The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 26, 1934, Page 4

ROUEN, DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1934 —oOoOoOoOoS COMMUNISTS IN OFFICE CAN WIN CONCESSIONS FOR LABOR Sixth Year of Acute Crisis Reveals Roosevelt’s Promises As Fake Election Ballyhoo , Which had profits of $19,000,000 in jthe first six months of 1932, in- e for the capital- |creased their profits to $75,000,000 al parties that the fifth |in the first half of 1933, and to ar of the great crash tha | $385,000,000 in the first six months! took place in Wall Street on Black | Of 1934. | lay, October 25, 1929, should| This huge increase of 2050 per| in the midst of the election |cent in the profits for the first half campaign. The commemoration of |Of 1934, as compared with the prof- collapse of the economic struc-|its in 1932, was made possible by| Browder Gives Answer ToArgument ThatVote For C.P. Is “Wasted” ; Seriously even by the capitalists. The’ |government has loaned the mort-! gage sharks and landlords almost | $2,000,000,000 on the rat traps that the workers are forced to live in. |To protect the rents of the land- |lords, the government will do noth- ing that might endanger either its joans or their investments. Con- sequently the workers will continue |to live in homes 50 per cent of which are below any standard of health and decency according to government figures. There are no prospects, therefore, that Roosevelt can solve the crisis. The whole capitalist system is in a state of decay, and the efforts of the capitalists to find a way out for themselves have only accentu- Heads Texas C. P. Slate Unemployment, Social YT Insurance Is Central { Demand of U.S.Toilers Movement Is Spreading Throughout Country, Says Amter, Calling on All Jobless Groups To Unite at National Congress By David Ramsey Is ur i? 4 ist politic Says That Communist Representatives in Congress Would Bring to the Fore the Daily Struggles of Toiling Masses By I. Amter By Earl Browder be what they are now: organisers ture is itself proof that the bally-|Specding up the pace of the worker|ated the irreconcilable contradic- ‘hoe Gh - aa pa Ae ire is lf pi sf y is ss hie unist vernor of New York; National Secretary, ae and J ders of the t hoo of Hoover and Roosevelt which|to an unbearable pace, by the in-|tions of capitalism. In the last year ier Mca thaahieviient Ceunci!s) 4 On the contrary ished the crisis |flationary rise in prices, and by i and a half the capitalists have to seme extent bettered their position, Page 1) claimed they had ban: to a ni d from which |loans and subsidies from the gov- The demand for unemployment and social insurance is the task of or- mur its t worker: en it would 2, Was so much | ernment. but they have done this at the ex- = Bee acne the anon an ga the tolling masses against fluff. Both the Republicans and| Thus we see the class character |pense of the workers, by intensifying | growing throughout the country. The support that has been ; athe m y and for the way out of th the ocrats promised a rapid|and goal of the New Deal: Hunger|speed-up and reducing wages,| .; } t and Social I slaves the Negro, which puts the re- ee basi ae hia cel nce abe | . nr 3 given to the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance sources of the country under the - : sere Lat solution of the crisis. In fact, the |and insecurity for the workers; swol-|through wage-cuts and through the Would such actions bulk jlen profits and the growth of |monopoly for the capitalists. of |promises are devoted to new spicls of the Com- § their present campaign inflationary rise in prices. And in| Bill by masses within the American Federation of Labor— |pushing exports through dumping mmand of a handful of unscru-| is he Ms es in Congress | pulous millionaires and magnates, more than 2,400 locals, fifty Central Labor Bodies, five State ak Seracl hel ruggle of the toiling] on how they will get rid of the| The new promises of Roosevelt|and financial maneuvers, they have ” 4 eae Stee a | raaeel aco Ae yung) sa uliels | a eNom ee Bu the sad fact remains|and the changes in the structure of brought the antagonisms of the pwederabons ot pabar, five Aiers ee te ee te OF ae Ore | se would’ MuMtana of more peCole 3 ae the crisis is still with us, and|the New Deal set up, will not change|rival imperialist groups to ‘the ‘ Fi nationals in basic industries affil- whelming majority of the people a| it would. 