The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-03
FALSE
JOBLESS laid"
BY HARRY RAYMOND
Member Of the Unemployment Delegation
Arrested on March 9th


and stagnation. All efforts of the Hoover Wall
Street government to accelerate production and
kick I'D another industrial cycle have been met
on all sides by complete failure.
The crisis is deepening and the industrslistS
and their lackeys the Hoover gang are running
in a circle barking like dogs chasing their tailS
shouting prosperity slogans, formulating fake re-
lief plans all in effort to belttle the existing
economic chaos and distract the attention OF the
masses from the inevitable further collapse OF
capitalism which is about to add another mil
lion to the already million starving and jobless
workers.
The latest orgy of tail-chaSing and barking OF
the Hoover gang started almost Immediately
after members of the Communist Party and
Trade Union Unity League, backed by militant
demonstration of unemployed workers, invaded
the sacred precincts of the New York City Hall
and, in spite of bloody police violence, presented
the demands of the unemployed for work or
wages to the corrupt New York Tammany gov
eminent. --.- -.
This, and various other excellent demonstra-
lions of working class solidarity, has frightened
the Bosses who are sinking more and more hope
lessly in the Swaps of capitalist economic decay,
and has caused them to rally behind their
spokesman, Herbert Hoover, who has come for
ward amid loud shouts of joy from every cap
italst newspaper in the country and proposed
and approved series of the most spurious I'M
employment relief plans that we workers have
ever had the honor of exposing and defeating.
What, in brief, is Mr.. Hoovers plan? First
he has organized a committee headed by. the
fascist secretary of state, Lamont, and composed
Of such enemies of the working and obvious
frauds as Frederick Ecker, president of the Met
ropoltan Life Insurance Co.. Harry A. Wheeler,
vice chairman. First National Bal k, Chicago;
Walter S. Clifford, president American Telephone
and Telegraph Co. and others This committee
will endeavor to obtain more complete data as
to the severity Of unemployment" This, of
course will take considerable time, says the
president "blt in the meantime we will endeavor
to spur into action in building construction"
Census taking and road building was the key
note of the Hoover plan last November. The
Hoover plan failed then and it will fail again.
Unemployment has increased since November
and the number of unemployed will reach over
the 100000 mark before winter is over What
little building will be done will never absorb the
vast increasing army of unemployed
These workers are unemployed because they
receive in wages only small part Of the product
of their labor. Therefore they cannot buy back
the enormous output of commodities thrown on
the market. The rich capitalists and their hang
ers on despite their luxurious surroundings, can
not use the great quantities of commodities pro-
duced by the workers in the factories Therefore
overproduction takes place, industry slows down
and in many cases stops altogether and millions
OF workers are disemployed and thrown on the
streets to starve
Another proposal incorporated in the Hoover
plan is the proposition that workers work only
two and three days week, thus giving more
workers a chance to have jobs This is known
as the stagger system and if put into effect would
force all workers who are working to work only
part time for part time wages. Such plan is
devised to throw the whole burden Of the crisis
on the back of the workers. 1t would reduce the
general living level of the working class from
one to two-thirds below its present level
The stagger system, saddled on the American
working class, would indeed stagger them Marx
was thinking of just such system when he said
THE bourgeoisie will do everything but get off
The workers backs"
Immediately following the announcement of the
Hoover plan came announcements from all over
America OF plans equally ridiculous as Hcov-
ers.
Fisher Body Corporation, located near Detroit
reports that it is operating full time" with all
working part time.
Samuel L. insult announces that the insult
group of public utility companies is throwing the
burden of the crisis on the backs Of the workers
by forcing employees to give one days pay per
month to a so-called relief and distress fund
From the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
comes the buy now" plan. 1t proposes to solve
unemployment by calling upon the penniess I'M
employed to buy.
The Chicago Charities says, I'VE are face to
face with the worst winter since 1866" The
Chicago 'Dialy News" then opens up its heart
and offers to relief unemployment by throwing
its "help wanted" columns open free. This is
done in face of the fact that no jobs exist
Also from Chicago comes the following bright
suggestion from Anton j. Cermak henchman of
Big Bill Thompson; "As the nucleus for a COM
munity chest the 10000 employees of the city
and county should be faced to contribute a per-
centage of their weekly pay checks"
And last but not least the brilliant Charles
M. Schwab chairman of the board of Bethlehem
Steel and exploiter extraordinary of the working
masses advises us that mo one has benefited
more than the common laborer from science"
Science will cure unemployment says Schwab
Science properly applied by our far sighted cap
tains of industry"
And strange to say, science will cure unem-
ployment, but science applied by the proetarat
under the Soviet system of production for use
and not for profit. Science used in the cap
italist system of production can no longer help
workers; it will enrich the bosses and bring in
creased suffering, misery and starvation to the
workers
1t will be noted that not one of these plans
which received SO much publicity lately proposes
to take one cent from the pockets of the bosses
The workers. according to all these fake pro-
grams of relief, must pay the price OF the crisis
The American Federation of Labor agrees with