The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 26, 1928, Page 5

— CORSE I THE D. \ Y WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928 Page Five “No Capitalist Cure for Unemployment ‘Creeping Paralysis’ of Capitalism” help for all workers who have been unemployed two months or more, con- sisting of eight weeks’ wages for each worker. The average received dur- ing the last four weeks of unemploy- ment shall serve as the basis. 4. Establishment of public kitchens by municipalities to provide for all unemployed workers and their fam- ilies, 5. Municipal provision for supply- ing free’ medical treatment, medicine and hospital care to all unemployed. 6. Public works. The federal, state and city governments should devise schemes for improving the roads and bridges of the country, improving the rivers, canals, docks and harbors, set- ting up electric power stations, re- forestation, land drainage and land reclamation, extension and electrifica- tion of railways. On all public works trade union wages and conditions must be guaranteed by law. 7. Immediate abolition of all va- grancy laws. Protection of unemployed workers from arrest on charges of vagrancy. The Offensive of the Bosses. The working class of this country is facing a great crisis. A general offensive of the bosses is being con- ducted against the workers, an of- fensive to smash the whole trade union movement, to lower the stand- ard of living of all workers, The trustification of capital, the erection of huge gS the all- embracing nationalization have in- creased the power of the bosses tre- mendously, The capitalists are using all methods of rationalization mercilessly. Wage- euts everywhere—in the shoe, tex- tile, automobile and rubber industries and in mining. A whole system of speed-up has been put in operation. The stop watch, group piece work, bonus system, efficiency engineering, the conveyor or tvavelling-belt sys- tem, increase mass production and in- tensify the exploitation of the work- ers. Concentration of industries, Fordization, technical innovations, and the wholesale introduction of new ma- chinery is the order of the day. The lengthening of working hours’ is at- tempted everywhere, with especially disastrous, results for the unskilled workers. An injunction mania raves against every movement of the work- ers to resist the effects of rationaliza- tion. All the forces of the govern- ment—the police, state constabulary, the coal and iron police, the most in- famous spy system—are mobilized against the workers. The open-shop drive, the “American Plan,” is today the official policy of the capitalist class on the whole front. Company unions are being set up by the bosses, and strenuous attempts are being made to company-unionize all exist- ing trade unions. ~All the combined forces of the bosses and their gov- ernment are concentrated to prevent the organization of the unorganized masses in the basic industries, The trade union bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. has met the general of- fensive of the bosses by a general surrender. There has never been in the history of labor such a shameful capitulation as the treachery of the A..F. of L. leadership and of the Socialist Party in the present grave situation of the American labor move- ment. Instead of fighting the shame- ful efforts of capitalist rationaliza- tion, these misleaders try to cooperate in introducing speed-up systems and capitalist efficiency. They put for- ward the “union-management coopera- tion” policy. They babble about “in- dustrial democracy.” They have elab- orated the “higher strategy of la- bor,” the notorious theory of Matthew Woll about the three stages of the American labor, movement: the stages of conflict, of collective bargaining and of worker-employer cooperation. They proclaim the passing of war and truce and the coming of the age of permanent peace between the bosses and the workers. The trade union bureaucracy has dropped the last sem- blance of any resistance to company- unionizing the trade unions. They have come out openly for the Watson- Parker Bill and for a federal anti- strike law. They have dropped their previous petty trust--busting program and have become the high apostles of “efficient” trusts. The results of the offensive of the bosses and the treachery of the trade union bureaucrats is the growing cri- sis in the labor movement. Trust- {fied industry is out for a general open shop. The trade unions have been driven out from all basic in- dustries. For the first time in the history of the A. F, of L. the num- ber of organized workers has de- creased even during a period of pros- perity. § The climax of the struggle was reached in the present fight of the United Mine Workers of America, This most powerful and most mili- tant unit of the American labor move- ‘ment has now been broken to pieces and delivered to the mercy of the operators. The present depression has ruth- lessly exposed the notorious formula of the trade union bureaucracy about “mass production, high wages and low prices” as the foundation of per- manent prosperity. Millions of work- ers are jobless, desperately walling