The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
.INTI LABOR OFFICE PLOTS
WORLD STACCER SYSTEM
League of Nations Labor Bureau, With Aid of
Social Fascists, Tries to Spread Hunger
Only Revolutionary Unions and Communist
Parties Fight to Cut Hours and Raise
Pay, Says Pravda

The same sort Of stagger system
represented in the Black 30-hour
bill, which the bosses, with the aid
of William Green of the A. F.. of L.,
and the Socialist Party are trying
to put over in the United States,
is being attempted on an inter-
national scale through the Inter-
national Labor Office. This Inter-
national Labor Office is an outfit
run by the League Of Nations, and
its leading members are also men,
bers of the Second International. A
recent conference at which a 40
hour stagger system was proposed
is analysed in an article in 'Pravda,
which is as follows:
LEADING ARTICLE OF 'PRAYDR
OF FEBRUARY s, 1888
The Geneva Preparatory Con-
ference of the International Labour
ONCE has spent two weeks dis
cussing the question Of the 40-hour
week. The social fascist parties and
reformist trade unions made a great
fuss about this Conference. They
declared that the shortening Of
working hours to 40 hours a week
was the most important and remark
able means of combating the crisis
and unemployment. Green, the lead
er OF the reformist trade unions in
the United States, even declared
that the American Federation OF
Labour would advocate the S0-hour
week.
NJ. Jouhaux, the representative Of
the French c. G.. T., man or
great experience in regafI ID de-
ception and betrayal of the king
masses, even went so far as to
declare:
IF nothing is done, catastrophe
can occur. 1t is the task of the con-
ference to avert the danger for the
present situation cannot last in
definitely. The moment 1t becomes
clear that there is no hope Of i'm
provement, the sufferings of the
working people win cause an out
break which will Lind us no one
knows where"
Jouhaux, in appealing to the good
sense of the capitalists, imploring
them to agree to the shortening Of
the working week in order to ensure
the safety of the capitalist system,
in order to preserve it from the
proletarian revolution, openly de-
clared at the Conference that the
whole campaign which the refor-
mists are conducting for the 40
hour working week is for them only
a. means of offering a prospect to
the working people, of filling them
with hope of the possibility OF i'm
proving their situation under capt.
talisr1l, Of" being rescued from the
fearful sufferings and terrible mi
sery which the crisis has brought
them.
The German social tascists and
reformists trade unions have launch
ed big campaign fer the 40-hour
working week. The rapid revolution
isation of the working masses OF
Germany, who have learned from
bitter experience that the social de-
mocracy is the faithful watchdog
of finance capital, is compelling the
social democratic leaders to resort
to ever fresh n1anoeuvers. They see
in the slogan of the 40-hour work
ing week further means OF keep
ing the workers from going over
to Communism.
AS the social democrats declare,
the fascist Schleicher government
was to have taken the first step to
socialism" by realizing the slogan
of the 40-hour working week, j. e.,
by reducing all employed workers to
the position of short-time workers.
The social democrats are now de-
manding the same thing of the
Hitler government!
AT the Geneva Conference the