The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09

ton OF the masses. The shrinking
Of the markets requires that the
working class be plundered Of mora
surplus value. Of more unpaid labor
in order to maintain profits for the
eXploiters.
It is the central objective Of tbs
. Roosevelt government to provide
the means whereby this can be dona
. by the biggest monopolies.
But how did the Socialist con-
vention answer the needs OF the
I masses in their daily fight against
the employers?
They did not proclaim the need
for powerful strikes against the
monopolies and the N. RIA. codes.
/ On the contrary. they clumsily tried
to crawl out Of the early Socialist
Party welcome Of the N. r. A. as
a peaceful path to Socialism" BY
a mild reminder that the N. r. A.
is not Socialism That is all
Strikes? The S. P. convention
allied itself with the most corrlpt
strike-breaking labor burocracy in
the world, the A. F. of L.
Hours? The S. P. convention
echoed the naturalization and
spread-work slogan Of the emplov-
ers by calling for a shorter week.
without emphasizing the need for
struggle for higher wages at the
same time.
The entire country is blazing with
the struggles of the masses against
the Roosevelt program. Did the
S. P. convention tear into Roosevelt.
ripping the mask of his face ex-
posing him as the most ruthless
agent and tool Of the Wall Street
monopolists? On the contrary,
Roosevelt, whom they have been
depicting as Liberal and well
meaning social-reformer, gets of
easy.
To this very moment, the Socialist
Party has supported the Roosevelt
/ program, through its failure TO de-
nounce it as the program of the
Wall Street monopolists To this
moment not one Socialist leader has
iayed Roosevelt as the conscious
and willing tool of Wall Street, deli
berately deceiving the masses to
conceal the dictatorship Of his Wall
Street masters.
The farmers, ruined and impover-
ished? Not word against the
, mortgage holders, the usurers. the
banks. Not a word for cancellation
of all mortgage debts. Not q word
for the smashing of the Roosevelt
A. A. A. program.
The Negro masses? Not even on
main agenda. Jim-Crow locals
supported and sustained. No fight
against Roosevelt as the main sup-
porter of the whole lynch system.
Fight against war? The empty
buster of a threat of general strike
if possible" But not word about
stopping the shipments Of NUM-
lions RIGHT NOW.
How will they meet the capitalist
war machine? Fight? Not at all.
BY offering the most futile pacifiisnn,
that only chloroforms the masses.
On the day-tO-day needs of the
masses, the s. p. convention put
forward a program that means
class collaboration in practice
On the question of the fight for
power, the s. p. convention dam
giles deliberately hypOcritical,
empty verbiage that conceals a
deadly enmity to the dictatorship
of the proletariat, the sole form
by which the working class can
seize and maintain its rule.
They talk of power But of tha
immediate, day-to-day struggled
which are the milestones to power.
they dull the revolutionary cone
I seriousness of the masses.
Thus they betray both the fight
for bread and the fight for power,
the treachery in one affecting
inevitably the treschery in the
other.
THE events Of the past few weeks
make it clear that the ques-
tioN Of the revolutionary seizure
of power. the question of the
overthrow of the capitalist State
power and the setting up in its
place OF the proletarian State
power, will increasingly confront
the American masses from the
iron logic of their own day to day
struggles for bread and security.
In the period that now faces us,
the American working class, as it
makes even the slightest efforts
to win some measure Of improve
ment in its daily life, will find it,
self confronted not only by thu
immediate forces of the employ
ers, the thugs, scabs, police, etc.
The fight for bread now becomes
a CLASS STRUGGLE AGAINST
THE WHOLE CAPITALIST
RULE, political struggle against
the entire government, the capt.
talist government.
This makes it necessary that
every worker understand with abso-
lutte clarity the relation of the day
TO day struggles with the question
Of the seizure Of power, and the
precise road that leads to the cap
ture of power.
The Communist Party leads the
daily economic struggles, always
seeing in the daily economic strug-
gle the road to the revolutioniza-
ton of the masses, making the
masses conscious of the necessity
for the seizure Of power, for Soviet
Power.
The Socialist Party, precisely be-
cause it does not believe in the
seizure Of power, because it seeks
to delude the masses into thinking
that the capitalist dictatorship can
be overthrown through peaceful
methods" of bourgeois democracy,
dulls the revolutionary sense Of the
masses, oonceals from them the