The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-05-14
By JOSEPH JACK

fate Of possible crash II viii therefore continue
to cooperate with imperialist capital as part Of
the exploiting class, to beat its competitors in the
world market The fact that nothing is being done
TO support the miners to save the Miners Union
while all energies being put forward to smash
the opposition to such policy exemplifed by the
the left wing and the wholesale expulsion
shows that the A. f. OF L. Bureaucracy is ready not
only to fall in with this lne but to even pave the
way of capital in the downward revision Of the
standard Of living for workers.
The edge of the oneonine depression may be taken
off by American success in the Far East by reeog~
milton Of Soviet Russia and the granting Of credits
by imperalist in general This accounts for
the extraordinary imperialst activity of the u. S.
of late. But even off such success cheaper prod
uets prerequisite and we can expect in any
event that the benefits Of such prosperity Of which
only part of the population beneficiary will
be considerably curtaiIed even under the most ia
yOI2be circumstances. But it is the bally-
hoo the capitalist press made about the workers
getting prosperous buying homes and automobiles,
etc, considerably exaggerated and, but for the
fact that many of comrades became
infected by this propaganda, l would not even
ton it.
Analogies have been made on the affects of inn
perialist prosperity eorruptng the labor movement
between Britain and the u. S. It is true that we
can profit by the experience in Britain 20
tent, but there is fundamental difference in this
between the effects Of British mperiaist pros
perity and the one we have. Britain conquered
politically the territories in which to dump the in
dustrial products of the British Islands. It had a
virtual monopoly of these markets. Britain at the
height OF its imperiast development had no i'm
portant industrial rival, the other European states
being in the main under feudal regimes based on
agriculture. While the L. S. industries have out
stripped great industrial giants with American CAPT
tai playing both ends against the middle.
The effect of this is that whereas in Great Britain
n of aliS he adv he
workers derived from it pretty evenly divided
among the industrial prJletariat particularly the
organized skilled workers in the y. S.. imperialist
progress has undetermined even below pre-war level
the conditions Of millions of workers in industries
subject to the international competition. How much
did the bituminous miners textile workers, needle
workers marine workers, etc, profit by this pros
perity. Even the highly skilled in these industries
were, IN The MAN. adversely affected What about
the farmers who were bankrupted by the tens Of
thousands? The only that really profited we're
the skilled workers particularly those that are Or
ganized and work in sheltered domestic industries
ike building construction, printing, railroads. etc
Under radical leadership they could have profited
much more even in these industries. The bosses
assisted by the trade union bureaucracy got double
the amount they granted in wage increases out of
the workers by man-killing speed-up sectionalizng
efficiency schemes, etc. The unorganized workers in
general profited but little and that is in the form
of steadier employment. And in order to get their
moral cooperation and substitute the beenfits Of
unionism, they were given company unions 10 take
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