The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 18, 1934, Page 5

DALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934 Page Five C ongressional Election Platform of the Communist Party PARTY URGES WORKERS’ UNITED FRONT AGAINST BOSSES AND THEIR: PARTIES In the SangreaHonNl clean elections, Tuesday, November 6, the Communist Party, the Party of the working class, repre- sents the immediate needs and the emancipation of the} workers, the poor farmers, the Negro people, and the im-| poverished middle class from the miseries of a bankrupt capitalist system. For five years, the nation has been in the throes of a| “errible crisis. The Republican Party of Hoover and now the Democratic Party of Roosevelt have both failed to relieve the suffering of the people or to overcome the crisis. Their | policies have served only to further enrich the biggest, the monopoly cepitalists and to further impoverish the masses | of the people. With the continuation of such policies the capitalists will only succeed in placing further tremendously | increased burdens on the masses. The Communist Party is the only political party which leads in the every-day fight of the masses of the people for improved conditions; it alone offers a practical way out of the appalling misery and suffering brought on by capi- talism and capitalist rule. Fifteen million people remain unemployed, - with still inadequate relief, in fact with reduced relief. ~ The masses still clinging to jobs have had their real| earnings sharply reduced through the dual process of N.R.A. codes and inflation. NEGRO PEOPLE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST The Negro people are discriminated against on the job and in the handing out of relief; Negro sharecroppers are being driven off the land by the cotton reduction program and forced into starvation; they are undergoing the greatest poverty, suffering, persecution and terror. Roosevelt’s A.A.A., embodying the willful destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cotton, wheat, cattle, ete., while millions go hungry, has resulted in more evictions of farmers from their land, in more foreclosures and in the further impoverishment of the mass of poor and middle farmers. The A.A.A. destruction, combined now with the drought, has brought the whole farming section from | Canada to Mexico to the condition of famine. | Millions of working class housewives are being com- | pelled to seek employment in industry, with wages for women being far below the already low wages of men. The young generation, with the school system in almost total collapse, is growing to manhood and womanhood with- out prospect of jobs or future security. The “New Deal” for the youth means militarization and forced labor in camps under army supervision. The small business men and the lower middle class have been brought to the point of ruin, while the “New Deel” has greatly strengthened the position and increased the profits of the big trusts and monopolies. On all sides, more privileges and power for the wealthy and more misery, suffering and disease for the masses char- acterize the decaying capitalist system. Faced with their own inability to solve the paralyzing economic crisis by ordinary means, the capitalist rulers of the country, the Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords, through Roosevelt, who acts as their chief executive, prepare for imperialist war, for a new world slaughter. The billions needed to keep alive the hungry masses are spent instead on means of murder, on battleships, machine-guns, tanks, airplanes, poison gas. ROOSEVELT REGIME TAKES FASCIST STEPS Fac d with the growing discontent of the people, as cxpressed in the wave of fiercely-fouznt strike struggles, che militant demonstrations ot the unemp'’oyed and the de- termined battles of the farmers and farm laborers, the big- baner-controlled regime of Roosevelt is resorting more and mere openly to fascisl measures of suppression, to open murder and terror against the masses, to a brazen restric- tion of the rights of the toiling population. American capitalism is fostering open fascist ideology and action, expressed also in intensified lynch terror against Negroes, hounding of the foreign-born workers, and anti- semitism of medisval Europe and Nazi Germany. Capitalist rule has to offer only—hunger, misery, fas- cism and war! Tn this situation, the Communist Party proposes to the masses an energetic, determined struggle for the following central demands in the congressional elections: 1. Against Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal” attacks on the living stancards of the toilers, against rising living costs resulting from monopoly and inflation, for higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter work week, and improved living standards. 2, Against capitalist terror and the growing trend to- ward fascism; against deportations and oppression of the foreign-born; against compulsory arbitration and company unions ; against the use of troops in strikes; for the workers’ right to join unions of their own choice, to strike, to picket, to demonstrate without restrictions; for the maintenance of all the civil and political rights of the masses. 