The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-28
C.P. STAND ON MIRA.
AND JOBLESS CITED
AS ELECTION NEARS
Green and ALL. Leaders Want Workers to Vote
For Roosevelt Terror and Strikebreaking-
S. P. Spreads Illusions About n. r. A.

liam Green's QUESTIONABLE to can
didates in the present election
campaign, the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States has also
addressed itself to the leading
Office seekers, and especially tc
President Roosevelt himself.
Burning issues confront the
whole working class in this election
A huge strike wave is gripping the
country. No sooner are the textile
workers, who put up such a heroic
fight betrayed, than the marine
workers get ready for a big battle
to improve their conditions. Unem-
ployment insurance becomes so pow
erful and growing demand that
Roosevelt concerns himself with it,
preparing all sorts of schemes in
an effort to defeat the mounting
tnsistence that a federal system
of unemployment insurance be
established.
Hunger on the countryside, the
drought, the A. A. A. and farm re-
lief; taxation; imitation; the rapid
development to war; fascist attacks
on all of the workers rights, the
slaughter of strikers, the use of
militia, bayonets, machine-guns,
tear gas against workers fighting
for their rights-these are para
mount issues confronting the work.
ingclaSs.
Green's Aims in Elections
The A. F. of L. leadership, as the
Chamber of Commerce, are very
much concerned, in this period of
the sharpening Of class conflicts,
on how the workers are going to
vote. Elections are interviewer
most directly with every vital issue
confronting the toiling population
of the country.
What are Green's aims in the
present election? What are the
aims of the Chamber of Commerce,
the bankers, the Roosevelt regime?
What are the aims of the capitalist
parties, the Socialist Party? What
does the Communist Party propose
to the workers in this election
campaign? Communism has be-
come the outstanding issue in
every struggle of the workers. In
the San Francisco general strike,
Communism was put forward as
the main issue. In the textile
strike, German and the bosses
brought in the role Of the Com
munists.
Green and the A. F. Of L. leader
ship make their position clear and
simple. They want the workers to
vote for candidates Of the Re
publican and Democratic parties
who support the N. r. A. and
all of Roosevelt's fake schemes.
The workers have had eighteen
months Of the N. R. A. What did
1t bring them? The textile indus
try, where the first code was passed,
is the best illustration. 1t
brought them greater unemploy-
ment, lower REAL wages Chat is,
lowered living standsrds) 1t
brought them the speed-up and
stretch-out.
Martial Law and Murder
AS result, the workers went out
on the most militant strike in the
history Of the textile industry
They fought bitterly and bravely
Then what did the N. R. A. and
the Republican and Democratic
Parties bring them? They got
martial law, the militia, the
machine-gun. Sixteen were killed.
Roosevelt threatened the use Of the
federal troops. And now Green
wants the workers to vote for the
candidates of those parties who
supported the N. R. A., and who
put into motion the machinery of
oppression, of murder, of fascist
brutality to drive the workers back
into the mills to be chained to
N. R. A. codes and textile boards.
The Chamber Of Commerce has
a little different approach. They
too however, support Roosevelt,
just like Green does, only with
slightly different approach. In
their election document the Cham
Der of Commerce makes this sup
port very clear, and every worker
should ask himself the reason for
it. For the past eighteen months
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States has wholeheartedly
supported the President and his
administration in the effort toward
business recovery" writes the
Chamber of Commerce.
Rilf thew houo cnr,1o nns,,YNIo f,14e.
They do not like the huge strike
struggles any more than does Mr..
Green or President Roosevelt. They
point to: Increasing strikes and
violent labor disturbances, fostered
and encouraged by the radicals in
labor organization"
More "OId Party" Terror
To stop it, they want more of
the type of terror Roosevelt and
Republican and Democratic state
officials have been using. But they
want little more. And here is
where they differ with Green and
Roosevelt on the method of ap-
preach in dealing with the masses
in action. They want less dema-
gogy, less lying promises, more
brutal reality. Fundamentally.
they want to achieve the same end
as Green and Roosevelt Grip
ping of the labor movement so
that "recovery"-that is, recovery
of profits at the expense of the
workers can go through.
But Roosevelt and Green through
their practical experience, because
they have to deal economically and
politically with great numbers Of
workers, in all industries, not only
in individual industries, as do the
individuals who comprise the
Chamber Of Commerce, know that
they must spread demagogy
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