The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-07-23
Has 1t Come Again?

casual observer four months ago surely appears threaten
ingy nearer In fact the frankly
ing and trade circles that curtalment production
vast scMe is already underway work. which
months ago was the rule has been dispensed with thousands
CT employees being laid off score industries
employfent growing and the high prices still
aiming steady advance prosperity in which the
workers were supposed waowng just recently
vanished and real hardship is being felt.
In he New England states the unemployed situation is
most sctte in the textile The shutting down the
American Woolen companys plants army
of 4ooob unemployed
The closing of the mills, it claimed, due the
cutamnt and the cancellation of orders including heavy
buying from over seas The low exchange doubtless
played part in forcing this reduction
time there indications the Wooden Companies them
selves are forcing artificial condition hopes
erng wages maintaining high prices dscourageing labor
union organization their employees The following
men from the the Daily Record organ of the
textile fade significant of determination to
workers thru period unemployment to return at de-
creased which of organ
ization
It than likely that when conditions do
improve effort may be made to got operatives back
in the mills at lower wages and longer hours Labor
leaders say they believe this planned. 1t will not be
successful they maintain. But they will say what
to prevent operatives long Of and without funds
from returning to work almost any of wages and
any schedule of hours
Should the present of unemployment fail to recede
the mill will have their wish hungry
workers beseging their gates when the mills open
The textile trade alone in this curlment of pro-
dcon The Akron rubber industries are fast reducing their
shifts skeleton crews having
for indefinite periods with reduction working
number of employees still taking place Unemployment
Cleveland and surrounding territory the building trades
and in industrial establishments growing and the
being recorded in other industrial centers recent survey
made the United States Bureau of Labor disclosed that
of fourteen representative industries showed reduced pay
rolls compared with the previous month while four showed
increases R. Dunn and Co. report greatest
nsolvncies in 18 months having recorded in June
The workngclass generally have regard the ap
of periodical industrial merely
features of social phenomena without inquiry
y for them the purpose they fulfill cap
ta production Likewise do they accept consequent
erng themselves thotess and indifferent Manner
much would religious fanatic accept physical almen
visitation from Gcd with nquirey into personal
hygiene Having been taught both Sunday
secular to trust the management end control of his life
an invisbiy and the great of the period it has
become adept at accepting the mseres of capitalism
unquestioning and analytical manner
1t only when inquire the and purposes
for the establishment and operation of industries that the
WHY of industrial pancs When recognize
that all industry operated profit which made
of the business that is of labor employed therein
then have made finding solution the
panic And when further learn that for every
dollars worth of goods labor produces only part of
to labor then we draw straight line from this point to
the inevtabty Of industrial crises For if labor receives only
part of the value of its prodict them surplus remains
which must somehow be sold else it piles in the
houses Foreign markets must be established the earth must
be secured for places where this surplus be sold Savage
must be subdued turned civilized
to provide market for the product which superior
civilization has exploited workers As long foreign
markets to be had this game Of profit grabbing
continue satisfactorily these foreign
countries establish themselves productive centers and set
and industrial system upon expOtatve basis then
the market begins shrink the surplus which labor has pro-
duced but buy back Of its wages being
less than the value of the goods produced begins pile
higher and higher and the filled and industry
Then the workers thrown out-bccause they
have filled the world with plenty every warehouse is full
every market loaded with products labor suffers
| in the midst Of abundance,
The remedy for such an outrageous and unscentific
system of industry should suggest itself The ownership of
industry hands Of private hands and