the streets. The crisis in the labor movement and the depression have exposed the true meaning of all class- collaboration plans. They show up the so-called profit-sharing, employee tock-buying, group insurance, B. and . plan, Mitten scheme, and other sys- tems of “union-management coopera- tion.” The smash-up of labor bank of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers is beginning to open the eyes of the workers to the dis- nstroug effects of trade union cap- ’ Despite all the treachery of the labor bureaucrats, the workers are be- ginning to resist. The long struggle of the textile workers in Passaic, the Haverhill shoe strike, the battle of the Colorado miners, the firm and solid front of the needle trades work- ers in New York, the strike struggle | of the textile workers in New Bed- ford and Fall River, and the heroic struggle of the Pennsylvania and Ohio miners who have already main- tained their fight against the whole world for fourteen months, are the first powerful signs of the defensive struggle of the working class. Des- pite all the sabotage of the mis- leaders of labor, the vast masses of unorganized workers are beginning to organize themselves. The first attempts to organize the automobile workers have been made. The needle trades workers and the textile work- ers are being organized into indepen- dent unions. The mill committee movemeart of the textile workers, the shop chairmen movement of the needle trades, and the Save-the- Union movement of the miners are the most promising signs of a fight- ing future. The Workers (Communist) Party of America considers it as its duty to mobilize the masses for a relent- less struggle against all harmful ef- fects of capitalist rationalization. The workers must understand that rationalization in a capitalist society, with the means of production in pri- vate hands, can only intensify the exploitation of the workers. Ration- alization in the interests of the whole of society can be carried out only in a Communist society in which the means of production are the property of the whole nation. Demands. 7 1. Shorter hours of labor. A 5- day week. A minimum of 36 con- secutive hours rest in seven days. 2. Fight for high wages. Strike against wage cuts. 3, Fight for the protection of the workers from the bad effects of cap- italist rationalization, of the tech- nical advances of mass production. Struggle against the speed-up sys- tem. 4. Organize the unorganized. The American working class cannot suc- cessfilly resist the power of the trusts without building up a power- ful organization of the workers in the basic industries. 5. Destroy company unions. Abol- ish the B. and O. and Mitten plans. Eradicate trade union capitalism. 6. Save the unions from the on- slaught of the bosses and the treach- ery of the bureaucrats. Amalgama- tion of craft unions into industrial unions, Democratization of the trade unions, The present corrupt leader- ship must be driven out. 7. Trade union methods alone cannot wage a_ successful fight. Trade union struggle must be sup- plemented by political struggle. The Heroic Struggle of the Unions. There has never been a more he- roic struggle than the present strike of the hundreds of thousands of miners, They are fighting ‘against the whole capitalist world. They are not only up against the coal opera- tors, who are in close. alliance with the big raliroad companies and banks and backed by the government, but are also betrayed by their own leaders. There is a deep-going crisis in the mining industry. The industry is un- organized. Production is in a chaotic state. Each of the 7,000 coal com- panies produces as much as it can. There is a murderous competition for markets. The mines are able to pro- duce twice as much coal today as industry and consumers can absorb. The operators are closing down mine after mine, creating heavy unemploy- ment. At the same time, the new labor-saving machinery is being in- troduced, aggravating the unemploy- ment situation everywhere. The miners are being forced to increase their daily output by speed-up and longer working hours, this making themselves in growing numbers su- perfluous. The operators say that the industry is faced with the prob- lem: either it must get rid of its superfluous coal or its superfluous | i miners. They are driving out 250,000 miners from the industry. The government has exposed itself frankly as the instrument of the operators in the present struggle. It has mobilized everything against the miners. Courts, injunctions, the national guard, state constabulary, judges and sheriffs are at the service of the operators. Every miner must now clearly see that the government is but the organization of the bosses. The operators themselves sit in the government. The Secretary of the Treasury, Mellon, a member of Presi- dent Coolidge’s cabinet, is one of the biggest shareholders of the most un- scrupulous Pittsburgh Coal Company. The governor of Pennsylvania, Fish- er, was a member of the board of directors of the Clearfield Coal Com- pany. The officials of the govern- ment are either the bosses themselves or their paid agents. In the company towns the