The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 11, 1930, Page 4

' | : SUBSCRIPTION RATHS? sbiished by thé CoriptStatly Publishing Co; Inc. gai sie Published by thé Conipttally Publishing Co, Inc, & de koctnvon soon Daily 26-08 Ui F Page Four = Sauare, New York Clty, N. ¥. Telephone ‘Stuyves Sugabie: “DATWOT by Mail (in New York City only): $8.00 a year; $4.50 six months; Page Agdress and mail all checks to the Daily Worker, 2 are. New York. Ne ¥, : : 4 By Mall (outside of New York City): $600 a year; $350 six months; $2.00 three months Central Organ of the Communist. Party of the U. S. A. me ——————== —— <= = —— an isin a ‘i UNEMPLOYMENT AND POSITION OF UNEMPLOYED IN BULGARIA HE economic and financial crisis in Bulgaria is becoming more and more threatening. than 1,000 teachers were dismissed to bring about further economies. The discharge of i | Fight for Our Fighters of March 6th! By Fred Ellis GERMANY AND THE YOUNG PLAN» ‘Speech Delivered by Ernst Thaelmann at the Meeting of the Reichstag on February 11, 1930. WISH io preface my remarks by declaring the whole of Germany, from the West to the All branches of economic life of the country more than 10,000 other state employes is now t 7 ie whi in- Hast, from the coastal distri vari; = are now involved and all sections of the popu- pending. The Independent Unions m that Sahel hea don Les item vee moet A Soesiee pine pe lation are feeling its effects. The bad harvest there are more than 150,000 unemployed in ( bs A . rae lines S H "a talist system, also in the reparations questions How is it with the second promise made by of 1929 and the fall of agricultural prices on the world market caused a sharp ‘drop in the purchasing power of the broad strata of the Bulgarian peasantry. As regards the purchas- ing power of the workers and employes in the towns their position has gone from bad to worse since their wages amount only to 40 or 50 per cent of the pre-war. In comparison Bulgaria at the present time. The fasc state organs do not register or keep track of the extent of unemployment. The position of the unemployed beggars des- cription. No state relief is issued the unem- ployed. As a matter of fact, the fascist gov- ernment is doing nothing whatever to alleviate the present widespread unemployment or to advocates on principle its revolutionary stand- point before the working masses against the policy of this Parliament from Versailles to the Young Plan. In these weeks, in which the Young Bill has been discussed in committee and in Plenum up to the third reading, a decision of great the social democratic government, that the Young Plan would lighten the burdens of the masses of the population? The fact is the Young Plan brings no alleviation for the work- ing masses, but for the German bourgeoisie. The experts sent by this government suc- ceeded in obtaining a present ‘of 300 million with 1928 the deficit on the trade balance in- | ease the position of the unemployed. It is historical importance is being made. This de- | industrial bonds for German industry. Even creased three-fold in 1929. Income from in- true there is a statutory measure providing cision means nothing more nor less than if the Young Plan means a reduction of 685 direct taxation fell by 20 per cent in Novem- an insignificant scale of relief (10-15 Leva) that the working clase for three genera- million annually as compared with the Dawes ber, 1929 and from direct taxation by 40 per | for the unemployed which is paid out from the tions, up to the year 1988, will have to pay to || payments, this alleviation is counter-balanced cerft in comparison with 1928. Complete slump | so-called Social Insurance Fund during a few foreign capital sums amounting to. milliards. | by the following facts. During the period of has set in in commerce, the handi-craft trades covering only a few categories of the This fact alone is sufficient reason why this | the Dawes Plan about 17,000 million long and and industry, which with the exception of the | The tobacco workers, building work- slave-pact should be fought most bitterly in | short-termed credits were accepted in Ger- tobacco industry, works exclusively for the | ers, ricultural and forestry workers and this Parliament as well as outside it. many. These credits are expiring and cannot home market. Several large-scale industrial concerns have closed down operations alto- gether or have either considerably curtailed or are now curtailing output. The result has been an incredible growth of unemployment, accom- panied by an unprecedented worsening of the miserable conditions of those in employment. According to the figures drawn up by the independent unions catering for the tobacco and building trades, in certain districts prac- tically all these workers are now unemployed. There are some 30,000 tobacco workers unem- ployed and about 40,000 building trades work- ers walking the streets today. According to reports published in the reformist press, of the 25 tanneries in Gabrovo only two or three | factories are working today after the per- | sonnel had been drastically reduced. Facts published by the independent unions show that in the same town, Gabrovo, 380 out of the 400 workers employed in the tanneries were discharged. According to the same source two of the largest boot and shoe factories—the “Luna” and “Mondal” plants—have suspended operations