3. For unemployment and social insurance at the exnense of the employers and the state; for the Workers Unem- ployment Insurance Bill (H.R. 7598). 4. For the repeal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act; for emergency relief to the impoverished and drought- stricken farmers without restriction by the government or banks; exemption of impoverished farmers from taxation; cancellation of the debts of poor farmers; for the Farmers’ Emergency Relief Bill. 5. Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for equal rights for the Negroes and self-determination for the Black Belt; for the Negro Bill of Rights. 4 6. For the immediate payment of the veterans’ back wages (bonus). 7. Against the sales tax; no taxes on persons, or their property, earning less than $3,000 per year; steeply gradu- sted and greatly increased taxation on the rich. , 8. Against Roosevelt's war preparedness program; ageinst imperialist war; for the defense of the Soviet Union and Soviet China. | ;union movement having the fullest inner democracy— UNITY NEEDED TO WIN DEMANDS The Communist Party is fighting for the unity of the working class as a whole against the capitalist class. The Communist Party, in putting forward ‘these de- mands, calls upon the millions of workers and farmers, Negro and white, and particularly upon those workers who until now have followed the mis-leadership of the Socialist Party and strikebreaking officials of the A. F. of L., to unite their forces in a determined fight for these demands. Particularly in every struggle, even for the most modest demands, the workers meet the stubborn resistance of the capitalists, who are always supported by the armed power of the state. This united front of the bosses, their govern- ment and the strikebreaking A. F. of L. officials can only be defeated through the united actions of the workers and all their organizations. The Communist Party stands for one united trade union movement of all industrial and agricultural workers, for a trade union movement free from racketeering, for a trade for a united and militant movement capable of effectively uniting all workers, employed and unemployed, for determined strug- gle for improved conditions. The above immediate demands of the Communist Party can serve as the basis for this united action of all workers and farmers who are being oppressed and starved by the rule of monopoly capitalism. : Only united mass struggle—protest actions, demonstra- tions, strikes, political strikes—can block the capitalists’ of- fensive of fascism and war, and bring victory to the workers and poor farmers. The central guiding slogan of the Com- munist Party is the fight for working class unity—for the united front. COMMUNISTS FIGHT FOR TOILERS NEEDS The Communist Party urges you to energetically sup- port and elect Communist congressional candidates. They will lead the fight for the above demands and for all the needs and interests of the toiling population. They will directly aid in building the workers’ organizations and in leading the struggles of the toilers for improved conditions, against fascism and against imperialist war. Spokesmen of the other parties will promise everything, hefore elections, but after getting into office they will vigor- cusly oppose all demands of the toilers which would really improve their conditions; they will join in authorizing the beating, gassing and shooting of workers who fight for these demands; they will faithfully carry out the dictates of the Wall Street bankers and the heads of the big trusts who completely dominate both the national and state admin- istrations. Roosevelt and the Democratic Party took office to the tune of a “New Deal” for the “forgotten man,” but their record in office already gives the lie to their promises. The conditions of the mass of workers, the poor farmers, the Negro people and the lower middle class—Roosevelt’s “for- gotten men’—are worse today than when Roosevelt took office. This fact was confirmed by the investigation and report of the Darrow Review Board. Roosevelt promised social insurance before the elections; this promise was never fulfilled. His promises today again made for election purposes, have the same value as those of 1932. The “New Deal” has benefited only the nation’s richest men, the heads of the big banks and trusts, by piling in- creased burdens en the backs of the great majority of the population. Under the “New Deal,” the rich have grown richer; the poor have become poorer. Side by side with this have gone growing restrictions on the rights of the masses and the letting loose of the most brutal drive of terror and persecution in the nation’s history against the workers, the farmers and the Negro people. Consider the outright murders of workers, deporta- tion drives, strikebreaking, under the “New Deal” —Birming- ham, Toledo, Minneapolis, San Pedro, Cleveland and San Francisco, The reign of terror of Democrats and Republi- cans alike, aided by the A. F. of L. bureaucrats, against the San Francisco general strike, shows up most glaringly the loyal strikebreaking service of Roosevelt to the bosses. Thus the Roosevelt government stands exposed as the tool