2 ; rking people) Gate for Governor of Texas on ri i the ruling class character of the| breaking point Communist Candidate | iated with the A. F. of L—as well Rise are looking at Congress, they are| hows no signs of departing. | ig e | breaking point. pawn of the cruel anarchy of cap-| 2f< é : the Communist Party ticket. a riieeae administration. If anything the| es ont . |as by independent and T.U.U.L, italism and of the brutal arbitrari-| Still putting some hope in Con- elt administration now | v7. ie the sient ie, Roceevalt| —— as tots and. auch? frateraalconeanis S, gress, These millions of toilers would — — support in the elections on| SWing to the rig! y Roosevelt / mk road that Roosevelt is follow- unio) 8 ness of the big capitalists hear’ tha voles af 0the- Oamininntate |the ground tha nished the | Signifies that the administration will | ing will not lead to a new period zations as the Independent Order AH Drive Toward War they would see the difference be- R lie f Cuis |worst aspects If we Lesage openly the servant of | o¢ prosperity. The present economic of the car of bead oy rn All these parties are based on a/tween the revolutionary spokesmen | #% e |contrast Roosevelt’s dre-,. pictures | W@ meet. : lerisis is part of the general crisis National Alliance, by the Firs system which is more and more} making crisis and depression a per- manent state of society, which is every faster driving to a new, ter- quickly find out which is the party rible war, and from which the bloody | that really defends the interests of grimace of fascism is lifting itself! the people against the parties that ever more threateningly. All these parties are fighting | italism. among and against each other. But | on the main question—the preserva- | tion of the decayed capitalist sys-| tem—they are of one mind. What they are fighting about is the gov- ernment trough and which party| shall have the better opportunity to use the government machinery for corruption, jobs, graft. They are| fighting for most favored positions| for special groups of the bourgeoisie. They are fighting amongst them- selves over the best methods of demagogy, of lying promises, to hold of the people and the politicians, the corrupt defenders of this de- cayed system. They would more Gains Possible Would it be possible, with the help of the activity of the Commu- nists in Congress, based on the ac- tions of the masses, to win con- crete gains? Undoubtedly it would. The bourgeoisie will grant conc sions to the masses only when it i afraid, when it is forced. The bour- geoisie grants concessions only | persistently, it will lose more. This | tical struggle. Communist repre- ee co reeves tiem for JOunns | sentatives in Congress would make the revolutionary camp. Every worker, every white-collar worker, every working farmer, who|™asses, for the very reason that votes for one of these parties, votes | they will base themselves on the or- for his own executioners, for his |S@nized mass struggle, because, as own oppressors. Every worker, | farmer, professional, Negro who votes for one of these parties, votes for the very ones who are plunder- | ing him, the ones who lynch him, | votes for the parties of crisis, of misery, of corruption, of war, struggle in Congress with the mass struggle. And this is how the Communist parliamentarian is distinguished i ‘i |mentarian, like Solomon, Thomas, Re rc, Cone renking. | Lee, Laidler, and the others. The Results in Congress | latter sabotage every mass struggle “Very well,” answer some workers, | outside of Congress. They all “you Communists have a good pro- gram, for which you are really | reactionaries, with Green, Woll, fighting, for unemployment relief, Dubinsky, as they showed in such a} for sufficient wages, for many other | dastardly manner during the recent demands of.the toiling masses, your | textile strike. program is also one with which one| organization of the united front can overthrow the capitalist order | with the Communist Party, because and forever end crisis, misery and | this united fron’ is one of the strug- hunger. But have you any chances | ele for the immediate demands, a to be elected, and what results can ip@ted front against the reaction-| you get in Congress?” |aries, including the reactionaries Have we any chances to be|who call themselves leaders of the| elected? That is, have we any | A. F. of L. Such “labor leaders” chances to have representatives | in Congress would be of no value to elected to Congress? the workers. They would only be Workers, that depends entirely on| 4 few more representatives for the you. If hundreds of thousands of |jylling of the masses; at best they working people are convinced of| manufacture empty phrases that the correctness of the Communist are defending the interests of cap-/| when it is afraid that, by refusing| |is the lesson of every strike and/The city administration has refused the masses back from revolutionary | this is also the basic rule in all poli-| to suply water to seven Negro fam- |of Labor