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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
American Capitalism

year can be produced in seven
months. If the entire industry is
brought up the level Of efficiency now
prevailing in the best equipped plants
all the iron and steel needed for ex-
listing markets can be produced with
a working force reduced by two
thirds.
Machinery 10 displacing with start
ling rapidity men in occupations
hitherto believed to be specially the
province of the unskilled workers. In
the brickmaking industry of Chicago
there is now q machine that turns out
$4,000 bricks per hour; it is handled
by one man. If the entire industry
is equipped with such machines it IS
estimated that 5000 men can do the
work for which $4,000 are required
now.
Lowering Labor Costs.
The larger proportionate increase
in the wages. of the unskilled workers
during and since the war has
prompted the employers to have de-
vised and installed machinery for
the rough jobs Of loading and UNI
loading material, clearing rubbish,
etc.
In one plant in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, hot iron cauldrons are
handled by a conveyor operated by
one man; twenty-five workers were
formerly employed on this job. All
kinds Of automatic filters, stackers
and pliers are now being installed in
warehouses and on the water front
displacing the unskilled workers in an
occupation which until lately, was
thought machinery-proof.
That distribution in many lines has
reached the limit of expansion is
shown by the fact that in the distri-
button of foodstuffs there is one
wholesaler for every four manufac-
&urers! one wholesaler for every fifty
five retailers and one retailer for
every group of seventy families esti-
mated to include 315 persons.
"The ideal condition." says the
steel trust secretary of labor, sis
when capital and labor balance" Just
exactly what he means by this he
probably does not know himself, but
doubtless he has vague vision of
some Utopia where labor produces
just enough commodities for the
market and then starves quietly I'M
til further demands revive industry.
A Grave Problem.
He seems to understand that
American industry is confronted with
problem Of the gravest character
but it is too much to expect that he
ould show any knowledge of the fact
that it can never solve that problem
while the ownership of industry re-
mains in the present hands. Even
the ad clubs, the rotary clubs and the
kiwanis clubs recognize the necessity
of increasing consumption; they are
engaged in artifcially stimulating de-
mand but they do not know that they
are forced to operate within the mar
row limits of the wage system. They
are the bitterest opponents of the
unions and other working class or
CARNATIONS engaged in attempting to
increase the income and raise the
standard Of living of the workers.
1t never occurs to the capitalists
and their hangers-on to relax their
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
Abusing Our Patience

The political atmosphere is clearing and the
likelihood for the organization of third party
opposed to the republican and democratic or
CARNATIONS is becoming more definite. By
many attentive observers it is now taken for
granted that all political calculations must
reckon with a new third party organization in
the coming elections.
OF course, the organization Of third party
resulting from a split of serious magnitude in
the republican and democratic parties would
be a most welcome step in the direction Of
completely divorcing the working and farming
masses from the democratic and republican
camps, from the reactionary capitalist outfits.
But there is great danger that unless those
who have fought against the powerful capital
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
8 Efficient
By WILLIAM r. dunno

