The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-22
WALL ST. CHIEF
PUBLISHES LIES
ON J0BLESS
Dept. Of L a b or S a y S
More Unemployment

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ports that there is an advance in
automobile and steel production.
A telegram dated January 20, to
the Journal of Commerce from
Youngstown, one of the steel CEN
ters handling automobile steel or
ders, says reports of the improve
ment have been exaggerated"
Another dispatch to the same
capitalist paper from Youngstown
says: "Offsetting some of the i'm
provement, however, is a loss at
Niles, where the Empire Steel Cor
poration has suspended for the week
its Thomas and Falcon plants"
Instead of an increase in employ
ment, the facts show that entire
plants are shutting down in the CEN
ter of the very industries Hoover
and Lamont report to be "hiring
workers"
Emphasizing the sharp crisis
that is going on especially in the
steel industry, a telegram from
Pittsburgh to the New York Times
(Jan. 1917 says:
"The general demand for steel
may be increasing, but there is no
clear evidence that it is... :. Con
sidering the predictions of two
months ago, freight car buying is
thus far disappointment"
Admit Unemployed Grow; Say 1t
Is Seasonal"
While the Department of Labor,
in its latest statements, admits far
reaching unemployment, it attributes
this to seasonal Declines" and to
inventories" This was the same
argument advanced by this Hoover
taking bureau over a month ago,
when it reported unemployment in
creases.
There was considerable un-
employment among unskiIIed la
bOr," says statement issued on
Jan. 20, by the Department of La
Dor, "due to seasonal influences.
Plants manufacturing automo-
bile accessories and automobile
assembling plants, and factories
manufacturing radio sets and
parts, food products, confectionery,
furniture, clothing, knit goods,
cotton and wool hosiery, tobacco
products and holiday novelties re-
ported a further seasonal recess
sion in production and employ
ment...
"The unemployment apparently
included some building trades
men,"
This is an admission of the con-
tinued widespread unemployment
on the basis of the last-minute in
formation received by the Depart
ment of Labor, with an attempt to
cover it up with phrases about Sur
Their season recession
According to one of the leading
organs of the finance-capitalists,
the Annalist, this so-called seasonal
recession" is a severe crisis that
will continue at least until Novem-
Der, 1880.
Especially indicative of the bald
faced lying of the Department of
Labor is the statement that sun
employment, apparently, included
some building tradesmen." Even the
building trades union officials of the
A. F. of L., who favor the Hoover
wage-cutting program, are forced
to report at least so per cent I'M
employment among the building
trades workers.
In Chicago, Walker, president of
the Illinois Federation of Labor,
said more than as per cent of the
building trades workers were I'M
employed. In December there was
a drop of 43 per cent in building
contracts awarded all over the coun-
try. For the first ten days of jan
uary, 1880, building contracts
awarded in Illinois for January
showed a decline of SO per cent!
In Boston, the reactionary Cen
trail Labor Union was forced to
adopt resolution calling Hoover's
attention to growing unemployment
ASSOCIATED Press dispatch, Jan. 49,,
and especially the firing of hun
dreds of workers in the Charleston
Navy Yard.
The resolution called attention "to
the policy of President Hoover and
big industrial executives and en-
ployers of labor in announcing plans
for prosperity and the ending of the
unemployment crisis by calling on
other employers of labor to stop all
retrenchment moves and keep bust
ness at peak-then Immediately
swelling the ranks of the unem-
ployed by dropping men from the
government and other payrolls."
Because of the mass pressure of
the growing army of unemployed
within the A. F. of L., itself, the
Boston takers were forced to ap-
point a committee to make "sur.
vey" of unemployment for the ben
r eft of President Hoover and other
government officials proclaiming ar
era of prosperity"
The Hoover bunk about "more
jobs" is an attempt to forestall the
!. growing demands of the army Of
unemployed, under the leadership
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