The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-15

The need for organization Of the
unemployed workers of this. country,
in order to procure speedy relief by
mass demands, was yesterday stressed
in statement of the Central Exec
utive Committee of the Workers Com
munist Party. The statement follows:
Once more the working class of
America is faced with the menacing
reality of unemployment on large
scale. Once more the streets of the
"most prosperous" country in the
world resound with the echo of tramp
ing feet of hundreds of thousands of
workers in search Of jobs. But jobs
are not to be found.
Hunger and starvation, cold and
misery, are again making their ap-
pearance in thousands Of working
class families. While Coolidge and
Hoover are prattling about prosper
ity, several million workers are total
~ denied the opportunity to earn a
living and many more millions are
employed part time.
Whereas the rich are growing
richer and the Golfers of the Amer
lean capitalist class are literally
bursting with wealth, the workers and
their wive "a children are again
doomed to a period of worry, anxiety
and anguish. The jobless in futile
search Of work. The worker who is
still employed, in fear of losing his
job. And the capitalist, as usual, is
utilizing this situation to cut wages
still lower, to weaken the unions still
further and to worsen the conditions
of labor all around.
Low Level Reached.
Employment at present is about Is
percent lower than in 1923. 1t is al
ready lower than in the depression
of 1924 when about two million work
ers were out of work. AS compared
with the last months of 1926, employ
ment decreased nine percent in brick
and tile, seventeen percent in cast iron
pipe, over 10 percent in foundries and
machine shops, II percent in iron and
steel, about IL percent in lumber, etc.
Why should workers whose brain
and muscle have build up this
gigantic economic system be humbled
and Inundated in this outrageous
manner?
The answer is: the capitalist sys-
tenn. Capitalist ownership of the
means of production. Capitalist
domination of the government.
Profits For Bosses.
The American capitalist class, the
same as capitalism generally, is run
ming industry at tremendously high
rate of profit. To secure these high
profits, in the face of the ever-sharp-
ening competition at h m and
abroad, the capitalists are intro
ducing systems of speed-up, new
machinery, and generally more in
tense methods of exploitation. The
productivity of labor is increased
tremendously. The introduction of
these labor-saving devices creates a
reserve of "superfluous" labor, per-
manent army of unemployed. A
similar condition results from the
growing poverty and ruin of the ex-
plotted farmers. The agricultural
crisis in America has become chronic.
Big capital, with the aid Of the gov
eminent, is running business to suit
the interests of the big capitalists,
totally disregarding the needs and in
terests of the majority of the farm
ing population. The result is that
large numbers of bankrupt farmers
are driven to the cities in search of
work, thus swelling higher the num-
Der Of unemployed.
Unemployment is normal" insti-
tuition under capitalism. 1t has be-
come a permanent institution in the
United States involving more than a
million workers even in times Of high
production.