ny WILLIAM F. dunno.
VER-PRODUCTION Is alarming
~ the American capitalist class.
The spokesman Of this class are
not exactly hysterical but / would not
blame them if they were. The evil
dence submitted by such devoted adj
herents Of capitalism as James J.
Davis, secretary of labor, showing the
tremendous productive capacity of
American industry, when coupled
with the phenomenon Of the ever
narrowing world market, gives real
reason for the grave concern mani
Tested in the more analytical capital
list journals.
There is even an undertone Of
fear in the trumpet note Of prosper
ity sounded by the daily press of
capitalism.
Spurred on by the prospect Of
enormous profits during the war
period, the industrial capitalists
doubled, trebled and quadrupled the
capacity Of their plants. There is abb
solutely no grounds for believing
that even tho European markets were
restored there would be an outlet for
the full volume of production for
which American industry now is or
ganized.
The situation is further aggravated
by the fact that in the constant war
upon the living standard of the work
ers, the desire for ever cheaper pro-
duction and thru the introduction Of
labor saving devices American in
dustry, in addition to its tremendous
expansion, has become more efficient.
Overproduetion Figures.
Illuminating indeed are some Of
the facts cited by James j. Davis to
prove that the influx Of a million
immigrants yearly would absorb but
a negligible portion Of the goods
which flood the domestic market
whose saturation is an important fac
tor in the imperialistic adventures of
American capital.
Starting with the soft coal mining
industry we find that it is able to
produce one billion tons per year.
The yearly consumption Of soft coal
is something like one-half billion
tons. The soft coal mines then, can,
with the present equipment and man
power, produce twice the amount Of
coal needed.
The shoe market can absorb, under
the most favorable conditions that
have obtained, 325,000,O00 pairs per
year. The shoe industry can pro-
duce 578,000,00 pairs.
The Endicott-Johnson shoe fac
tory, thru its efficiency system, gets
an average Of IL pairs Of shoes per
day from each employee. With other
factories operating on the same basis
25 per cent of the workers now en-
ployed in the shoe industry could pro-
duce enough to take care of the do
nestle market or the whole industry
would need to operate but one-fourth
Of the year.
MarveIs of the Machine.
In the most modern smelling
plants ton Of pig iron is produced at
the total labor cost of the time ex-
pended by one man for an hour and
twelve minutes. In the industry as q
whole under present conditions, all
the market can take care of for a
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
Supply and Demand

One of the iron laws on which the present
system of capitalist exploitation of the workers
is founded is the iron law of supply and de-
mand.
When the farmers are broke and are COM
PEELED by the big bankers and manufacturers
to sell at prices lower than what it has cost
them to produce, the economic experts earning
their hire emit wild cry to the heavens that
the law of supply and demand is at work
When new wage-slashing campaign is
launched by the bosses, the workers are told
that there are more workers than needed, that
there is greater supply of workingmen than
there is demand. And who will dare tamper
with this immutable law of supply and de-
mand? Wages are cut to the bone. Farm
prices are reduced to the vanishing point.
Profits mount. The law of supply and demand
is indicated and saved
The fact of the matter is that the law of
supply and demand is not to blame. The source
of the difficulty for the workingman and poor
farmer is the capitalist control of the means of
production and exchange, the control of the
railways, the grain elevators, the transporta-
ton and marketing facilities by small group
of powerful fnanciers and industrialists for
private profits.
An illustration of this point is the following
condition confronting the farmers. According
to the estimates of the Department of Agri-
culture the farmers have more corn, oats, and
barley at this time than they had in the cor
responding period year ago. On the other
hand stocks of wheat are less this year than a
year ago at this time. According to the law
of supply and demand corn, oats and barley
should be lower and wheat should be receiv-
ing higher price. But exactly the opposite
condition is true. The wheat in the farmers
hands is worth $32, 100000 less on March IL
1924, than it was on the same date in 1928,
while the corn has gone up in price.
The law of supply and demand as it works
in the United States is subject to the condi-
tons of the world market of international
capitalism. These conditions are wretched
and hopeless, because of the very nature of
capitalist production and exchange. Conse-
quently, the conditions of our farming popua-
ton are just as hopeless and wretched The
desperate state of affairs has been pictured by
the noted farm expert Mr.. Yoakum before the
Kentucky farmers in these significant words !:
1.-THE worlds greatest agricultural country
is faced by situation more menacing to the
country's future than can be said of any eco
nomic problem in any part of the world"
Perhaps our capitalist misleaders would
have us believe that the law of supply and
demand is responsible for six and half mil
lion farms having gone thru bankruptcy and
foreclosure in the great depression?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22