and Industry revealed that |have been without water in their |Normally working were without jobs. | easier the struggle of the toiling | the fact that some of them have as|i2@ population were not employed. | many as eight children. The Mayor |? this same ratio holds true for the: |and Water Department offiered to representatives of the Communist| put in a hydrant but this was re- | Party they will closely connect the! fused, | Council is still insisting upon getting of | basically from the socialist parlia-| themselves with the worst A. F. of L. | untiy noon and They sabotage the; | ith the ugly realities of ie present |situation, we shall see that in not| |a single instance has he carried out his promises to the workers. We Shall also see that he has made Chief Issue In Akron, O. mr Pies oem i cae |ods that have enriched the capital- RON, Ohio—This city has a/ists at the expense of the lives and Democratic city administration and/living conditions of the working Republican county administration, jones. * * * | but relief is being cut from week tO|7y— PROMISED that the N. R. A.| week, j48 would provide jobs. Today the i 1 Three months ago, a family of | Smber une aates ee “ ‘ | lowest four got $8.92 for sixteen days and|Seutember, the number of jobs | now they get only $7.18. Prices are|feli 4.7 per cent and payrolls 6.8) rising here rapidly, reducing the|Per cent, according to the Depart-| ment of Labor. The recent survey miserable relief of the unemployed. | 4¢ unemployment in Massachusett | conducted by the State Department ilies living in Toomax court who|624,526 persons out of the 1,808,840 homes for m4ny months, in spite of | That is, 34.5 per cent of the work- country as a whole—and the situa- |tion in Massachusetts is a typical |cross-section of the United States— {then the total number of unem-| ployed is between 16,000,000 and 17,-} 000,000. | Roosevelt promised to raise the | |living standards of the workers. At jthe present time the prices of food- | stuffs and clothing are 30 per cent} | higher than they were in April, 1933. But wages have been cut to the starvation point in the minimum wage provisions of the N. R. A. codes. And in these few cases here the workers have forced| |higher wages, the increases are far of these chicken coops $3.83 a/below the increase in the cost of month for each one. But still the|living. Even the reactionary offi- owner refused to pay for water.|cials of the A. F. of L. admit this The Unemployed Council and the/| point. Communist Party will continued to} struggle against the shutting off of | water, against evictions, for ade-| quate relief and for the Unemploy-| and the Unemployment water in the homes of these Negroe families. | The Mayor gave the committee of the unemployed a cigar, saying if they did not get what they wanted they could smoke and feel better— a cheap attempt to bribe the work- ers. The committee held the Mayor on leaving for lunch id he would be back at 2 . The committee then learned | that the city was paying the owner * ‘HE one promise that Roosevelt has kept is his promise to in- crease profits. The Federal Reserve ment Insurance Bill H. R. 7598, Board reports that 407 corporations * ane ELIEF will be cut. The admin- istration has announced that un- der no circumstances will it revive the C. W. A. Instead it will dole out miserable relief hand-outs, while ballyhooing a program of economic security that it has no intention of carrying out. It is significant that the president's own Committee on Economic Security has announced that they are not contemplating any scheme that will tax the employers or replace the present system of inadequate relief. People who have been touring the country report that the sixth win- ter of the crisis will be the worst so far. The economic data that is available at the moment supports this conclusion. Business and pro- duction are stagnating at around the lowest levels of the crisis. The Annalist Index of Business Activity dropped from 71 in August to 66 in September, as compared with 76.4 in September, 1933. This puts the index at the lowest point since April, 1933. The Annalist comments on a feature that makes the present sit- uation even worse than last year or two years ago. “The present de- cline in industrial activity finds many people who, in the earlier crisis were able to draw upon ac- cumulated savings, with their re- serve funds exhausted. This ac- counts for the marked increase in suicides and in the demand for gov- ernment relief.” From all appearances the admin- istration is determined to bluff its way through another winter, de- spite the cost in suffering and hu- man lives. There is no evidence that employment will pick up. The A. F. of L. “hopes” that in the spring there will be some re-employment— but this is wish fulfillment and not fact, . * . 