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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23

From the peak month the work
ers' incomes have declined 59.2 per
cent, while the cost of living has
dropped 23.6 per cent only.
Workers losses in income have
been more than twice what they
gained through reduction in the cost
of living.
"The real buying power of workers
in factories and on railroads now is
only little more than one-half what
it was during the peak month of 1929.
Buying Power Destroyed
What sort of an economic philoso-
ply is it that permits employers and
industrial management to assume
that buying power can be stimulated
and be made more active through a
destruction of the power to buy?
"Can more goods be sold when peo-
pie are compelled to buy less? Can
the market for the sale of goods con-
sumo and use more when the pur-
chasing power of those who consti-
tute the market is destroyed? OBJ
viously, such an economic theory is
contradictory and unsound.
Wage Cutting Injuries Business
"Wage cutting has greatly injured
the amusement and luxury indus
tries, forced the removal of thousands
of telephones from thousands of
homes and business Offices, and cur
tailed the volume of business done by
communication, transportation and
public service industries.
"Wage reductions have enlarged
the red side of the business legder.
''They injure all and help no one.
They do not point to the road along
which industrial management must
travel in order to reach prosperity.
High Wages Mean Prosperity
Unemployment will be overcome,
business will improve, economic sta
bility will be restored when the own
ers and management of industry
cease their pursuit of stupid, un-
wise, destructive wage-cutting policy.
"We will start back when wages
stop going down.
"a return of prosperity will cor
respond with the restoration of
wages and buying power.
"When there is placed in the hands
of the people an enlarge d buying
power, when wages ascend and in
comes increase and when commodity
prices rise, prosperity will return.
"People cannot be employed when
there is no demand for manufactured
goods.
"There can be no demand for man.
ufactured goods where there is no
market.
"There can be no market when those
who make up the market are unabee
to buy. The power to buy must be
restored, and this can only be done
through the creation of employment
and the payment of high wages"
Firm Opposition to Pay Cuts
eve shall protest and oppose wage
reductions wherever imposed" Mr.
Green concluded.
eve refuse to accept as final any
reduction in wages imposed through
force and as a result of economic
pressure. If forced to yield to su-
perior strength, economic or indus
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23
JOB INSURANCE
Furtherance Urged By Tex.
tile Union Head

New York Thomas F. Mcmahon,
president of the United Textile Work
ers of America, in his report to the
biennial convention of the union here,
urged the delegates to favor a system
of compulsory unemployment insur-
ance to be established under federal
or state control.
The jobless worker, he said, had
little hope for relief except through
charity. 1t was therefore necessary
to secure some better method of al
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23
President Of A. F. Of L. Says Low Pay Causes
Unemployment and Decreased Business Or
ganized Labor Will Oppose All Pay Cuts and
Fight to Restore Former Wage Schedules.

Washington.-Wil Green, pres.
ident of the American Federation OF
Labor, made vigorous attack or
wage cutting employers and riddleo
the cost-of- living justification for pay
slashes.
He said that pay reductions have
not only resulted in tremendous bust.
ness losses because of the smaller
buying power Of wage and salary
earners, but have also added large
numbers to the unemployed army.
He declared that organized labor
will continue it's resistance to wage
slashing and will use every oppor-
tunity to restore former pay sched-
ules.
Mr.. Green said, in part:
Wage Standards Lowered
"For almost three years the own
ers and management of industry have
with few exceptions followed a de.
structive, distressing wage-cutting pol.
icy.
"Wage standards which had beer
built through years of effort have
been lowered, and as a result millions
of workers have been reluctantly
forced to adjust their living stand
ards upon lower level.
Through this enforced policy Of
wage cutting imposed upon workers
in spite of their solemn protests, buy.
ing power has been destroyed and the
market for the sale of goods has beer
curtained and restricted
"The loss in wages and salaries re-
sulting from unemployment and wage
reductions for 1880 and 1881 amount.
ed to s26,667, 100000
eve can properly speculate upor
the effect which must follow a de.
struction of such vast buying power
as is represented in these figures.
Low Wages Reduce Sales
at is presumed that reduction il
wages are based upon the theory thai
cost of manufactured goods will bt
I reduced and that the prices of com
modities will be less, and as resul
more goods will be sold.
"What are the facts and what ha:
actually happened? A reduction il
the wages of steel workers was no
followed by an increase in the sal,
of steel products, nor was a reduc
tion in the wages of coal miners fol
lowed by an increase in the sale o.
bituminous coal.
"The same results have followed
the imposition of wage reductions il
all other lines of industrial produc
ton. Low wages have been followed
by reduced sales.
"Wage reductions and closed fac
! tories are correlated.
"Wage cutting has produced chaos
misery, unemployment and decreas
in the volume Of goods sold.
| Cost-Of- Living Wages Unsound
"The argument that reduced wage
were justified because of a decreas
in the cost of living is fallaciou
and unsound
"The facts show that the income
of workers began to decline in Sep
tember, 1929.
This preceded most slight and i'm
perceptible reduction in living cost
which began two months later, in No
J vember, 1929.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23

