The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27
Thesis on the Economic and Political Situation and Strategy
and Tactics Of the Workers Party


uthentic figures on productivity, pro-
iuction, reserve stocks, employment,
wages, standard of living, etc. So far
our department of research has not
been in the position to furnish such
data from reliable sources. The best
it could do was to reprint occasion
ally such data as are available in
bourgeois publications.
8. Like all other information from
those sources more than 80 per cent of
lit is pretense. bias. fraud, or mere
piffle If we are to Judge by such pol
tical and international information
as we can check up, we should take
very little stock in these data.
10. Particularly provoking is the
pseudo-scientific manner in which pol
itical statements in American Com
munist literature are based upon g.
600 600 unemployed, OF 100000 un-
employed, at one time or another, as
indicating normal employment, or a
crisis, or what not Not the slightest
effort is made to come to an under
standing what an unemployed" in
America really is. AS result even
the two official theses bring contradic-
tory data on unemployment.
IL. The outstanding and undisput-
ed factors which characterize our post
war period are the following.
IL. Two years of prosperity due to
fake war orders and replacement Of
Industrial equipment; two years Of
consequent depression; followed by
/ two years of normally.
10. Rural employment is constant
ly diminishing for the following rea-
sons: al Progressive naturalization
of agriculture and mechanization of
transport. b Russia's remittance in
to the world market; the extent to
which Russia win cut into American
Agricultural export has been some
what obscured by ne effect of the
famine of 1921 and the internationally
poor harvest of 1924, coupled with
ia sl0,0O0.0O0 of purchase Of cotton in
America. With it's program for the
raising of cotton to cover soon sub
stantial part Of it's own requirement
and grain surplus available for ex-
port to Western Europe which even
in the present state Of Russian agri-
culture normal harvest would yield;
the U. S. A. is on the way OF losing
much of its grain and cotton export
| to Europe. AS il is, the agricultural
crisis has already driven hundreds of
thousands of farmers with their fam
lilies from the farms into the cities.
c.Poiiticai Conditions in the y. S. A.
IA. The following economic groups
are seeking to express their interests
politically:
al Big business-is for mo politics
in business''-for big army and navy
for protection Of foreign invest
ments.
b Little business-is against the
trusts"-for low taxes and cheap gov
eminent. Both are for low wages and
long hours.
Cd Labor buTeaucracy--is for mo
politics in the union (except such as
they themselves introduce, or when
they need the help Of the state to put
down revolving membership)-for
wages as high and hours as short as
can be gotten without fighting for It.
d. Labor aristocracy-is for high
wages and short hours-but they usu.
Ially already have these conditions, and
are on general principle opposed to
change.
e) Poor farmers-are for low taxes
and low rate Of interests-chear
elevator and railroad charges-high
prices for their produce-low wages
~ Wage workers-for high wages
and short hours.
Is. 1t would be very naive to as
sumo that there is a consistent line
r. l.