The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-15

Of it not in the sense of minimizing
the extent of bourgeoisification. |
speak of the wages in this country
merely to puncture another capital
list bubble. The U. S. Department of
Labor has just issued report giving
the findings of its investigation of
the wage figures. | will not go into
the details Of these figures, but this
investigation (See Monthly Labor Re-
view-August, 1920 clearly establishes
that millions of workers in this coun-
try, semi-skilled and unskilled and to
some extent skilled, receive less than
$25 a week. Keep in mind the fact
that even according to the standards
set by the anti-working class forces
dominating the United States govern
ment, a family of five needed a mini
mum of $2188 annually in June 1927
to have fair standard of living. This
means a minimum average weekly
wage of SAP to $45 thruout the year.
Even in New York state, the wealth
lest state in the Union, according to
the findings of the N. Y. State Hous-
ing Commission, three out of every
four working class families are re-
ceiving a total wage which is below
the minimum of subsistence level
fixed by our bourgeois government.
When we speak of these wages, we
discount also unemployment, sickness
and other such incidents in industry.
These circumstances which are in
herent in the capitalist organization
of industry would even lower the
wage figures given US by the bour-
geoisie.
Here we must also speak briefly of
the diffusion of wealth, we find that
6 per cent of those gainfully employed
own almost 70 per cent of the income
yielding property. % per cent of the
gainfully employed own 95 per cent,
and SO per cent, or the wage-earners,
own only 4.3 per cent of such prop
erty. 1t is true labor banks have in
creased in number But in recent
months there has been a decrease not
only in the number of labor banks, but
in total of resources and depositors.
The whole system of class collabora-
ton, labor banks, home-o wning
S h e m IS, "cooperatives" banking
schemes are based particularly on this
period, the present temporary period
Of American prosperity.
Such types Of bourgeois experts as
Carl Snyder, have themselves said
that we cannot speak Of these class
collaboration schemes as permanent
phenomena, but only as passing
phenomena of a momentary situation
AS phenomena which will be in
crisis with the first wave of serious
economic depression
The Engineers Convention.
COME comments on the Brotherhood
y Locomotive Engineering Conven-
ton: When this organization which
was the father, the leader in labor
banking, steps forward and decides
to go out of business, and when the
man (Johnson), who a year ago held
the lowly position of head of the trade
union department of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineering, has now
become the president Of the organi-
cation, there are significant develop
ments brewing.
Comrades, we must. beware, we
must be on guard against these bour-
geois influences of pessimism also af-
fecting our own ranks. Pessimism
is a danger which our Party faces as
Party, not as individuals, not as
groups. Only through strong ideolo-
gical campaign against bourgeoisifi-
cation, only through a strong organi-
rational, practical, anti-bourgeoisifi-