The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-09
TF1E WORLD CRISIS.
By j. PRICE.

BY j. PRICE.
The whole capitalist world in the clutches of monstrou
industrial crisis Thousands of factories closing down. mil
lions of workers starving The situation daily growing MORE
and acute Not single country in the whole capitalist
world is left untouched by this worldwide catastrophe
Our country the most prosperous in the world suffered
most severely Its army of unemployed is the biggest in the
world According the figures there
100000 and out of work in this country
This moderate figure does not include the millions of parme
workers employed than q days week 1t is to
be expected that this uneard Of of unemployed will keep
growing unless drastic action s taken by the broad
of the workers The employers taking advantage of the
critical situation conducting nationwide organized cam
paign for the "open shop and for reducing wages.
England the second mo prosperous country in the world
has the second biggest of unemployed According TO Of
fa figures there in England less than 1750000
employed March 1921 And here also this number does not
include the vast of workers employed only part me
well those who fail to register at all unemployed And this
vast mass OF workers of different stamp and fibre from the
downandou of the S0s and 90s The unemployed of
today march to the Labor Exchange with military step learned
in the and with Weordered movements and steady dis
cpne, There is spirit among them They impatient
Of suffering quick remedy however desperate
defiant and critical of the Government and they demand
swift return for the sacrifices they made soldiers At present
for peace but at any moment they might change for
industrial war (The N. Y. Times Current Hstory)
France comes next with steadily increasing army of un
employed Resolutions adopted by of the affected
trades urge the workers not to leave the factories threatened
by their employers with close-down.
The situation in Belgium has reached crucial point The
textile metal and glass industries almost completely para
lyzed. The dock and transportation workers idle
Holland compelled to shut down of its factories,
leaving thousands of it's workers in desperate position
Switzerland also undergoing serious crisis The
lack of materials and shortage of coal has caused the shut
down of hundreds of shops throwing out of work not less than
$4,000 men and women.
In Poland the situation prevals-ack fuel and raw
materials factories closing tens of thousands of of
work.
Not less acute is the situation in Italy, where the population
is the of civil There ao the employers taking
advantage of the crisis to discharge the revolutionary
workers
Germany has its 100000 unemployed The government has
made attempt to asssthe starving women
succeeded in rendering assistance to than 100000 of
them The rest have been left without assistance whatever
Soviet Russia is the only country where unemployment does
exist Even when the compelled to close this
that factory shop being taken that the workers do
not suffer In the Petograd Pravda of JAM 2 1921 we read
the following official announcement which speaks for tscf-
The possible closing of few factories and shops Pero
grad WILL by affect the material conditions of the
workers employed in those plants None of them will be dis
charged They will all be set to work at their trades in other
factories remaining In doing so attention be paid
to the interests not only Of the given industry but of the
concerned that for possible they may be placed
factories in localities in which they have previously worked anC
lived"
The unemployment crisis all the wordRussa excepted
lis growing more and more acute The ruling capitalist class
unable TO solve this problem 1t disease that cannot be cured
under the existing capitalist system of exploitation Capitalism
only way out is for the workers to take matters into their owl
hands