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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Steel, Auto, Textile Production, Plunging
Downward Despite Usual Seasonal Trends
Because of SPINNER Over-P Production

which was the core of the Roosevelt
prosperity talk, is plunging downward
with extraordinary speed. Even the
usual Fall seasonal business has not
materialized. The present rate of pro-
duction has reached al per cent of
capacity, having dropped 80 per cent
from the peak of SO made in July.
What is ahead for steel production
can be guaged by the fact that the
present drop in steel is against the
usual seasonal trend.
From the very first, the economic
reviews in the daily Worker" en-
phasized the fact that the Summer
boom in production was artificial,
stimulated for the most part by fears
of imitation and war orders. The
Daily Worker" consistently pointed
out that the steel BOOM" instead of
resting on sound basic support Of
buying from building demand and
railroad industries, was perched on
demand from single large industry.
the automobile industry, demand
which was bound to disappear in the
Fall, inevitably preparing for COM
Plete Collapse OF the steel squirt.
Autos Piling Up
This prediction of the Daily has
now been verified by events. Says
the latest, September 8, issue OF the
Wall Street organ, the "Annalist":
Much Of the recent steel
buying was dependent on expan-
sion in automobile output the
decrease In automobile production
is now, however, greater than the
normal seasonal expectancy In
the last two or three weeks retail
sales Of cars have dropped percep-
tfbiy >. this decline b especially
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Production Sweeps Downward Initiation N R. A. Promises Fail

disappointing. -"
This admission confirms another
analysis Of the Daily Worker" that
not only was the steel boom precari-
ously resting on the single support of
the auto industry, but that the de-
mand from the auto industry was
itself based on rotten foundation
a fatal tagging in consumer demand
that was bound to result in an even
greater "oversupply" than ever be-
fore.
This is confirmed by the fact that
whereas auto production jumped al
most 300 per cent from March to July
retail sales Of autos never showed
more than slight increase over last
year. The capitalist newspapers feat
ured sales to the wholesale dealers,
but they rarely mentioned the fact
that the ultimate consumers were not
buying and could not buy, new au-
tornobiles.
Hence it Is no cause for wonder
that the auto magnates are getting
more frightened every day at the
prospect Of winter Of enormous &C
cumulated stocks Of unsold autos -
the old capitalist nightmare Of "over-
production" all over again. Already,
the business figures are beginning to
reflect their only -well-founded
fears. Auto production, like steel pro-
duction, is tumbling Historically
downward, the latest figures for Sep
TENDER 2 indicating that auto produc-
ton has now reached point in its
downward plunge which Is 20 per
cent below the peak reached In July.
The decline in auto production has
just begun. What 1t will be in the
winter the auto producers are too
frightened to contemplate. =,
The story In textiles, the third and
last industry TO show the boom"
effects Of the Roosevelt Initiation pro-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
BY MILTON HOWARD

THE nightmare Of another crushing
L economic collapse is beginning to
haunt the capitalist rulers OF Amer1-
ca again. And there is plenty OF rea-
son for their fears.
Roosevelt and his N.R.A., imitation,
price-raising program was to have
solved the crisis. He promised that a
few months of his magic medicines
would bring the flush of health back
to the cheeks of America. But the
flush of the recent "boom" in pro-
duction turns out to have been the
sickly flush of deadly fever, now rap
idly giving way to the pallor of an
irresistably ravaging, inclurable, foul
disease, the disease of capitalism.
Do you uremember the booming
headlines on all the front pages
screaming the news of an extraordi-
nary and miraculous steel production
revival? Do you remember the en-
Enthusiastically proclaimed figures of
textile production, the largest since
the dreadful 1929 crash? Do you re-
member the glowing promise of
Roosevelt that 100000 men would
find new jobs by the Fall?
Papers Silent on Production
Where Is all this now? The front
pages of the nations papers are
coldly silent on these subjects. Eco
nomic figures, all data on production,
are now silently and decently buried
away in the forbidding columns of
the financial section.
There is plenty Of reason for the
sudden extreme reticence Of the capI-
talist papers on economic subjects.
Steel production, for example,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