coal operators exercise di- rectly state power in the form of coal and iron police and company gunmen. The coal operators there own everything—land, streets, build- ings, stores. The local judges and sheriffs are paid by the operators, as has been proved by the Senate Investigating Committee. The Sen- ate Investigating Committee itself is nothing but a smoke screen to de- ceive the workers, to create illusions in the minds of the miners, The miners have no constitutional rights in the “freest” country in the world. And there can not be any real de- mocracy and freedom in a society in which the few own everything and the masses do not own anything. The miners must win the present strike. To win the strike means higher wages and better conditions. But they cannot win the strike un- less they get rid of their present leaders. The Lewis machine is nothing Dut the agent of the bosses in the union. It sold out the struggle of the min@®&s to the operators and to the government. The Lewis ma- chine does not want to win the strike its whole history is but an uninter- rupted betrayal of all the fights of the miners, It betrayed the miners in 1919, in 1922, in 1925, and it has betrayed them in the most shameless way in the present struggle. District after district was lost for the United Mine Workers under the leadership of the Lewis machine. In 1919 the miners’ strike tied up 70 per cent of production; the present strike only 20 per cent. The Lewis machine criminally neglected the ne- cessary preparation for the strike. It sabotaged the organization of the unorganized. It has signed up in- dividual agreements. It has betrayed the cause of a national agreement. It has split the movement by oust- ing everybody from the union who wants a militant struggle. It is cut- ting off relief from every striking miner who dares to criticize it. It is trying to enforce a yellow dog pledge of starvation. The last ves- tiges of democracy have been eradi- cated from the union. Lewis stole the elections. The Lewis machine is not a leadership set up by the rank and file, but a leadership set up with the aid of the bosses over the rank and file. From June to December, 1927, while the striking miners wer? starving on a dollar or two relief, Lewis drew $11,093.66 in salary and personal expenses. The mining industry is in a crisis. The issue is: Who shall pay the ex- penses of the crisis? Shall it be solved at the cost of the operators, or of the miners? The miners, and with them the whole labor movement, must multiply their efforts to com- bat the onslaught of the operators. The defeat of the miners would be a defeat for the whole labor move- ment. Demands. 1, Lewis must go. The rank and file must take over the union. 2. The unorganized miners must be organized. The big organization drive must be intensified and sped up. 8. Win the Pennsylvania and Ohio strike. Insist on a national agree- ment. Fight against wage cuts and for the Jacksonville scale. Mass picketing and mass violation of in- junctions against the workers. Mass resistance to evictions. 4, It is the duty of the whole labor movement to organize relief for the starving and struggling miners. 5. Railroad workers, don’t haul seab coal! Colonies and Imperialist War. Increasing rivalry with the other imperialist powers and brutal exploit- ation of the economically weaker, more backward peoples—these two features characterize the foreign policy of United States imperialism at present. Wall Street’s dollars and marines are extending their domination over ever greater sections of the world. Wherever there is a revolutionary up- heuval United States imperialism is on hand and ready to crush it. United States imperialism is in a conspiracy with Great Britain against the Russian revolution. It cooper- ates with Japan and England in the interventions against China. United States imperialism supported Great Britain in her ruthless inter- vention in Shantung. United Statcs warships and thousands of marines are “pacifying” China, and Washing- ton admits that Admiral Bristol is empowered to call out the whole Pacific flect against China if United States imperialist policy requires it. United States imperialism goes hand in ‘hand with Japanese imperialism inst the armies of % but at the same _ Admiral hing Soviet Russia. ry dictatorship of United States imperialism is exercised more ruthlessly than ever before over the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Haiti, Panama and Li- beria are today reduced to vassal states of United States imperialism. The independence of all the Carib- bean and Central American republics has become more than a tragic farce in view of their increased bondage to Wall Street. The Havana Conference, which was called in the name of Pan- Americanism, was only the instru- ment of United States imperialism. The Monroe Doctrine, which once served as a defense against European powers, is today the most aggressive means to conquer all America for the United States. The pressure of Wall Street forced Mexico to sur- render her natural oil and land re- sources to dollar imperialism. The appointment of Morrow, the employee of Morgan, as