The daily worker., 1930-03-28
By HARRY CANNES.

the United States would end in sixty days.
The March 7th statement by Hoover was his
answer to the mass unemployed demonstra-
tions throughout the United States, under the
leadership of the Communist Party.
1t is the most garing lie issued by Hoover.
In every detail Hooyor's statement has been
smashed by the subsequent facts.
In order to give his propaganda weight,
Hoover on March 7th called into conference
such luminares as Robert P. Lamont, secre-
tary of commerce, James j. Davis, secretary
of labor, Francis l. Jones, director general of
the federal employment service, and assistant
secretary of commerce, DR.. Julius Klein
Here is the gist of Hoovers reply to the
1,250,000 workers who Joined the worldwide
demonstration in the United States, demand
ing Work Wages"
"The low point of business and employment
was the latter part of December and early
January. Since that time employment has
been slowly increasing, and the situation is
much better today than at that time.
All the evidences indicate that the worst eff
fects of the (stock market) crash upon employ
ment will have been passed by the next sixty
days"
In order to emphasize this capitalist propa-
ganda, Robert p. Lamont and James J. Davis
issued another statement in which they said:
Various surveys show that, based upon all
trades there has been an increase in employ
ment in the country. In factory indus
tries as whole employment has increased
about 8 per cent in this period
Some time has passed since Hoover, by Of
ficial decree, doomed the crisis. What has
actually happened? Just exactly the reverse
of what he ordered King Canute Hoovers
command that the rising tide of crisis receed
has failed
They Cannot Stomach the Lie
First of all, the deliberate lie of Lamont and
Davis in declaring that employment has in
creased about s. per cent" could not be stom-
ached by such a staunch supporter of capi-
talism as the New York World. The lie was
too glaring for them and they say (3-21-3O):
Hardly had the reverberations of these
prOnouncements died down before the sta
tisticians in Mr.. Davis's own department
published their regular monthly summary
of employment conditions in manufacturing
establishments. This showed that employ
ment during February had increased one
tenth of l per cent. Their previous month
ly report had showed increase during
January. Where, then, did Messrs. Davis
and Lamont get their optimistic per cent?
The statisticans in the Department of Labor j,
not only refute their chief but they also
show that the seasonal increase in employ
last month was smaller than in Feb
ruary of any one of the seven preceding
years for which the bureau has informa-
ton"
In February, James ]. Davis and Francis l.
Jones attached their name to the Industrial
Employment Information Bulletin in which
they contradict their own lie about "an in
crease in employment in the country" The
February Information Bulletin of Messrs.
Davis and Jones begins its "a closely printed
pages by saying:
''All reports indicate that industry made
no substantial gain Gin employment during
the month of February; in some industries
slight recession was noted"
But this is not ALL The figures of the De-
partment of Labor are based on doctored re-
ports from the bosses in the big industries,
which are again juggled by the Department
of Labor. Yet even these figures give the lie
to the Hoover pronouncement.
The Annalist, one of the leading Wall Street
organs, in analyzing the February report on
employment comes to the conclusion that "em-
ployment (dropped) 1.3 points," and there
was "a decline in payrolls of 1.6 points,
Furthermore, they say: "The Annalist sea-
sonal indexes for employment show an aver
age gain of employment in February for the
last ten years over the preceding January of
the same number of years amounting to 15
per cent"
What is the full significance of this fact?
For the past ten years, which includes the
severe crisis of 1922, the sharp depressions
of 1924 and 1927 without exception, Febru-
ary has shown an increase in employment In
February, 1880, there was a tremendous de-
crease in employment-for the first time in
ten years-indicating deep sharpening of the
crisis and an unprecedented growth in the un-
employed army which already is many hun
dreds of thousands over 100000
Crisis WOrsens in Basic Industries
An examination of the conditions in the
basic industries shows that this could not be
otherwise While the headlines of the capt.
talist press shrek "upturns," improvements"
prosperity returning" the facts show the
precise opposite.
These few lines from the New York Times
(3-23-30) blast the torrentous flood of 'pros-
perity" statements and editorials in the capi
talist press:
Reports from the steel and other basic
industries continued to show dropping pro-
duction. and the figures for such indexes of
commercial activity freight-car loadngs
and bank clearings remained unfavorable"
Steel Goes Down.
No amount of propaganda from Hoover and
his whole pack of liars can wipe out the fact
that steel and other basic industries contin-
ued to show dropping production"
Steel production for March will show drop
miners to the pseudo -progressives is of snecial