Irving Trust Company, nominated tc
be trustees, is preparing a report or
each.
Hearings here have been given an
other sensation in the form of charges
to the effect that prior to the bank
ruptcy the United transferred ST.
100000 in cash to new Delaware
corporation formed in March. These
charges were made by counsel repre-
senting Pennsylvania creditors. II
was charged the money was paid for
stock in the new corporation and that
this was but subterfuge to transfer
the money out of the reach of cred
itors.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23
Chaos Produced By Three Years
OF Wage Cutting, Green Declares

trial, we will bide our time and when
the first favorable opportunity comes
we will strike back and fight with all
our strength to restore the wage rates
and conditions which have been taken
away"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23

The spirit of confidence is derived,
of course, from the rise of prices, es-
pecially of prices in the stock and
bond markets, the Labor Bureau con-
cluded. There is superstition in the
United States that the trend Of stock
prices forecasts the trend of business
some months in advance.
We call it a superstition because
there is little evidence for it in his
tory.
Sometimes stock prices lag behind
business conditions, sometimes they
go in the opposite direction.
The stock market is almost wholly
a speculative one, based on the spec
ulative psychology; it does not neces-
sarily reflect real conditions.
Spectators are wrong about as
often as they are right in their an
ticipation of what is to happen.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23

GENTLY to warrant current price lev
els, it is contended."
Therein is confession that present
gains are not on a solid foundation
The Times then goes on to state the
bankers position:
However, the opinion is voiced
that if the 'share-the-work campaign
results in 40-hour week as the basis
for industry, it ultimately will bring
substantial reduction in unemploy-
ment, although in this connection it
is asserted that most industries are
now working less than 40 hours a
week."
The upshot of the whole statement
is that the bankers, aiming at the 40
hour week and claiming that most in
dustries now work less, see no hope
whatever for more employment or the
end of depression, as far as the work
ers are concerned. Which indicates
that the bankers have learned moth
ing and are inclined to desire to
perpetuate their ignorance.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1932-09-23
WHAT NEXT?

A safety gasoline is being offered.
1t is not infammable. Matches can be
lighted and immersed in the fluid,
without ignition. Engines must be
adjusted to it's use.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20
RED OCTOBER IN
MASS PAGEANT
Election Rally Tickets
Now Ready