United States Am- bassador to Mexico exposes the whole Latin-American policy of the United States as the policy of finance cap- italists, The fake “good will” flights of Colonel Lindbergh tried to exploit the sentimental illusions of the North American masses for the conquest of Latin America. Large 1 parts of Central America and South America have already been reduced to a state of semi-colonies of United States imperialism, and Wall Street and its White House agency are try- ing to transform them into true col- onies. The most disgraceful action of United States imperialism is its rob- ber war against Nicaragua. President Coolidge disclosed in his speech of the 10th of February, 1927, the true meaning of the Nicaraguan war: “If the revolution in Nicaragua con- tinues, American investments and business interests will be in danger.” The infamous, bloody crusade against Nicaragua is the most typical, naked imperialist prodii;war ever conducted. United States imperialism cooper- ates with British imperialism against China, against Soviet Russia, against Nicaragua; but at the same time there is a murderous competition and increasing imperialist rivalry between the two robber powers.* There is hardly any part of the world in which there is no open or covert struggle between English and Amer- ican imperialism. United States im- perialism is breaking up the British Empire by catering to Canada and Australia. United States imperialism has successfully challenged Great Britain’s financial hegemony. There is a permanent rubber struggle and oil war going on between America and Great Britain. The fiasco of the Three-Power Naval Limitation Con- ference in Geneva and the American slogan for a “second to none” navy how the irreconcilable nature of this imperialist antagonism. The present cooperation of the United States gov- ernment with Japan in China has in it the germs of future conflicts on the Pacific. The present “peace conference” of Secretary of State Kellogg under the slogan to “outlaw war” is nothing but an imperialist maneuver. United States imperialism aims through the Kellogg treaty to diminish the Euro- pean big powers, and tries to render futile any attempt of the European powers to build a bloc against United States imperialism. At the same time the Kellorg treaty tries to unite all the capitalist powers, not under the leadership of the League of Na- tions, but» under the leadership of United States imperialism against the Soviet Union. Despite all empty talk about “outlawing” war, imperi- alist antagonisms are steadily grow- ing, and there is increasing resistance against the aggressive imperialist policies of the United States. The growing competition with Europe, the organization of European trusts and cartels, the tariff issues with Germany, Great Britain and France, the questions of the war debts and the Dawes plan, the domination over the Pacific, the growing revolt of the Latin-American countries—all these conflicts are pregnant with -fu- ture imperialistic wars. The whole policy of United States imperialism is today a policy of pre- paredness for imperialist wars. The entire country is bristling with bay- onets. The United States has never before had such a big army and navy. No other country in the world has spent as much for its navy as this country. In 1926-27 Japan sent $119,000,000, the British $299,000,- 000 and the United States $334,000’- 000 for navy purposes. In 1928 the appropriation for the United States navy has already reached $369,000,- 000, and for the army $394,000,000, together $757,000,000. In his last message to Congress, President Cool- idge came out openly for the big navy program. On December 14, 1927, the hig navy program was introduced in- to the House of Representatives, ap- propriating not less than $725,000,- 000. Federal government expenses for past and fyture wars amounted to 82 cents out of every dollar spent in 1927. It is estimated that in 1928 Congress will directly or indirectly vote about two billion dollars for military purposes on land and sea and in the air. United States imperialism is mak- ing the most elaborate preparations for war. The workers and working farmers must know that wars under capitalism are inevitable. ‘Small” wars are going on all the time, evén today, and the next big imperialist world war is already looming up. The next world war will be even more devastating than the first one. The whole life of the entire country will be subordinated to war purposes. The whole population will be mobilized. The whole country will be turned in- to a huge munition factory. The phrase about “outlawing war,” the promises about preventing war by ar- hitration, and the babbling of the socialist party about democratizing the League of Nations of the Euro- pean robber powers, are only de- signed for one purpose; they distract the attention of the masses from the war danger, from the real revolu- tionary struggle against imperialistic wars. Disarmament is impossible under capitaliem Compulsory ar- hitration is a r jonary utopia and delusion. Onlygf the proletarian re- volution can the way out from the present ation. 