The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-10

of economic strength or of health
1t is symptom that presages still
more devastating collapse; the rise in
production due to such cause must
inevitably be followed by more dras-
tic decline.
Some of the leading automobile
concerns placed orders for finished
steel to cover all the rest of the year,
instead of their usual seasonal or
ders. This shows clearly that there
will follow a more drastic slump for
the rest of the year.
Even Imitation Boom" Is Weak
The notable feature of the present
slight rise in production is not the
fact of its existence. What is of spe-
cial Importance is that the rise in
production is so very slight, that ii
has not reached the dimensions to be
expected from such an artificial rise
This shows that there is such wide
spread restitution, such poverty
among the masses that they have
very little money with which to buy
commodities.
RooSevelt's brain trust" will GER
tainly be hard pressed to find argu-
ments that can explain away the col
lapse that is bound TO follow with
crushing effect upon the Introduction
of initiation.
Contradicts Himself in Speech
That he does not and cannot ex-
pect any advance in production is in
oicsted by the fact that he devoted
a great deal of his speech to explain
ing how the government proposed tt
encourage industry to prevent over
production, by eliminating '..duplica.
ton and waste" in railroads and in
dustry.
Such a speech can only be made ir
a world of decay. Such problem
as that of relative production
q problem that capitalism can nevel
soive--could not possibly arise at al
in a system where capitalism has beer
smashed and system of building so.
cialism put in effect.
The measures proposed by RooSe.
welt are described by him and by The
sychophantS of the journalistic broth.
els of capitalism as national econ
omic planning" The idea of ma
tional economic planning" assumes
that capitalists will cease to act a.
capitalists; that they will no longel
strive to save their own special in.
( terestS, that the big capitalists vii
cease to grab more for themselves
at the expense of the smaller fry
that capitalism will use it's Surplu!
to raise the level of the toiling mass
es, to develop agriculture, instead o
exporting it to colonial and semi col
onial countries to plumber the natura
resources and savagely exploit the in
habitantS of such countries. Only ;
| dolt can imagine that capitalists vii
strive TO satisfy the wants of TIN
masses who live in q given countr,
at the expense of their profits ant
at the expense of their world position
as capitalists.
All this talk Of economic planning
is put forth to try further to deceiv
the masses who are, in ever large
numbers, coming to realize that tn
one place ON earth that has escaped
the devastating effects of the worlt
economic crisis, the one place wher
the standards of life are CONSTANT.
rising is the country where there ex
lists system of economic planning
the Soviet Union. 1t is necessary u
understand that such planning cal
only be begun after the class who's
very existence is based upon anarch.
of production--th capitalist class
has been deprived Of state power b,
the proletarian revolution
What Roosevelts Planning Is
Roosevelt's planning consists Solel.
in working out in detail a whole sys
tenn OF planned attacks upon the toll
ing masses of this country. In hi
speech he was correct when he said
1.-THE legislation which has been pass
ed or is in the process of enactment
can properly be considered a part o.
well-grounded PLAN
Yes, the bank moratorium and the
emergency legislation, using war.
time acts, began the plan when il
enabled the bankers safely anc
Eith impunity TO rob depositors Of
some Ten billions of dollars The
farmers came under attack In the
Roosevelt Legislation to enable lire
federal guaer1frlent 70 1trectsy irter.