The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-30
William Green's Plan

EVEN Mr.. William Green can no longer
IL ignore the grim signals of new down.
ward plunge in the economic crisis.
Yesterdays report of the A. F. of L.
reveals this brutal fact:
The last twelve months of the New Deal"
have added almost million more workers to
the army of unemployed. There now million
jObless than last September.
But this is not ALL According to report issued
yesterday by the National Industrial Conference
Beard hundreds of thousands of workers are doomed
to lose their jobs in the coming weeks and months
as the usual Fall upturn in business has failed to
naterialize, and production is slipping steadily
downward toward the all-time low Of the crisis
reached early last year.
Thus Roosevets greatest promise to the Amer
lean workers-that he would solve the problem of
unemployment-has been proven to be total
swindle.
In an article in the New York Times of Sunday,
Green also admits that up to the time Of Roose-
velts election the working class of the country suf-
fered a slash of go per cent in employment and in
come while the capitalist class succeeded in hold
ing its losses down to about 80 per cent. This of
course was done through the intense speed-up which
instituted in the factories, and through the
maintenance of monopoly prices.
But why does Green stop with Roosevelts cleo
ton? Why does he not examine what has happened
since ROOsevets New DEAF began to operate?
The reason is that the official figures show that
Roosevelts program turned the economic trend into
$50 per cent increase in profits for the Wall Street
mOnOPOes and 20 per cent slash in the real wages
of the entire American working class
This basic fact of the recent twelve months of
Roosevets policies Green is striving desperately to
conceal since he is himself part of RooseveIt's
NR.A. machinery which helped in putting this
wage-slash over.
NOW Green proposes that industry increase its
~ production to stem the rising tide of unem-
ployment, and proposes a 30-hour week along with
It,
Certainly every worker would like to see more
Jobs as a result of increased production and
shorter week.
But will this shorter week mean cut in weekly
wages? The Communist Party demands a shorter
week without cut in weekly wages. But Green
is silent on this aspect of the case.
And how does he propose to get these things?
First by arbitration conferences with the employ
ers" and failing that, by legislation through Con-
gress.
But does he think that any one will be fooled
by these ridiculous proposals? Every worker knows
that the employers will not increase production
reduce hours and provide jobs just because Green
asks them to. AS for the legislation, Congress and
the state legislatures are nothing but the rubber
stamps of the big Wall Street monouolies and
will do nothing that is against the class interests
OF the big capitalists
The only way to get more jobs, better wages
and shorter hours right is to fight for them
right now through the organized struggles of the
workers in strikes and other mass actions But
is just these powerful weapons of strike and
mass struggle that Green is trying to block
Finally it is the capitalist profit system that
stands in the way of opening all the factories and
giving every American worker an immediate lob
The smashing of the profit system would nme-
diately solve the problem of increased production
and employment, But William Green shudders at
such prospect.
GREEN'S proposal, therefore, boils down to a
scheme for cooperating with the employers to
increase production and profits through reducing
the costs of production, that is to say the wages
OF the American working class
In the coming elections the figures on unem
pigment and profits should be in the mind of
every working man in the country
1t is by voting for the Communist PARTY that
the workers can proclaim to Roosevelt and the
employers that they demand adequate relief and
unemployment insurance against the curse of
capitalist unemployment, and that t-Iev are organ
izing for the final overthrow of the whole profits
system which dooms the majority of the population
to starvation and insecurity.