The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-23
Prediction Ballyhoo on
Unemployment

THE publicity machinery of the Hoover government is
working overtime to create impression of turn in
the tide of the crisis The prostitute capitalist press sup
porting democratic we'll the republican parties are
featuring in big headlines the propaganda of industrial
gains throughout the country This campaign initiated
in conference of Hoover with the newspaper publishers
several weeks ago Columns of the press being devoted
to this bayhoo Moving picture newsrees are being issued
regularly initiating every picayune seasonal pc up
radio has been pressed into the service and big and small
politicians working to build the deusion that pros
rerity is in sight.
The kind of propaganda that is being spread is illus
traed by the story published the front page yese
days New York Times Industrial impetus gains
try with July the fist month show marked expansion the
trend goes into August"
What are the real facts the present situation of the
crisis? The following facts taken from less
sentative than the United States Bureau of Labor
Statistics
June July the decline in the number of workers
in is major industries employing 100000 workers
per cent Payrols declined 81 per cent during the
period
In Is out of 80 major manufacturing industries
ploying 247441 workers. unemployment per and
payro fell 9 cent In the electrical machinery indus
try cent less workers employed in July than in
June 30 cent less in the automobile industry in the
iron and metal mining industry drop of S3 per cent in
employment took place and in the anthracite coal mining
1871 per fewer miners employed in July than in
June Notwithstanding this fact the barers the New
York Times speak of the Anthracite mining upturn"
This drop in employment is directly connected with the
has shown for example the decline steel production
Youngstown Ohio to 10 per cent of its capacity against
IS per cent last week. according to the report of the Wall
Street Journal august 22) The Mahoning Valley Steel
Co. is suspending production in its Niles Sheet plant For
the first time in months says the Wall Street Journal
the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. is to suspend COM
petey its open hearthstee production This journal
of the Wall Street ndusrasts reports that all melting is
to be suspended the Ohio plants the Carnegie Steel Co.
The reports of the State Department Labor show the
same picture of the fall of production and the increase of
unemployment In Illinois, unemployment rose Sc per cent
IN that states basic industries for July In the chief
featuring industries in the state unemployment was
increased by 76 rcent and payrols fell 1873 per cent But
the capitalist press either entirely these reports or
else bures them in the back pages where they will not be
noticed.
What behind this campaign of deceptive propaganda?
1t is obviously prediction campaign part
OF the Hoover which has time and again exposed
itself before the false prophets and is once again
indirectly engaged in the business of decevng the
in order to attempt recover faith in the govern
ment of hunger and terror
But this campaign has other purposes as we'll 1t is
directed at checking the tide rehabilitation of the
masses marked by the historic veteran struggle the battles
OF Cne unemployed IN ST. Louis and other cities the tancy
and nsurgen spirit of the Illinois strikers the revolt of the
farmers against their miserable conditions and in general
growth OF mltncy of the oppressed masses.
The capitalist class of the fact that there is
no business pick they know that the crisis deepening
and that the staggering volume of unemployment is mount
ing SUN hgner But they are of pick up in the
struggle OF the and this is what they especially have
IN mind with their deceitful propaganda
manufactured statistics cannot feed the UNEMPLOYED
Inc arcla cheertuness of capitalist politicians cannot
give Dread and Jobs to the hungry and starving
Relief from the terrible burdens of the crisis con no
gained through the fight the blanks of the cor;t
Eiecton Platform The can lift themselves com
pete out of the crisis only by the revolutionary led b
the Communist Party. 49, ~