'HE housing ballyhoo that Rooser velt has now launched as his jof capitalism, and this factor blocks the “normal” capitalistic solution. Instead, the measures that the capi- talists employ to improve their im- mediate situation only intensify the general crisis of capitalism, and help pave the way toward the new roand of revolutions and wars that loom on the horizon. Roosevelt’s program is a war and fascist program, the class program of the rich directed toward increased robbery of the poor, The immediate question that con- fronts the American working class is one of surviving the comiing win- ter. They must have unemployment insurance and adequate relief. They must have higher wages to meet the increases in the cost of vital neces- sities brought on by the crop re- striction program of the A. A. A. They must fight the development of fascist tendencies in this country which are thriving under the New Deal. They must defend their right to organize in genuine unions, to Picket and strike. They must strug- gle against the war plans of the American capitalists. But the workers must realize that still more is required than the daily round of struggles for the winning of these immediate demands. They must realize that the program of capitalism is one of despair. Capi- talism has nothing to look forward to, except ruin and destruction. \N THE other hand the Commu- nist Party has a program that not only meets their immediate de- mands, but provides a solution for those problems that capitalism ad- mittedly cannot solve. It calls on the workers to join in a mounting tempo of struggles that will lead to the revolutionary overthrow of cap- italism, to the seizure of power by the working class and its allies. With power in their hands the workers will set up a workers’ and farmers’ government that will crush latest cure for the crisis is not taken the profit system. The workers’ gov- way, then we Communists will be able to send a number of represent- atives to Congress. The more work- ers vote for our candidates, the more mean nothing, because they do not base themselves on broad mass ac- | tions. A party which is not always jready to organize the mass strug- |gle outside Congress, and which does Two Billi Roosevelt's Election Brive Ballyhoo Conceals MARY HIMOFF, active and militant leader in Michigan work- ing-class struggles, who is run- ning for State Treasurer on the ticket of the Communist Party. ernment will imemdiately take over the factories, mines and mills, and provide jobs to the unemployed. It will furnish an abundance of food to everyone. Clothes, homes, edu- cational opportunities, all the things that the workers and their families desire and of which capitalism de- prives them, will be at hand. All mankind would benefit from the destruction of capitalism. The workers’ government would liberate all the potential riches that science and invention have enabled indus- try to produce, but which capitalism deliberately withholds from the masses because it cannot profit from them. * ig IS of great importance to em- phasize the need for the seizure of power in the election campaign, Since this is the foundation for the revolutionary way out of the crisis. An immediate step toward the eventual realization of the prole- tarian revolution is strengthening our daily fight against the capital- ists, their vicious practices and their whole rotten system. This means that we must launch a counter-at- tack against the hunger deal of Roosevelt. To push this counter- onslaught, we need Communists in oe American Youth Congress, News- paper Guild, Negro Veterans, Farm and professional organizations and practically all the important un- employed organizations, indicate quite clearly that the demand is growing for this form of protection under the present system. Workers’ Bill Endorsed As a result of the mass pressure of the workers, seventy municipal and village councils have been compelled to endorse the Workers’ Bill. These municipal councils in- clude such cities as St. Louis, Min- neapolis, Milwaukee, Canton, Ta- coma, Allentown, Buffalo, Bridge- port, etc. This represents a mass of four to five million people in this country already mobilized to demand the Workers’ Bill. This mass demand has led to the introduction of 125 bills in the United States Congress and State Legislatures. The atmy of more than sixteen million unemployed in the United States would not receive one single penny of insurance through any one of these bills except the Workers’ Bill. In addi- tion, millions of workers who still have jobs would be excluded from the provisions of these bills. National Congress