The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-13
The Effects of Naturalization in the /. S, A.

of the other mperialist powers and DESTROYS of es
tabhshing financially and otherwise its hegen6ony
the world ntensifes it's exploitation of the pro-
letariat 1t would appear unreal to some but the
fact is that the real wages of the American workers
lower than 80 years ago and for millions
of workers they are considerably below pre-war
The splendor of modern industry created succeeds
to camouflage this fact to considerable extent.
Considering the world proletariat as whole the
American workers hold more privileged position
than before the war, because his standard of living
dropped much less than that of his European brother
But considering his pre-war standard mot to speak
of the period which was much higher he is
worse off In the main, however, the American
bourgeoisie succeeds to unload upon the workers
by intensificaton Of exploitation not by reduction
of the standard of living.
There is small section Of the upper strata of the
skilled that even improved its standards of living
the be said of the organized building trade
workers In strategic industries like steel there has
been attempt to bride the worker by concessions
To generally speak OF bribery of large sections of
the upper stratum, however cannot be borne out by
facts. Therefore much larger Sections of even the
organized proletariat whose standards of living in
the form of real income in comparison to pre-war
has decreased than the ones increased and we are
headed for much more in that direction.
On the whole we must say that the American
worker reacted also towards the left to added pres
sure against his standard of living the big Steel
coal and railroad strike movements the amalgama-
ton movement the La Toilette movement which
registered the discomfort politically of the lower
classes in general, the big left wing sentiment in
the coal and garment industries the 1895 strike dis
putes in 1926 in face Of all the discouragement of
the official trade union leadership, Passaic and the
response it got and the left wing influence in gen.
era which altogether out of proportion to our or
gained strength shows that there has been deep
seated tendency towards the left, particularly since
the war, and not to the right. Even historically
speaking the whole A. F. of L. has been reared on
the basis Of continually intensified exploitation and
the displacement and decline of the standard of liv-
ing of the skilled workers. who resisted partly
successfully, thru the kind of organization the A. F.
of L. in the main still is today.
Naturalization has saturated the world market
with its increased output. 1t has filled up the gaps
the world war created in the world markets but it
has also enormously weakened the buying bower of
the population in the great capitalist countries par
ticularly in Europe The sterilization thus created
is coming to close. Capitalist world economy is
confronting crisis of great magnitude in which
The revolutionary proetariat backed up by Soviet
Russia is liable to become the decisive factor CAPT
talism has a double front, scramble for foreign
markets and Soviet Russia An armed struggle
amongst the capitalist powers with Soviet Russia
thanked by the revolutionary proletariat will weaken
the system sufficiently to crash it. Hence the oren-
tation more and more towards war with the Soviets
as the spear head of the revolutionary proletarat
Capitalism cannot be stabilized without defeating
the Soviets and let there be illusion that when
war comes the U. S. A. will play the first fiddle
in it. The next world will much more likely be
a class war than anything else.