The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-05-28
UNEMPLOYMENT, THE
A. F. L. AND THE S. P.

Only the Communist Party and the class
struggle unions of the Trade Union Unity
League are fighting for the interests of the
working class. The Communist Party has been
pointing out for years that American pros
perity" was more maintaining itself at the ex-
pense of the masses of the industrial centers
and the agricultural districts.
"The Americanization of industry" was hail
ed by the leadership of the American Fedora
ton of Labor Green, Vol, Lewis, etc. as the
cure-alI for unemployment, as a guarantee of
permanent prosperity" The socialist party
Joined in the hymns of praise sung to genius
of the capitalists and efficiency engineers who
had "refuted" the MARKHAM law dealing with
the basic contradiction between production and
the market
That section of the socialist party which
foresaw the coming crisis, the section whose
Job is to be Critical" of capitalism in order to
conceal from workers its role as defenders of
the capitalist system, simply made prepare
tons to utilize it against the working class
and the Communist Party.
On December rs, 1927 the New Leader, Of
fetal organ of the socialist party, published
the report of a lecture by Berenberg in the
Rand School. 1t quoted Berenberg as follows,
and subsequent events have shown that he eX-
pressed accurately the program of the socialist
party:
"When wages all along the line go down,
the worker will begin to come out of his
trance :. He will be reduced to penury-in
some cases to starvation. Then what? If this
were Great Britain the workers would turn
to the Labor Party. Here, the Communists will
get him &. . Let us not fool ourselves when
the American worker grows radical he wants
to break something. He has not been trained
Ali H.
munist claptrap is going to get him.
Il am not predicting the Communist revolu-
ton. Washington and Wall Street will be pre-
pared to meet the emergency The Jalis VIII
be filled with politicas; new red laws will
appear . a feeling of futility and soreness
will be left behind
"Then will follow the sober mood during
which the American worker will learn to APP
proach his problems like mature person
Then will have our innings ..."
Socialist Sabotage.
As outlined above the socialist party today
sabotages the struggles of the unemployed
while the iails and prisons fill with workers..
The working class responds in ever increasing
numbers to the program of struggle of the
Communist Party while the socialist leaders
act as advisers to the capitalists and govern
ment officials and the A. F. of L. and help
to create the conditions for fascism.
The strike weapon was rejected by these
agents of the bosses. Labor management CO.
operation" took its place. The class struggle
was taboo "Class peace" was the magic
phrase by which permanent prosperity was to
be maintained.
These phrases are nothing more or less than
that old enemy of the workers-company union
ism, sired by renegades and mothered by
tionaliZation, in a new suit of clothes, the
world uniform of social fascism.
Hundreds of militant workers were expelled
from the unions for refusing to swallow the
poisonous nostrum of class cooperation and
trying to rally workers for struggle against it.
Naturalization means more work with less
workers. 1t means lower wages for those who
are still employed. Naturalization means the
creation of a huge permanent army of unem
ployed in times of great industrial activity.
Naturalization means speeding up workers to
the limit of human endurance decentralization
means that the proportion of the goods pro-
duced received by the working class in the
form of wages, continually decreases.
But the A. F. of L. and the socialist party
told the working class that meant permanent
prosperity They lied to the working class and
aided the capitalist class to put over its "Amer
canizaton."
They told the working class that the workers
would benefit from the huge increase in COM
modities produced by rationalized industry, that
the working class could prosper only if the
capitalist class prospered, that wages would in
crease as the already huge industries, merged
and trustified under the domination of the
handful Of billonaires organized in the banking
firms of j. Pierpont Morgan, became still
larger and production increased.
ITO he contnuedo