in January The National Sponsoring Com- mittee for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance has called a Con- gress in Washington, D. C., for January 5, 6, 7, for the purpose of mobilizing all organizations of the United States in united action for the enactment of a social and un- employment insurance bill. The fighters for the Workers Unem- ployment and Social Insurance Bill must be in the forefront of this struggle, It is the job of the Na- tional Unemployment Council 1lo- cal, state and county organizations that have already endorsed the Workers Bill to actively participate in the preparations for this Con- gress. The conventions of International Unions and State Federations of Labor have endorsed the bill, yet their officials have taken no steps to carry on a campaign for the bill. Thereby, they flout the de- cisions of the Convention. It is our job to penetrate the locals and dis- the 1 e ital- workers convince themselves of the e legislative halls of the capital 4 correctness of our program, the! more workers actively participate in | the Communist election campaign, in the shops, in the trade unions, | in the houses, the better are the chances to send Communist rep- | resentatives to Congress. | “Yes,” says the one who is not yet convinced, “but is it not a waste of votes, even if the Communists do get a few representatives into Con- gress?” But is it not a much worse waste of votes, if one votes for one’s own oppressors? If millions vote for Democrats, Republicans, for Farm- er-Labor Party people? Is this not much worse? Does this not mean giving the plunderers of the people the possibility of saying: “You your- Selves elected us, you yourselves voted that we should defend this decaying order of society with all means.” Communists in Congress What would Communist repre- sentatives do in the national, state and municipal governments? They would be the defenders of the op- pressed, of the working masses; they would defend the interests of the) workers, of the farmers, of the! white-collar workers, of the profes- | sionals. From the tribune of Con-/| gress they would unmask and ex-| plan to the broad masses all the bills and motions which are directed against them. Suppose the Com-| munists have only a single repre-| sentative in Congress, a state or} municipal legislative hall; such a body would then not have time to} devote itself quietly and undisturbed | to debates and sham battles on how to fool the people best. Day in and day out the Communists in Congress, as the revolutionary spokesmen of the people, would de- fend the interests of the toiling masses. The unemployed, the vet- erans, the workers in the shops, the Negroes, every oppressed section of the population would be able to di- rectly raise their demands through their rev/utionary spokesmen, the Communists. But, of course, the Communist Tepresentatives would not be satis- fied with just raising their voices im Congress. Communists in Con- gress may be very courageous and energetic people—and the candi- dates whom we propose for election are devoted revolutionaries, And their actions in Congress would not be successful if they were not closely connected with the actions of the broad masses. The actions of the Communists in Cangress will be connected with the strikes of the workers, with the actions of the farmers, of the veterans, of all working people. In fact, Commu- nists in Congress will not cease to |not (whether it has representatives in Congress or not) organize the struggle of the masses, in strikes, among the unemployed, among the farmers—such a party’s representa- | tives will be only buffers of corrupt, bouregois parliamentarism. This was |shown very clearly by the road which the German and Austrian |social-democrats took, and this is also being shown now by the lead- ers of the American Socialist Party who have allied themselves with the Greens and Wolls and who (just as ¢he German and Austrian so- cialist leaders did) sabotage united struggle with the Communists. Workers, friends! It is necessary to strengthen the election cam- paign. The Communists will fight, whether they will send representa- tives to Congress or not. But the more votes we Communists get, the more difficult it is for the capitalist politicians to steal the Communist votes; and the more workers we ac- quaint with our program during these elections, the more will the workers win now and the whole rev- olutionary struggle be advanced. Strengthen Election Campaign I repeat: strengthen the election campaign, carry it into every fac- tory, into every shop, into’ every trade union, into every worker’s home, into every farm, into every organization where there are masses of working people; carry it