The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-01
UNEMpL. Dyed
GROW IN CRISIS
1880 Outlook w orse
Big Battles Loom

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perity of the last six years, as a
pure illusion!"
Lovestone still continues to foster
this illusion. He says the workers
do not have this prosperity-as if
the workers ever have prosperity
under capitalism-but that the bos-
ses are enjoying it. Which is just
another means of attempting by
propaganda to soften the sharp
crisis now eating at the vitals OF
U. S. imperialism.
The Daily Worker sounded the
alarm on unemployment, the Com
munist Party put forward a pro-
gram of action for unemployment
relief and for mass struggle against
wage cuts. Mass unemployment is
now admitted by the capitalist news
paper. A dispatch from Washington
to the New York Times says this
about unemployment:
Unemployment will be the
greatest problem before the Unit
ed States in the next decade, ac-
cOrding to experts of the Amer
lean Economic Association and
American Statistical Association,
who discussed it at their closing
meeting today"
TLo oo1;+o1;e+ -oropcioS con no
lessening of unemployment for at
least 10 years! The fight for I'M
employment relief paid by the state,
on the basis of full wages, under
/ the supervision of the workers be-
comes a foremost demand of the
immediate class struggle.
The Importance of the demand OF
the Communist Party for the "abo-
lition of private employment agen-
cies; the establishment of free en-
ployment agencies, administered by
the workers representatives charg-
ed with the administration of I'M
employment benefits was especial
ly brought to the fore as a result
of the recent storming of private
unemployment office in New York
More than $50 jo' IS workers
rushed the Reliable Employment
Agency and threatened to beat the
proprietors because of their adj
vertisements for jobs which did not
exist, and for which they made the
workers pay. A police squad helped
the employment agency proprietors
escape the wrath of the workers
The men surged up the stairs and
tore down the fake cards and de-
manded their money back.
The capitalist newspapers are
running reviews of the economic
situation during the past year. The
vast majority of them point out that
U. S. imperialism, in spite OF the
apparent high production maintain
ed in the early part Of the year, is
in the throes Of the greatest, most
far reaching crisis in its history.
| Only two crises Of the severity OF
the present ever confronted U. s.
imperialism-that was in 1907, and
1913-14.
The present crisis will be far
worse in its effects on the work
ers in view Of the fact that gigantic
machinery has been It in motion
by ver-Green-Lamont for drastic
wage-cutting drives and to attempt
to Illustrate mass demands for I'M
employment relief.
Further figures on the sharp de-
cline in the most important basic
industries are given by the Depart
ment of Commerce. Though these
figures show tremendous drops, still
we must always take the facts
handed to US by capitalist agencies
especially those run by Hoover and
Lamont, whose whole policy is to
drum up prosperity bunk, with q
grain of salt and big dash of mus
tard. Says the Department of Com
merce N. Y. Times, Dec. 81:
industrial and manufacturing
output IN November shoaoed a de-
cline from both the preceding
month and November of last gear,
according to 6 surrey made public
todGy By the Department of Com
merce.
'Declines IN manufacturing out
put, as compared aOith the pre-
vious month, avere registered IN
al groups, 1oith the greatest de-
crease8, 81 and SO points, respec-
tiUely, on the indeG chart being re-
corded in iron and steel and au-
tomobiles."
What of the future? The leading
capitalist statisticians say that the
workers will be faced with severe
unemployment for at least ten years.
That means that the 100000 now
unemployed will grow into many
millions more.
In every industrial center wage
cuts are being forced on the work
ers. To these attempts to cut down
their already low standard of living,