altogether. At the first factory 70 workers were discharged, at the second— 90 workers. All the other leather plants in Sofia and the provinces have drastically curtailed their output. Reports published in the Independent Press show that 80 per cent of the workers in the textile mills in Yambola have been thrown idle. The rest are working only five hours a day, getting only half pay; in Slivena, only 50 per cent of the workers have been kept on, while in Sofia, the “For- tune” textile mills, the largest in the country, are workiig every other day, only one shirt being put in. } This is approximately how things stand in the other textile mills too. According to bour- geois press reports only 540 workers are find- ing employment in the carpet trades out of the 1,500 workers employed previously. All the pottery workers are out in Yambola to- day. In fact, in Yambola, 80 per cent of the workers employed in the various handi-craft trades are unemployed. This was the state of affairs in all the other towns, according to in- formation published up to January 15 last. { News items published in “Pladne” show that a further curtailment of production and mass discharges took place during the second half of January in all the large factories in Sofia, Plovdiva, Gabrovo, Sliveni and Burgas. We Jearn that more than 3,000 workers were dis- charged in Sofia alone. When we add to this that unemployment had affected not only the | workers but also large numbers of the em- | ployes in the private and state institutions, | other categories whose work is of a seasonal nature, as well as all workers who have not worked the definite period of time laid down by law, or whose employers have not paid in insurance dues deducted from their wages, are deprived of any unemployment benefit. Fre- quent cases of suicide among the unemployed have been reported. The municipal boards from time to time assign small sums from local funds to assist the worst cases of dis- tress among the unemployed observed in their particular areas. For example, on the insist- ence of a group of workers, the Plovdiva muni- cipality assigned 700,000 Leva to “assist” 12, 000 unemployed tobacco workers. The muni- cipality appointed its own representatives to purchase bread and firewood which were to be distributed among the “most deserving cases.” For the most part it is the fascists and the | reformist bureaucrats who get control of this relief work, and frequently a considerable part of these sums finds its way into their own pockets as was seen last year in Sofia where a Mr. Danev, the secretary of the reformist trade union centre, embezzled 40,000 Leva re- ceived for unemployment relief. It is certainly | characteristic that his friends should have laid | this charge against him only recently, as he had even managed to deceive them also. This is a clear example of the way the reformist trade union bureaucracy in Bulgaria, supported wholeheartedly by the Amsterdam Internation- al, is looking after the interests of the unem- ployed workers. The only road out of these poverty-stricken conditions is the road of resolute class strug- gle, which must be shouldered by all the work- ers, whether unemployed or employéd. It is the independent revolutionary unions which have sounded the clarion call, urging, organiz- ing and leading the class struggle. It was on their initiative that unemployed workers’ com- mittees were formed in Sofia among the me- tal workers, textile workers, leather workers, needle workers, tobacco workers and other cate- gories. A start has been made to form similar unemployed committees in the provinces. The unemployed workers are struggling un- der the following slogans in Bulgaria: For full state maintenance of unemployed and their families; Unemployed to receive medical treat- ment gratis; For more pay to keep up with ‘the growing cost of living; For the observance of the eight-hour day; A capital levy to cover maintenance of unemployed; Labor inspectors to be elected; No restrictions to be placed on | unemployed; Freedom of action for all work- the picture is clear. | The Independent Unions report that more ingclass organizations; Against the terror and arrests; Against the fascist dictatorship; Against the law on safe-guarding the state; For an immediate and complete amnesty and for a worker-peasant government! Help Send 40 Tractors to Soviet Russia. Millions of workers and toilers in all coun- tries are following up the socialistic construc- tion in the Soviet Union with the greatest interest. During the last few months millions of workers have once more shown their sym- pathy to the Soviet Union in the powerful demonstrations: The more serious the danger of imperialist war, the stronger grows the enthusiasm of the proletarian masses, prepared to come to the defense of the first workers’ and peasants’ state, the plainer is the deter- mination of many thousands of toilers to sac- rifice their lives to defend the Soviet’ Union from the imperialist war-mongers. This, how- ever, is insufficient. It is necessary, without delay, to mobilize all the technical and financial forces of the world proletariat for direct assistance to the socialistic construction in the U.S.S.R. Lenin frequently emphasized the need for this most important work. This task is all the more insistently facing all the workers at the present time now that the bloc of