NEW YORK.-The history of the
Russian Revolution and the achieve
ments of the workers in the Soviet
Union in face of opposition by the
capitalist class throughout the world
will be dramatically portrayed in a
mass pageant which the League of
Workers Theatre is preparing for
presentation at the final election rally
which the Communist Party will hold
in Madison Square Garden, 50th St.,
and Eighth Ave. on Sunday, Nov. s,
Z p. m. This rally will be climax to
the Communist Election Campaign,
and will also celebrate the 18th An
niversary of the U. S. S. R.
The mass pageant will include
scenese on conditions in Russia before
the revolution, and of battles in the
streets when the workers under the
leadership of the Bolsheviks crushed
the Russian bourgeoise The pageant
will also portray the attempts by the
capitalist nations to destroy the re-
volution through blockade and arm
ing of the Whites. Two of the
scenes in the pageant will contrast
the success of the Five Year Plan
with employment for all workers with
the closed factories, breadlines, and
hunger in capitalistic countries.
To help meet the expenses Of the
rally, 1900 seats have been reserved
at $100 each. General admission is 40
cents. Tickets can be secured on the
fifth floor, so East 18th st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20
The Difference Between
Hoover and Roosevelt

THE COMMUNIST PARTY has been pointing out that there
is difference between Hoover and Roosevelt The
Democratic and Republican Parties two wings of the
reactionary bird of preycapitasm Roosevets pro-
gram is that of Hoover's sung only in demagogc
pitch What the Communists say is true confirmed by
the semofficia publication Affairs, Washington weekly
review in its issue of October 7th This magazine says:
What 10iU the democrats do if and When they
take command after March 4th. A study of RoOSe-
rets speeches suggest difference IN manner rather
than in method. Political philosophers generally
cIude that the chief differences to be expected u0oud
be Governor Rooserets urging and signing of bill
modifying the Voseod Act, a0horeas presumably Hoo
a0ould discourage and perhaps veto such
Otherwise far as areS, tariffs bonus, rail
roads, reconstruction ETC. concerned the differ
betaOeen the taco parties difficult to define IN
terms of actual legislation erercutive action"
This capitalist journal tells the truth On all essential
questions of oage cuts unemployment relief and insurance.
Dperins aVGr rights of the corks Roosevelt and HooVer
the same.
Only the Communist Party fights for the rights and in
terests of the workers-Vote Communist
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20

LONDON, Oct. 19.-Pushing
the preparations for imperial
list armed Intervention against
the Soviet Union, the British
National Government yester-
day gave notice of the termin-
alton of the trade treaty with
the Soviet Union. The act of
denouncing the treaty was carried out
by the former Socialist leader and
present Dominions Minister in the
imperialist government, j. H Thomas
in an address before the House OF
Commons. The denunciation is de-
scribed in the imperialist press as the
sharpest reversal of British trade
policy. It is generally regarded here
as a definite war move against the
Soviet Union.
Thomas defended the termination
of the Soviet treaty on the grounds
that it was in violation of the agree
ments reached at the recent Imperial
Economic Conference. He ignored the
fact that the Soviet agreement was
in existence months before the con-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20

The Provisional Committee repre-
sents go A. F. of L. locals in the New
York A. F. OF L. Trade Union Com
mittee for Unemployment Insurance
and Relief, SO societies in the Fed
Grafton of Fraternal Orders for So
cial Insurance and 40 branches of
the Unemployed Council of Greater
New York, unions, block committees,
etc.
Meet! Elect Delegates!
The Provisional Committee for
Winter Relief calls on all workers in
the shops, in the unions, clubs, and
fraternal orders, in the breadlines
and relief agencies, upon the workers
in every neighborhood, to meet at
once and elect their delegates to the
conference. They should send Gre
dentials of the elected delegates and
also contributions for conference ex-
penses to the Provisional Committee
at 10 E. 18th st. The conference
will work out concrete demands and
plan the whole city wide struggle to
win them.
The Committee has issued call
to action which points out that OF
over a million jobless in New York
facing the fourth winter of the crisis,
less than ten per cent get any relief.
Intimidation and discrimination are
practised against foreign born and
Negroes, young and single workers to
exclude them from any help.
"Job Sharing" Is Wage Cut.
The employers, says the Commit
tee, are vigorously resisting all at
tempts to increase the amount of re-
lief, and are pushing the Job Shar-
ing Plan" which is the same as Hoo
ver's stagger system, and means
slashing the wages of those who still
have jobs, so that the capitalists will
not have to give even as little as they
do now for relief. The committee
calls:
SISTER and brothers, we must I'M
| tie to resist this attack on our very
lives We must prepare to defend
our homes and our families. Only
where workingmen ana women have
struggled unitedly Tor the right to a
decent living have they been saved
from wage cuts. lay-cffs, euctions,
and starvation.
LET us join forces in common
struggle for immediate and adequate
winter relief for all those in need for
UNEMPLOYMENT Insurance Let us
put aside all differences of race, color,
creed, or political opinion to unite for
the great task ahead Of lis
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20
Admit 10 Per
Cent Starving
This Winter