to the oppressed Negro masses, working youth, to the women of the working class. Organize the sympathizers for the election campa%gn. We must utilize the last days of the election strug- gle to stir the toiling masses to a still larger degree, to convince and organize them. Organize and convince! We must win tens of thousands of new work- ers for the cause of the emancipa- tion of the toilers, we must get thousands of the best workers into our Party, we must make thousands of A. F. of L. workers active sup- porters of our election campaign. The toiling masses in city and country, hungry and exploited, are, despite all the demagogy of the politicians, despite the oppression by the political machine, by the police, today ready as never before, to listen to and consider serious ar- guments, Communism in America must take @ great leap forward. Strain every- thing to make the election cam-| paign a means of pushing forward Communist organization, the belief of the masses in the necessity of Communism among the broadest masses! Vote Communist on November 6th! to the} Create Huge Reserve Force for War | By Harry Gannes | paign literature fails to boast about | one of his greatest, most important accomplishmenis? A $2,000,000,000 expenditure is no small matter, | That's how much Roosevelt shas | spent for war preparations. But in- stead of coming out before the vot- ers and bragging about it, the | Roosevelt campaign managers and | the Roosevelt candidates keep as | quiet about the matter as they can. | What have they got to hide? It |is precisely in Roosevelt’s gigantic | preparations for war that the chief | bonds tying the New Deal to Wall | Street are revealed! Two Billions for War | We have before us the official campaign book issued by James Farley for the Democratic Na- | tional Committee entitled “Roose- |velt Recovery Plan Makes Demo- cratic Campaign Issue, 1934.” It’s surprising that very little is said | about the largest single item of ex- |penditure of the New Deal, $2,015,- | 561,299 to speed the preparations for a new imperialist slaughter, | Whatever little is said is a tis- sue of lies, completely hiding the facts from the workers. Listing the | Congressional “achievements” of | the Roosevelt New Deal, the Demo- |cratic pamphlet mentions: “The Naval Construction Act, authorizing a Navy up to the full limit of the London Treaty.” “A Navy Second to None” That's putting it very mildly. Secretary of the Navy Swanson al- ways talks of a “navy second to none,” that is, a navy ready to plunge into a blood struggle for colonial conquests, for markets, and for other booty for Wall Street. | Why is so little said about the fe- verish war maneuvers that have been carried on under the Roose- velt regime? Aren’t these outstand- ing “accomplishments” of the New Deal. The navy has carried on war /Imaneuvers in the Caribbean area, |around the Panama Canal, in the Pacific Ocean, and is preparing now for its Alaskan war mancuvers. | Boss Unity on War No matter what “criticism” the Liberty League, or the Republican |objectors to the New Deal may make, they never utter a syllable against Roosevelt's war program. | On this central issue their hearts all beat in unison. War prepara- tions, the secret moves to plunge Why is it that Roosevelt’s cam-| ons Spent to Hide War Preparations |CCC Camps Designed To | this cc=atry into a war for the profit of the Rockefellers, Schwabs, Morgans, Mellons, Baruchs, is to the liking of every exploiter, no matter under what political ticket he happens to be parading. We want to show how Roosevelt resorts to the most deliberate lies in order to cover up his war pro- gram. For example, the Democratic campaign book quotes Roosevelt’s radio talk of May 7, 1933, praising the C, C, C. camps as “non-mili- tary.” Roosevelt then said: Lies About C. C. C. Camps “In creating this Civilian Conser- vation Corps we were killing two birds with one stone. We are clear- ly enhancing the value of our nat- ural resources, and, second, we are relieving an appreciable amount of actual distress. This great group of men have entered upon their work on a purely voluntary basis, no mili- tary training is involved, and we are conserving not only our natural resources but our human resources.” Roosevelt lied and he knew he was lying. The C. C. C. camps were pur- Posely organized asa military meas- ure, as part of the whole secret war program of the Roosevelt gov- ernment. Woodring Blurts Out Truth Roosevelt knew what Assistant Secretary of War Woodring later blurted out in “Liberty,” January 6, 1934, when he said: “This achievement — organiza- tion of over 300,000 men in more than 1,500 Civilian Conservation camps—was the first real test of the army’s pians for war