imperialist states is attempting, by refusing credits, par- tial blockade, and war preparations, to hinder and to prevent the actomplishment of economic construction in the U.S.S.R. s The working class can support the economic @enstruction in the U.S.S.R. in two ways: by {ntensifying the class struggle in their own countries and by mobilizing all financial forces for active support to the economic con- struction in Soviet Russia (buying industrial- ization bonds, etc.). The Workers International Relief has already made the first step for the practical accom- plishment of these tasks. In order to support Workers! Join the Party of Your Class! Soviet economy, the W.I.R. has taken upon it- self the management of several economic en- terprises in the U.S.S.R., including two big farms, near Moscow, the area of which ex- ceeds 2,000 hectares. ° The W.LR. has undertaken to equip these farms with the newest agricultural machinery, to turn them into model farms, and to set up tractor stations, which are to help cultivate the peasant lands situated near these farms. The first tractors will be sent to Moscow in the course of the next few weeks, These are to be followed by others, so that by April, by the commencement of the Spring works, there will be already 40 tractors in use. We appeal to all workers, toilers, and friends of the U.S.S.R.: help us carry out this most important campaign, which will be the prac- tical realization of working class solidarity. In this way, by making the smallest contribu- butions, there is the opportunity of extending practical support to Soviet Russia and of ac- tively helping in carrying out the Five Year Plan. This question must be discussed at all meet- ings, at the mills, factories and shops, collec- tions to be held everywhere. In 1921 the W.LR. sent 40,000 tons of food products on 40 ships to.the Volga provinces. This year our task is to send 40 tractors to the Soviet Union. When all participate in extending assistance the share of each individual in this work need not be great. Workers! Friends of Soviet Russia! Demand immediately propaganda material, subscription lists, prospectuses, and pamphlets on the W.1. R. farms in the U. R., and on helping with tractors! Send the moneys collected without delay! Even the smallest sum is invaluable help! For- ward! To the support of socialistic construction in the Soviet Union, for the Five Year Plan, for the assistance extended by the W.LR. in Professional Capitalist Liars By HARRY GANNES. je of jobless workers demand Work or Wages. The capitalists, through their police and courts, reply with brutality and jail sentences. Qn the top, the imperialist ex- ecutives in the government, answer with lies about declining unemployment, lies about fu- ture conditions. This barrage of fakery is not new. At the very beginning of the crisis every capitalist spokesman first denied there was a crisis or any unemployment. Now that this lie has been shoved down their throat by mil- lions of workers who came out on the streets on March 6 to demand Work or Wages, again we get a stream of evil-smelling bunk. Nor will this stop the fight for unemployment in- surance, and the organization of the unorgan- ized to fight wage-cuts and the attempts of the bosses to shift the burden of the crisis on the backs of the workers. On the first of the year, every capitalist politician and economist became a prophet. What were their prophecies? What were’ their analyses of business conditions? By their past fruits we shall be able to understand their pres- ent outcroppings. the great mass of workers in’ all industries, is worse than ever before. No one now denies that the agrarian crisis in the United States (part of the world agrar- ian crisis) is rapidly developing to the worst ever experienced. What were the views of the so-called capitalist authorities early in the year? Said Samuel P. Arnot: president of the Chicago Board of Trade (Journal of Commerce, Jan. 3, 1930): “American finance and industry are more strongly entrenched than ever be- fore. . . Large programs of construction and development are in the offing. Farm condi- tions continue to improve... In a summary of world conditions on November 16, the Depart- ment of Agricultureyexpressed a belief that | on the basis of supply and demand, wheat would sell 25 cents higher within the following two months.” The “following two months” are now history and wheat is selling from 40 to 50 cents lower | than the price of November 16. The continu- On January 1, 1930, millionaire Mellon, sec- | retary of the treasury, said: “During the win- ter months, there may be some slackness of unemployment, but hardly more than is usual at this season o feach year.” Over 7,000,000 unemployed—is this “usual at, this season of the year?” Even Green, strike breaker-in-chief of the American Federation of Labor is forced to admit that unemployment is about as bad as it was in the severe crisis of 1921. With 43 per cent of the building trades workers unemployed: and 22 per cent of all workers in the A. F. of L. walking the streets, this, to Mellon, is “usual.” It is “usual” for Mellon to picture 7,000,000 workers starving. Robert P. Lamont, secretary of commerce: voicing the views of Hoover then said: “The nature of the economic development of the United States is such that one may confidently predict, for the long run, a continuance of