The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-12
STARVATION WAGE
IN GERMANY HITS
BRITISH MIN ERS
Causes Unemployment
In America Also
Especial to Tho DAILY workerl

An Illuminating statement on the
cause of the wage reduction drives
in the British mining industry is
given out by the American Office of
the International Workers Aid Of. S
R.) which is in intimate touch with
industrial conditions in Germany. The
committees statement, which follows
tells how starvation German wages
are affecting the working class in
every industrial country.
Gin the negotiations at present be
ing conducted to settle the dispute be-
tween the bosses and workers in the
British coal mining industry" says
the committee, "the whole basis OF
settlement proposed by the owners
is calculated to allow them to cut
prices to meet competition from Ger
many, where the workers are receiv
ing starvation wages, thus enabling
German big business to underbid all
competitors. This cut in prices by
the British owners would reduce
wages in proportion. The coal miners
family is made to carry the burden
of this competition by accepting de-
preciated standard of living which ap
proaches slow starvation.
U. S. Workers Unemployed.
1.-THE same thing is happening in
many other industries. The bosses
want to compete with German prod.
ucts which are Cutting the market
because the German products are be.
ing sold more cheaply. This the Ger
man owners are enabled to do be-
cause of the low wages in Germany.
I'm this country, also, wages are
being cut and unemployment is in
creasing constantly. Cheap German
labor is throwing American workers
out of employment. In Massachusetts
alone there are 10000 unemployed
with little hope of early improvement
in the industrial situation. In the
coal mining industry there is general
unemployment. Even the steel in
dustry is being hard hit-observers
predict drop soon in production of
IS per cent Of capacity, the rate last
autumn.
off American workers do not help
the workers Of Germany the present
situation will only become aggravated.
Russian Trade Necessary.
Another cause for unemployment
in this country as well as other coun-
tries is the loss of the Russian mar
ket. Recognition of Soviet Russia and
the restoration of credit to Russia
would be followed by an enormous
trade between the two countries, and
this would give employment to hun
dreds of thousands of workers, as
Russia needs an immense amount of
every conceivable kind of product.
"The Committee for international
Workers Aid is carrying on cam
paign for aid of German workers and
for recognition of Soviet Russia. Not
because it believes in doing out char
ity to needy workers. But because
it believes in the class conscious
solidarity of the workers of the world.
Because it believes that only by help
ing each other can the workers of the
world be saved. Because it believes
that defeated working class of Ger
many would mean defeated working
class Of America and the world.
by contributing to the fund being
raised by the Committee for Interna-
tional Workers Aid the workers of
America will help the first workers
republic, the workers of Germany
helped in their present plight, and will
also h clip themselves by helping
Mote new address: Committee for
International Workers Aid. 10 S. Lin
coin ST., Chicago"