TO THE TOILERS OF THE NATION
TO THE TOILERS OF THE NATION An Appeal For United Political Action To End The Nightmare of Capitalism TO THE Workingmen and Women of the United States; The national convention of the...
...They have pleaded for legislative relief...
...It has urged the masses to support a party of their own which they could use to serve their own welfare...
...The farmers have been reduced to barter...
...it is sinking lower every day...
...The Socialist party appeals to you, the toilers of the nation, and all who recognize the need of a fundamental change in our social order, to join with us in the struggle for political power and social justice for the masses...
...Onward to human emancipation...
...They plunge on to "inevitable doom" and the working masses must take their cause into their own hands ' V. The Mood of Revolt Grows* The railroad brotherhood chiefs, on May 13, presented a solemn warning to President Hoovei...
...Committees 6i the organized farmers and workers have appeared at the state capitals and before Congress...
...It has swept eight millions of workers out of their employment and has reduced millions of working farmers to beggary...
...Everywhere there is discontent with the Republican and Democratic parties and their agents in office...
...A vote for them is a vote thrown away...
...They stand indicted before the bar of suffering humanity...
...Its decline brings ever more human victims into the breadlines...
...The breadlines have lengthened...
...While this fearful disaster has brought gloom, uncertainty and dire want into millions of toilers' homes, the two government parties in the cities, the states and the nation,—the Republican and Democratic parties—have utterly failed us...
...The national convention of the Socialist Party sends greetings and hope to you, the laboring millions, in this year of economic collapse, widespread destitution and hunger...
...Household goods are being pawned to buy food...
...It is a vote for destitution, hunger, unemployment, disease and rriin...
...The sources of relief are being rapidly exhausted and widespread starvation now threatens us...
...Unfortunate human beings are being driven to crime and suicide...
...The tillers of the soil and the workers of the cities are an overwhelming majority...
...Now in this tragic hour of measureless suffering and universal uncertainty, the workers of the nation are not represented in the seats of power...
...The jobless and destitute are charity wards...
...The industrial order is not only paralyzed...
...Wages have been mercilessly cut...
...Masses of the working people are in a mood of political revolt...
...Everywhere there is fear of blind risings...
...Farm prices have sunk below the cost of production...
...Join the Fight for Power In this solemn hour of unemployment, nation-wide distress and hunger, the Socialist party proudly recalls its steadfast adherence to principle...
...The industrial depression is only equalled by the bankruptcy of these two parties...
...The heads of the railroad unions refuse to "take the responsibility for the disorder which it sure to arise if conditio-* continue...
...Those two parties are owned by the banking and industrial magnates who live on our labor...
...The president of the National Farmers' Union, in a nation-wide radio broadr . cast, has called the masses to struggle against starvation and political impotence, Greed and avarice have blinded qur ruling class, said he...
...It is a vote against our families and our class...
...They have earnestly asked for a statesmanship equal to the greatest emergency that has faced us since the Civil War...
...They declared that in the last few years "employment has declined over 30 per cent, payrolls have declined over 50 per cent, and the prices of farm products have declined over 55 per cent—and it is getting worse...
...They have paraded our distress in all of itshideous aspects...
...They have warned of food riots...
...and Democratic parties...
...It has time after time warned of the collapse of thi« capitalist system...
...Working people of the United States, Unite 1 All power to Labor...
...City central bodies of labor *K over the country are also raising their voices in radical protest...
...Almost three years have passed since the collapse...
...The number of the jobless has increased...
...It is a vote that sanctions this universal misery...
...Misery Multiplies But to no purpose...
...Families are being broken up...
...TO THE TOILERS OF THE NATION An Appeal For United Political Action To End The Nightmare of Capitalism TO THE Workingmen and Women of the United States...
...They warned the President that we "will not accept starvation while the two major political parties struggle for control of the government...
...For more than three decades it has held aloft the banner of independent political action by the working people...
...Homes and farms have been lost...
...Let us march forward as a great ballot-armed army and build the Commonwealth of Labor and end this nightmare of capital* ism forever...
...We invite the disinherited to join with us in a struggle for the extermination of the Republican...
...The Party of the Workers The Socialist party is your party...
...It is a vote for our enemies...
...It is your duty to vote with your party and to strike a blow at the rotting social system and its governing parties...
...They have warned of the mounting anger and despair...
...Hunger and overcrowding have brought increasing mental ailments and physical diseases...
...The total pay of railroad workers alone has been cut by over $1,000,000,000...
...The legislative representative of the American Federation of I^abor in Washington, earfy in May, declared to a Senate committee that the "doors of revolution" will be thrown open if this drift continues...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
