The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-21

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ployment is still increasing
showing that wage cuts are
still increasing.
Employment in May de-
creased 80 per cent below EN-.
ployment in April, according
to these government figures, and such
figures surely tell rather lass thar
half the story Payroll totals, &C
cording to the same authority
dropped SO percent in industry as a
whole.
I In manufacturing industries alone
the fall in employment was per
cent in May and the decline in pay
rolls was AZ per cent. The greater
decline in payrolls over the decline
in employment indicates only one
thing, it shows wage cuts for the
workers who still have jobs.
AS compared with employment in
theoretically normal" times, (that
is, an average of several years before
the crisis, the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics considers employment at pre-
! sent to be 59,7 per cent, or Just a
little over one half of normal. In
May a year ago, it was TSP per cent,
or about three quarters of normal.
Needless to say these figures are
too high, but this is what the gov
eminent admits, anyway.
Payroll totals for May Of this year
are considered by the Buresl of La
Dor Statistics to be 425 per cent of
normal, and for May of last year.
e76 per cent of normal
1000 Demonstrate.
! KANSAS CITY. Kan. June 90
! In response TO the cali of the Unem-
/ ployed Council of Kansas City. Kan
sss for a demonstration against the
! closing of the family service and for
immediate emergency relief, over
1000 workers turned out right in the
heart of the business section of the
city at 7th and Minnesota.
The railitancy Of the crowd, which
was made up largely of Negro work
ers. was apparent right from the
start. The speakers we're loudly ap-
plauded and cheered over SOC
signed applications for membership
In the unemployed council. A COM
mite Of dozen workers was elected
by the demonstrators to place their
demands before Mayor McCombs
The mayors reply was lot of cheap
den1agogy and hot-air sympathy for
the suffering poor. But he said he
was "powerless to do anything for
them"
Speakers pointed out that the
county in which Kansas City is To-
Gated had collected S4A3,O00 for
charity" and that of this only
100000 had been allotted to the family
Service. The rest went into big sal
aries and graft, and to the bosses
patriotic organizations, the YMCA,
the Boy Scouts. the Girl Scouts, etc.
A speaker for the Communist
Party called on the workers to sup
port the Communist ticket in the
elections-including the Kansas State
ticket, for which signatures are being
collected The Communist Party de-
mands for unemployment and social
insurance at the cost of the state
and employers, was unanimously en-
dorsed.
Organization meetings Of the 900
who signed up for membership are
being called in the various neigh
borhoods during the next few days
500 Stop Lawrence Eviction
LAWRENCE. Mass June 2o.-The
attempt to evict the unemployed mill
worker, Jeryais, at So oxford ST.
brought a call for demonstration
from the Unemployed Councils
Neighborhood Committee, of 500 men
women and children assembled at
10 a. m,
The sheriff, who had served evic-
ton papers came down. and left
much faster than he came, A motor
cycle cop charged down, took a look
at the masses of workers pouring into
the street from doorways, side
streets and up and down oxford St.
and the cop left too. The landlord
and the moving van never showed up
at all.
Joe Figuerda. a strike organizer in