fact they cannot because Of the COM
petitive nature of the international
struggle for markets.
Destroying Markets.
Every nerve is strained to reduce
production costs, l. e., to use less
labor-power--to get along with less
workers while at the same time in
creasing the output of commodities.
1t is in this manner that capital
list industry destroys its greatest
markedly reducing the purchasing
power of the great bulk Of the popu-
lation, the working class.
There are no great new fields Of
exploitation for the American capt.
talist class to conquer. The back
ward nations Of quarter of CEN
fury ago have now their own econ
omy and require less manufactured
commodities from America; raw ma
terials they produce cheaper than
we can.
American industry Is organized
for a world market; during the war
it became the premier exporter of
manufactured products because
other nations were organized for
war alone. Even before 1914 the
American workers were suffering
from mass unemployment, insanely
efficient capitalist production had
glutted the world markets.
The Future.
There has been fall and rise Of
production since the war and now
the period Of readjustment is almost
over. During that period the class
of industrial workers had been in
creased by millions; white and negro
farmers have been driven from the
land and are competing with the
older "hands"-to use the English
term that so well expresses the cap
italist opinion of the workers. Cum
ningly devised machines that do the
work Of hundreds Of thousands of
wage-earners have made American
industry the most efficient in the
world. 1t is centralized and ruled
with an iron hand and it has sum-
moned to its aid the best technical
talent; its processes-chemica me-
chanical and electrical-are the WON
der of modern industrial civilization.
American industry has everything
but markets. Like the sow that eats
its young, American capitalism by
its war upon the workers Of Amer
lea, its assistance to the ruling class
Of every other capitalist nation IN
the war upon their working class,
has destroyed the greatest factor
making for sterilization Of Ameri-
can capitalism-a working class
with large constructive capacity
resulting in a high standard of
living.
AS the days pass we will hear
more and more the whimperings of
such apologists Of capitalism as
James J. Davis. AS the ranks of
the unemployed grow and industry
stagnates-a process already begin
ning-the note of fear already per-
ceptible will grow louder until it
browns out the triumphant note of
the prosperity song that is cfianted
now by most Of the babbittry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22

The German bourgeois parties will have at
least two-thirds majority in the new Reichstag
after the elections of May 4. In addition to
that they will have a neat fascist dictatorship
to supplement the democracy, that will be
jammed down the workers throats The So
cialists are losing out everywhere Philip
Scheidemann, once leading light in the German
republic, after the revolution, is now mayor Of
Cassel.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22
Enthusiastic Support Given
to Farmer-Labor Party Fund
By c. E. RUTHENBERG
Executive Secretary, Workers Party of America)

The following Jewish Branch of
the Workers Party party branches
for contribution to the Fameabor Campaign
raising carry its support 18th Con-
ventn shows the spirit Of the membership question:
C. E. Ruthenberg,
Executive Secretary,
Chicago, III.
Dear Comrade: The appeal which you sent to the
party branches and sympahers for of the
swing reached branch few days
and enthusiasm with which the appeal great.
ment Of party supported by the masses Of
and to
movement in the United States and donated from
class, Party supported by the prole-
tartan elements and organized nationwide
be the slogan Of this great campaign
in consciousness,
JOB. WEISMAN, Sec. Harlem Jewish Branch.
Branches which have their since the report
Rocln Finnish Branch
Branch ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
Zger South Slavic Branch. $500
Touca Italian Branch
South Bend Russian Branch .....................
Cicero Cnecno-Slovak Branch 500
Chicago Scandinavian Branch No. 10................
Amesbury Finnish Branch 1850
Astabua Harbor Finnish Branch.
Gary Russian Branch OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 400
GAINESVILLE Finnish Branch 500
Omaha English Branch 1000
New York Letsh Branch
Philadelphia South Slavic Branch ............... 1000
W. Frankfort South Slavic Branch LOO
Party branches which upon
Party Campaign Fund should make special order Of business
their meeting and that member purchases the
Farmer-Labor Campaign Fund Labels.
greatest campaign
party unit make its contribution
Every dollar contributed will aid
party activity of the 18th
the
Labor Party at that convention
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-22

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warfare on wages and as q matter Of
fact they cannot because Of the COM
petitive nature of the international
struggle for markets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23
BARGAINS IN HOMES

BARGAINS IN HOMES
NORWOOD-New,m modern 7-room bun
galow, Arcola heat, hardwood floors;
conveniently located; u block car line;
worth $500. Goes tomorrow, Monday,
for only $4,000; $1,000 cash; consider
smaller cash payment; balance $40 mo.
Best bargain in Norwood.
WALNUT HILL-New Groom modern
bungalow, furnace, hardwood floors;
near 25th St.; $500. This place will
easily rent for $50 or $50 month and
will sell you on terms tomorrow, Mon
day; only $500 cash, $35 month. Why
rent?
WAVERLY PLACE-Near Glen Iris
Ave, splendid new, modern 7-room bun
ga3ow, Arcola heat; $7,750; easy Terms;
fine, deep lot; very choice location. A
zeal home. See it.
SOUTH HIGHLANDS-New, modern T.
room bungalow, Charles ST., near Glen
Iris Ave; Arcola heat; rents SIS month
81, 250 $3.50 cash, $40 month. Why rent
EBORN REALTY co.
2119h 1ST AVE. MAIN S17G
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23

