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tolerated under the Roosevelt New
Deal"
In the early days Of the New Deal"
ghen the Black 36-hour bill was being
discussed, William Green testifying
before congressional committee said:
'If by some miracle we could today
reaching the highest production levels
of 1929, half of those now unemployed
would still be unemployed"
This is an indication of how rapidly
the process Of permanently eliminaE-
ing workers has been going on. Green
by no means exaggerated conditions.
One fact is constantly left out of
consideration by the capitalists and
their spokesman. In the United
States each year 100000 children
reach the age when they must sell
their labor power to live. They be-
come workers without jobs. But they
are not counted as unemployed be-
cause they never had a job. OF these
alone, since the crisis, there are
around 100000 without work.
Permanently Out of Work
We can say now that the permanent
unemployed army in the United
States, no matter how high the level
Of production may go, will remain be-
tween 100000 and 100000. Fur
thermore, the entire working class
must face the perspective that a
larger and larger number of its ranks
will be driven into the ranks of the
permanently unemployed through
speed-up, improved machinery, short
er hours with lower wages, of course),
and through the general increase in
chronological unemployment.
Understanding these facts, we can
appreciate the warning sounded by
Comrade Gussev in his article on
Tasks of the American Communist in
Organizing the Struggle for Social In
surance." In that article Comrade
GusSev said:
at is necessary, above all, to instl
the most complete understanding
into the whole Party that the cam
paign for social insurance, alongside
and including the struggle against
wage cuts with the shortened week
irrespective of whether such short
week is adopted) and the struggle
for immediate aid for the unem-
ployed, touches vitality, in addition
to the anti-war campaign, the most
urgent and burning interests of the
proletariat, and that this campaign
at the present is the chief link to be
seized to tug the whole chain, that
this campaign demands the m0bili-
cation of all party forces for the
whole period of indefinite length,
and that planned unbroken,
every day persistent conduct of this
campaign is necessary"
New Factors
What has happened in the United
States since this was written?
The MIRA. and TIE C.WA. have
come into existence. These have
more closely connected the struggle
for unemployment insurance and re-
lief with the struggle against war.
The Roosevelt regime has modified
all Of its forces to struggle definitely
against unemployment insurance.
For example, on Dec. 8, Harry NJ.
Hopkins, director of the C.WA., de-
clared that the C.WA. would become
permanent feature of the Roosevelt
regime as against unemployment in
surance.
ut might easily lead to scheme
he said, "of using civil works as a de-
vice for permanently providing work
on important public projects for the
unemployed. The country is not go
ing to be kindly disposed to unem-
ployment insurance in terms of men
going to a window to get a DOLE
Re-Empioyment and Unemployment
The most exaggerated estimates of
the Roosevelt regime is that through
the MIRA. the C.C.C. and the C.W.A.,
around 100000 were employed. Even
assuming this to be true (Which it is
not it would barely account for the
100000 youth added to the ranks of
the unemployed during Rooseyelt's
regime, and does not take account of
those fired during the same period be-
cause of lowered production in some
places, and speeding-up of machinery
in individual plants. In short, the
great bulk of the 100000 unem-