The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-21
Weather and Nature Are
Blamed for Job Crisis
By Capitalist Apologist
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TO-DAY, the employers propagandists working
time trying to put silver lining the black cloud Of
unemployment They seek persuade the worker who is
out OF job that he isn't so bad off after ALL And he is
down and out, that is his fault they batantly howl.
This school of capitalist apoIogists finds Insorupu
Gus exponent in the executor, excoIege president George
W. Hnman who conducts financial column for the Hearst
publications. In fact however, this column unnier
any of the Hearst comics. It would be funnier still
workers didn't read the stuff and few probably believe in
it. It becomes humorous only thru ability to dssect it.
This Hearst writer tries to explain away the fact that
there 100000 unemployed in the United States. He
does with the seght of hand peculiar the tckstes of
poses OF one million of the unemployed as folloWs
"4af millions unemployed they
empIOyab they mentally defective,
they lazy restless to stick steady employ
men because they are what the Southwest are called hvey
tendsy msnthat Is who few dollars than
they quit work to spend the money"
Human includes here the part-time unemployed
which estimated to total not two, but ten mil
lions in the United States. The human wreckage in
Hinman calls them, will resent the stigma that Hearss
charatan seeks to place upon them. Hnman 20. KS"
the brand of unempoyabe" that every expoer places
usedup labor He joins his and his Glass; every
OCCASION to denounce aid to these victims of capitalist in
dustry as Boshevism Equally outrageous is the Hnman
attack the casual worker who builds the railroads
summer reaps the nations crop in the fall tolls in the for
ests in winter following the job wherever is to be found
1t this aggravated form of wage slavery that drives many
to to the road causing them be despsed and hunted
That railroad work. for instance, be done in
winter extending the year. sis fault of the rail-
way business argues Hinman He gives evidence of the
usual bankruptcy of capitalism in solving its labor prob
lems by declaring, ut Is THE FAULT OF NATURE AND
THE CLIMATE" But neither nature climate takes the
trouble to feed house and cothe the working class. The
workers therefore, indirectly told to find way for
themselves
Then it is claimed that perhaps 100000 100000 of
the two million in the building industry with it's
work. This confession indeed. 1t should be taken in
connection with the standing attack against the wages
building workers, which the bosses claim be high
When Hinman makes his attack wages the build
ing industry he will mention the character of
the work. He will not tell how many days these workers
unemployed during the year. ga
There is something wrong" of course, but what is
wrong not man-nade business, but nature-rnade
weather. That sentence for which Hnan claims author
ship really published in the Hearst press. II doubtful
such pe could get by anywhere ese except the
OF the United State supreme court presided by
Chief Justice Taft, who joins Human in leaving the un
employment problem to god and nature.
This Hearst propaganda setting forth clearly the in
ability of capitalism to solve its contradictions should awak-
the workers to the need of finding their own solution
themselves The Communist solution depends neither upon
nature the weather 1t depends upon the working class
will to take control its destiny When wokesrue
thru Communism after having abolished expIotes and their
profits there will be unemployment; which TODAY the
most harrassng brutality under capitalism Time not devoted
to useful labor will then become leisure enjoy life
kind will then labor with Joy because work will have become
pleasure That is time worth fighting for.