wall Street banks. But these
differences are only a squabble ON
the division of the profits wrung
from the workers.
To the workers it doesn't make
the slightest difference who gets
the plumber wrung from their la
Dor, Ford or Wall Street. The work
erS want to fight both Ford and
Wall street. But Coughlin's preach
ing that you can't blame Ford
actually has the effect of paralyzing
all struggle against the workers
immediate enemy, Henry Ford, by
fixing their eyes on another enemy.
The net result of Coughlin's rad
ical declarations against the "sys-
tenn" are to bind the workers to the
system, and chain them to their
direct capitalist exploiter, Ford.
Is it not clear that such preach
ings must be very valuable to Ford
Why should he worry if the workers
transfer their hatred OF their daily
conditions to ''the system" and give
up struggle against him In his fac
tories? This leaves him in secure
control OF his profits.
COughlin A Trap
Is 1t not clear that worker who
follows Coughlin is walking into a
trap that will not give him a single
cent Of increased wages, single
cent of increased relief, single
minute of reduced working hours,
or single reduction in the killing
Speed-up on the belt?
The Communist Party shows
that 1t is only by fighting the
employers right here and now. for
better conditions and wages, that
you can fight the capitalist system
and overthrow it.
The Communist Party shows the
workers why it is impossible for the
capitalists to solve the crisis, since
the capitalist solution of the crisis
only intensifies the poverty of the
masses, and intensifies all the con-
tradictions of capitalist production
that cause crisis.
The program Of the Communist
Party leads the workers in mass
struggle for real benefits to come
out of the profits of the employers
and the banks. This makes it a
revolutionary program against capt.
talism.
Coughlin'S program gives the
workers only empty phrases, holds
them back from fighting the en-
ployers for higher wages, gives them
no real benefits, and permits the
employers to proceed with the capt.
talist solution of the crisis over the
backs Of the workers. This makes
his program a reactionary program
in the interests of preserving capt.
talisn and exploitation.
ANOTHER of CoughIin's favorite
n Ideas is to carry to the mass
hatred Of Wall Street and the
monopclists by calling for q ''re-