The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-09
Now The Middle Class
Howls Because Workers
Are Spending Too Little
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY. business" big and Ite Is letting awful
howl, because It Is claimed the people taking too
literally the advice of Cautious Cal" Coolidge to
mize.
The retailers especially large mass Of small business
proteers who have put in their spring and stocks
big SCALE lament that the buyers have gone strike.
They not comored in the least by the soothing press
dispatches coming out of Washington that msnterpreta
ton has been placed the utteances of the White House
oracle.
There the straw hat business for Instance Just OPEN
ing up for the months. The merchants complain
that IF President Coolidge he having his straw hat
OF 1922 pressed once more instead of buying
body else will buy one" The clothing proteers
PLAIN that the presidents refusal to buy new Easter suit
had the same effect on their business
This phenomenon is taking considerable proportions
Senators and representatives since congress adjourned
have been back home and they have heard the kicks Of
their local business backing They have not been slow to
ngton Rotary Club has been in special session consider
this calamity.
The whole drive will be to preach economy" In
government and not for the individual AS ate petty
bourgeois put it. the president economics
him get rid Of his yacht the Mayfowe kept government
expense costing at least 100000 per year. They say
would be real economy But there danger that Coo
dge will do that He needs his yacht for uneng exped-
tons down the Potomac River when so-caed progressive
congressman taken along and beaten into line the
administrations policies which means for the OF
than 100000 annually Wall Street. and If can get
the government Washington spend that amount will
prevent drain on its own loose change.
All of this however. another indication Of the
harrassing problems.
1t vainy strives find solution for its difficulties under
the capitalist system The little business
until bankruptcy absorbing monopoly usually the
chain store pges him into the ranks Of the Working
AS exploited wage slave his eyes forced open and he
is compelled to
The great of in United States are
not buying today not because Coolidge has urged
nomy upon them, but because they haven't the money
buy. In New England the workers economzng because
Coodges own campaign manager the textile multi-mion-
ARE Butler has forced cuts upon them. They
unable to successfully fight this punderng of their already
slender pay envelopes.
The terrible scourge of unemployment that has been
visited upon the coal mining fields of the nation only
cut the buying of hundreds of thousands of
workers, but laid waste whole Cities coal miners
masse hunting jobs in other industries.
The almost complete closing down of the huge car
shops OF the Northwestern Railroad in Chicago, followed
by similar action in many other Cities is only symptom of
transportation system
With the coming in of the new crops the prices for
agricultural products will again fall bottom as the
farmer to market SELL The farmer will again con-
slider himself lucky he raise paw
est his debts and his immediate which do not
include the purchase of new buds at the city store
Compare with the wall of the oversocked retailer the
recent propaganda of the officials of the Printers Union
that the workers spending too much that the INSTALL
ment payment plan helping them go into debt. The
labor bureaucracy the bourgeoisie effort make
one yes the workers spend too much the other too little
But the fake cure-as of these apoogsts for capitalist
exploitation and robbery will in time become fully TO
increasingly intelligent and class conscious working
The evils of the profit system will be chaked
where they belong Capitalism will be crushed under
weight OF intelligent working class opposition Only the
Communists educate the workers to realization of this lone
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