The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-25


Bill Dunno quoted government facts which
completely smash the lies of Hoover and his
imperialist cohorts on the extent OF the
present crisis. The following is the con-
Guiding section of this article:
By BILL dunno.
THE world crisis of capitalism is due to
large degree to the fact that one-siXth of
the earth's surface and 150,000,000 Of its
population has been withdrawn by the strong
arm of the Russian masses from the frame
work of capitalism The irresistible march
of socialist construction in industry and IN
agriculture leaves the imperialists astounded,
frightened and furious.
Socialist industry and agriculture is upset
ting capitalist economy. Especially is social
lied agriculture making its force felt in the
world markets and creating problems for I'M
peralist nations like America, which still find
it necessary to sell wheat and other food
stuffs in the world markets in great quaint
ties, problems for which imperialism has no
other solution but intensified attacks on the
working class at homeland war
The Agricultural Crisis.
The Hoover interview has this to say about
the crisis in Agricultural subject on which
successful lying is now impossible even by
such artists as those in and at the disposal
of the White House:
"The expected stimulus from the activities
Of the Farm Board has hardly come
since the middle of January pandemonium has
reigned =. the recent collapse in wheat
prices has been described as panicky, and is
an aftermath of what took place in stocks in
October and November 1t was aggravated
in the last month by the fight between Eng
lish wheat buyers and the Canadian wheat
pool"
Hoover believes that the farm relief" ma
chinery now set up will be able to pacate the
farmers, so he speaks more frankly than about
industrial conditions 1t is a damning con-
fession.
Fact and Fiction.
Add to this picture of crisis in agriculture
the situation in industry to be visualized from
the recent figures on unemployment which the
Department of Labor has released under pres
sure:
According to their own figures, the Depart
ment of Labor, run by James J. Davis, the
open enemy of the low-paid, unorganized
workers in basic industry, Negro and white,
foreign-born and native alike, admits that one
in every ten workers employed in February
a year ago are jobless now.
The department bases its survey on 1880
plants employing 100000 workers and con-
cludes that employment increased in February
over January exactly one-tenth of one per
cent! 1t is upon this microscopic and purely
fictional increase that the capitalist press pic
lures Hoover as believing that "the dawn of
prosperity is breaking"
One-tenth of one per cent increase in en-
plOyment is made the occasion for tidal
wave of optimism and typographical paens
of joy. To what sad straits has come the
once proud land of prosperity,
1t seems that the tenth of one per cent
increase in employed workers is obtained sta
tistically by adding in the small army of adj
ditional clerks hired to collect figures for the
Hoover optimism offensive
Notes of Skepticism.
1t could have been obtained no sother way
and it is not surprising that here and there
note of skepticsm creeps into the editorial
comment of such journals as the Pittsburgh
Press, Scripps Howard paper catering most
ly to the middle class and trying to build
mass circulation among a working class popu-
lation where unemployment runs as high as
40 per cent. The press comments on March
IS:
1.-The department reports that there was
the slightest possible improvement in Feb
ruary over January, the figures being 903
as against 902. In giving these percentages,
employment for 1926 an average year. is
taken as 100 per cent. Even in normal
years we are supposed to have from 1,000,-
600 to 100000 persons on the average out
of work, so that this 100 per cent should be
taken with some canton. Combined
figures for these manufacturing industries
and seven other major industries show in
deed that there was a slight decrease in
February against January" Emphasis
mine)
After congratulating the country in gen.
eral that the Communist demonstrations Oh
March so futile" the press editorial
concludes: "The major question remains: What
to do about it, for next year and the
next?"
The Answer of the Clergy.
Only the Communist Party of the United
States has given the correct answer of the
working class to this question.
The prelates and preachers who purvey
"the opium of the people in churches and
schools Of all creeds have answered that
holy war against the Soviet Union is the
correct reply. The sleek bishops and car
dinals the Mannings and the Hayeses, have
nothing to say about the millions of job
less workers except that they should muster
at the communion rail- satisfy their hunger
with the wispy wafer whom the holy sham
ans have turned into the body and blood of
dead God and then having yhetfed their