The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-31
By BILL DUNNE.

but constantly adds to them.
Farmers with the same amount of land un-
der cultivation and the same number of work
ers as before the imperialist slaughter of 1914
1918, now produce so per cent more wheat,
per cent more corn, per cent more cotton,
70 per cent more pork and lard and ID per cent
more beef and veal"
These figures alone, contrasted with the mil
lions of hungry unemployed in the industrial
centers, expose the cruelty of capitalism.
The United States bureau of the census fig
ures show that the farm population declined
from so per cent of the total to % per cent be
tween 1920 and 1925. The Hoover committee
reports a decline of 100000 in farm popu-
lation since 1920,
Agriculture referred to so often in the past
by capitalist politicians as "the backbone Of
the nation" is no longer able to maintain an
erect position. The crisis grows worse. The
United States Department Of Agriculture itself
states in { recent bulletin; "The purchasing
nower of the farmers for the year 1880 will
lie far below 1929"
The only remedy proposed by the Hoover
Wall Street government is that farmers Cur
tail production
Millions are On the verge of starvation, there
fore produce less food A worker who would
of hungry capitalists would be Iynched by fas-
cist gangstcra OF railroaded to ar insane asy-
lum.
What of the farm aborer? Farm wages
were the Lowest according to the figures of the
bureau of agricultural economies, since 1923,
when the bureau first began to compile stats
tics, "Tha supply Of farm hands on April
ranged from IS per cent more than the demand
in the North Atlantic states to 81 per cent
greater Than the demand in the Far Western
states"
determination Ct agriculture overproduction
and the consequent crisis drives the farmer into
the industrial centers. Naturalization of in
dustry, the economic crisis and mass unemploy
ment drives the industrial worker back to the
farm hunting a livelihood.
One more example of the beauties of CAPT
talism, The industrial and agricultural crisis
and mass unemployment are weapons in the
hands Of the capitalists and their government
for further attacks on the living standards Of
the whole working class!
It is a favorite lie of capitalisms publicity
agents that the workers displaced by ration
alization in the older industries are absorbed"
by the newer industries. But study of the
actual situation made by the Institute of Econ
on1ics recently completely skaters this fiction
and also shows conclusvely that the Misplace
ment" of workers by the speed-up, mechanical
ton and the shift of industry from one center
to another (textile industry-from the North
to the South, coal mining-from middle west
to north and south Atlantic states etc.,, not
only adds hundreds of thousands of them to
the unemployed army but results in a decrease
of the standard of living for those who ara
absorbed"
displaced" workers hav ca great difficulty
in finding employment. Almost onehdT of the
1Yorkers 1cho avere knowp to haze been dis
charged By certain firms during the gear pre-
ceding loere still agithout Jobs 1ohen interviewed
by investigators from that institute. Institute
of Economics) OF those still unemployed over
s per cent had been ont of l0ork for q gear and
about one-hdIf had been idle for more than
three months More than one-half of those lChc
had found Jobs had been IN enforced idteHess
for more than three months before finding
aoork.
Here is statistical proof that capitalist IA
tionalization reduces the living level of the
working class. These figures are definite
refutation of the A. F. of L. clai mthat man
agement cooperation" and other forms of "class
peace" raise wages and living standards and
make workers 'more independent" (For de-
tailed treatment of this subject see "Mslead
ers of Labor" by William 2. Foster, Company
boration' by Earl Browder). Permanent
prosperity" is supposed to result from "high
wages that ere shown by careful research to
be really wage CUTS by an increase" in work
ers' purchasing power that is actually a de-
crease in the price of labor power, by an Gin
crease" IN employment that is actually rapid
decrease in employment
Permanent mass unemployment not "per-
manent prosperity" is the fruit of capitalist
naturalization and the betrayals of workers by
the fascists of the A. F. of L. and the social
fascists of the Musteite stripe
Another important feature of naturalization
in connection with the whole drive of Amer
lean Imperialism against the working class and
its most advanced and courageous section
the Communist Party-is one to which but
little attention has been paid.
1t is the fact that every years more than
100000 persons from the farms come into the
industrial centers looking for work-farm la
borers who are driven away by lack of employ
ment and low wages, bankrupt farmers, farm
ers' sons whom the home farms cannot support,
farmers daughters who choose the social pow
erty of the city poor rather than the lonAly
poverty of the countryside, etc.
Still more important is the fact that every
year from 100000 to 100000 boys and girls
become of working age-are enlisted in the
ranks of those workers seeking jobs. Some dis
place older workers who in turn join the ranks
of the unemployed but others find no jobs. The
main feature OF this situation is that the ranks
Of the permanently unemployed army are
swelled continually by both youthful and aged
recruits,