NEW YORK.-Ten per cent of the
entire population of this state will be
starving this winter and will need
relief, said a statement issued yes
terday by the State Temporary
Relief Administration. This outfit,
whose attitude toward the crisis that
is wrecking the lives of millions OF
workers and their families is indi-
Gated by its name, declares for only
10o000,000 month to feed all these
families, plus the as yet not raised
SIS, 100000 total for the winter which
the Gibson committee for New York
City alone may provide, and plus
whatever other private funds there
may be. Last year workers half
starved on $5O,oO0,00O relief for the
state, and by the committees own
statement the situation is worse this
winter.
It must be remembered that these
collections for relief come largely
from compulsory contribution of
workers, checked off their pay enve-
lopes.
william Hodson, director Of the
Welfare Council, stated yesterday
1.-THE coming winter will be the most
serious and difficult in our history
Form Committees!
All this means that New York
workers, both in the city and up
state. must work fast. There must
be united front unemployment COM
mittees of action in every block
street, breadline, flop house and at
every relief and job agency. En-
ployed and unemployed workers must
unite for a struggle for relief, against
evictions such as was never seen be-
fore. It is the only way to live
through the winter. Demand the
5000 100000 being given the bankers
go for relief to the starvingl
Prepare for the national hunger
march on Washington for $50 imme-
date winter relief and unempioy-
ment insurance at the expense of the
employers and the government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20

the latest exposure Of the treachery
of the Labor Party brothers Of the
American Socialist Party leaders. In
Birkenhead two weeks ago, P. Allery
Laborite, member of the city gov
eminent council declared: my Party
has no sympathy with the recent dis
turbances in Birkenhead." These
disturbances" were made by thous-
ands Of jobless demonstrating fol
more relief, and the jobless won. But
Socialists have no sympathy with
that.
1t was disclosed at Birkenhead, tbs
relief cut to IL shillings ($168) a
week had been ordered by the council
when it was controlled by the Labor
Party.
Similarly, the Means Test, a
scheme of throwing 100000 unem-
ployed off the relief lists altogether
and cutting down the dole of others
was first proposed by the Macdonald
government while it was still Labor
Party government.
Murderous Means Test.
1t is against the Means Trust that
the main demands of the unem-
ployed demonstrators in England
are levied. Typical figures are those
from Monmouthshire, where the
county council boasts that it has
saved" by cutting down relief
through the Means Test, 1890
pounds ($4,l82) a week. and has cut
TAO families off the relief altogether
And the county council says that il
dares not publish full figures, be-
cause the National Government will
then say they have applied the test
too gently, and will take over the
reductions business in that county
and cut much deeper.
Forced Labor.
All over the country there IS evil
dence of forced labor under the pro-
visions of the test. Labor Of all sorts
as a substitute for relief, with pay in
food only or few pennies at most
is being used to cut the wages of
workers still employed, and throw
them out of work.
National Hunger March.
The scores of demonstrations, some
of them successful, led up to great
national hunger march on London
the first contingents of which started
from GLASGOW, Sept. IS. A big united
front committee representing the
Communist Party and many labor
unions, with Tom Mann as its chair
man, is in charge of the march. Lo-
cal committees were organized all
over the industrial districts. The
District Committee of the London
Trades Union endorsed the march
and called for mass demonstrations
in London to welcome the marchers
and fight the Means Test.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20
JObless Aid Bronx
Strikers in Fight
Against Wage-Cuts