INVESTMENTS
3Ox14O corner, 4-story brick store, Goth
St, 2 blocks Empire Bldg, $4,000.
50x100 2-story brick, I'd Ave-, N, near
25th ST. $4,000.
3ox15o goth ST., 2 blocks Brown-Marx
Bldg; $4,000.
6Oxi4o, brick corner, goth St., 2 blocks
LIST Ave.
50x14O, I'd Ave, near 25th ST.; $500.
50x14O, Sd Ave-, N; brick; near oath ST.,
SCI, 500.
5Ox1OO, Sd Ave, so feet of 23d ST.; $4,000.
50x140, Ave. B, near Goth ST., $17500.
45x1O0, 2-story brick, Goth ST., $4,000.
5Ox140, 4th Ave, near 25th St.; $4,000.
150x150 1st Ave-, N, back to Morris,
near 10Th st.
45x1o0; imp1 owed; Esd St., N, near 9Th
Ave: S18,5O0; good terms.
45x15O, Goth ST., brick bldg; 2 blocks L..
G. ". depot.
1o0x14O, 4tb Ave, near 22d ST.; part or all.
5Ox140 Ave. D, between Goth and 21st St.,
$4,000.
EBORN REALTY co.
2119K 1ST AVE. MAIN S173
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23
FOUNTAIN HEIGHTS
Furnace-Heated Bungalow

We have just secured a listing
on a beautiful little 5-room bun
galow, located in this most de-
sirable residential section. Home
consists of large living room
with brick fireplace, built-in
book cases and easement win
dows; dining room, large kitchen
with breakfast room and built-in
kitchen cabinet; 2 large bed
rooms with closets in each room;
tile bath with built-in tub, med
icine cabinet and linen closet.
All rooms are beautifully pa
pered. Roof on this house car
ries 10-year guarantee. Concrete
drive to garage. Convenient to
schools, churches and car line.
On account of the owner being
transferred to another city this
home can be bought for $4,000,
and a reasonable cash payment.
Balance to suit purchaser. This
is a real home and an excellent
buy at the above figure. Let us
show you this home Monday.
Trustees System Service
2O24 1ST AVE. MAIN ASH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23
REAL ESTATE-SALE
HOIISES FOR SALE
HIGH-CLASS
RESIDENTIAL PROPER
EAST OF 10Th ST.

This should appeal to the dis
eliminating purchaser. If you
have for a long time been look
ing for home or a small estate
that is high-class in every way,
give this some consideration. We
are able to offer one Of the most
beautiful homes in the city at
very reasonable figure. 1t can
be bought at least $4,000 less
than cost of reproduction. Hol-
low tile and stucco, with ga
RACES and outhouses of the same
architecture as. the main house.
Grounds are highly improved.
The owner of this property for
certain reasons is very anxious
to sell and will sacrifice for
$42,5OO; terms very reasonable. If
interested in a proposition of
this kind, call Chas. B. Webb, for
further information, Main $3.50.
JEMISON & co.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23
SOUTH HIGHLANDS

CENTRAL PARK
Beautiful Broom bungalow on corner
lot, modern to the minute; for only
81 .0OO balance easy. Brooks Young,
with Suddutb Realty Co., 40 N. 21st
ST.. Main S4O2 Ensley 20O4-M.
WOODLAND HIGHLANDS-For sale,
7-room bungalow, $4,25O; $3.50 cash, $40
per month. Call Woodlawn 1S25-W.
1924 WALKER AVE. EAST LAKE
Six-room modern bungalow; l year
old; $3.50 equity for $1,000 cash. See
it today.
I'd AVE, N.-Near 25th St, 5Ox1OO, 2
story brick; $4,000. Eborn Realty Co.,
2119h list Ave, Main S173.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-23
Hot---WeId Birmingham Investments Into Golden Dollars
REAL. ESTATE-SALE X
HOUSES FOR SALE 100
CENTRAL PARK

