The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-27
The Crisis and the Program


Admissions capitalist that the industrial depres
sion is real not imaginative critics of capital
becoming frequent 1t quite evident hat even
the big capitalist papers which support Coolidge admnsra
on worrying the rapid increase in unemployment
The New York Evening for February % in its
financial section:
Doubtless part employment slack will be taken by
of the and by the promotion of
work but probably revival in industry to set things
entirely right again. (Our emphasls)
One certainly does not speak of in industry unless
there depression and the financial editor of The Post
cautious writer.
The worlds stable capitalism has struck
snag buying and other forms of credit have
every Maxs knew they would fall to solve the con
tradction between and production The steady dspace
ment of workers industry and highly organized Tin the
mechanical ense auxiliary industries has been augmented now
by shrnkage markets The millions of workers cannot buy
than their will for and the mortgage on
wages which what nstalmen buying is is about to be
foreclosed.
The DEVELOPMENT of new occupations such as roadbuldn
garage keeping driving while to take of
workers displaced industry and distract attention from
te GROWING army of permanent unemployed absorption
process ALMOST standsl and the slowing down OF in
dustra production adds millions to the ranks OF the JoDe
In bureau of statistics showed that the total
workers factories from six to ten per cent below
that of 1928 and there reason to believe that the
ing specialization and installation of abosavng devices has In
creased this percentage since that time
What does this for the working class?
It means that something than agitation is needed
while the cold figures establish the facts firmly the
labor movement cannot itself with perusa of fig
check living
IF the masses which the figures show is in progress
struggle against the speedup system must be organ
The theory that high production worker means hlgh
wages high living standards for workers must be shown to
be deadly poison
the 6hour day and the fiveay week. in the
light becomes living issue for the labor move
ment if put forward energeticaly.
The organization of the unemployed and struggle for
eminent of work for union relief on
likewise becomes part of fight for main
tenance and improvement of living standards
Organization the millions of workers in basic industry
vital necessity Only with their forces
into such powerful organizations the working
class successfully the speedp SYSTEM cut down the work
ing unemployment and force relief for
those capitalist class drives out of industry
labor party give political expression these strug
giles the of class tremendously raise its
morale weaken the grip of the agents of imperialism
the labor movement.
crisis real So is the crisis in the labor
movement like United Mine Workers threat
ened with destruction Anrke laws openly advocated by
reactionaS labor ocadon and the legal advisers Of the i'm
perialists.
The danger mperialist becomes greater the
petition cheap materials of the principal
causes economic crisis the United States
keener More and heavier blows will be struck class
The thesis the Executive Committee of the Work
Commn Party adopted at its recent enlarged meeting
and be published pamphlet FORM analyses the present
and it's correctly and puts before the working class
militant program of action.
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