pros- perity and progress. What has happened is a continuance of the progress of the growth of the unemployed army and the decline of imperialist economy. Then up spoke W. C. Clark, vice-president of S. W. Straus and Co., mortgage bankers, and a supposed authority on building activities: “The construction industry is now confidently looked upon as the industry which will save us from the business collapse, cushioning the decline in business activity and stimulating the forces of recovery.” (New York Evening Post, Financial and Business Survey, Jan. 2, 1980). This is the crudest bunk yet spewed by the capitalists in the present crisis. The same line is slung by Hoover: Lamont, Klein, Green and Davis. But what are the facts?, Building thus far has declined over 35 per cent below 1929! Hoover's publi¢ works building program has completely collapsed (Annalist, Jan., Feb.. March, all the figures of the F. W. Dodge Corporation, and those published by Mr. Clark’s own outfit, the S. W. Straus and Co.) This “cushion” has not absorbed the tremendous shock of capitalist decline, Naturally we would find William Green do- ing the predicting stunt along with his capi- talist friends. Green overflowed with exhuber- ance and confidence in the capitalists who make it possible for him to yeceive: $100,000 a year So he said: “The president's conferences have been effective in checking this drift toward pessimism. With the ‘great back-logs” of pros- ous drop in agricultural prices is a world phen- omenon which is one of the factors worsening the crisis in the U. S. and elsewhere. Arthur M. Hyde, secretary of agriculture, chimed in with his particular set of:lies: say- ing: “It is possible, however, from a study of supply and demand, relationships and pros- pects, to estimate the outlook with reasonable confidence.” Mr. Hyde’s confidence became a little shaken recently when he _ hysterically begged the farmers to reduce output by at. least 20 per cent in order to avert a catas- trophe. The automobile industry is one of the most important bulwarks of American capitalist economy. At least 40 per cent of the auto work- ers are jobless and will remain so for a long time. In its last issue the Annalist stated that the best that could be hoped for during 1930 is 60 per cent of the 1929 production in this Type. Iron Age, organ of the steel bésses, frank- ly admitted that auto production this year would be at least 40 per cent below last year— if not more. Here is what Walter P. Chrysler, president of the Chrysler corporation said early in the year, and wanted the workers to believe it; “Nothing appears on the business horizon to change the forward-looking course of the motor ear industry, or to lessen confidence in its future prosverity.” Albert Russel Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corporation, and chairman of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co., said: “The in- dustry has its problems fully in hand and has made preparations for a large volume of busi- ness in 1930. Good business is certain.” Atiother capitalist liar, A. J. Brosseau: pres- ident of Mack Trucks, Inc. said: “It is the be- lief, of those best informed in the industry that the volume of production of commercial vehi- cles, trucks and buses will be at a greater rate in 1930 than during 1929.” The output of Mack trucks this year dropped between 30 and 40 per cent below 1929. Now Hoover, Lamont, and Davis want the workers to believe new fairy tales about unem- ployment disappearing.within 60 to 90 days. The whole mass of capitalist lies have been smashed by the ever-deepening crisis. First om eed Dawiz en'd there was no unemploy- ment. Then they said it was declining, But siti Ow + Trgaces exposed aheir deliberate un- truths. “Later they admitted 3,000,000 unem- ployed. And now they say this is disappearing. Davis admitted that since October 12 per cent of the American workers lost their jobs. Out of 35,000,000 workers this would mean, on Let us call to mind the years 1918 and 1919, when the working population was confronted. with the question of liquidating the world war. Also in that fateful hour, two points of view confronted each other. At that time the view represented by the opponents of the Commu- nist Party was crowned with the Treaty of Versailles. Today it is a question of the sec- ond Versailles, of the Young Plan, which ac- cording to the will of its originators shall con- stitute a “final” solution of the reparations problem. Here also today two fronts face each other. On the one side the front of the pos- sessing class and of the social democracy, and on the other side the front of the fighting proletariat under the leadership of the Com- munist Party. In the year 1919 the Spartacus Bund, the young Communist Party, set up against the reparations policy of the imperialists the slo- gan of the proletarian revolution. We can say today: If the Communist Party had at that time achieved the victory of the proletariat, then the Versailles Treaty would never have been signed, reparations would never have been paid, then there would have been no need for us to discuss the Young Plan in the Reichstag today. But the German working class, like the Russian working class, would be building up socialism. The social democracy in the year 1919 wanted otherwise. They beat down the German revo- lution with the aid of the Noske soldiers. They