The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-03

rather well known automobile plant IN
Central Europe also has 200 men in that
part of its establishment devoted to this
same kind of work. They turn out thirty
five frames per day."
The "huge plant" in "Middle Western
State, undoubtedly is none other than the
Ford Motor Co. in River Rouge, Mich.
Dr. Klein goes on to show the terrific
speed-up that has taken place since 1919:
I'm 1925, 100 men produced as many auto
mobiles as were produced by 272 in 1914;
refined as much petroleum as was refined
by 1873; produced as much cement as ISL;
as much iron and steel as 159.
There can be no doubt whatever that the
spread (read naturalization, speed-up) is
very much greater at the present time
The Department of Labor estimated that be-
tween 1925 and 1928, 1,874,050, workers were
thrown out of work because of naturalization
and chronological improvements by the bosses
that speeded the workers up to the tremen-
dous heights pointed out by DR.. Klein. The
yellow socialist, DIR. Ladder, recently said that
by 1929 more than 100000 workers were
thrown on the scrap heap by the rationaliza-
ton process that his fellow social-fascists in
Great Britain want to fasten on the British
workers.
Even the reactionary Federated Council of
Churches of Christ in America and the Labor
Bureau, Inc admit that besides these there
were normally" 100000 unemployed work
ers in the United States at the height of "pros-
perity." That means, before the present sharp
crisis, which began to be felt about in August,
1929, there were 100000 jobless workers in
the United States.
Since then on the basis of the figures of the
Department of Labor, the Illinois Commission.
II. w. ~, rso errf
Labor, and the monthly survey of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor (which has about
100000 unemployed in its own ranks) more
than 100000 workers have been thrown out
on the streets, jobless.
The present speed-up processes being de-
vised by the capitalists, as exemplified by the
New England Council, are designed to make
this army of over 100000 jobless into per-
manent unemployed army-and at the same
time raise production above present levels
However, the capitalists count without their
hosts. The present crisis is sharpening. Their
speed-up methods will help it along by in
creasing the unemployed army to even greater
extents than at present. :
The facts point to sharp reduction in the
total output Of all basic industries in 1880.
Steel production, on the admission Of the steel
executives, will be IL to 20 per cent below
the 1929 figure; automobile production 20 per
cent below; building construction was 10 per
cent lower in 1929 than in 192S--and still
continues it's sharp decline. Yet the bosses
are preparing to produce even this curtailed
output with even less workers than they en-
ployed in 1929.
It was no idle talk the capitalist statisti-
clans INDUCED in when they declared in Wash
ington several weeks ago that unemployment
would be the main question before the Amer
lean masses for the next ten years.
The answer of the entire working class must
be immediate organization of the unorganized,
together with the mobilization of mass Un-
employed Councils to fight for work or en-
ployment insurance paid by the state out Of
profits and innomA tax.