of the capitalists, the open shoppers, the compans unions, against strikes, for the suppression of the workers and their orgenizations. The Communist Party has been singled out particularly for attack because it is the organizer and fighter for the most elementary rights and needs of the workers. Clubbing, gassing and killing workers has become a weekly occurrence under the present Democratic Party regime. Those are Roosevelt’s deeds for the “forgotten man.” WORKERS PLUNDERED TO AID RICH The Republican Party, the Republicans in Congress, have supported all these measures of Roosevelt directed against the masses and for the benefit of the capitalists. Together with the Democratic administration they have plundered and starved the toiling people and handed out hundreds of millions to the rich. With the approach of the elections, the Republican Party is trying to appear as an opposition to the “New Deal.” They even pretend to “criticize” the growing bureaucracy of the Roosevelt admin- istration. But these are only campaign tricks, efforts to utilize the growing disillusionment of the working people in the “New Deal” to continue to serve the interests of capitalism. The boss class wants to alternate the two major capitalist parties, posing as an opposition to each other when one is in power and by such means place the discontented masses under the control of their trusted political servants. In the states which they control, the Republicans have used the same brutal terror against those who resisted the lower- ing of their living standards. Any differences between the two major parties reflect only differences within the capi- talist camp on how to continue and increase the robbery and persecution of the poor. The Farmer-Laborites, likewise, while posing as repre- sentatives of farmers and workers, with a program charac- terized by the most demagogic promises, in Congress and in Minnesota, where they control the state administration, have given the most slavish support to Roosevelt’s measures which times has proven were directed against the masses. Democratic colleague, Governor White of Ohio, and the Re- publican Governor Merriam of California, has also sent National Guard troops to break the strike of the Minneapolis truckmen. The so-called “Progressives,” the Borahs, La- Follettes, etc., in practice carry out the same anti-working class policies. SOCIALIST PARTY PRACTICES BOSS POLITICS The Socialist Party, while pretending to advocate Social- | ‘ism, practices outright capitalist oplitics. In Milwaukee and in Bridgeport, where the Socialist Party is in control, they have adhered to Roosevelt’s “New Deal” policies, meeting the strikes and demonstrations of the workers against those policies with the same ruthless terror as is practiced in cities and states under Democratic, Republican and Farmer-Labor rule. Their present criticism of Roosevelt and his policies comes only after the real class character of these policies became evident to the masses, when it was no longer pos- sible to pretend to be “Socialist” and still openly support Roosevelt. But the rejection by the Socialist Party of the only possible road to Socialism—the road of revolutionary mass struggle as proposed by the Communist Party—inevi- tably keeps this party bound to the fundamental policies of Roosevelt, of the capitalists. Their fear of revolution, of mass struggle, of powerful strikes and demonstrations by | the workers, causes them to accept lower wages and lower living standards and to agree to the taking away piecemeal of one set of workers’ rights after another; it leads them inevitebly to policies which pave the way for open fascist dictatorship as was the case in Germany and later in Austria. Behind phrases of “democracy” and “socialism,” and while pretending to be a workers’ party, the Socialist Party leader- ship, working hand in hand with the A. F. of L. bureaucracy, renders the most loyal service to the capitalist exploiters and oppressors of the workers. The Democratic, Republican, Socialist and Labor through its so-called non-partisan policy, which has as its aim to keep the masses chained to the capitalist par- ties-—-each appear in this year’s election campaign in a dif- ferent garb each will promise measures immediately benefi- cial to the masses. WORKERS MUST BREAK WITH OLD PARTIES | The Communist Party calls upon the workers to break decisively with these parties of hunger, fascism and war. It calls upon the masses to defeat the Republican,’ Demo- cratic, Farmer-Labor and Socialist candidates in the con-| Send) gressional elections. Elect Communist candidates. 