The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-04
HOOvER'S LIE
HIT BY FACTS
Unemployment Grows
With Deeper Crisis

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speed-up plans, wage-cutting pro-
gram and their strike-breaking pol
icy. The Hoover Green agreement
that mo strikes" or struggles for
increases in wages" is being put
into full force by the misleaders in
the A. F. of L.
But the mass of jobless workers
as well as those on the job will not
permit the unity of the misleaders
of labor and the bosses to keep them
from fighting against unemployment
and wage-cuts.
A heavy broadside is dealt the
lying statements of Secretary Of La
Dor Davis, by the organ of the big
bosses, the Journal of Commerce.
| Not that this sheet is interested III
telling the masses the truth, but
with the tremendous crisis now
shaking American capitalism, while
the bosses want to confuse the work
ers, they desire a more or less COR
rect picture of conditions for them
selUes.
De-Bunking Hoover.
[ After showing that Hoover and
Davis's figures claiming that Gem
ployment is improving" is the sheer
est bunk, the Journal of Commerce,
(Feb. 2, 1930), speaking to the big
bosses and bankers who are its read
ers, goes on to say:
1t becomes necessary to
warn the public (meaning the public
of the Journal of Commerce) against
jumping to conclusions that are
based upon inadequate employment
data used to prove an assertion IN
tended for popular consumption"
Here is Mr.. Hoover and Davis
plans exposed in their dirty naked
ness. They issued their faxed fig
ures for the consumption of the I'M
employed millions in an attempt to
forestall the growing mass Unem-
ployed Councils and the repeated
militant demonstrations of unem-
ployed workers under the leadership
of the Trade Union Unity League
and the Communist Party. No
amount of lies viii stop the huge
demonstration to eliminate on Feb
ruary 26 in all capitalist lands.
The Journal of Commerce goes
into detail to expose the misleading
and baseless statements Of Hoover
and his bellycrawling secretary of
labor. Says this organ of finance
capital:
"The chief defect of the figures
quoted by Mr.. Davis is, of course,
the, fact that they institute COM
parison with the last week of De-
cember which as critics note, ordi-
narily marks the low level for the
year in case Of factory employment.
Holidays, closures for inventory TAX
ing and various year-end ADJUST
ments vitiate the value of compari-
sons based on the week. Certainly
the fact that the first weeks in
January reveal slight increase in
employment over the last week of
1929 provides no assurance that the
results for the month as a whole
will indicate an Improvement over
December"
Even in reporting the faxed
slight-increases, Davis juggled his
figures. This fact was exposed by
the state commissioner of labor of
New York who presented figures
showing that in the very weeks
Davis claimed slight improve
ment" there was sharp increases in
the unemployed army. The strike
breaking misleaders of the A. F..
of l.. were forced to announce that
there was an increase to 10 per cent
in January of unemployment in
their ranks over the 16 per cent re-
ported in December
On top of this, Frances Jones, the
director of the employment service
of the U. S. department of labor
testified that unemployment was
becoming worse and more general
in all parts of the United States.
With the sharpening crisis in the
U. S. no amount of lying by Hoover
and his henchmen can cover the fact
that more than 100000 jobless
workers face starvation unless they
/! fight for work or relief. These UNI