The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-19
Further Indications Of Sackening Of Industrial Activity
Unemployment The Fight to Overcome 1t

total oadng of all commodities have been
reported by the American Railway Association for the week end
ing January Z. All districts reported decreases.
While total oadngs higher than for the previous
week. the Christmas holiday the total 1888
the period 1927 and 156O below the same
week in 1926
Freight traffic measured in net ton
November the district against
the month of 1926 the southern district showed decrease
percent and the western district decrease of percent
Car oadngs and freight movements are one OF the most
reliable industrial activity and these substantial de-
the latter of 1927 and the first part of 1928 point
steady decline in practically all major lines of industry
The declines the oadgs OF COAL coke and are spe
a noticeable important since they indicate the depression
modes approximately from 80 to so percent against
the 1926 and from 10 to 80 percent under the same
week in 1927.
working these figures that depression and
unemployment advancing with rapid strides.
Many factors contributing to the depression and its
companyng unemploymenthe speedup SYSTEM inability of the
they produce because of the wide
margin between their production and their competition in
markets. the effects of this condition what
workers feel.
In concrete cases. such region
labor officials estimate and part time employment at
so percent This that in this section alone there be-
tween 10000 and 800 workers jobless
depression goes deeper similar arise in other
tions while there yet fully figures the
number of unemployed the length of the breanes the indus
trial and the increase in the applications for aid from
municipalities and charitable institutions show that unempoy
has set in with intensity which gives the lie to the
ties of permanent prosperity" in the United States.
The labor movement meet the issue of unemployment
mighty in the hands of the capitalists for their attack
the living standards of the working class and the Gripping of
It's organizations by demanding and compelling industry
and to bear the burden of maintenance of bss
workers and their families.
The idea that such aid charity must be discarded and these
demands fought for major of the working class
Neither must those members of class whom the capital
lists condemn the heabreakng mental and physical torture
that accompanies unemployment be left to shift for themselves
The unemployed must be organized part of abor
and the bosses deprived Of opportunity the obess
workers to beat down the living standards of class
Organization of the unemployed part of the labor
maintenance trade of the unemployed by
and industry organization of the unorganzed the
abolition of the speedup shortening the work day and the work
wekthese immediate which the labor movement
forward with and the period of depression
to strengthen the whole working class fighting front
Coupled with these their focus the work
the organization of labor be carried with the
greatest Only by offensive of this kind the smula
ton and organization of which major task the Communists
and the left workers. the living standards of the
be maintained and the labor movement brought through the
ent crisis bigger and stronger than before.