mobili- zation under the National De- fense Act as amended in 1920. “It proved both the efficiency of our plan of defense, and the ecually important success of the Military Procurement Plan— the Army’s economic war plan—which is entrusted to the assistant sec- retary of war.” Wocdring makes it quite clear that not only was the C, C, C, ‘camps a military, war move, but it “was the first real test of the army’s plans for war mobilization.” In short, it was a preliminary con- scription test for war! In their campaign literature, in their speeches, the New Dealers are deadly silent about their war plans. Their Republican “critics” find no criticism of their war plans, either. Only C, P, Exposes Plans Only the Communist Party is not silent on the great dangers that confront the working class in the preparation for a new world slaugh- ter in which the Roosevelt govern- ment is spending more than any other capitalist government in the world! The N. R. A, the A. A. A. and many others of the New Deal alpha- bet when put together properly spell words of war preparations, The N. R. A, particularly, is de- signed to mobilize industry for war; to speed the efficiency of the war machine; to smash down the work- ers’ rights. Besides, it actually pro- vided — $3,000,000,000, the greatest portion of which went for direct and indirect war developments, Pretense at Arms Probe What became of the Nye Arms Investigation? Why was that stopped so abruptly? The Roosevelt tegime made a pretense at “investi- gating” the munitions manufactur- ers, but Secretary of State Hull and other high officials in the Navy and Army held private conferences with the Senate Committe eand impor- tant information was never made | tps, Public. Roosevelt did not want to expose his real friends in the war munitions racket, the Morgans, the Schwabs, the Mellons, the Fords and the rest. Why are sueh rapid, such gigan- tic and secret war preparations a part of the New Deal program? The Roosevelt regime knows that all of its fake schemes will not solve the capitalist crisis, that the army, navy and air forces must be made ready to seize markets for the ben- efit of the bosses; that there is a mad scramble for a re-division of the colonial booty. Roosevelt wants to insure the Wall Street bankers their share. Trade follows the flag, but the flag is flown on a battleship. While Toilers Starve ‘There is never a lack of funds for war preparations no matter how many workers or farmers starve. There is never a shortage of funds to pay the profits of the munitions manufacturers, no matter how many war vets hunger for the lack of the bonus. Read the Communist Party elec- tion program and you will find that here the veil is torn from all of the lying, demagogic propaganda Roose- velt and his candidates use to con- ceal war preparations. Communists Fight War Moves “Faced with their own inability to solve the paralyzing economic crisis,” says the Communist Party to the workers in this election, “by ordinary means, the capitalist rul- ers of the country: the Morgans, Rockefellers, Fords, through Roose- velt, who acts as their chief ex- ecutive, prepare for imperialist war, for a new world slaughter. Communist Program Urges Incessant Anti-War Drive “The billions needed to keep alive the hungry masses are spent in- stead on m¢:ns of murder, on bat- dleships, machine guns, tanks, air- Planes, poison gas,” C. P. on C. ©. C. Camps On the question of the C. C. C. camps, about which Roosevelt lied ists. They will expose the ruling class character of every phase of the New Deal. They will be the spearhead of the workers’ drive for unemployment insurance. They will fight the venom of race discrimina- tion. They will be the sounding boards for the demands of every sec- tion of the working class. To strike a blow against the cap- italistic program of Roosevelt, and to take an important step in the direction of the only true solution of the crisis—the revolutionary way out—send Communists to office. so shamelessly, the Communist elec- tion program says: “The ‘New Deal’ for the youth means militarization and forced labor in camps under army super- vision.” This is the truth, attested to by a high official in the War Depart- ment. But the Democrats do not blazon this truth from the house- “Capitalist rule has to offer only —hunger, misery fascism, war!” says the Communist. Party, sum- ming up the issues in the present election campaign. Defense of Soviet Union The Communist election program calls for a struggle: against Roose- velt's war preparedness program; against imperialist war; for the de- fense of the Soviet Union and So- viet China. ‘The Communist Party utilizes the election campaign to speed the fight against the threat of a new