The daily worker., 1930-01-28
HOW THEY. LIE!

justification for the expenditure of such vast
sums for war purposes. "Trade recovery now
complete" prosperity is permanent" says the
president, and the secretaries of labor and OF :
CONNIE g may echo it; the National Business
Survey Conference may be an official body of
imperialists that does not care about nor see
the growing lines If the workers looking for
jobs. But the Annaist of January II tells US
different story. Thus the Annalst:
at is improbable that vigorous md sus-
tanned improvement in business leading directly
to prosperity levels will make its appearance
till after next November at the earliest. (The
Annalist puts prosperity in quotation marks ,
:. To summarize roughly production in steel
and iron, automobiles, cotton goods, electric
power, at an abnormally low level
Building construction closed the year with a
deficit of II per cent from 1928 and still trends
down :. In the past three months the number
of factory workers employed has decreased by
approximately 100000, and wages have also
decreased.
"What evidently is setting in is the very
slow action of the presidents intended relief
and the growing discrepancy between business
facts as reported from day to day in the press
and the faint and quite unsubstantiated Optim-
ism expressed in perfunctory statements from
the presidents committee
"The general tone of business is one of
forced optimism" Whistling in the dark!
This is the economic situation, and no
propaganda statements by the president of the
United States can change it.
The economic situation is steadily becoming
worse; the number of unemployed-6,00 900 900
is continually increasing; part time work is
keeping tens of millions of workers below the
level of subsistence. The situation in other
countries is no better, with 3,5OO,0O0 unem-
ployed in Germany, 100000 in England. The
social-imperialst Ramsay Macdonald looks to
imperialist Hooverism the savior of the
world and institutes National Economic Coun-
Gil to do the same taking, banboozling, decep-
tive work of Hoover's National Business Con-
ference.
The workers must see through this fraud:
they want work. In the absence of work, they
must demand social insurance. All workers
must demand shortening of the work day to
seven hours and five-day week. The work.
ers must realize the growing danger of war
in the London conference, in the continually
expanding war preparations, and must know
its goal: an attack on the Soviet Union.
Defense of the Soviet Union therefore is in
tegrally linked up with the fight for work, just
as the deception of the workers, the declaration
that trade recovery is now complete and pros
perity is permanent" is part of the war prep
arations of the U. S. imperialist government.
The workers must form unemployed councils,
linked up through committees of action with
the employed workers, the unions, and all work.
ing class organizations. The workers must not
expect that the imperialist government will
treat them mildly Workers who cannot find
job, workers who are hungry and who cannot
understand the magic words that "trade re-
covery is now complete" and prosperity is
permanent" will be roughly treated by the cap
italst authorities. The workers are getting
used to this: capitalist power is growing more
and more openly violent, is leaning toward fas-
cisn,. The workers will meet it with Workers
Defense Corps to protect the workers in their
fights.
Unemployed councils, united action of the
unemployed and employed. social insurance,
the seven-hOur, five-day week, fight against inn
perialist war, defense of the Soviet Union -
that must be the program of the entire work
ing class against the lying propaganda, the
bluff, the deception of the Hoover robber i'm
peralist government, supported by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, the socialist party,
the conference of progressive labor action, the
renegades from the party, the Trotzkyites and
Lovestonites, all of whom see organized cap
itasm', with no danger confronting it =
only slight recessions from which business is
now getting back to normal"
prosperity is permanent, says Hoover. This
is lie. Capitalism is in crisis from which
it cannot recover. 1t is trying to make the last
moves through more intense exploitation and
robbery of the working class. 1t sees no other
way out but through imperiast war.
The answer of the workers must be to build
up the Communist Party, for the joint strug-
gle of ALL workers the world over, together
with the colonial and semi-colonial peoples
against the imperialists.
Join the Communist Party and help organize
the workers for the overthrow of the system
which forces 5,500000 workers to go without
work while "trade recovery is complete. Fight
for a workers and farmers government like
in the Soviet Union, where unemployed get
social insurance, where wages increase, hours
are roluced, where the workers, not the i'm
perialists, control.