The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-01
BY ISRAEL AMTER

Lay LAY is llIeIlldLlOlldl ldDcl |
and this year it has special !
lificance for the American work
[oover is president of the United /
ties, and although Calvin Cool
was no angel, yet Hoover has
pecial meaning for the world.
INK H. Simonds declares, in an
icle in the Review of Reviews,
u Europe, Hoover means WAR"
According to professor of the
iversity OF Colorado, there are
GO,000 unemployed workers in this
ntry. This is the statement not
a bolshevik, but Of staid profess
who faces the question in pro
sional manner and tries to find a
ution to the momentous question
permanent disemployment-but
course in vain, for he dare not
the problem Of capitalism as
ole, which produces this unem-
1yment.
decentralization RACES.
The workers of the United States
eet with the naturalization
leme3 of the employers in all
,tions. 1t is not only in the South
iere the impoverished textile work
are waking up AMI fighting
OK, that horrible conditions for the
,rl-crs are being found. In the coal
Ids, steel towns, textile centers of
north, on the railroads, there are
lions of workers who are living
e dogs.
II is true that the older worker
~ have received higher pay, but
older workers are now employed
these jobs, being completely sup
anted by the young worker, who
oduccs more, is unorganized and is
1t yet SO open to organization as
worker who has gene through
e grind.
decentralization is having a fear
effect upon the workers-but il
as instituted by the capitalists for
finite reasons; for extra profits,
destruction Of Organization, and
war purposes.
In the Ohio coalfields before the
ike Of 1927 there were $4,000 coal
ners. Since the strike the num-
r has been reduced to 1900. With
g introduction OF mechanical load
s. which is going on, the number
i'll be reduced to 5000. Most Of
lese miners will be young miners
Id the older ones will be driven to
le other overfed industries. What
to become CT these $4,000 miners,
no are merely part of the tremend-
IS army? Who asks-who cares,
It the revolutionary workers?
Above them tower the giant corp
'ations that are expanding, taking
foreign markets, investing their
lrplus i'll foreign lands. Above
lem are the monopolistic concerns
hich are coming into ever sharper
5n1'et with foreign imperialists-
2nfHc33 Hhch will result in war.
War Preparations.
Chamberlain is lining up France
nd Italy, inducing them to forget
leir aninosities. A united front is
ormed against the United States,
c aggressive foe-and against the
)yiet Union. Great Britain wants
u51icn tr2dc-the U. S. is making
ppToachos to recognition CT the
oviet Union. The battle between
ne imperiaist giants goes on. And
sooner does Hoover declare for
ossible recognition of the Soviet
Jnion, than the British government
OF only sends a delegation to the
ov.et Union to investigate the mar
ct possibilities, but learns that
acognition will be essential for ina;
rade.
And no sooner does Hoover indi-
ate that recognition may be pos
ble, not because he has become
bolshcvik, but because American
ldustriaiists need more markets,
nan Matthew Vol, the fiery dema-
oGue and hater of the revolution
ry movement, and plant tool of the
,ational Civic Federation, issues a
tatement in the name of the Amer
IAN Federation Of Labor, condemn
ng the coming recognition, and call
lg On the people of this country to
revent it. The American Fedora
ion of misunderstanding the work
rs at nome in all struggles and
efusing to organize them-but also
onducting the most vicious battle
gainst the workers of all countries
hat are struggling against imper-
Alism-and above all against the
oviet Government!
At Geneva, the function of Hugh
bison, representing the U. S. gov
rnment, and Lord Cushendon, rep
esenting the British government,
viii consist of crushing the Russian
for disarmament" as one
correspondent puts it. No disarma-
nent-but further rapid and ire
nendous armament! Fifteen new
;ruisers following upon Kellogg
peace" pact!
4,600 airplanes were produced in
his country in the last year, more
lhan in Japan, Germany, France and
Saly produced together. This year
$1,000 will be built. Commercial
to be sure-planes that
an be transformed into bombing