ever. u necessities have leaped up
ward from 10 to so per cent!
The conservative experts Of the
National Industrial Conference
Board have just pointed out that
wages are tagging far behind soar
ing prices! This is not the result of
some maladjustment in the RooSe-
welt program. 1t is the very heart
and soul of this program, for it is
only in this way that Roosevelt can
fulfil his major purpose-to increase
the profits of the employers.
Yesterday, Secretary Of Agriculture
Wallace was unable to ignore the fact
that the touted Roosevelt farm pro-
gram is having the same effect on
the farmers, catching them in the
murderous price scissors. He admit
ted that disparity has developed
between farmers income and
what he has to buy" retail costs
have taken up the farmers additional
income.
And well he might make this ad-
mission, for while the farmers have
shared very slightly in the specula-
tive profits of the rise in wheat and
livestock prices, the costs of farm
equipment, fertilizer, etc, have ad-
vanced from 20 to so per cent during
the last three months!
1t Is this degradation of the pur-
chasing power OF the workers
through masked wage cut,
through cheapening dollar, in addi-
ton to the open, direct wage cuts,
that Is aggravating with iron newt
ability the basic disease Of capitalism,
"ovcrproductions-a gfut of xnnnlae<
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

son, Secretary of the Congress.
The New York Workers Commit
tee on Unemployment, with whom are
affiliated numerous bodies like the
Doll and Toy Workers Union, the AS
ISOLATION of Unemployed College
Alumni, Church of All Nations, ETC.,
have notified the Congress that ''our
Central Committee voted unanimous
ly to cooperate in every way with the
Congress. We shall do all we can to
mobilize workers in the struggle
against war"
The Farmers Protective AsSocia-
ton of Pennsylvania Endorsed the
Anti-war Congress with the state
ment that I'VE support your fight
against another war" Lucien Koch,
Secretary of Commonwealth College
Of Arkansas pledged support to the
Congress and notified the Arrange
ment Committee that its delegation
is on the way to New York now.
The Arrangement Committee Of the
Congress declared it expected great
increase in delegates because of the
Cuban invasion by American impe-
rialism.
Donald Henderson in Boston
BOSTON, Mass.-The Boston Com
n1ittee for the United States Con-
gress Against War announced today
that Donald Henderson of New York
has accepted their invitation to speak
in that city on Friday evening, Sep
TENDER Is. Donald Henderson is the
Executive Director Of the American
Committee for Struggle Against War
and Secretary to the United States
Congress Against War.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

Workers, of the U. S.:
"Warsllips, marines, aeroplanes
have been dispatched to Cuba. This
gone to. Cuba. The government an
nounces that this is the biggest con-
centratien of the naval forces of the
U. S. since the last world war. Other
armed forces of land and sea are
held in readiness to be dispatched at
a moments notice to Cuba.
why are these forces sent to
Cuba? Workers of the U. S.: Have
you any quarrel with the workers
and peasants of Cuba? Will you gain
anything by this war on Cuba? No!
This attack on Cuba which is being
planned is not in your interests. 1t
is for the purpose of protecting the
investments, the riches of the big
American capitalists in Cuba.
Capitalists Keep Cuba Enslaved
These capitalists have kept Cuba
in slavery with the aid of the Cuban
capitalists and big landlords, with the
aid of the Machados and the other
bourgeois and landlord politicians,
This war is being planned so that
the big capitalists Of the U. S. can
continue to enslave, rob and Cypress
the Cuban people. The U. S. Gov
eminent is sending armed forces to
Cuba to protect the riches Of the cap
italists, the right to exploit the people.
We must protest against this act on
the part of the U. S. Government.
1.-THE Cuban masses have a right
to freedom. They have the right to
decide their own destinies. The U.
s. Government, which is the gov
eminent OF the capitalists, wishes to
drown in blood, the right Of the Gu
ban masses for emancipation from
the double yoke Of oppression by
the U. S. and Cuban capitalists and
landlords. The Cuban masses ap-
peal to MS to stand by them. We must
answer their call. 1t is our duty as
workers to come to the assistance
of our class brothers in Cuba.
Fight for Bread, Land, Freedom
THE liberal and middle class po-
liticians are trying to stop the growth
of the revolution in Cuba. They are
already announcing that they will
pay all debts and protect the proper
ty of the U. S. capitalists. They
have attacked Communicated de-
monstrations, thus trying to win the
support Of American imperialism.
"In the meantime the masses in
a number Of places have taken over
the factories and plantations. The
masses are fighting for bread, for
land, and for freedom. Only the
Communist Party of Cuba and the
revolutionary trade unions are fight
ing in the interests Of the Cuban
masses.
workers of the U. s.; workers Of
the American Federation Of Labor;
organized and unorganized workers:
Show your solidarity with the Cuban
masses!
Demand Hands OFF Cuba!
Demand the withdrawal Of all
American armed forces from Cuba.
Send your protest to the Roosevelt
government against intervention!
"Send your greetings Of solidarity
to the Cuban masses!
stop the shipment of manitions
and men to Cuba!
National Executive Board
TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE
Jack Stachel
Assistant General Secretary
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Demand Hands Off Cuba!

