The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-20
Green LIES ON
UNEMPL- OYMENT
Many Figures Show
More Plants Close

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President Hoover yesterday, not for
the presidents information, but in
order to mislead the masses with
false reports about decided improve
ments.
Echoes Hoover Lie.
This is exactly what Hoover,
speaking for the Wall Street bank
ers, has been trying to make the
workers believe, and every time he
came out with the fake promise Of
returning prosperity" within some
magic "sixty days, the facts hurled
the lie back into his parasitic face.
What is the actual situation
with regard to employment? The
latest reports of the Standard
Statistics Co. show that industrial
activity during May declined 81
per cent from the month before.
Motor production declined 1872
per cent from the same month in
1929; steel declined 23.7 per cent;
iron dropped 1853 per cent; cotton
declined 28.7 per cent and btu
minous coal IL per cent.
These are the figures for May,
and even on the basis Of these fig
ures capitalist financial writer's
conclude that there can be no ques-
ton of recovery" at this time. But
the situation in June is even worse
and the prospects for July and Au-
gust are admittedly black.
Thus, the Journal of Commerce,
summarizing the latest report of
the Iron Age organ of the steel
industry, states that steel orders
from the auto industry have dropped
heavily, while orders from other in
dustries which use steel have suf-
fered sweeping decline. "Curtail-
ment in automobile production in
July" the Journal of Commerce
writes, will prove more drastic, it
now appears, than was recently ex-
pected. Indications that several
motor car plants will shut down
for two weeks or longer next month
and that the general average of OPP
eratiOns for that industry will fall
to so per cent of capacity. A Cen
trail Western steel plant catering to
the automobile trade has been shut
down and another will discontinue
production June 80"
Reports from Detroit show that
1000 men have already been laid
off in the Ford Rouge plant, pre-
liminary to the big lay-off due on
July a. The latest dispatch from
Detroit says that the Ford Motor
Co. announced two weeks shut
down, beginning July IL, and that
most of the other auto plants in the
Detroit district are planning sim
liar shut downs during July and
August. This is only in the auto
industry.
The Iron Trade Review, in its
latest issue, says: '"The smokestacks
of some Mahoning Valley sheet mills
already are rusty, and July and
August promise to be the lowest
months of the year in automobile
demand, largely because of shut
downs by Ford and other important
interests"
The New York state advisory
Committee on Employment Prob
Iems," appointed by the state indus
trial commissioner some time Sago
with a lot of loud talk about "solv-
ing the unemployment problem" has
released for publication it's report
to the state. 1t contains absolutely
nothing except suggestions for tech
meal changes in the organization of
the state employment agencies. 1t
does not even suggest more offices,
to say nothing of anything that will
make more jobs. 1t provides for a
of the existing Of
fees, with higher-priced locations
and more office furniture.