The strike of the moulders Of the
Bronx Brass Foundry is succeeding
under the leadership Of the Metal
Workers Industrial Union. The
strikers, who are fighting against q
So a week cut, which is their fourth
cut, are determined to carry on the
fight until the bosses withdraw the
wage cut and recognize the shop
committee.
Since the beginning of the strike,
the bosses are advertising for scabs
but the militant picketing and the
solidarity of the unemployed made it
impossible for the boss to gather more
than a handful scabs out of the
hundreds of workers, who responded
to the advertisements. Due to this,
the boss made an offer, that he is
willing to withdraw the wage cut, if
the strikers allow scabs to remain
on the job.
This offer was turned down by the
strikers and they continue the picket
ing TO win all their demands,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20

ference, as well as the opposition ex-
pressed during the conference by seven
British Ministerial delegates TO the
demands Of Premier Bennett Of Can
ada that the British Government bar
imports from the Soviet Union.
Several of the British delegates adj
mitted at the time that such action
would result in increasing the cost Of
living for the already impoverished
British workers. This is admitted
even now in the imperialist press
which declares that the immediate
practical effect of the termination Of
the Soviet trade treaty will be to de-
priVe British consumers of large
quantities of low-priced lumber, fish
and grain"
In defending the action of the Ma
tional Government of conservatives
headed by the former shining light Of
the Socialist International, Ramsay
Macdonald, Thomas made a SANDER
Gus attack on the Soviet Union but
refused to present any proof of his
ISLANDERS. He trotted out the old inn
perialist lie of Soviet dumping, re-
Gently used by Hoover in his Cleve-
land speech in an attempt to evade
capitalist responsibility for the de-
vastating world crisis of capitalism
and the frightful suffering Of the
masses in the capitalist countries.
When George Lansbury, leader of the
sham Labor Opposition, mildly in
quired why the government was tax
ing such a drastic action without any
investigation to determine whether
Soviet trade conflicted with dominion
trade, Thomas replied that no inves-
tigation was needed to convince the
government that Soviet goods we're
being dumped in England.
Admits System Is Breaking.
During the debate in the House OF
Commons, Ramsay Macdonald was
forced to admit that the mass misery
throughout Great Britain and the
entire capitalist world was caused by
the breakdown of the present social
system" At the same time. he con-
tinued to be one of the staunchest
defenders of the decaying capitalist
system against the struggles of the
starving masses, as shown by the ac-
ton Of his government in terminating
the Soviet trade treaty as part of the
war preparations against the Soviet
Union and with the result Of in
creased living costs to the British,
workers.
Macdonald announced the holding
Of world economic conference in
London next January. The conference,
which is aimed at saving dying cap
italism by piling the burdens of the
crisis on the masses, will further
crystalize increasing antagonisms of
the imperialist powers in the des-
perate struggle for markets a
struggle which has already entered
the armed stage in Manchuria and
in South America. At the same time.
the imperialists will try to utilize for
the purpose of further developing the
anti-Soviet front.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-20

and called Tor an intensified fight for
milk.
THE amount OF milk and bread
given was not sufficient and did not
encompass all OF the children need
ing it," the statement points out. The
amount reputedly spent was $4,000
month.
while it is admitted that at least
100000 children are in need in New
York City, the total relief admins
tered is $235,000, which is black
lacked from the teachers and work.
ers of the educationa, system"
1.-THE challenge of the Wall-Street-
Tammany government cannot go I'M
answered. The workers of New York
must rally in mass demonstrations
and force a shutdown on the qt1es-
ton of relief for children"
The coming week will be observed
by the Young Pioneers of America
as part of the International Chill
drens Week throughout the world.
In New York what action can be
taken Immediately for mobilizing the
workers for the fight for return of
and increase of milk relief will be
the major point Of the week
In addition, numerous affairs of
the Pioneers viii be held and the