The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 8

: DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY WHERE UNEMPLOYED WORKER: be Employed and Unemp:. Against Imps« By BILL DUNNE Imperialist war is raging in the the power of the revolutionary work- ing class to check and frustate their war plots, plans and acts. of the Vreasury, Lament, of the House of Morgan, Secretary of the - Department of Commerce, etc. ployed workers, between Negro and white, between native bern and foreign born. maintenance and reproduction, which value ef necessaries finally Far East. The seizure of Manchu- : is regulated by the quantity of ria by Japanes2 imperialism and the Never before have the class lines Huge sumes .are given to the a anete - eee a me ees labor wanted to produce them. ts slaughter of the Chinese soldiers, been so clearly drawn throughout railways and industrial corpora- @@Monstration from which toll is But there ate Sore pecmilar feat- © 0} workers and peasants defending the world! tions, but not one cent for the 20t taken amounting to thousands utes which distinguish the value ti 3 = 3 of arrests and the railroading of of ‘the laboring power, or the ie Shanghai, the mass butchery of . iali ee h 12,000,000 unemployed. ee A f : civilians, men, women and children, evbeticon ee eee In spite of the extraordinary ‘™#litant workers to. prison under value of labor from the values P! ates the: beginning: of “a. new-impe- worst crisis in its history. Se is world measures-taken, designed to restore criminal syndicalism and other sup- of all other commodities. The th rialiss world war for the redivision C#Pitalism. Side by side with the the stability of American capitalism, P'esive Jaws for long terms, value of the laboring power is of China and a subjugation of the ~C°Mtnual and rapid downward trend its perspective for the future is one These are new coalition moves of formed by two elements—the one i Soveit Union on whose eastern and of production and exchange and the of the satinostwesraient. republican and democratic leaders © merely physical, the other histo- la western frontiers imperialist armies Pact of the criedit ee ee ee Cae against the workers. vical or social. Its ultimate limit st sles nee out the capitalist world, there is The ‘Situation in iron and steel, American imperialism prepares is determined by the physical ele- ey : ao the upsurge of the working class in the primary industry of American for war, to establish its rule thru- ment, that is to say, to maintain pe The Japenese armies are driving. the capitalist countries and the rise capitalism, is typical and furnishes out the world as against that of the and reproduce itself, to perpetu- aa toward the Soviet: Frontier. of the national liberation revolutions a basis for an estimate of the pre- rising power of the Soviet Union, ate its physical existing, the work- ci Already mobilization of Polish and in the colonial and semi-colonial sent economic status and the im- its Socialist construction, and ing class must receive the neces- Rumanian armies has been tolowed countries. (China, India, sections of mediate future. ‘The New York against its imperialist rivals, The saries absolutely indispensable by pine | seeing Up) Ob & state ot — Taitn Aaneritar ete, Evening Post, the organ of Lamont drive against the working class is for living and multiplying. .The of seige in their frontier gestae The living and social standards and semi-official spokesman of the the most important part of this value of those indispensable ne- _ of TEMIIGIOI SER CUOPLES WORK: “PARAS TARA Aye ie entire American working class ~government, said on April 18th: preparation for war which at the cessaries form, therefore, the wl- di day. eff Pair ate fomn sha have been lowered from 40 to 70 per “Further retrenchment of Amer- same time is designed to reduce the timate limit of the value of sic Se seek eas SBEe The sh t cent in the last three years through industry by way of wage cuts, di- _ working class to hitherto unheard of’ _labor. .. . Besides this mere phy- in a erigilsh peb pete di ie oad mass unemployment, wage-cuts, and vidend reductions and operating low levels of living, to flood the sical element, the value of labor Le Ge te, eek wis ce part-time work—the Hoover stagger economic lie ahead in the near world market with goods produced is in every country determined a ¢ capitalism themselves impel the Pl#8- Production continues to de- future... Myron C. Taylor, chair- | by American workers whose “high by a traditional standard of life. ie cap oe sae ae pak ne t th cline, unemployment increases daily. man of the Board of Directors American standard of living” has It is not merely physical life, but do oe Fige ointed pea pera hese The army of unemployed has grown of the U. S. Steel Corporation, been replaced by a slave standard. it is also the satisfaction of cer- on Sarlit crue: to more than 12,000,000. told stockholders. . . . that opera- The American ruling class is pro- tain wants, springing from the ca Imperialist war has begun. Im- The government of Wall Street tions of the great company were ceeding in accord with the analysis social conditions in which people Re perialist WORLD war impends. We ‘imperialism, headed by Hoover, has _ only at 20 per cent of capacity, and made by Marx of the process b are placed and reared up. The we witness the massacre of thousands Ot spent one single dollar for un- ‘it is obvious that operations can- which capitalism exploits and en- English standard of life may be pa of Communists, of Chinese workers ©™ployment relief. not be profitable at 20 per cent slaves with ever greater intensity reduced to the Trish standard; ele and peasants in Manchuria and Hundreds of thousands of farm- of ‘capacity.’ This distinet war- the masses of the population. the standard of life of a German to Shanghai, while defending their "5 are ruined and reduced to paup- ning concernnig the dividend po- “The working man will, on an peasant to that of a Livonian su country and the liberation ‘move- erism. licy was coupled with a hint that average, only receive the value of peasant. .. . This historical or tai ment from the imperialist invaders, The republican and democratic present conditions probably dic- his labor, which resolves into the social element, entering into the the widespread military suppression Parties have entered into a closer tated a further reduction in value of his laboring power, value of labor, my be expanded, the of the national liberation movement C0alition against the American wage and ‘salary schedules of the which is determined by the value or contracted, OR ALTHOGETH- th in China. The massacres of workers Workers and farmers. In Congress company. ‘Salaries and wages of the necessaries required for its ER EXTINGUISHED, SO THAT Co and peasants in Latin America and Africa, show clearly that this war, . like the last war,, and al] other im- perialist wars is directed against the proletariat and the oppressed national minorities, semi-colonial and colonial peoples. The supreme test for Communist ist Parties is the struggle against imperialist war. their leaders unite to put over a taxation program which raises the price of practically every article needed by the toiling masses cof the population. Inflation of the currency, through a variety of measures, like the Fin- ance Reconstruction Corporation, the legalizing for bank loans of formerly unacceptable securities, were lowered last autumn, All were cut a minimum of 10 per cent,” said Mr. Taylor. The question of wages is a vital one to the indus- try. ... Those who study these questions of industry have varying views on these subjects. In view of the conditions existing the facts must be faced. We all like to hea happy reports of high operations, Workers Expose War WINCHESTER SPEEDS ARMS PRODUCTION, SLASHES WAGES work at the most killing speed. “I receive. for this work 22 cents an Prep pre pre The Communist Party of the U.S. the power given to the Federal Re- inereased earnings and large buy- By a Worker Correspondent.) Vantec Sp eens - faces this test. serve banks to issue currency ing power of the mill worker, but ne HAVEN, ond wiaintek This worker told ‘of another man of The purpose of the 14th Plenum against treasury notes, have the these are now lacking. A PRO- Arms Plant is still working at high who had five children to support. ‘ and its resolutions is to put the result also of raising prices for the ?HECY FOR THE FUTURE JS speed producing arms and ammun- He Said that this man worked along ‘ee whole Party on a war footing—to masses of the industrial and agra- QUITE OUT OF ORDER.” (Our ition. The conditions in the plant RISE of him producing arms for 15 pul enable it to play a decisive part rian population. emphasis.) : are most appalling. Workers are °°?'S an hour at the highest speed. dex in the mobilization of the American At the same time the “progres- The onslaught of the working driven like slaves and receive the 1°" hours is considered a day in mo working class against imperialist sives” of both Parties vie with the class is unparalleled in American lowest wages. jane ‘ alae id ‘ war-—ifor the defense of the Chinese Socialists and A. F. of L, leaders history. Special terror in the form On May 17 James Rollins, an un- ‘this ene expigae inn ae Rs people and the Soviet Union—with- in demagogic deception of the work- of legal murder, organized gang employed machinist tried to apply “4 war will bring prosperity for an put another moment’s delay. ing class and poor farmers. They murders and lynchings, both in the at the Winchester Arms Co. for a the workers. ry be The consolidation of the Soviet paye the way for outright betrayal north and south, has been unleashed —_job, being out of work for over a pee Be pes power headed by the Communist of the masses to the imperialist against the Negro masses. Foreign year. He tried to get past the of- | Rope aT IANS eit ees Party of the Soviet Union, the build- war machine. born workers, especially in the fue cop, but pal Sethe ae) he nt ee eee ORS.” Ted ing of socialism with its corollary New giant mergers of already heavy industrial districts, are sys- had no special card, the kind which (By a Worker Correspondent) C of continued improvement of the huge corporations and banks are tematically intimidated, terrorized is given to workers only after a ELIZABETH, N. J.—The Dieh) WoO! economic and cultural position of authorized and carried through, and deported, the total number ot mest thorough investigation is made plant of the Singer Manufacturing Wo! the masses, abolition of unemploy- _ still further centralizing the control deportations in the last year being by company agents. Co., which is at present setting up duc ment, the magnificent success of the of industry and finance in the more than 20,000. No effort is On his way out this worker met machinery to produce guns and air. dol first Five-Year Plan, drive the im- hands of the biggest capitalists, spared to divide the ranks of the a young man who said he was em- plane motors for war, informed the are perialists to frenzied hatred and at- working directly through their own working class—to create a division ployed in the plant. The young workers on May 2 that their wages r tacks that Know no bounds beyond agents, like Ogden Mills, Secretary between the employed and unem- man said that he was working day would be slashed. This is direct eye 7 ak = e € \ t ~