$4,0O0-6-room bungalow with
hardwood floors, gas and other
improvements in and paid for;
Just / block from car line; cash
5000, balance like rent; posses
sion "a cnce.
S3,700-6-room bungalow and ga
rage, garden and chicken yard;
cash $40O, balance $50 per month,
or will rent house for $35 per
month.
$4,00O-We have four new 5-room
bungalows, some have gas; cash
$500, balance $50 and $35 per
month. We have "a lots about
21a blocks from car line and
school, $3.50 to $3.50; $50 cash, bal
ance $40 per month.
Business property, located near
Wesleigh Station, Central Park,
on west side of North Bessemer
car line, opposite Hills grocery
store and real estate office, 1909
Bessemer Boulevard. We have
lots left for sale 25x90; faces
car line. Come early and pick
your choice; also one residence
lot adjoining this property on
alley corner.
Three lots, 45x120, high and dry,
plenty of shade, water and lights;
on west side of North Bessemer
car line, near Vineville Station:
cash $3.50, balance $500 in 3years
or will sell separately.
$4,0O0-5-room bungalow. gas
and all other improvements in
and paid for; less than 1 block
of car line on Poplar st. This
house faces the sunrise; cash
$500, balance like rent; will con-
slider vacant lot.
Call Mr.. Davis or Mr.. Ellard,
Ensley 2134, with
CENTRAL PARK
REALTY co.
5000 BESSEMER BOULEVARD
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-01-04

Help the union shop by purchasing
its products.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-01-04
BewareoH Ms Propaganda

Representative George Huddleston of Alabama per
formed distinct pubis service in his recent vigorous at
tack the lying propaganda which presents the farmers
and the city workers as opposing forces having nothing
in common.
Speaking in the House, Mr. Huddleston pointed OH
that the farmers and industrial workers have much il
He exposed the falsity of the arguments of
those who assert otherwise and showed how the propa
gandists fasfy and ignore facts to bolster up their
tenton that formers and industrial workers must be at
swordspoints.
Declaring that the possibilities of economic coopera
ton partnership between farmers and wage earners
stupendous Mr. Huddeson cited instances of how the
producers and gouged He said that it is
estimated that in 1922 the farmers of the United States
received total of $75OOOOO00O for their produce and
consumers paid $220O00O0000 The farmer who produced
the commodity received less than 80 cents from each dol
lar that the paid for it, that there went to
handlers SPECTATORS Dealers carriers and other middle
70 cents from every dollar that paid Mr.
Huddleston added.
Mr. Huddleston went to say that the highest duty
of the craftsmanship of America is bring the producers
face to face with the in direct dealing to
permit the least possible intervention of mddlemen
This is a sentiment to which the masses of America
subscribe with the wish that the day not far distant
when the nation will its way clear to bring about that
cooperation that Mr. Huddleson strongly advocates
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-01-04

ed in the General Assembly: That
after the taking effect of this ACT the
board of education or school directors
of any school district may and when
ever petitioned so to do by five per
cent or more of the voters of such
district shall cause to be submitted to
the voters thereof at the next regular
or special election, the question of
furnishing free school text books for
the use Of pupils attending the public
schools of such district. In a district
wheer no elections are held for school
purposes, and the proposition for free
text books is to be submitted to a
referendum, the governing body, how
ever designated, of such district, shall
certify the question to the election
commissioners or other officers
charged with the holding and conduct
ing of elections in such districts or
in the major portion thereof; and it
shall thereupon be the duty of such
commissioners or other officers, to
submit such proposition at the next
regular or special election held in such
district, or major portion thereof, in
substantially the manner herein pro-
vided, canvass the vote cast, and
certify the results thereof to such
governing body. In case any portion
of the district wherein the election
herein provided for is to be held, shall
not be under the jurisdiction of such
board of election commissioners, or
other officers charged with the hold
ing and conducting of elections, such
commissioners or other officers shall,
for the purpose herein contemplated,
be vested with such jurisdiction at
such election. Upon such submission
the ballot shall be in substantially the
following form: