The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1930-04-04

fo,r,ers who don,t know where their next crop IS
coming from if they don't get enough money 70
buy seed with, and who, even If they get eoOu
crop do not know whether their wheat VIII Drlhg
fifty or seventy-five cents bushel
This is the prosperity that Hoover brought. Ana
this is the prosperity that Al Smith would nave
brought This is the prosperity that any other
capitalist candidate would have brought.
The fact is that it is not Hoover's fault that we
are in the slough Of economic depression. 1t is the
fault of the capitalist system.
The markets of the world are clogged up with
merchandise produced in all the industrialized cap
italized countries All those countries are fight
ing for those markets. They undertaking
each other And the common people of the world
are too poor to consume those commodities.
There is no solution for this problem under cap
italism. AS long as the producer receives only
part of the value Of the commodity he produces
how can he consume his output? Who else is
there to gobble it up? Not the capitalist class.
They are comparatively few. The middle class got
cleaned out in the stock market collapse and their
money went back where it belongs-n the Golfers
of Wall Street. The farmer cannot get fair price
for his wheat because the industrial worker must
cut down on his bread ration. The industrial
worker cannot get a job because the farmer
not afford to buy what the factories produce What
conundrum this capitalist system is? And how
the patriot will howl if you point out its short
comings!
On March 9th last, the Communists dramatcal-
ly brought to the attention of the the ser-
BUSINESS of the unemployment situation 1t is esti-
mated that 1,250,O00 unemployed workers in the
large cities demonstrated on that day and demand
ed that the government do something WE'LL the
Il +ba !
were dubbed and thrown into Jail by the police
and William T. Foster in New York with others
was held in $125OO bail for leading an unemploy-
ment demonstration. Then Hoover came forth
from his cave again and made another statement
promising betterment of conditions. And the
faker, William Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, proudly announced that EN-
ployment increased one per cent during the month
CT February. One per cent!
The present crisis may pass But if it does i
is due to pass slowly. And even should this wave
of economic depression recede there will be othe
waves, each one serious than its predecessor
Unemployment is the cancer on the body of cap
! 1tallsm. 1t is the phenomena that shows how i'm
possible 1T is for capitalism to continue. Men an
women willing to work but unable to find it. vii
not lay down and die Revolutions are born whe
an economic system reaches the point where
cannot fill the bellies and clothe the backs of tn
masses This is something that history teache
us and the onward march of the masses towar
emancipation from unemployment slavery and i'm
| perlalist wars cannot be stopped by policemen
clubs or Imprisonment.
There is no permanent solution for unemploy
ment under capitalism Only when the worker
and farmers take over their government and ru
it in the interests of the producing classes ca
they solve the problem.