The daily worker., 1924-12-01
Only Under Communism
VIII Machinery Become.
Servant of All Mankind
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY 300 workers In Chicago 60 hunting jobs
Another battalion is added to the growing army Of un
employed The struggle for place to work becomes more
bitter
They from the white collar" workers in the city
hail. Most of them Many mothers, heads
Of atheress families The loud boast Of the kept press that
there are plenty OF Jobs cutting ice and shoveng snow does
not touch these.
The 800 not fired because there is less work do
There work than But their places have been
taken by machines.
Instead Of $40 workers. folio writer's and comparers in
the county recorders office there will be 70 workers
and photographng machines. The 10 machines
places Of 300 workers The saving It claimed, will
turn department deficit into a surplus.
But there will be hungry on the streets
When MussoIni took charge in Italy, his Fascist rule
set out to in the conduct OF its he
ranks Of the government workers decimated In the
absence of obedent machines additional labor piled
upon the remaining workers.
Mussoin saved little money; but he did not take
of the hundreds of thousands thrown out of work.
They constitute today Of the great menaces to his
bloody dictatorship
When the League Of Nations took over control Of
Austria demanded that the Of government employees
1t going help the Austrian capitalist government
its feet again to the stability Of West European
capitalism.
Austrian puppets the League Of Nations ackaIs
obedenty followed orders little saved but the cry
of the hungry for bread in Austria grew louder and the
problems OF capitalism are as great as ever.
Under capitalism labor gets little benefit from machine
production Increasing numbers of workers find themselves
cast the industrial heap while the profits of the
reducing the number of working hours with the Introduction
of machinery the employing interests fight maintain the
workday as long as possible.
The 800 workers thrown upon the streets in Chicago
today have powerful economic organization protect
Them The unions of office workers in the United States
are weak and scattered
Where these unions have into existence and
shown any activity, it because of their Communist
bershp. But the Gompers regime in the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor has quickly broken this spirit reogan
lied the New York union OF office workers Immediately
shown that the Communists had dominating influence
In the reorganization the Communists left the
side This condition has been duplicated in other cities
Faced with the introduction of machinery, of every
conceivable kind the hand and the rank betrayal
of the organized labor ofcadom the other the white
collar office workers, who like to consider themselves little
above the wage worker in oveas have difficult time of it.
But the white collar workers will be forced to build
their unions in spite of reactions militant unions for active
struggles. In their battles with their employers they will
learn that there is solution for the unemployment
chine and wage problems under capitalism They will learn
that all the evils that ac them inherent the present
social system All this the machine will help teach them
Conditions will force the white collar workers into the
growing proetaran army that marches forward to the
destruction of capitalism and the seizure of the machine
abors greatest ally in building the social order. Only
under Communism will the machine become the Of
mankind