impe- rialist war. War can be avoided or impeded only by the revolutionary action of the toiling masses. We cannot wait until the day Roose- velt drops his lying mask and flings the population into war. War must be fought now, every day, by a united front struggle. A vote for the Communist Party is not only a vote against war, but for the most effec- tive struggle now to stop war. How War Can Be Fought The concluding paragraph of the Communist Party ele¢tion program shows how war can be fought: “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 liv- ing standards, against every back~ ward 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 struggle, toward the final solution—the establish- ment of a Soviet America—a gov- ernment of workers and toiling Red Platform In Ohio Raps Injunctions By DAVE MARTIN One hundred years ago, when the Philadelphia shoe workers went out on strike, their leaders were arrested for entering into a conspiracy. In a century of bitter class struggles the American workers have won the right to organize without charges of conspiracy being entered against them. This is one of the most im- portant rights of the workers; one which we must fight bitterly to maintain, Injunctions strike at this basic right of the workers. The capitalists can get the most sweeping injunc- tions, making it a crime to organize, to strike and to picket, from the courts which are themselves tools of the capitalists. In Cleveland, only recently, the Chase Brass and Cop- per Co, and the Cleveland File Co. took out injunctions against the workers to break strikes. These in- junctions stop picketing, stop the tight of the workers even to per- suade others not to go into the factory. The basic democratic rights of the workers, free speech, free assemblage and free press are com- pletely destroyed by injunctions. The issuing of injunctions has greatly increased during the past year because of the increased strug- gles of the workers. It is part of the drive of the capitalist class toward fascism, toward taking away the rights of the workers of free speech, press and assembly. Even the right of the unemployed workers to vote is being challenged. The Communist Party in its elec- tions calls for a sharp struggle of the workers against injunctions and for the maintenance of their rights. farmers.” eee een This fight is led by the Communist trict bodies of these organizations and get delegates to the Congress. This applies in equal measure to the other unemployed organiza- tions, such as the National Un- employed League, the Workers Un- employed Unions, etc. Those that refuse. to participate in united struggle for unemployment and so= cial insurance are guilty of split- ting the working class and keeping it from united action, This applies also to the leaders of the Socialist and the Farmer-Labor Party. The Farmer-Labor Party Federation of Minnesota has endorsed the Work- ers Bill, but has conducted no cam- paign in Minnesota for the bill, The Socialist Party takes a gen= eral position on unemployment in< surance and yet everywhere sup- ports bills proposed by capitalist Politicians and even introduces bills basse which ion exclude the whole mass the unempk from any protection Petco der these social insurance plans. In addition, they favor the Proposal of forced contributions from the workers, Must Unite All Forces With growing unemployment fac- ing the masses this winter, with wage cuts confronting the workers in the shops, with fascist organi- zations growing throughout the country and working in cooperation with government authoritles to smash the struggle of the unem- ployed and the shop workers, we must unite our ferces into the most gigantic conaress this country has ever seen, There is no more im- portant question before the work« ers than the question of secis! znd unempleyment insurance. There- fore, all forces must be rallied in every locality and mass delegations be sent to the congress that will exert the most tremendous pres- sure upon the United States Cons gress, Another question confrontins us is the question of unity of all un. employed organizations. For more than a year, the National Unem- Ployment Council has carried on a struggle for unification of all un- employed organizations in the country. We press this issue again today at a time when not only united action but unity of the un- employed organizations for the struggle for the rights of the un- employed is the vital issue. The National Unemployment Council is approaching the other unemployed organizations with a proposal of unity. This unity must be accomplished and those that stand in the way, be swept aside as enemies of the working class. Forward to unity of all uneme ployed organizations!