rejected with mockery and scorn the offer of the Soviet government of an alliance with the German revolution. Only when the millions had been subjugated, when thousands of workers had been shot, when revolutionary leaders like Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht had been foully murdered by the white guardist soldiers, was it possible to proceed to the sig- nature of the peace of Versailles, this counter- revolutionary peace. . Who does not remember the many promises which were made to the working masses at that time by the people commissars, by the government of Ebert and Scheidemann. I be- lieve that the German workers have learnt in 12 years of bitter experience what these prom- ises were worth, I pick out just a few ques- tions. Where is the “full socialization” regarding which in 1919 the placards proclaimed in the streets of Berlin and in the Ruhr district: “So- cialism is marching! Socialism is here!’”? The second question: Where is “General dis- armament,” the “securing of world peace.” (Turning to the social democrats). You gave a suitable answer to this question at your Magdeburg Party Congress in the debate on the armored cruisers. I put the third question: where is “work and bread for everybody” as was solemnly guar- anteed? This question is being answered out- side this Parliament by the four and a half million unemployed. Fourth question: Where is the “free Re- public’? At nearly every great unemployed demonstration the police make use of their firearms in order to proclaim “the freedom of the Republic.” With equally lying phrases, with the same tissue of lies and hypocrisy the present social democratic government is carrying out the Young Plan. What was said regarding the two sessions at the Hague and the Paris Con- ference by the government representatives? It was declared that the Young Plan meant a step towards freedom, towards lightening the burdens and securing peace. We declare from this tribune and everywhere that the Young Plan is not bringing freedom but slavery. The social democratic government. asserts that Germany is winning back “its. indepen- dence.” Nothing of the kind. The financial control is assuming other forms than at the time of the Dawes-Plan, at the time of the London ultimatum and previously. The repara- tions agent disappears. The control over the railways is formally abolished. The pledges are formally abolished. But in their place there comes the much worse, more brutal, mere oppressive control of foreign and home finance capital which weighs upon the shoulders of the working masses. For months the German working class has felt this unlimited cictator- ship of finance capital in Germany. This dic- tatorship is carried out by Schacht, the agent of Morgan. Almost eyerything that Schacht demands is carried out unconditionally by the social democratic government. This govern- ment constitutes the most obedient. tool that finance capital in Germany could desire. The government refers to the fact that the French troops are being withdrawn from the Rhine. The German and French Communists have during the last 12 years fought together against the occupation of the Rhineland and the Ruhr district. What, however, under the Young Plan, has be renewed. During the time of the Dawes Plan, therefore, Germany received in credits twice the amount paid by it in the form of reparations. Now Germany will have to pay almost everything out of its own pocket, or rather out of the pockets of thé working peo- ple. In the first period of payment, therefore, that is for 87 years, Germany must. pay on an average 2187 millions annually. If we reckon the annual interest on and amortization of the Dawes Plan at 88 million, further the amor- tization rates payable under the Belgian mark agreement, and finally the participation and investment without interest in the world rep- arations bank, then the average annual pay- ments during the first period of payment amount to at least 2,200. million. To these reparations payments there is to be added dur- ing the first decade the annual 1,400 millions interest on the 14,000 million foreign credits, after deducting the 3,000 millions of capital exported by Germany. In all, therefore, not 2,200 millions ‘but 8,600 millions will have to be paid out of the pockets of the German proletariat every year as tribute to foreign capital. The transfer protection is for the greater part abolished. The Dawes payments were made in German marks, whilst the Young pay- ments must be made in foreign gold currency. As a result, a’fresh inflation can easily arise. In addition, under the Young Plan payment in money is to a great extent to take the place of deliveries in kind. This will of nec- essity increase unemployment an] worsen the conditions of living of the German proletariat still further, I will only cite a few figures: In the first reparations year of the Dawes Plan, Germany made deliveries in kind to the value of 667 millions to the reparations ac- count. In the Dawes reparations year 1928- 1929 about 1100 millions reparations payments were made in the form of celivevies in kind. As against this we have only to resd the new figures of the Young Plan, which in the first year provides for only 750 miilion in deliveries in kind, which by the tenth ycar will fall to 300 millions and then will te core away alto- gether, in order to see how the situation is worsened. Of the very greatest importe nection is the new economic crisis which has commenced in America. The United States, the most firmly weldel imperialist country, which gained oe financial advantages from the world war, is now seized by the gen- eral crisis of capitalism. As a result, America is now proceeding to extend its own export offensive on the world market. The fight for sales markets is becoming more fierce than ever the world has seen. It is obvious that also from this point of view the position of the working class of Germany under the Young Plan, will become unbearable. No al- leviation, but instead a tremendous increase of misery and exploitation will ensue. 