The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-26

toiling people and handed out hundreds of millions
to the rich, With the approach of the elections
the Republican Party is trying to appear as an
opposition to the New Deal. They even pretend
to criticize" the growing burocrscy of the Roose-
welt administration. But these are only campaign
tricks. efforts to utilize the growing establishment
Of the working people in the New Deal" to con-
tnue to the interests of capitalism. The boss
class wants to alternate the two major capitalist
parties, posing opposition to each other when
one is in power and by such means place the dis
contented under the control of their trusted
political servants. In the states which they con-
troll the Republicans have used the same brutal ter
against those who resisted the lowering Of their
living standards. Any differences between the two
major parties reflect only differences within the
capitalist camp on how to continue and increase
the robbery and persecution Of the poor.
The Farmer-Laborites, likewise, while posing as
representatives of farmers and workers. with pro-
gram characterized by the most demagogic promises
in Congress and in Minnesota, where they control
the state administration have given the slavish
support to Rooseyelt's measures which time has
proven directed against the masses. The
Farmer-Labor Governor, Olson, Of Minnesota like
his Democratic colleague Governor White of Ohio
and the Republican Governor Merriam of Calf
ornia has also sent National Guard troops to break
the strike of the Minneapolis truckmen.
The Socialist Party, while pretending to advo-
cate socialism, practices outright capitalist politics
In Milwaukee and in Bridgeport, where the Social
ist Party is in control they have adhered to Roose
velt's New Deal" policies meeting the strikes
and demonstrations of the workers against those
policies with the ruthless terror as is prac-
ticed in cities and states under Democratic, Re-
publican and Farmer-Labor rule Their present
criticism Of Roosevelt and his policies comes only
after the real class character of these policies became
evident to the masses when it was no longer possible
port Roosevelt. But the rejection by the Socialist
Party of the only possible road to Sociasm-the
road of revolutionary mass struggle as proposed by
the Communist Party-inevitaby keeps this party
bound to the fundamental policies of Roosevelt Of
the capitalists. Their fear of revolution of mass
struggle, of powerful strikes and demonstrations by
the workers. causes them to accept lower wages
and lower living standards and to agree to the
taking away piecemeal OF one set of workers rights
after another it leads them inevitably to policies
which pave the way for open fascist dictatorship
as was the in Germany and later in Austria
Behind phrases Of democracy and socialism"
and while pretending to be workers party, the
Socialist Party renders the most loyal service to
the capitalist exploiters and oppressors of the
workers.
The Democratic Republican, Socialist and Farm
er-Labor Parties-together with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor through its so-called non-partsan
policy which has its aim to keep the masses
chained to the capitalist parties--wi each appear
in this years election campaign in different garb;
each will promise measures Immediately beneficial
to the masses