The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
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by the steel companies. General Motors and United
States Rubber Co. have announced reductions in the
earnings of the workers directly and indirectly. The
cut the steel industry wholesale cuts for
the railroad workers. the miners, the building trades
workers the longshoremen the textile workers. the pack
ing house workers, the workers in all trades and in
dustries Nor is the ten per cent wage cut the end Of
this wage sashing program of the Bosses This is but
feeler to be followed by drastic cuts if the
bosses carry through their program.
1t is clear to every worker that the bosses
determined to place the entire burden of the crisis Of
their mad capitalist system upon the shoulders of the
workers 1t is clear that the bosses unwilling to
accept lower dividends result of the crisis but
the contrary they want to use the crisis to increase
their profits at the expense the workers their wives
and children.
The capitalists of the world are now engaged in
mad race to cut the wages and living standards Of
the workers in their respective countries that each
advantage in the scramble for markets that
daily being reduced because their whole system has
impoverished the working class through unemployment
part time work and low wages The bosses Of the United
States in competition with the masters Of Great
Britain and Germany for markets. Each Of the CAPT.
alist countries is trying to its neck, and all at
the expense of the workers 1t is accident that on
the day following the crash Of the pound sterling in
England which means reduction Of the standard of
living of the Of Great Britain the bosses Of this
of the workers.
Hoover in Conspiracy
The Hoover government all the politicians of both
of the major capitalist parties part of this
spiracy to lower the living standards Of the workers
They stand ready to place the whole force of the gov
against the workers to enforce these wage cuts
The government officials who until busy talk
ing the necessity of high wages" only smoke
hide the fact that wages being cut At
the present time they state that this step necessary
and useful and will aid in the recovery of industry What
they is the recovery Of the dividends They want
to maintain the profits of the bosses intact even though
the majority Of the workers either unemployed
working part time The federal and local governments
have demonstrated during the last few months that
never before they stand ready to crush every struggle
of the workers against their exploiters.
The leaders of the American Federation of Labor
and it's various wings including the socialist party bu
reaucratS and the Mustetes part Of this conspiracy
against the workers. While Bill Green has been making
gestures against wage cuts the whole of the
Federation of Labor is used the strike breaking
agency Of the bosses In the various strikes of the miners
and textile workers, the A. F. of L. bureaucrats were
the open strkebreaker against the workers And is
characteristic of the Musteite and socialist element in
the A. F. of L. that the biggest wage cut in the history
of this country wage cut Of from IS to As per cent
being put through by the socialist usteite controlled
Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers Union The A. F. OF l..
bureaucrats directly responsible for the wage cuts
now being put through The A. F. of L. union the
AmaIgamated Iron, Steel and Tin workers Union has
over year ago accepted II per cent wage cut, thus
laying the basis the wholesale wage cut throughout
the steel industry
We cannot accept the present attack OF the bosses.
We must answer the challenge. Already know that
the workers will fight to the last ditch to defend their
living standards The struggle of the miners the tex
tile workers. the needle workers. the agricultural workers
and workers in other industries in the last
few months make this clear. There nearly twice
as many workers strike thus far this year than in
the entire of $780, The workers also learning