The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05
SEES ACTION SOON:
AIDS WALL STREET
AGAINST MILITANTS
Priest Hints to Masses Move to Prevent Clash
Is Uselesss-Sounds Bankers Slogan of Fight
on Militants-Defends Profit

FdbC pLOPElbN SOCIAL relation ON
which the owners of wealth are en-
able to exploit and plumber wage
labor. Capital is the exploitation Of
the working class. Without prop
ertyless working class there can be
no capital The existence of cap
ital depends on the existence, as
Karl Marx proved in his historic
pamphlet 'Wage-Labor and Capital,
on a propertyless, working class
which has nothing to sell but its
wage-labor for exploitation by those
who privately own and control the
factories, mines, etc.
This relation of capital to labor
Is the rockbotton of present cap
italist society; this relation gives
rise to enormous concentration of
wealth in the hands of a handful
Of capitalist parasites, and to indie
scTibable poverty among the masses.
This relation of capital and labor
gives rise to the monstrous stran-
Cling of production, to the piling up
of SURPRISES" amid mass stsrva-
ton. This capitalist relation of cap
ital to labor is the basic cause Of
the crisis and wars.
Capitalist Exploitation
Does Coughlin aim to abolish this
capitalist relation? No only the
Communists fight to abolish it.
Coughlin's whole position shows that
he does not. that he wants to pre-
1erve and strengthen it. How does
he do it? BY pretending that there
must be union of capital and la
Dor" Under the slogan of a union"
Of these two antagonistic forces, he
slips over the idea of the necessary
existence OF capital!
In Coughlin's new system, then,
the power of capital will exist great
err than ever beforel 1t will be the
capitalist system in its most brutal
form
Notice how carefully Coughlin in
sists that the productive industry
must remain in the hands of the
present capitalist owners! Well, If
the Wall Street capitalists who now
own the country's industrial ma
chinery continue to own it under
Coughlin's social justice" system
how will the working class get $50
cial Justice" how will the working
class break the chains of their wage
slavery, how will they have any
power over the ordering of the life
of the country
1t lis fact that the class which
owns the economic machinery dom
mates the political life of the coun-
try, has political power.
Workers Must Take Power
Under Coughlin's scheme. the
private capitalists owning "produc-
tive industry" will have more polit-
ical power than ever before And
consequently, the slavery and op-
preston of the working class will
be greater than ever before! Fol-
the workers to solve the crisis, they
must take political power away
from the capitalist class.
Coughlin wants a lust" distribu-
| ton by the intervention of the
government" This sounds good and
radical" But it is exactly what
Hitler also promised and demanded
1t is q fraudulent promise. intended
to hide the fact that there car
never be any Just distribution for
the working class as long as the
capitalist class has economic and
political power.
Coughlin is trying to hide the
fact that capitalist distribution is
based on capitalist production. The
criminal Embellishments of capt.
talist distribution are the necessary
and inevitable result of capitalist
private ownership of the means OF
production. Only the Communist
Party fights for the ending of cap
italist production. for the beginning
Of Socialist production.
Coughlin's fraud is that he talks
about reforming" the problem OF
distribution, while he fights against
aholishing the private ownership OF
the means of production, the fun
damental condition Of capitalist dis
tributionl
Coughlin is against everything
that the Communists want. Blu:
what are these thingsp The Com
munists want to abolish private
ownership of the means of produc-
ton, They want to break the
power Of the Wall Street monop-
olies. They want to overthrow the
rule Of the capitalists, and set ur
the rule of the working class
headed by the proletariat, the prop
ertyless workers who today mus
sell their wage labor in capitalist
exploitation. The setting up of 8
Soviet government would end the
crisis by removing the one great
obstacle which stands in the way
of its solution, the capitalist class
and their private ownership of the
means of production. In fighting
the revolutionary solution of the
crisis proposed by the Communists
Coughlin is fighting for capitalism
for the rule of the Wall Stree
banks, for the intensified misery o.
he people.
Preparing Imperialist War
To conclude briefly, Coughlin'
article in Today" shows that HI
is preparing the minds Of thc
masses to be ready to die in thu
next imperialist war under h,
slogan of the destruction of Com.
nunism in defense of democracy
and social justice" He is, in short
getting the masses ready for thu
same kind of imperialist slaughter
for democracy" as the last worlc
war.
Does not everybody know that
this democracy" was only the prof
its of the Wall Street billionaires;
Coughlin's bsttle-cry against
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