The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-14

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end. At the same time came al
would not make public even i
ments between capitalist im-<
perialist nations upon which
the London naval treaty was
based, and at the same time
came also the beginning of the
sedition case against National
Miners Union and Communist lead
ers in Pennsylvania, and the push
ing of preparations for the Fish
Committees attack on the militant
workers of New York. Can anyone
doubt that among the secret data
of the naval conference are plans
for war on the Soviet Union? Why
else the secrecy?
White Terror Grows.
Over the week end the New York
state industrial commissioner an
nounced two per cent less employ
ment in factories in the state dur
ing June as compared with May Of
this year. There have been fur
Their reductions in July, culminat-
ing with the declaration Saturday
of the shut down "for ten days"
of II shops of the New York Cen
trail railroad, of which three are in
New York State. At the same time,
Western Electric declares "two
weeks vacation" of all its plants
except a few repair shops-throwing
out of work $4,000 employees. Elk
perience with these "vocations"
in the Milwaukee shops shows that
only part of the crew is hired again.
The Ford Motor Co. has shut
down all its plants from July II
to July 49," and has cancelled all
shipments of steel.
Reduction Now and to Come.
This is a further blow to the
steel mills, which last weeks New
York Times Annalist describes as
in this condition: Builders of
railroad cars are exhausting their
orders and three shops in the Chi
cago district have shut down, others
running from rs to 40 per cent of
capacity the prospects of a
decided pickup for car orders this
year would seem decidedly poor E.
Western rail mills are on rs per
cent basis with little tonnage to
work on" After stating that the
steel industry as whole is work
ing only Sc per cent capacity, as
compared with 60 per cent the week
before, and holding out some hope
because an even greater decrease
was expected, the Annalist goes on
to say, "The relative suspension of
steel production is expected, how
ever, to continue throughout july"
and later it remarks about the steel
industry, at quite accurately fails
to see any particularly cheering
indications for August. Therefore
War!
The Hoover Lies.
The Annalist, a magazine by and
for business men complains that
the government has told the bust
ness world the same lies about I'M
employment as it told the rest of
the country. 1t says:
"The growing observation-disclosures of
the business public and the press is
rather amusingly indicated by caus-
tic comments upon the govern
ment's ratio of 2 per cent unem-
ployed to the total population.
Perhaps this farcical and ridiculous
method of concealing the signifi-
canoe of unemployment figures will
be emphasized by some mathemati-
cal humorist who may attempt to
work out a statement of unemploy-
ment on the basis of total popula-
ion of babies under / year of age,
etc."
Admit Per Cent in Newark.
The fake figures issued from
Washington are partially contra
dicted by reports by census bureau
figures for particular states. Thus
the figures just released for New
Jersey show II, 705 adult workers UNI
employed out of a total population
of 439,723 men, women, housewives
school children, inhabitants of ole
age homes and babes in arms ir
Newark. Similarly for Bayonne
where the oil plants are, there are
$3.50 out of work in a total popula.
ton of S5,796; in Paterson, with its
textile and dye Houses there are
admittedly 1886 entirely out Of
work.
The capitalist program for these
out of work men and women is te
starve them into scabbing on those