6 ba cost to the workers would immediately be pro- of work due to natural causes workers’ government, as well maternity or other disabilities. all abie-bodied workers under out special to cover loss the ‘vided for all, outside the ¢ rol of as due to sickness, old age, Jobs be provided to planned economy. woul Such a government would immediately begin to reor- ganize the present a chic system of. production along Socialist lines. Such a Socialist reorganization of industry would almost immediately double the existing. productive |forces of the country. Such a revolutionary government | would secure to the farmers the possession of their land and provide them with the necessary means for a comfortable \living; it would make it possible for the farming’ population to unite their forces in a cooperative Socialist agriculture, and thus bring to the farming population all of the advan- : i . | te modern civilization, and would multiply many fold The Farmer-Labor Governor, Olson, of Minnesota, like his | ages of modern civilization, and. woul Ply : | the productive capacities of American agriculture. It would proceed at once to the complete liberation of the Negro |people from all oppression, secure the right of self-deter- jmination of the Black Belt, and would secure unconditional economic, political and social equality. | The revolutionary Soviet government would immedi- jatcly withdraw all American troops and battleships from |China, Cuba and the Carribean. It would immediately grant complete independence to the Philippine Islands, Hawaii and }other American territorial possessions. The efforts of the capitalists to get out of the crisis lies along the way of wage cuts, speed-up, denial of unemploy- ment insurance, cutting of relief; discrimination against the Negroes and foreign-born, strikebfeaking, fascism and war. The revolutionary way out of the crisis begins with the fight for unemployment insurance, against wage cuts, for wage increases, for relief to the farmers—through demon- strations, strikes, general strikes leading up’ to the seizure of power, to the destruction of capitalism by a revolutionary workers’ government. The Communist.Party calls upon the workers, farmers, {impoverished middle classes, professionals, office and clerical workers, to unite their forces to struggle uncompromisingly against every reduction of their living standards, against every backward step now being forced upon them by the capitalist crisis, against the growing menace of fascism and war. The Communist Party leads and organizes this strug- gle, toward the final soluiion—the establishment of a Soviet America—a government of workers and toiling farmers. | ENTER THE ELECTION STRUGGLE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY! SUPPORT THE COMMUNIST PARTY — FIGHT FOR |ITS DEMANDS! Farmer- | Labor Parties—together with the American Federation of | VOTE FOR ALL THE COMMUNIST CANDIDATES! | ‘JOIN THE RANKS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY! preg , SRST EELS NEAT TAS IN REE ES BEHIND THE POGROMS ex"éxss What is realiy back of the “recent Jewish massacres in Algeria? Is it an economic basis? Why does the author conclude “Contributing to the growth of Moslem anti-Semitism is no doubt the aggressive, criminally chauvinistic anti- labor policy of the Jewish bourgeoisie in Palestine?” fighters for your demands, for your class interests, to} Congress! The Communist Party calls upon the millions of work- ers and farmers, Negro and white, not only to elect Com- munist congressmen and all other Communist candidates, | but to boldly and determinedly take up and broaden the | mass fight for the immediate demands set forth in this platform. This alone can win immediate and substantial victories for the toilers. More than that, the mass fight for these demands is the starting point in the workers’ struggle for political | power, for a workers’ government, for a Soviet government in the United States, which alone will bring the present capitalist crisis to an end. The only way out of the crisis for the toiling masses is the revolutionary way out—ihe abolition of capitalist rule and capitalism, the establishment of the Socialist society through the power of a revolutionary workers’ government, a Soviet government. UNITED STATES RIPE FOR SOCIALISM The program of the revolutionary solution of the crisis is no blind experiment. The working class is already in power in the biggest country in tie world, and it has already proved the great superiority of the Socialist system. While the crisis has engulfed the capitalist countries—at the same time in the Soviet Union, where the workers rule through their Soviet power, a new Socialist society is being victori- cusly built. It completely abolished unemployment and tre- mendously raised the material well-being and cultural stand- ards of the toiling masses. Upon the basis of its Socialist system, the Soviet Union has become the most powerful influence for peace in an otherwise war-mad world. In every material respect, the United States is fully ripe for Socialism. All material conditions exist for a society which could at once provide every necessity of life and even a degree of luxury for the entire population. . The first acts of a revolutionary workers’ government would be to open up the warehouses and distribute among ull the working people the enormous surplus stores of food and clothing. It would open up the tremendous accumulation of un- used buildings—now withheld for private profit—for the benefit of tens of millions who now wander homeless in the streets or crouch in cellars or slums. Such a government would immediately open up all the : factories, mills and mines, and give every person a job at constantly increasing wages. 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