The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-07
Roosevelt Attempts to
Ease In FdSciS11t


Teazaton that dctatoE1al and fascist elements are
bound up with the New Deal For this reason.
Roosevelt Ia his recent n. r A. speech Is forced
20 dwell on the question Of fascist dictatorship and
attempts 70 dispel the growing concern Of the
Workerx
BE said he was g Nttls amused and perhaps
as times little saddened," BY the charge that I'VE
are nov committed to Communism and collectiv-
ism or that we have adopted Fsscism and Dictator
snip"
And Immediately afterwards he adds: 'The
RsaI truth Of the matter b that for . number Of
years In our co~ntEy the machinery 0f democracy
bad failed 10 function"
What does Roosevelt attempt 70 doP Here IN his
speech he directly lights against Communism. BE
would also make II appear that he Is against Fascsm
Actually the kernel Of hts speech Is the admission of
the open abandonment Of reliance on capttsHsE
democracy. It Is defense Of AL Of his dictatoEiaI
measures. the attacks against the workers, the
strengthening Of the big trusts, In the name Of
The tight against FaScsm his speech is q declara-
Sdon In favor Of more and greater fascist measures
TO coma
This u backed I'D by other members q the
Roosevelt administration. some Of them come out
more boldly with the threat Of open dictatorship
Henry A. wallace, Secretary Of Agriculture on the
same day that Roosevelt delivered his speech, de-
clared that warning class interests" threaten .
collapse Of capitalism. and that the government
must step In With more nationatstie policy TO
save the existing order.
According to the New York Herald Tribune there
came "a warning from Donald n. Richbers. General
Counsel Of the N. r. l.. that Dictatorship was the
alternative to the N. r. A." Richberg spoke to the
Same crowd Of sxploitsrs addressed by President
Roosevelt Then again on the same day the United
State supReme Court IN q majority decision gave
is BLESSINGS 10 the dictatortsl measures OF the New
Deal
These worthless, along with Roosevelt. seek TO
hide the developing fascist measures declaring them
alternative" to keep back resistance against
the N. r. A. and other oppressive measures Of the
Roosevelt regime
While avow1ng he @ nOt developing Fascisn,
Roosevelt resorts to his usual denagogy that has
shrouded every Of his attacks against the work
era every one Of his steps In strengthening monopoly
capitalism He resorts TO the language Of every
fascist dictator, o. TO those who pave the way for
Fascism.
Somebody. Of course" he says must strike
TIE equitable balance between conflicting interests
and that somebody, Roosevelt argues is the Roose-
welt government. While appearing to oppose Fas-
cisn, he Is taking step after step toward Fascisrn
Er Us examine RooSevelt's equitable balance be-
tween conflicting interests" and see how by this
means he follows the historical road of the Won
Papens the Bruenings, the DollfusseS and HitIers
Premier DollfuSs Of Austria, by talking against
the dictatorship Of the Nazis and of Communism
precisely In the manner OF Roosevelt served stem
BY step to prepare the road for Fascism and him
self became the fascist dictator by saughtering the
Austrian proletariat.
In Germany Bruening and Won Papen by meas
hyy Ir6s
ground for Fascisn for the fascist dictator Hitler
All Of them protest in the loudest voice that the
capitalist state, the instrument of anance-capitai
b impartial.
Roosevelt tries to set himself up in the eyes Of
the workers being apart and different from the
dominant bankers and industrialists. He tries to
instn this illusion among the masses in order to
keep them from struggling against his policies which
are from beginning to end in the interest OF mo-
nopoly capitalism in the interest OF the more open
control Of the Roosevelt government by the most
dominant exploiters OF the American workers. Let
US examine the actual steps of the Roosevelt re-
strne 10 see how this is accomplished
Through imitation, he lowered the standard Of
living Of the whole American toiling population,
making the masses pay for the huge subsidies given
TO the banks. He began the most gigantic war con-
seructaon program ever witnessed in the United
States to strengthen American nance-capital in It's
struggle for world domination.
Next he proceeded 10 the N.R.A. Through the
MIRA. a. admitted officially now by the MIRA. Con-
maners Advisory Board the living standards Of the
American workers were lowered through the codes.
The trusts were strengthened Monopoly capital
sn gained tremendous advantages at the expense Of
The rest Of the population.
TO smash down the rising strike struggles Of the
wuekers against the slave codes and the resultant
lOwertng Of their living standards, he set up the
Natlousl Labor Board which has shamelessly broken
Akes Ia the interest Of the steel coal and automo-
bile trusts In this task he had the close co-opera
ton of the A. r. Of L. leadership. The N.RA. fos-
tered the rapid growth Of company unions, being
used as fascist instruments by the biggest corpora
lions Ia the country to chain the workers to the
slave codes perfected by the Roosevelt regime.
Collective bargaining" became compulsory arbi-
tx1tion. And on the Of his NA. speech he gives
more dctatorial power to the National Labor Board
to break all strikes, adding Of the leading fig
ures of American fnance-capitalsrn into leadership
OF the Board.
FROM all OF these measures 1t can be clearly seen
that the state more and more becomes subordi-
mated completely to the interests of monopoly CAPT
telism Every fascist government takes away the
right Of the workers to strike (precisely as the
Roosevelt government is rapidly striving to acheve)