1. Not a man, not a gun, not a cent for the imperialist army and navy, 42" Down with the imperialist war against Nicaragua. Defeat Wall Wall Street’s war in Nicaragua! Marines sent to Nicaragua must re- fuse to fight against the National Liberation Army. # 8. Immediate withdrawals of all Americen troops from Latin America and from the colonies of the Pacific. Immediate withdrawal of United} States warships and marines from China. 4, Complete and immediate inde- pendence for all American colonies and semi-colonies. 5. Hands off Mexico. 6. Abolition of the regimes of United States Customs control or “supervision” of finances in Latin America. 7. Abolition of all extra-territori- ality privileges of the United States in Asia, Africa and Latin America. 8. Abolition of the present mer- cenary army and navy, and struggle for a toilers’ militia. Election of of- ficers by the soldiers and sailors. Full right to vote and hold office for the members of the military forces, 9. Fight for the abolition of the whole system of infamous imperialist “peace” treaties. Down with the Dawes Plan! Cancellation of all debts of the last imperialist world war! Immediate withdiawal from the World Court and refusal to enter into the League of Nations. Defense of the Soviet Union. The whole world is under capitalist domination. The socialist republic of the Soviet Union is the sole country in which there is a Workers’ and Farmers’ Government. The very ex- istence of the Soviet Union is the best proof that it is possible to over- throw capitalism and emancipate the working class. The example of Sov- iet Russia shows that socialism is not a dream. It is a fact—and a fact that looms big in the history of mankind—that under the leadership of the Russian workers, a nation of 150 million, not less than one-sixth of the earth, has been able to free itself from the yoke of capitalism and establish a workers’ republic’ which has maintained power for over ten years in spite of all the capitalists of the world. The capitalist countries are carry- ing out a ruthless rationalization at the expense of the workers. Only the Soviet Union is carrying out a Socialist rationalization for the hen- efit of the nation as a whole. The proletarian dictatorship in the Soviet Union expropriated the capitalists and big landowners. The workers control the industries. The working farmers received the land of the big landowners. Soviet Russia is build- ing Socialism now, and is taking the first steps toward a higher, a col- leetive type of agriculture. There is the most complete system of labor protection and social insurance in Soviet Russia. One of the first steps of the proletarian revolution was the introduction of the 8-hour day and at the tenth anniversary of the ex-' istence of the Soviet Republic the Soviet Government established the 7- hour day. While the courts and the government of this country are smashing the unions in the name of the constitution, the Code of Labor Laws, Paragraph 155 of the Soviet Union, runs: “In accordance with Statute 16 o7 the Constitution of the Soviet Union, all organs of the State must render to the industrial unions and their or- ganizations every assistance, place at their disposal fully equipped premises to he used as Palaces of Labor and trade union halls; rates for public services, such as posts, telegraphs, telephones, rail- road and shipping rates, ete.” There is a sinister conspiracy of al! capitalist powers against the Socialist Soviet Union. Great Britain leader of the imperialist coalition, but the United States government is ac- tively participating in it. The United States government refuses to recog- nize the Soviet Government, to recog- nize the very existence of one of the most pewerfu! countries in the world, for the sole reason that the wcerkers, und not the capitalists run that courtry. The United States govern- ment and its officials seize upon every opportunity to fight the Soviet Union. Ambassador Herrick’s shame- ful statements in Paris, the Ameri- ean loans to finance the anti-Soviet policies of Poland and Finland, and the rejection of the goldbullion sent to the United States are convincing proofs of the hostile policy of United States imperialism toward Soviet Russia. The Soviet Union is the only power which has reduced its military forces. It made the historic offer at the last international conference at Geneva for an immediate and complete dis- armament of all countries. The capi- talist governments refused to accept the proposal of the Soviet Union be- cause the very nature of capitalism is aggression, oppression, and war. All capitalist armies are deadly ene- mies of the working class, but the Red Army of workers and peasants of the Soviet Union is the defender of the working class of the whole world. The solidarity of the working class of all countries must be with the only Workers’ Republic in the world. Demands. 1. Defend the Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union, the champion of the | cause of the working class of all coun- | tries, against the conspiracies of the capitalist powers. 2. Immediate recognition of the So- viet Government by the United States Government. 