The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-25

lures of prosperity there falls tn
shadow of the basic contradiction
of capitalism. Society needs it
productive machinery in order t.
provide the necessities of life. Capt.
talism uses this machinery in orde
to make profit and to increase it
capital. The purpose of production
on the part of the capitalists, pro
duction for profit, is in fragrant con
tradiction to the social purpose o.
production, production for use. Thi
basic contradiction is intensified
with the intensification of the pro
ductivity of capitalist industry.
Rationalized production, with pro
gressive rapidity robs ever large
sections of the working class of the
only means of livelihood which CAPT
talist society provides for it; a mar
ket for its labor power. Conse
quently permanent unemployment is
growing tremendously in America
This teaches the workers some les
sons about class division.
Naturalization means simplifi-
cation of production. The skill OF
the artisan acquired in years OF
training becomes more and more
useless in modern production. The
masses of skilled workers are re-
placed by semi-skilled and unskilled
The skilled worker sees himself
robbed of the value of his skill and
often has to hire out as unskilled
Thus automatically the standard OF
living of the American workers is
reduced. Because of that the Amer
lean working cl-ss is becoming more
homogeneous. This, too, teaches the
workers lesson about class divi.
sion.
The simplification of the mechan.
les of production enables capitalism
to force the workers to adapt them
selves more and more to the tempo
| of the machinery. Every ounce OF
energy possible of the worker is thus
being exhausted in the process OF
a days work. This speed-up uses uE
the life of the worker in America
with such rapidity that at the age
of 40 he is thrown as useless on the
scrap-heap. This teaches the work
ers some lessons about class division
The growing unemployment and
the gradual elimination of special
skill as a necessary qualification for
the workers is facilitating the on
slaught of American capitalism
against the existing wage standards
Wage cuts become the order Of the
day in all industries. This also
teaches the workers some lessons
about class division.
These continuous and numerous
lessons begin to speak an impera.
tive language. The workers being
to heed this language. They com
mence to fight. In shoe, textile
auto, transportation, ETC., the work
ers take the initiative with increas.
ing frequency for attacks against
these conditions. In the New Eng.
land States, in New York, in the
Middle Western States, in the South
strikes are taking place. Unskilled
and unorganized masses take the
offensive against the increasingly
unbearable conditions imposed upor
them by capitalism.
The American bourgeoisie answers
this growing offensive with a coun,
ter-offensive. A czarist police sys
tenn is introduced against the work
ers. The private individual spy sys
tenn of t',o American capitalists Of
yesterday is today augmented by of
fetal spy systems as inaugurateC
recently in New York. So-callet
law enforcement commissions, a
the one appointed by Hoover, arr
openly concentrating their activities
upon the problem of suppressint
and paralyzing the labor movement
and the working class. Even thu
new American tariff laws, primaril,
a method of economic warfare be
tween the capitalists themselves, ar,
adorned with jokers aiming at tn,
muzzling and gagging of the work
ing class.
The sharpening of these interna
contradictions of American capital
ism are an outgrowth of it's yer,
growth and power. The dominating
role American Imperialism and it
financial interests play in the world
forced it into leading position il
the settlement of the PREPARATION
question. American leading CAPT
talists have prescribed the method
of settlement of this reparation
question through the Dawes an
Young Plans. Thee Plans provid
for settlement by means of mos
intensive exploitation of the German
workers. The execution of thes,
Plans presupposes that the com
modities thus produced by the Ger
man workers find a ready market
Otherwise the surplus pressed on
of the blood of the German work
J ers cannot be realized. After Amer
lean capital was instrumental j.
finding this solution and of helpin,
to force it upon the German work
ing class, it proceeds with a new