The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02
DON'T STARVE---FIGHT!

ployed Convention by the National Committees
of the Unemployed Council dthe T.U.U.L.)
FIGHT MILLION workers are unemployed in
IL the United States and 25,00O,000 throughout
the CAPITALIST world These vast armies of
workers who, with their families number at
least one hundred million, are thrown upon the
streets to starve. There are many millions
more only part-tme employed. The economic
crisis deepens in the United States, England,
Germany, Poland, Italy, etc. World capitalist
industry is stricken with paralysis.
Hoover's program of lying propaganda and
stimulated building construction has failed ut
terly The building trades, the auto industry,
the railroads, steel, coal, shipping, textile,
Shoes etc, not withstanding fluctuations in.
some of Them continue to decline. With the
approach of autumn this sagging of industry
will increase, bringing further heavy increases
in unemployment The coming winter will be
one of bitter privations for the working class.
Why There Is Unemployment
The basic cause of this mass unemployment
is the fact that the workers receive as wages
only fraction of the value they create, and
cannot buy back their product. Hence vast
quantities Of commodities are left in the hands
Of the capitalists which they, despite their
luxury and myriads of hangers-on, cannot con-
sumo or find markets for Thus ensues cover
production" shut down of industry, and mass
unemployment. The capitalists cannot make
profits, therefore, they make the workers
starve
In its period of rapid growth and develop
ment capitalism was able to overcome these
periodic crises by temporary shut down of in
dustry, bv more intense exploitation of the
home markets, and by the extension of foreign
trade. But now the periods of crisis become
longer and longer, and the periods of industrial
activity shorter and shorter
With the huge development of industry in
many countries; with more intense international
competition and shrinkage Of the colonial mar
kets; with the tremendous speeding up of the
workers, and mechanization of industries.
which constantly throws more workers out Of
jobs: with the driving of millions of farmers
and farm workers from the farms by the in
dustrial crisis into the cities where they search
in vain for work-the capitalist crisis daily
deepens, "overproduction" grows constantly,
with gigantic, permanent mass unemployment.
The productive capacity of capitalist industry
thus hopelessly outruns the power of capitalist
markets to buy And this basic contradiction,
fatal to capitalism, must go on intensifying it.
self so long as capitalism lasts, with increasing
unemployment, hardships and misery for the
workers. The world capitalist system is in a
state of the deepest crisis.
The Capitalist Offensive
The % ,;-alists in the United States as in all
thu world, throw the burden of the
&C., No., = sis upon the workers. While they
thenisefStt> 1reap fabulous profits and roll in
luxury and profligacy, they systematically
lower the standards of the already impover-
ished workers. The millions of unemployed
they leave to starve without any unemployment
insurance whatsoever. They shift the tax load
onto the workers and poor farmers; the new
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ing of the toling masses. The workers still in
industry being speeded beyond human en-
durance. And now, repudiating the lying of
Hoover, the employers slashing wages
wholesale in many industries, coal, steel, auto,
shoes, ETC. The American working class is now
experiencing the greatest attack in history upon
its living and working standards.
Whenever the workers attempt to organize to
protest and fight against these conditions they
are met by the fascist violence of the employ
ers, fully supported by their tool, the govern
ment. Throughout the country the gigantic
March demonstrations We're attacked by pro-
lice clubs, tear gas and jail-as we'll in the
socialist-controlled cities in Milwaukee and
Reading in Whalen-ridden New York. Hun
dreds were arrested The New York commit
tee of the unemployed was raroaded to the
penitentiary after farcial trial. In California
81 farm workers, seeking to organize the
TU.U.L. agricultural workers union, were ar
rested, held in ridiculously high bail, and ~
were sentenced to from 10 to IL years in
prison.
In the South the Gastonia defendants are
thrown in the penitentiary for II to 20 years,
fresh and still more barbarous wave of lynch
ing is directed against the Negroes, and six
Communist Party organizers are made to face
the electric chair for simply calling upon the
workers to organize and fight. The Fish Com
mittee now prepares new assaults upon the
workers. Everywhere the workers, increasingly
taking up the struggle against the intolerable
conditions confronting them face a sharpening
employers offensive.
The government takes no steps to releave
unemployment. Hoover's program of galvaniz-
ing the industries into activity has broken down
completely. The Wagner Bills insult the work
ers, with their ridiculous subterfuges of en-
ployment offices and unemployment census
The workers demand relief and the government
gives them night sticks, jails, breadlines, lying
promises and fake statistics.
The Impending War
Meanwhile, the capitalist nations, with
American imperialism in the lead, vainly try to
bring their sagging industries into operation,
and to bolster up their profits, enter into vio-
lent competition and conflict with each other
They struggle desperately for new markets and
control of supplies of raw materials. Weapons
in this fierce international struggle are new
and higher tariff walls, international wage
cutting and speeding up campaigns, more in
tense exploitation of the colonial peoples, etc.