3. Promotion of trade ‘with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics by the granting of sufficient credits by the Federal Government, as a means of stimulating American in- dustry and absorbing the unemployed. 4, Establishment of direct connec- charge reduced | is the} tions between the American and Rus- ian working cl: Capitalist Democracy and the Gov- ernment-Strikebreaker 's foster illusions, as to the possibility of achieving their emancipation from the oppression and exploitation of capitalism through the election of a majority of the members of the legislative bodies and execu- tive offi s of the capitalist govern- ment. he American Federation of Lebor and the Socialist Party help to maintain these dangerous and futile illusions. The national platform of Socialist Party states: “By intel- ligent use of the ballot, aided if need he by industrial action, all class di- visions and class rule can be abol- ished.” . It is one of the foremost du- ties of the Communists to destroy such illusions and to expose all those yellow Socialist misleaders of the workers who help to create these il- lusions. ernment cf the capitalists. It cannot be transformed into a government of the working class, and its sole pur- pese is to defend the interests of pri vate prorerty and oppress the work- ers, working farmers, the Negro masses, and the colonial peoples. The Constitution of the United States was drawn up by bankers, big |¢ land-owners, and rich merchants of 1787, admittedly. against the working masses. As Madison, the “Father of the Constitution,” put it, the Gov- ernment ought “to protect the min- ority of the opulent against the ma- jority. the major United States can change the Consti- tution. The vote of two-thirds of the members of the legislative bo three-fourths of the forty-e is required to initiate any movement On this basi one-fourth of t States, which may be the smallest ones and in which there may live only one-fourteenth of the population, can prevent any change of the so-called “democratic” Constitution. The Constitution ‘contains a whole series of notorious “checks and bal- ing it impossible for a majorit; tagonistic to the ruling class to m its will effective. The members of the House of Representatives are elected every two years, the Presi- dent every four years, and the mem- bers of the Senate every six years, so that a complete change of Govern- ment can be made only through elec- tions spread over six years. The elections are not at the same time, because the Father of the Constitu- tion wanted to give a chance for the “cooling off” of any mass discontent which might express itself in the elections. The Senate has a veto over the decisions of the House. A special joker of the Constitution is that a newly elected Congress cannot come into session until thirteen months after its election, thus giving a chance to the repudiated Congress to in- trench its will by, new legislation. The President can veto the actions of both houses of Congress, and over and above the House, the Senate, and the President stands the Supreme Court, which can nullify laws which jall three have passed, declaring these \laws unconstitutional. Only a minority of the people en- titled to vote participate in the elec- tions, and large sections of the popu- lation of voting age are disfranchised. In the South the 5.7 million Negroes of voting age are today as much dis- franchised as in the darkest days of chattel slavery. The 6.3 million for- eign-born, unnaturalized workers of voting age are disfranchised because they are “aliens.” The disfranchised Negroes and foreign-born workers to- gether constitute almost 20 per cent of the population of voting age. The youth between the ages of 18 and 21 is entirely disfranchised. The hundreds of thousands of migratory workers, who cannot comply with the residential qualifications, are likewise robbed of their elementary political rights. The two-party system, which in the South is in reality only a one-party: system, is again one of the props of American democracy, preventing the splitting-off of the bulk of the work- ing class and working farmers from the parties of big business. Elections are very expensive in this country. Campaign funds are huge; they run into millions, and big busi- ness is able to buy as many and as high offices as it likes. On the other hand, working class parties, which rely only on the support of the ex- ploited workers and farmers, are poor and are not able to compete with the rich capitalist parties. Big buciness controls thousands of newspapers. Thirty million copies of poisonous capitalist propaganda every day fill the minds of the masses. Big business has a monopoly of the schools, churches, moving picture | theaters, radio, and the whole ma- chinery of propaganda and agitation. And when, despite all obstacles and barriers, some representatives elec- ted by the votes of the working class get into the legislative bodies, big business prevents their functioning by simply kicking them out. This was done in the case of the Socialist mem- bers of the Cleveland City Council because they protested against the imperialist war. The