The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-29
100000 u. S.
J0Bl. E:SS TO Join
WORLD STRUGGLE:
Organize Against Lies
of Hoover & Co.

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month in the last sixteen
years.
They take a slap at Davis falsi-
fication, saying: /
"If statistics are to serve as
guide to intelligent industrial
planning, they must, as the secre-
tary OF labor realizes, be protected
against political juggling"
Yet even the figures of the New
York State commissioner of labor
and of the more "honest" capitalist
financial organs do not begin to
give a picture Of the growing mass
unemployment. This is done pur-
posely to keep the workers from or
ganizing for unemployment relief.
Reports from the textile industry,
both North and South, show more
and more jobless. In New England
textile mills part time schedules
prevail in all mills. At Greentille,
S. c., many cotton mills, particular
ly those producing print cloth and
narrow sheeting, curtailed produc-
ton still further,
The Financia Chronicle, Jan. 25,
says: "At Lawrence, Mass, the past
week witnessed a slight falling off
in employment in the local textile
mills"
Further Cuts in Textiles.
This follows previous severe I'M
employment. The same capitalist
organ reports that nearly every tex
tile plant in the country is further
reducing its working forces.
Unemployment is still large in
a number of Cities" said a state
ment issued by the Union Trust Co.
of Detroit, on January 20. Their
report on the automobile industry
shows how drastic the jobless situa-
ton in Detroit is, despite the fine
phrases of Mr.. Hoover and his La
Dor department mouthpiece, Davis:
Automobile production in De-
cember again registered a decline,
amounting in that month to Ais
cent of November production, as
compared with the All per cent
decrease of November production
from that of October"
Plainly, this says that automobile
production in December, 1929, was
800 per cent below the October
production! How many auto work
ers are out on the street the bank
does not dare report. The same De-
troit bank reports a IS per cent
drop in building work for December.
A He'll of an Increase"
For the entire country, the +. W.
Dodge Corporation reports that
building dropped 81 per cent in De-
cember, 1929, below the same month
in 1928. This is the fruit of the
Hoover campaign to increase build
ing. Such increases" show results
only in the growing army of unem-
ployed.
An indication of how severe the
present crisis is, and that is, grow
ing, is contained in the statements
of bank clearings. This is an indi-
cation of current business and gives
the lie to every capitalist agency
which says that "btsiness is i'm
proving" Says the New York
Times, January 25:
perhaps the most striking statis-
tical weekend showing was the pre-
liminary statement of bank checks
drawn and cleared during the week.
For the first time in many years
their total was far below the CORE
spending week in a series of twelve
months. Estimated decrease from
1929 in the whole United States was
% per cent, in New York city alone
it was SO per cent, and in each case
the total value Of the weeks ex-
changes was below that of any year
since 1924. 1t will be remembered
that, in December, as whole, al
though clearings fell II IL per cent
below 1923, they largely exceeded
1927 and 1926"
This shows the crisis sharpening
at a tremendous rate and indicates
further increased unemployment for
the workers.
Organize-Don't Starve, Fight!
Immediate organization of all
workers to press the fight for work
or unemployment relief is the i'm
mediate question before the entire
working class, not only in the
United States, but of every capital
list country in the world.
Every worker in the United
States must mobilize in daily work
at factory gates for the interna-
tional demonstration against unem-
ployment on February 26. Councils
of the unemployed must be organ
lied everywhere. But unemployment
is not only an issue for the starving
100000 jobless, but Immediately
affects all workers because of the
drastic wage cuts being instituted
by the bosses, attempting to use the
unemployed as lever against the
employed worker in the present
crisis. Committees Of action, uniting
both employed and unemployed
workers, must be set up to prevent
the bosses from dividing the working
class and organize sll workers for