The daily worker., 1935-01-07

living of all the masses as the pre-
condition of holding up the stand
| ards of even a part 1t is needed
by the farmers, who cannot sell
their produce to millions without
income, and who are therefore told
to DESTROY their crops while these
millions go hungry. It is needed by
the middle classes, professionals,
small business men who are being
also crushed into poverty because
with the impoverishment Of the
masses their own field of business is
| destroyed. Everyone needs the
Workers Bill except the bankers
monopolists, big capitalists, Wall
Street.
ROosevelt's False Promises
President Roosevelt. when appeal
ing for election in 1882. promised
unemployment insurance. Two years
have passed, and nothing has been
done about it. Last summer he
renewed his promises, in anticipa-
ton Of the Congressional elections,
and broadened it into the high
sounding phrase Of social security"
But with the elections over, he has
discovered once more that social
security" must wait upon the secur-
ity Of private profits of the rich.
Once again we are given the mock
cry of the Wagner Bill and forced
labor for part of the unemployed
at subsistence wages, the systematic
forcing down of the living stand
ards of the whole American people:
once again we are told that insur-
ance can only be in the form Of
reserves" collected from the work
ers by the various States for future
unemployment. ignoring the 49,
100000 now out of work. They
forget that if present unemploy-
ment is not met by real unemploy-
ment insurance, all their measures
for the future will also become
meaningless. for the masses will
rise and throw off their power and
write whole new set Of laws.
Wall Street Controls Capitalist
Parties
The Democratic Party. controlling
Congress. Is against real unsmploy-
ment insurance. The Republican
Party, which would like to control
Congress. Is even more unanimously
opposed to it. Both these parties
are owned. body and soul. by the
capitalist class. They will do moth
ing-until we convince them that
the masses Of the people are fed
up" with their old two-party sys-
TEN, and are preparing to vote
with their feet" by walking out OF
the old parties in million masses.
Millions of toilers already showed,
in the great strike wave and in
the November elections, that they
are getting tired of the old game.
1t is not an accident that 100000
who voted Democratic, and 5000. 900
who voted Republican, in 1882
stayed away from the polls entirely
in 1894. Millions Of voters could
see nothing in either party to ius-
tify the effort of walking to the
ballot box And some enthusiasm
in the elections could only be found
taslde from the followers of the
still small Communist Party) onlv
where the voters thought they could
see something more radical" than
Roosevelt. That is the meaning of
Sinclair and his EPIC. program
in California; of LaFollette and the
Progressive" Party in Wisconsin:
OF the Farmer-Labor Party victory
in Minnesota in spite of the vicious
record of Olsen; and even of that
half-fascist demagogue, Huey Long
IN Louisiana, with his moratorium
and similar measures. Dozens of
similar though smaller examples
could be cited. The strikes of marine
and textile workers, the Toledo. Mil
Waukee and Minneapolis strikes,
and above all the great San Fran
cisco General Strike, point the same
road.
Millions Of toilers are beginning
to look for a new path. They are
taking the first steps to break away
from the old two-party system,
which denies unemployment insur
ance and every other measure in
the interests of the toiling ma ajority
OF the people. A mass break-away
from the old parties is in prepara-
tlon. 1t Is this great movement of
strlkes and demonstrations. and the
break-away movement from the old
parties which gives promise of
forcing the adoption of the Work
ers' Bill.
Mass Movement Toward Revolution
ary Party
This great mass movement is still
confused and Ineffective. 1t has
not yet found itself. It will have
10 go through many bitter disap-
pointments and Establishments be-
fore 1t finds the right way. It will
have to see how the Progressive
Party of LaFollette clings in prac-
tice to the Roosevelt apron strings
and uses its "radicalism" to catch
votes, but not even to write laws
1t will see its Farmer-Labor Con-
gressmen voting with the Democrats
against their demands, and its Oh
sens calling out the National Guard
against strikers. It will learn that
IL must find program and a lead
ershlp which frankly and openly
comes out In struggle against the
Dig capitalists, who own 90 per cent
OF the country. in the interests of
the toiling masses, the 90 per cent
OF the people, who do all the work
1t VIII find that 1t must become an
antl-capitalist party, Labor PARTY
Just imagine what q different
situation in Congress we would have
on Capitol Hill. if the millions of
workers had been organized to vote
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