same proced- ure was repeated in the case of the Socialist Assemblymen of New York State. Under such circumstances to prate about “democracy” is hypocrisy and conscious betrayal of the working class. The present big business de- | governmental corruption. The Teapot | fair, The present government is a gov- | It is an illusion to think that | the y of the people of the | Sta S|of centrali s apparatus. ances” for the sole puypose of mak- |r mocracy of the United States is in reality nothing but a dictatorship of the capitalists. The 1 elect platform of the Socialist I accepts the present constitu basis and demands only a “n ized Constitution,” is th ing the present capitalis the perpetuation of the 0} the working class. And if there is anything ness is unable to push th “constitutional” means, it scrupulously by unconst means. Corruption is insep: from capitalist government. tT" are very few countries in the which show such a rich pict Dome scandal, the Sinclair-Burne the dirty deals of Daugh: and the other members of the Hari- ing-Coolidge cabinet, and the cam- paign funds of the Republican Hoover and the Democrat Al Smith are but a few examples of the venality of leading politicians, And if any of them are caught, there are still ee" es and fixed juries to save them, It is proverbial that no rich man has? ever been convicted in this country. Democracy, corruption, and naked force and violence are the chief meth ods of capitalist dictatorship,...Gov- ernment by injunction, raids and dés portations, penitentiaries for politic” cal prisoners, troops crushing Strikes; frame-ups and lynchings — these are: the realities of the unwritten Cony stitution. Today it is more true than r before wha' George Washington, oquence—it is force, With imperialism the Government has grown into a mammoth monster ; it is not e tion. The country hag never had such a huge goveramr In 1884 the number « civil Service employees was. 80; by 1912 it had mounted 0; while eee the figure ve of army and navy forces), is “not less than 559,138. The number of Government employees—Federaly State and local—in the whole country today mounts up to a total of three. illion. This gigantic apparatus of bureaucracy entirely in the hands of the capitalist. There is a come plete merger of trustified capital and government. The leaders of big busi- ness—Hoover, the efficiency expert; Mellon, the richest man in the coun- try; Dawes, the banker; Morrow, the errand boy of Morgan; Hughes, of Standard Oil; Coolidge, the strike- breaker; Fall and Daugherty, the kept men of the oil magnates—have or had seats in the Government. Govy- ernmental power is being concen- trated more and more in the hands of the executive and judicial depart- ments at the expense of the eleeted legislative bodies. The President, aboye all, has assumed almost unlim- ited power. He has control over ap- propriations of funds, over tariff, runs the foreign policy of the. coun> try, and decides questions of war and peace. The actual constitutional form of the “freest” democracy in the world is today that of an unconsti- tutional monarchy. The working class in its struggle for emancipation cannot “take over” the present apparatus of government. The proletarian revolution will de- stroy this apparatus, and will build its own based on the factories as units of production and not on terri- torial congressional districts, The State form of the rule of the working class will be the councils of the work: ers, which will serve not as “talking shops” but as working bodies uniting legislative and executive power. Demands. 1, Abrogation of government by in- junction. 2. Prohibition of the use of ee gun-men, deputy sheriffs, militia or Federal troops in labor struggles. = 8. Unrestricted right to organize, to strike, and to picket. Unrestricted right of free speech, free press, and free assemblage for the working class. 4, Abolition of the Senate, of the Supreme Court, and of the veto pow- jer of the Pr ent. 5. Judges should not be appointefl, They should be elected by the working people, and should be removable at any time. Legal aid should be —— for all wage-earners. 6. Franchise for all foreign-bort and migratory workers and for youth between the ages of 18 and 2h Enforcement of the franchise for the: Negroes. 7. Abolition of the anti- syndicalist laws and the Espionage Act. \ ont 8. Repeal of all industrial court laws. s 9, Abolition of secret anti-labor or ganizations. 10. Abolition of censorship over moving pictures, theaters, radio, 11. Immediate release of all politi: cal prisoners. A Labor Party. There are many strikes and labor, struggles in this country, but there is no political mass party of thé working class in the United States which can today rally millions of wage-earners. America is the only highly developed industrial country in the world in which the bulk of the working class is not yet politically independent. IT IS A MOST VITAL NECESSITY THAT THE MASSES OF WORKERS SHOULD UNDERs STAND THAT THE ECONOMIC. STRUGGLE MUST BE SUPPLE — MENTED BY POLITICAL STRUG- ae of out: building unions and conducti strikes, the workers would be to improve their living coi