The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-22

going on but are purposely suppress
ing the news. AS mentioned in a
previous dispatch, there Is In Buffalo
more intensive drive than in most
cities to put over MIRA. In Lafay-
cite Square, dedicated to the veterans
OF Wilson'S war for the house of
Morgan, huge thermometer has been
installed which registers in red the
temperature of Roosevelt's support by
showing the numbers of the en-
ployers signing up with MIRA.
Both news and editorial pages OF
the capitalists press have been turned
over to the recovery drive. But there
is an uneasineSs and fear reflected
especially in such papers as the Buff
talo Times-member Of the Scripps-
Howard chain. Today, for instance,
two editorials, one entitled quote: "a
Different Buffalo," the other quote:
"Fooling Themselves" are in direct
contradiction although they are pub
liShed side by side. The first repre-
sents official optimism: it says that:
Buffalo is a different town than
It was six months ago. There is a
different spirit in the air, different
and a happier look on mems faces
what has happened in these six
months Is not susceptible of measure
ment In July 2,457 went off the
welfare relief roll, which means that
they are again disappearing. From
April to July the number OH
charity decreased II per cent. Final
reports for August will show more re-
turning to work than even in July
Buffalo in midsummer of 1888
looks mighty good @
Without stopping now to take issue
with obvious misstatenlents of facts
and false conclusions in the above
quotation, here is what the Buffalo
Times says in the next column: LAS
matter of fact the industrial acti-
witty chart, which has shown an I'M
interrupted rise since the middle OF
March, has turned and has been
steadily falling during the last three
weeks. Latest reports of the emer-
gency relief administration have shown
100000 persons existed on charity
much is made by these en-
ployers of the figures Just issued by
the U. S. Labor Department indicat-
ing that 100000 went back to work
in July. But they apparently missed
the much more significant report Of
the Labor Department that the num-
Der of unemployed was 100000
Other developments lying behind
such expressions of confusion and
fear in the capitalist press, are such
facts as the lay-off of men and the
cutting of production by the giant
Bethlehem Steel plant here. Figures
vary, but Bethlehem Steel in July was
operated either 20 or "a furnaces
According to reliable reports from in
side the plant the number has now
been reduced to Is and it Is rtlmored
that there will be further reduction
to six which will cut operations to the
low crisis level Of last March.
In Buffalo and In Pittsburgh and
other ce1lters of heavy industry the
bravado advice of publicists and the
press representing middle class in
terests to the lords of steel, coal and
oil to come in under the MIRA codes,
is an expression Of the helplessness of
these middle class elements in sit
uation which shows the decisive nat
ure of the ownership and control of
industry and government by big cap
ital, the growing challenge of the
working class, and the Servile walls
of the middle class crying out against
the workers challenge and calling on
big capital to do something definite
to save capitalism.