The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
BY DOMENICK FLAIANI
Communist Party Candidate for Ninth Co
gresSional District

gressonal District.
quarter OF million workers are now nm
employed in New Jersey, walking the streets
IN vain looking for work. The factories and
mllls now operating most of them at part time
are consuming the very life of the working
men and women through the terrific speed-up
system. The conditions of the past few wears
are memory, with the bosses savagely cutting
down wages, lengthenng the hours of work,
taking young workers and women workers to
replace adult male workers.
New Jersey has been the scene of militant
struggles of the working class especially in the
last year, have we witnessed the miIitancv of
the workers in their determination of struggle
against the brutal conditions imposed upon
them by the ruling class.
The ruling class knowing the significance Of
this years election in New Jersey is carving
out Its plan of fascist oppression of workers
and OF war preparation.
New Jersey is an important center for nren.
aration for the coming war where the LARGEST
war industries of the country are concentrated
where powder and poisonous gases are manu-
featured.
Territorially the fourth of the smallest
states, New Jersey ranks sixth in manufacture
ing as to value of products and number of
establishments. and seventh as to number of
wage earners and value added by manufacture,
Nearly one-haf million wage workers are EN-.
ployed in the trustified industries.
petroleum refining ranks first according to
the value of product. The manufacture of silk
Is next. Smelling and refining is third. motor
Vehlcles fourth, chemicals fifth, foundry and
machine shops sixth, electrical machine apnar
atus and supplies seventh Textile and electrical
industries employ the greatest number of work
ers.
What are the chief issues facing the workers
in the New Jersey industries?
L. Unemployment is the burning problem
facing hundreds of thousands of New Jersey
workers. In Newark alone over $4,000 workers
are today walking the streets in a homeless
quest for jobs. Evictions of jobless workers is
today the lot of many thousands.
2. An intense naturalization, speed-un nro.
cess Is going on in the industries. ACCORDING
TO the State Chamber of Commerce Bulletin. the
number of industrial establishments decreased
70 per cent between 1919 and 1925, the number
Oh wage earners decreased 16 per cent and
wages dropped per cent. While on the other
hand the total value of products increased near
~ oo per cent within the same period. And
"iCnih tne years 1925 up to now, this process of
less workers, greater productivity per wo-ker
n.
Wage-cuts, lengthening of hours of work.
throwing out men and employing women and
girls, part time for thousands of workers. are
all indications of the worsening of the living
and working conditions of the New JERSEY
workers.
D. With tens of thousands unemployed, other
thousands on part time, the bosses have at
tackled the workers along the consuming front
are raising the cost of living, the cost of the
essential commodities and of transportation.
Inc price OF milk and other food products have
gone up in this garden state In many work.
ing class districts rents are being raised. The
public utilities of the Wall Street bankers, are
itching for more dividents, in spite of the fact
that their past earnings tremendous
d. The housing conditions of the working
people Of New Jersey are rotten. Especially
is this true of the houses that the Negro work.
ers are forced to live in.