The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-26


ternal and external contradictions, breaks down
it's precarious sterilization, and accelerates the
flow of the revolutionary tide in the capitalist
countries and in the colonies.
8. The crisis brings incalcuable hardship
to the working class. The cruelest hardships
are mass unemployment caused in number
of capitalist countries by the sharp curtailment
of production, and the increased exploitation,
resulting from the intensification of capitalist
naturalization.
In the United States where even in the period
of increasing production in recent years the
number of workers engaged in industry has
declined owing to the extraordinary intensifi-
cation of labor; the number of unemployed,
which is rapidly increasing, is now about six
million, and in the State of New York is the
highest since 1914. Notwithstanding this enor-
nous growth of unemployment the American
bourgeosie, which is the richest in the world
has not to this day introduced state unemploy-
ment insurance.
In Germany, where the economic crisis is
only beginning three and half million work
ers have already been thrown onto the streets.
In Great Britain which has not vet entered
the crisis-phase, unemployment has grown from
one and a half to two million.
In Japan there are about one million unem-
ployed.
In fascist Italy, there are 100000 unem-
ployed there has been drastic fall in wages
and the working day has been increased.
In Poland, where one out of every three
workers is unemployed; the number of unem-
ployed being 100000. In Austria and Czecho-
slovakia there are 100000 unemployed workers
in each country.
In Latin America, where the industrial pro-
letariat is relatively small, there are 100000
unemployed.
All in all, in capitalist countries, about IT,
100000. and with their families numbering
about 60,000,000 people have been thrown into
the depths of poverty. Moreover, millions of
workers are engaged only part time and are
under the constant threat of being thrown onto
the streets entirely to swell the already enor-
nous army of unemployed. The conditions of
these masses of unemployed are all the more
unbearable, become desperate for the reason
that in capitalist countries they are as a rule
deprived of any kind of support from the state,
receive miserable doles.
Chronic unemployment is assuming even
more frightful dimensions owing to the masses
of peasants, ruined by the agrarian crisis, fill
ing the ranks of the reserve army of labor thus
still further depressing the labor market and
enabling the capitalists to reduce wages still
lower. Particularly appalling is the position
of the agricultural proletariat which is held in
bondage by the landlords, plantation owners
and farmers. In the colonies where capitalist
naturalization means ruthless determination of
labor power incalculable unemployment in in
lions of toilers. At the same time, instead of
reducing the working day, the bourgeoisie pur-
sues policy of increasing the hours and speed
ing up of labor to an intense degree.
Intensifying the pressure on the workers.
speeding up and the intensity making labor
still more exhausting and cutting wages al
ready low, the monopolist capitalist associa-
lions and their state more and more ruthlessly
hurl their attack upon the working Glass; wor-
sening the position of the working masses to
the utmost degree.
a. The effect of the world crisis upon world
capitalism is made still more disastrous for
the reason that it is maturing at the very time
when tremendous economic development is tax
ing place in the U.S.SR., which, in this respect
presents striking contrast to the whole cap
italst world. The extremely rapid progress
OF SOCIALIST industry which is developing at a
rate unparalleled in the annals of history and
is accompanied by steady improvement in the
material and cultural standard of living of
the working class, by sharp drop of unem-
ployment the growing activity of the proleta-
riat on the basis of ever-developing self-criti-
cism and struggle against bureaucracy, the
growth of creative initiative of the proletariat
Socialist competition, shock brigades, depart
ments, and whole factories) and finally, the
growing confidence of the masses of peasants
in the Soviet government and the policy of the
Communist Party, guarantee the possibility of
an accelerated rate of socialist reconstruction
of agriculture, and the turn of millions of peas
ants towards socialism as expressed in the
mass transition from petty-individual peasant
farming to large scale collective agriculture
The policy of lquidating the kulaks as class
now being applied the ruthless suppression of
all counter-revoutionary intrigues against the
proetarian dictatorship, the increasing intro
duction of the seven-hour working day and the
four-day working week, the acceleraton of the
fulfillment of the Five-year Plan so that it will
be carried out in four years-all these are
mighty achievements for the international pro-
letarian revolution. There can be no doubt
whatever that all this, altering as it does the
correlation of forces of the two economic world
systems in favor of international socialism,
makes the U.S.S.R. an even more powerful
factor than ever in the intensificaton of the
capitalist crisis and in the revolutionization of
the proletariat and of the exploited masses of
the world in general. The Communist Inter-
national point to the powerful energy and rising
enthusiasm displayed by t.. working class of