The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-10
PROFITS WERE HUGE-AND SO WERE
WAGE CUTS, SPEAKERS FACTS SHOW
Facts for Speakers


OF all workers engaged in spreading
the message Of the Communist Party
and especially those who are doing
revolutionary activities. 1t con-
tains facts and figures dealing
with all phases of working-cla life.
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Last to Be Fired, First to Be Fired
A survey made last March showed
that from 20 per cent to 80 per cent
of the Negro workers in cities like
New York, Cincinnati, St Louis and
Atlanta had been unemployed for
year or more. The percentage OF
Negro unemployed runs sometimes
from four to six times the proper
tionate amount of their population.
For example per cent of the Negro
population constitutes 25 per cent
of the unemployed per cent OF the
population making up 66 per cent of
the unemployed; or 10 per cent Of
the population getting 90 per cent of
the charity The highest dispropor-
tionate figures exist in the North
ern industrial cities where Negroes
usually do unskilled labor These
figures prove that the Negro is the
first to be fired, and get the lowest
wage and so must depend on charity
70 a greater extent that others.
In New York City the total number
Of applications for relief made to
charities in November, 1880 showed
-. an increase of "a per cent over 1929;
the number OF Negro families ap-
pealing for relief increased 300 per
cent in the same period.
The smaller Ehop-keepers have
been disappearing for quite a while
now, but as d result of the crisis this
liquidation has been greatly acceler-
ated. Financial reports state that in
the first half Of 1881, 1O,038 retail
businesses went bankrupt. At the
same time department and chain
stores were enjoying comparative
prosperity. Department store bust
ness for June was only per cent
lower than in the same months last
year while chain stores did a little
.oYer 2 per cont less business. Taking
into account lower prices the. Ma
tional City Bank states that this
sGJps an ircrcese of Is per cent in
tie volume - their business.
E2I Exile s-MIl,oaa.res Grow
z,.Iae Ford No or Company recently
SAT- las Dc.roit plant for an indie
3illsa peTi2d. The causo-5ad bust
ulla. Last year was also q bad year
IL the Fords. They made $4,000
600 profit in 1880. a few months ago,
it was reported that the Ford Motor
Company had a total of 100000, 900
cas- resources.
The concentration OF wealth on one
hand and the pauperization of the
working-class goes OH full speed
during the crisis. In the year of the
stock market crash, 1929, 81 persons
were added to that class Of Million
aires which had incomes of over
100000 Supermilnonaires who ad-
mitted incomes of 100000 or more
numbered &c in 1928 and SO in 1922
Acording to statistics of the Treasury
Department there were nearly 10000
nnilliOna!res in this country in 1928
OF course most Of these had their in
vestlu ants sailed away in such way
that the government couldn't collect
tax7i. -Four hundred ninety-si;;
person paid taxes that year on mill