NEW YORK.--Al workers, farmers, stu
dents, and intellectuals' organizations are
urged to call mass meeting of protest against
U. S. Intervention in Cuba, and in support of
the revolutionary Cuban masses, to lombard
President Roosevelt with kilograms of pro-
test, and to flood the Workers Center, Ha-
vana, Cuba, with kilograms of greetings and
solidarity with the Cuban workers, peasants
soldiers and sailors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Worst Winter in a
Century Is Facing
Germany, Says Nazi
Unemployed Cut But
Payrolls Remain
the Same

BERLIN, Sept. 1o.-with an inten-
sive drive to cut wages and increase
employment" which the Fascist
newspapers call an exact counterpart
of Roosevelt's MIRA. drive, 100000
have been dropped from the lists OF
unemployed, according to the Reich
Institute for Labor Placement, while
the total national payroll has not in
creased at all.
The newspapers publish daily lists
of employers who have fallen in with
Hitler's program by spreading their
payroll out to put more men to work
at lower wages. The newspapers hail
the fact that the number of unem-
ployed women is growing.
''This will be the hardest winter we
have known for 100 years." Joseph
Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propa-
ganda, announced in recent speech.
The "VoelkiSche Beobachter," Hitler's
official organ, announces that the aim
Of the drive is ito hold the gains and,
above all, to prevent a relapse"
In addition to a certain number
put to work through wholesale wage
cuts up to 80 per cent, the largest
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
l6 More Bulgarians
Doomed to Die for
Agitation in Army
No Crime Charged; %
Others Get Long
Prison Terms

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 10.-Sixteen
more men and women were con-
demned to death yesterday for Com
munist activity in the Bulgarian
army, bringing the total doomed to
die in Bulgaria since Sept. to 20.
Twenty-three others were SEN
fenced to terms of Imprisonment at
hard labor up to Is years, the equi-
valent to death by slow torture, be-
cause of the conditions in the Bull
garian prisons.
The only charge made against any
of the 43 was that they had agitated
in the army, and had attempted to
organize Communist units. Three
others are reported to have been
murdered without trial in Shumen,
northern Bulgaria, where these
latest sentences were handed down
by military court.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
18th Route Army
Retreating Before
Chinese Red Forces
Commander Wires for
Funds to Bride
His Soldiers

SHANGHAI, Sept. 10. - The 10Th
Route Army is rapidly falling back
before the drive of the Chinese Sow
let Army toward Foochow.
General Tsai Ting-kai, commander
of the 10Th Route Army, has wired
to the Canton government from Foo
chow, demanding $4,000 at once,
saying that his army has no food
and has not been paid, and that
without this money he will not be
able to resist the advance of the
Chinese Reds.
The rank and file of Tsais army
has no desire to fight the Soviet
army, and Tsai is making desperate
effort to obtain money to bride them
into fighting. The seriousness of the
Red threat to Foochow is indicated
by the fact that all American mis-
sionaries are leaving the city.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

gram is similar. Factories in the
South are daily closing down for lack
of the usual fall business. Within the
last 4 weeks, ten large mills, employ
ing thousands of textile workers, have
shut down, the officials openly admit
ting the accumulation of huge stocks
of unsold cloth, with all buyers
having filled their needs in the sum-
mer in anticipation of higher prices.
The final proof of the failure of
the Roosevelt summer initiation boom
in business is wildly mirrored in the
heavy-moving composite business in
dex of the New York Times, which
discloees a drop for the seventh con-
secutive week, hitting So, compared
with 100 five weeks ago.
ok months ago Roosevelt promised
y that he would revive production.
The value of his promises can now
be accurately guaged. They were
worthless. What Roosevelt did was
to give business an inflationary shot
in the arm, which produced the tenn
porary appearance OF revival" but
which has resulted only In a further
piling up of goods, only In an inten-
sification Of the basic factors Of the
crisis.
Meanwhile, Roosevelt's program has
had other results. Not only did his
program provide only few thousand
temporary jobs in the textile, steel,
and auto industries, instead Of the
promised 5000, 900, but 1t has actually
resulted in further driving down of
the living standards of the workers.
The Deadly Price Scissors
Roosevelt set out to raise prices
and wages. This was the way to end
the crisis, he said.
Wages In a few factories have
xisen-but never more than Z per
cent. At the same time prices d
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Rising Food Prices and Cheapening Dollar
Adds to Burden of Tagging Wages, and
Unemployment

