The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-20

die the rich. We propose to tax the
rich to feed the poor.
Those gentlemen who argue that.
despite our country's immense
wealth, it cannot afford real unem-
ployment insurance because the
cost would dig into profits, and
that our present system cannot
operate if it touches. these sacred
profits, are really pouring oil on
the fires Of rehabilitation that ara
sweeping through our country. Mil
lions of our people, the useful ones,
those who work, are sick and tired
Of being told about the sacredness
Of profits, while their children
starve. They are more and more
getting into that mood which, in a
previous crisis Of our national life.
produced the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. The direction Of the
masses now as then. is a revolu.
tionary one, with this difference,
that then it was independence from
King George and dying .feudalism
that was required, while today it is
independence from King Profits
and a dying capitalism which tries
to prolong its life at the cost of
denying social insurance.
Why Communists Are Attacked
We Communists have been de-
nounced in this Congress, as we'll as
in the daily press, as enemies Of
our country, as a menace" because
we speak of the possibility and nee
essity Of revolution to solve the
problems of life of the great ma
jority of the people. We have been
accused of all sorts of silly things,
such as plots to kidnap the Presi-
dent" of being bombers, conspira-
tors, ETC. All that is nonsense, but
very dangerous nonsense-it is a
screen Of poison gas to hide the at
tacks that are being made against
all democratic rights, against the
trade unions, against the living
standards of the people. History
has shown teyond dispute, that
such attacks, beginning against the
Communists, never end there, but
only in a full-fledged Fascist die
tatorship which destroys all rights
of the people.
The Communist menace" really
means that those moneyed inter-
ests which finance this great CAM
lpaign against Communism, knowing
that millions of people are in a
really desperate situation and a
desperate frame Of mind, are afraid
that these millions will go over to
the Communist Party and program.
Free Advice
But those gentlemen who really
want to remove this menace"
should listen to the advice which
we, the Communists, give you gratis.
Remove the desperate situation of
these millions, grant that minimum
measure of real social security such
as is provided in the Workers Bill,
prove in fact, in life, that it really
is possible for the masses to con-
tinue to live under capitalism. We
are accused of making political cap
ital out of the misery of the masses,
but in reality we are fighting to i'm
prove the living standards of the
Masses when revolution comes, it
will be, not because we Communists
have plotted" for it, but because
the rulers of this country have
proved that there is no other way
out, that there is no other way
toward a secure life.
Dangerous Ideas"
1t is worth remembering, that
after 1776, when our Declaration of
independence acted as the spark
that set fire to the democratic rev.
olution in France and throughout
Europe, the reactionary forces of
the world fought against the dan
gerous" ideas that were supposed to
be imported from America" To-
day the same comedy is repeated,
but this time the revolution is said
to be imported from Moscow" In
both cases, the deep reality behind
the nonsensical slogan is, that. the
country attacked is the one that is
showing the way to the solution of
the problems of the people Mos
cow" that is the Soviet Union, has
adopted complete social insurance,
has solved unemployment, is inn
proving the living standards of all
the people, is enormously expanding
Its economic life Do a better job,
or even just as good, and Moscow"
will be not the slightest danger.
Demand Cannot Be Silenced
Present proposals which, while
denying real unemployment insur-
ance, would enact some new Alien
and Sedition laws, to crush down
the growing demand for better
! life, also recall moments in the
past history of our country. We
had period of Alien and Sedition
Laws in the early 1800's, also
adopted and carried out In the in
terests of established property and
designed to crush a democratic
movement arising from the masses
of the people. The Party which
sponsored those laws went down in
disgrace and defeat, the laws were
repealed after long suffering and
! struggles those against whom the
Alien and Sedition laws were di-
rected came into direction of the
affairs of the country. Any at
tempt to solve today'S problems by
Alien and Sedition Laws will be as
futile as those Of the times of Madi-
son and jefferson.
There is no substitute, there Is
no way to avoid, the demand for
lull unemployment, old age and
social insurance. Its denial will
only accelerate the growing revolu-
tionary mass unrest, intensity the
social struggles. The Wagner-Lewis
Bill is transparent attempt to
sidetrack this demand. The new
legislation against the Communist
Party is only a futile attennnt to