The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08
Boss RatiOnalized Robbery
Clashes with USSR Advance

of capitalist production in some of
the colonial countries, limited
though they are by subsection to
imperialist economy, has reached
the stage, in some industries, where
they not only can supply their home
market, but are seeking an outlet
for their surplus production. Even
the tremendous development of ra-
tionalized mass production in all
the capitalist countries constitutes
in itself a shrinkage of the world
market.
The develt 'nent of the automo-
bile industry, radio, moving pic
ture, telegraphy and telephone, light
and power, electrical supply, the ex-
tension of chain stores, ETC., etc.,
has only been able to absorb part
Of the workers thrown out of those
industries that show an increase in
production with a decrease in the
number of orkers employed, leav-
ing an army of permanent unem-
ployed workers estimated at be-
tween three and half to five mil
lion. Now we see these newer in
dustries ST h as automobile, tele-
graph and telephone, but especially
automobile--the height of mechani-
cal efficiency-where thu are re-
ducing the number of workers re-
quired, while showing a decided in
crease in production.
In Agriculture.
In agriculture, naturalization
and mass production, although it
is still in its infancy, has produced
crisis. In pre-war capitalism, the
expansion of agriculture absorbed
millions Of industrial workers dis
placed by machinery. Today this
capitalist safety-valve no longer ex-
lists. In every branch of agriculture
machinery is taking the place of
man-power. Intensive as we'll as
big scale farming, requiring enor-
nous capital to operate, is eliminat-
ing the small poor farmer. Mil
lions of poor farmers and farm
hands are being pushed into the
rank of the proletariat. The har-
vest hand has disappeared. For ex-
ample, the secretary of the Agri-
cultural Bureau in Kansas writes:
Since the introduction of the COM
bines' Kansas has had no difficulty
as regards the shortage of labor.
In 1914, between $4,000 and 10000
workers had to be brought in to
collect the harvest, whereas at the
present time the labor demand is
altogether negligible"
AS in the North so in the South.
Too many workers in industry, too
many farmers and farm hands in
agriculture, constituting al ever
growing army of permanently I'M
employed workers. This is a world
phenomena, de reloped to its present
degree by naturalization and mass
production, which accentuates all
the contradictions of capitalism,
creates new ones, and increases i'm
perialist rivalries in the struggle
for new markets, leading on the
one hand directly to new wars; wars
between imperialist nations, espe-
cially between the two chief antag-
onists, USA and Great Britain, or
a war of imperialist aggression
against the Soviet Union; and on
the other, to mass class struggles
against the intensificatior and in
PRODUCTION of new forms OF exploit
tation.
Rationalized Robbery.
This new and highly developed
form of capitalist production is one
Of the chief grave-diggers of the
capitalist sys' Il. It brings plan
less capitalist ec' nomy into a state
Of utter chaos. l. piles up goods
in a market that cannot absorb
them. 1t decal itates the farming