The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-19
UNEMPL Dyed IN
drive FOR MAR, %
CONFERENCE:
New Battles for Work
or Wages


gency conference on unemploy-
ment," but which has wound up
with questioning whether there is
an emergency or not. Unable tc
break the influence of the revolu-
tionary trade unions and the Com
munists among the workers by SIAN
der, they have for all practical pur-
poses accepted the view of the
bosses that "maybe there amt nc
unemployment after all" and have
stalled at doing no more than re-
questing Mayor Walker to have the
police take a census of the unem-
ployed." These social fascists thus
unite with the bosses in begging
the whole question.
Meanwhile the entire machinery
of capitalist propaganda is thrown
into high gear to spread the lie that
employment is Increasing" and
that Sin a few weeks" all will be
o. K.
One of the most glaring fakeries
of the Hoover government on the
matter of unemployment is the
figures just published by the De-
partment of Labor on unemploy-
ment in February.
The final conclusion of these fig
ures is that unemployment increased
during February, in all places re-
porting to the Department of La
Dor, one-tenth of l per cent.
What is the statement of the
Hoover liars with regard to their
figures? The statement is-that
unemployment is decreasing!
All the capitalist papers publish
the Department of Labor report
with headlines stating there is an
increase in employment. That is in
line with the general policy of the
imperialists to fool the masses of
workers as to the true conditions.
But their gall is unequalled. They
simply twist their own figures
(Which are tremendous underestima-
tons in the first place. to make it
appear that unemployment is not
increasing.
This will fool no one, least of all
the innumerable workers who every
day find themselves without jobs
and with no prospects of getting
any.
An increase even of the seeming
smallness of one-tenth of per cent
in unemployment is drastic blow
against the prosperity" bunk of the
capitalists.
In the severe crisis of 1922, in
the depression of 1924 and 1927, the
amount of employment, within the
depressions and crisis, slightly in
creased during February and March.
This time it decreased
While the front pages of all capt.
talist papers, using the twisting,
garbling and actual classification of
the figures of the Department of
Labor to argue for increases, we
find on the financial section of the
New York Times the fact that there
was net decrease in the workers
employed. In those plants where
there were increases the increase
for this time Of the year was the
lowest for the past eight years!
They say:
Employment data as shown by
combined reports from manufac-
ture and seven other major indus
tries have only recently been in
troduced. They show, however,
decrease of one-tenth of per
cent from January and of not
quite per cent since September;
the decrease since that autumn
date for manufacturing industry
alone being 9 per cent"
The Times financial writer goes
on to show that in manufacturing
industries, where the Department of
Labor claims an increase of one
tenth of 1 per cent, this is the low
est increase for the past eight years
in fact, can be compared only
with the severe crisis of 1922. The
Times states:
"The Labor Departments report
on employment in the United States
during February, published yester
day, was pretty much what had been
expected. i. Employment in the 12,-
56S establishments, reporting for 81
separate manufacturing industries,
increased one-tenth of 1 per cent