1 this con- (To. be continued) é Another Lesson of the Class Struggle _AFTER having been in the demonstration March 6 in Union Square, New’ York City, I experienced a lot. I have learned that the Communist Party cannot be bluffed back by the police. The,police will have to show ac- tion. The police force of the capitalist sys- tem are trying their best to wipe the Commu- unists off the earth. I want to say that as long as there is one. Communist left, the Party will keep on struggling: en ees Down South we have a kind of. grass wwe call Moody Grass. You can’t kill it out. That is the way with the Communist Party. You cam’s kfil it out. ‘The only reason that the South. is not organ- ized under the Communist Party yet,.is that the Communist Party has not been in the South long enough. The capitalists have not got the nerve to come and fight the workers: themselves, so they send the police and thugs to murder the work- ers, because they are starving and intend to fight for their rights. I want to tel] the whole capitalist’ class that they can’t bluff us back. In the- South the people have been fed on Hoover’s “prosperity” propaganda, and we have found out that it does not fill our stomachs at all. So we intend to show the northern workers that they are not the only ones that can fight the bosses, the ruling class. We Southerners can fight too and we are going to prove it. The bosses put up signs along the highways like the following ones: “This way to the Sunny South.” “To the Land of Sunshine,” “To the Land of Skies.” If we/do have these things, the bosses didn’t give " the form of tractors! i bli ice institutions is’ 4 i Communist Party U. S. A. f perity assured by. public service instituti ‘Davis’s own figures, 4,200,000 jobless. But | taken the place of the French troops in these hem | 48 East 125th Street, CENTRAL COMMITTEE, | and governmental work as we enter 1980, we | Davis is a plain liar. There are over 22 per | districts? The German police, who, under the be Cay ely cae Lisaihelviat:/ ie _ New York City. WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF. can look ahead with confidence. cent of the American workers starving. leadership of the social democratic police | into our own hands. sAbcimes tee ila side arn do “I, the undersigned, want to join the Commu- nist Party. Send me more information. Address ....++..+-ssseerveres Lit¥eeeeeene ' Fight the Right Danger. A Hundred Proletarians for Every Ve'ty Rourgeois Rene- The only thing that the “president’s confer- ences have been effective in,” js instituting mass, drastic wage cuts for the workers, thanks to the assistance of Mr. Green, Mr. Woll, Mr Lewis and the other misleaders, What has this assured prosperity amounted to? There are 700,000 jobless in the ranks of the A, F. of L. alone. Steel production has dropped 15 per cent. Freight-car loadings are 20 per cent be- The repetition of phrases about “improve- ments,” and the “end of the depression in 90 days” by the professional liars of the captalist class will not solve unemployment or feed the statving masses of jobless. Only the organiza- tion of the jobless and employed workers for a determined fight, under the leadership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, will force the bosses to give the un- presidents, proceed more brutally against the revolutionary working class than any foreign occupation army. The acts of murder in Worms, in Hartmannsdorf, in Berlin and in Hamburg, Grezinski’s prohibition of demon- strations, the gagging of the workers’ press best show what your (to the social ‘democrats) freedom, the freedom of the, Young Plan is like. Tt looks to me that the bosses ought to know what is causing this crisis, if they don’t pay their workers enough to buy what they need. Take the textile industry for instance. There isn’t a family in the whole industry that could not use fifteen or twenty yards of cloth that they are making. If they. only could afford it. But some day we workers of the South are Occupation .........-esecesereres ABC ree eee gade! low last year. Automobile production i i ing to shi 1 ast year. production is down—— | employed Work or Wages and prevent them The occupied area is to be evacuated by the | #8 to show the bosses what's what. + - Mail this to the Central Office, Communist but we will come to that later. The outlook | from shifting the burden of the crisis onto the | 30th of June. But under the gover: f " “ ay a . government onal ty, 43 East 125th St., New York, N. Y. for the workers in the A, F. of L., along with + “4 ‘ st Nati Training . backs of the working class, finance capital, under the social democracy, . —A Student of the wh: SP are, 1| i