in the midst Of poverty and starva-
ton, because the workers are too
poor to buy back what they have
produced!
Production revival has been q
fizzle =. the public works program
has been fraud, disguised mill
tary and naval program hiring at
most $4,000 new workers the
bank crisis grows unseen all the
while overproduction stares the
capitalist exploiters in the face.
It is no wonder that a confidential
Washington news service writes in
one of its recent letters;
There will be more strikes In
the coming three months than
through the whole period since the
1921 CRISIS"
The confidential advisers ct The
capitalists know full well that the
workers OF this country are quickly
finding out that Roosevelt has not
solved the crisis, that he has. on the
contrary, intensified it as he has
tried to climb out Of 1t on the backs
Of the workers.
And they know, these advisers, that
the American workers are not going
to stand for it.
Strikes for higher wages, the o.
ganized resistance of the workers
against the deadly price scissors,
against rising prices and tagging
wages, alone can defeat the Roosc-
welt plan to get the profits rolling h
again at the cost Of deepening star-
vation and suffering q ths wuslnsFs
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

number of those dropped from the
unemployed lists are workers taken
off the relief for political reasons, or
put to work at forced labor without
any pay, or only few cents a day
and food.
PARIS, Sept. 10.--If Nazi coup is
attempted in Austria, it will be the
signal for European war, Henri
Berenger, chairman OF the Senate
Foreign Affairs Committee, declared
in an article in a Paris newspaper
yesterday.
VATICAN CITY, Sept. 1O-Ratifl-
cation of the treaty between the Pope
and Adolf Hitler's government has
been held up, it was announced here
yesterday. The Pope is said to be dis
pleased with Hitler's policy toward
the Catholic church.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
Reacti0nary Leader Is
New Spanish Premier


MADRID, Sept. 10. = Backed by
Juan March, millionaire newspaper
publisher who from a all cell has
conducted campaign against former
Premier Manuel Azana, Alexandra
Lerroux, reactionary leader, was call
ed to form a new Spanish cabinet
by President zamora yesterday.
Lerroux said he would attempt to
form a national concentration" cab
met to include the most conservative
elements and the Socialists who, since
the revolution in 1881 had played the
role of holding back the revolutionary
movement in Spain while the big cap
italists and landlords consolidated
their forces.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

Demand the immediate withdrawal of all
warships from Cuban waters.
Demand the cancellation of all Cuba's debts
TO the Wall Street banks
Demand the evacuation of the Guanta-
namo naval base.
Demand notification Of the robber Platt
amendment.
Demand Hands off Cuba
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
ANIIWAR DELEGATES TUUL BACK STRUGGLE OF CUBAN MASSE
W hat
a
World
BY Michael Gold

Pat Burke's YheOsogy
This rowing naschinist's ear-
cass
Is it worth veur gods ss-
sernbling
Preach me no Resurrection,
Father
These bones can never rise
again
Ny left thumb rests IN ship
yard
NY frostbitten toe m a field
Yet know that Of my strong
heart
Something must barn forever
Alive in that grest good thing
Of which 1 am father and son
When red flags Ny the new
signals
No one VIII wsep On a cross
For this I yisAd UP my body
Asking no pay Of your god
Bury me in surgeons slop pals
NV rebirth is surer than yoars
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

To keep up a six-page daily Work
err" the circulation must be doubled.
Do your share by getting new sub
scribers,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

jim Larkin, who has been wander
ing biindly in a political never never
land for these past years, was at one
time great proletarian figure. For
wears I believed him the greatest ma
tural orator 1 had ever heard.
Re was a man born without fear
he didn't seem to know how It felt.
Tall. over six feet, with big square
shoulders, and bold ci1ieftains nose
and commanding blue eyes, Jim was
surely an imposing monument of q
man.
was a member Of tho Jim Con-
molly Club he organised vhile IN New
York. and was present ct the famous
meeting Larkin called 10 Bryant Hall
to send sf1ip8oad Of provisions TO
famine stricken Ireland. n was 10
be a unity meeting Of Protestant
North and Catholic South. Little
Cossrove, later 10 be Premier, was
there with his tiny H1tier- Chaplin
moustache. There were other united
frontiers. And Jim was to cement
these new ties and build new Ire
land.
He did it very sakilifulay BY begin
ming his speech with an attack on
everyone present. They we're cow
ards. he said, to be in America and
not in the struggle. That was the
start; from there Jim rose TO climax
after climax of diplomacy" The
crowd grew more restless and noisy,
and finally exploded
At the height of the battle, I saw
a quiet little brown clerk of man
shrinking in his seat, while all around
him the giants we're doing battle.
He couldn't escape, so he sat still,
and tried to look as inconspicuotfs
rs possible.
Suddenly one beefy be%tAer swung
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
US. Guns in Cuba
Spur Elections to
Anti War Meeting
New Organizations Notify Anti War Congress
Of Support After u. S. Mobilizes for War
Against Cuban Masses

FOHK-Many
ehuhes college organizations
held
yesterday
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
REVOLUTIONARY UNIONS IN
CALL TO ALL US. WORKERS
TO PROTEST INTERVENTION
Cuban Masses Fight for Bread, Land, Free
DOM" Says Statement, Calling Workers to
Demand Hands Off Cuba

YORK-The Unity through It's National
Executive Committee American workers
the the revolutionary Cuban
States especial,
to all trade unions of every afhiation,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11

hard series of rights at the little
clerks jaw.
THAT for you'll" he roared at the
frightened little man, "yuh sly SON.
of-a-witch, sittin' there and saying
nothingl"
never have forgotten this object
lesson in the futility of trying to re-
main neutral in the world as it is
today.
Jim Larkin
Another word on Jim Larkin.
There rs something medieval about
all Irish culture, and this was re-
f1ected in Jim's approach to things.
He had led one of the greatest gen.
eral strikes in British history; he had
carried the Flaming Cross through
Ireland, then had invaded England.
At one time the booboisie shivered
when the name Larkin was mention
ed. Yet withal, Jim was not the
modern revolutionary labor leader as
we know him. He was a medieval
canifetain, demanding personal fealty.
He loved the workers of Ireland be-
cause they we're Irish, they were his
clan. Jim visited Mexico, a country
about as feudal as Ireland, and he
hated 1t, had no patience with it,
nor any great interest in It's revo-
luton.
Yet this narrow intensity and folk
passion gave Jim Larkin a poetic
power that many modern leaders
seem 10 lack. When hulking Jim
Lsrkin the longshoreman began to
talk IN his huge voice of the suffer-
ing flowers of Ireland, the children
Of the poor, it made one want to
fight or weep. He had the great
earth-poetry, 1t was not demagogy,
it WAS the real thing. 1t was the
thing that had sent those great poets
of the Irish Republican Brotherhood
out 10 die, along with Jim Connolly,
Ireland's first MARKHAM.
Well, Larkin seems to have passed
on to regions unknown. But there's
another Jim Larkin, old Jim's son,
who carries on the red flag, and is
one Of Dublin's Communist leaders.
He has his fathers fire, they say,
also the cool head that can work with
others
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-11
The Wild Irish Rose

am delighted 10 know that the
irish Workers Club is growing. l
am glad to be one of those to well
come Jim Grafton back TO the coun-
try we took away from the Indians.
IT'S difficult to be bred and born
in New York without absorbing a
large dose of Irish romanticism, and
nationalisms Every hurdy grrdy
pleys My Wild Irish Rose. All the
radios are infested with Irish Groom
ers. Those bluc-eyed Irish colleens
who CROWD III subways and movie
houses are exotically beautiful TO a
Mediterranean.
And those cops! Gaze into the
large earnest orbs of an athletic Gael
in uniform as he is about to crack
somebody down with his club, pre-
ferably weak old tailor, or little
woman. or a screaming scared child.
It's lovely sight, for Bosses, maybe,
though it doesn't quite remind one
of the poems Of Thomas Moore or
the Lakes Of Killarney.