The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 3, 1933, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1933 Page Three Capitalist Crisis Plunges Down International Notes By ROBERT HAMILTON ' SCHLEICHER AND THE SOCIALISTS The German Social Democracy is trying its hardest to make its ad- herents believe that it is a party of Serious, even dangerous opposition to the yon Schleicher cabinet. The facts tell a different story however: 1, Even under von Papen 50 So- cialist deputies were ready to tolerate the cabinet. After the fall of von Papen this number has grown con- siderably, especially among these Reichstag deputies who belong to the trade union wing of the German So- cialist Party. 2. Leipart’s letter to von Schleich- er frankly states that the Schleicher cabinet is an acceptable partner, with whom an agreement can be reached. (Leipart is president of the German Federation of Labor, and an influ- “ential leader of the German Socialist Party). 3. Leipart’s interview with a re- porter of the Paris “Exelsior” is an unabashed defense of Schleicher and } his plans, compelling even the So- cialist Berlin “Vorwaerts” of Decem- ber 7th to make a demagogic attack upon Leipart’s policy. 4. We have such a significant fact as the statement of the socialist edi- tor-in-chief of the “Hessische Volks- freund,” who declares in an editorial: “Let Schleicher go to work! We are not interested in the overthrow of the Schleicher government. Schleicher has gotten in touch with ithe. great socialist labor front, and “ye should not hinder him in the making of this experiment, espe- cially since this is the only road Pe Jeading anywhere at the present | time.” 5. We have the testimony of the “Deutsche Fuehrerbriefe” of Decem- ber 2nd (this is an information se! vice gotten out for the biggest cap- tains of Germany industry and fin- nce), as follows: “Indeed, there is no doubt that Leipart and his still numerous sup- porters, including even Tarnow (in- fluential trade union leader), are ready to separate from the Socialist Party as soon as the Government considers it advisable to make con- cessions to him in this field.” “6. There is the fact of the Reichs- yanner’s participation in the Hinden- surg Curatorium, which was estab- ished to militarize and fascize the ‘oung workers of Germany. (The telchsbanner is a semi-military or- ‘anization established largely by the socialists, with the aid of the Cath- lies and the democrats, to “defend he republic.””) Paste these facts in your hat; tell our socialist fellow workers and eighbors about them; and don’t be arprised when you find the press oon reporting that the German So- ialists are directly cooperating with he arch-fascist von Schleicher. {NTELLECTUALS PROTEST AGAINST THE JUGOSLAV PRISON REGIME. “The three week’s hunger strike of 150 political prisoners in Mitrowitza, 3s well as the torture of the worker Misatitch in Belgrade, are alarming he pwblic opinion of the world. In the narxe of European culture we nost energetically demand the release of Miletitch and the granting of the just demands of the Mitrowitza hun- \ ger strikers.” (Signed) — Prof. Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Henri Barbusse, Francis Jourdain, Karin Mich- { aelis, Martin Andersen-Nexo, Tom Mann, Prof. Zd. Nejedly, . Prof. Bartoschek. Consumers Fight 100 Per Cent Rise in Price CHICAGO, (By Mail).— Battling 'victoriously against gangsters, slug- gers, and police, the fourth day of ‘ue Lawndale bread strike finds the workers, wives, and children of the Lawndale neighborhood, more deter- mined than over to force the bosses to take back the raise in bread prices from 6 cents to 12 cents. ‘Three to’four hundred adults went out on the picket line today. Three hundred children, shouting slogans, cheering, and singing, paraded down 16th St., Kedzie Ave. and Roosevelt Rd. The pickets did not make the mistake today of trying to cover all the bakeries in the neighborhood, but concentrated on a few of the most. important ones. ‘Thus there were two pickets to a store, and 20 to 30 for a defense corps. The bosses, through their agents, the ‘Braverman, Kaufman, Green clique, have already offered to come down to 10 cents a loaf- The rank and file workers in the bakers’ union should not allow these gangster lead- ers to play them off against the un- employed, but should make a united front with the unemployed. \ To broaden the base of the strike, the Women’s Council, Unemployed Council and the Provisional Bread 4 Strike Committee are issuing a call for a conference to be held Wednes- day, Jan. 4, at 8 p. m. at 3151 W. osevelt Road and at 4006 W. Roos- evelt Road. LETTERS FROM MARINE Operator This girl is one of Moscow’s tel- egraph operators, sitting at her typewriter and getting the dots and dashes through her earphones. She is part of the Postoffice-Telegraph- Telephone system. STUDENTS ADOPT ANTI-WAR $ AND Endorse Pledge of Amsterdam Congress CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—Seven hundred Student delegates representing eighty nine universities and schools attended the sessions of the Students Congress which adjourned Thursday night after two days of deliberations, The del- egates hitch-hiked or came by buses from thirty states and were a typical cross section of the American student body. The speakers at the opening session were Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party and Upton Close, bourgeois newspaper man and “ex- pert” on Far Eastern affairs, Speak- ing on the burning question of war and imperialism, Browder gave a pen- etrating “Leninist analysis of the causes of modern conflicts, differen- tiating between wars of imperialist aggression and revolutionary wars. Imperialist Agent Talks Upton Close, a notorious agent of U. S. imperialism, attributed wars to Psychological factors and character- ized them as inevitable under any sys- tem, thus attempting to obscure the real causes of imperialist wars in the fight for markets and new colonies and for a redivision of the world, Close’s arguments gave objective sup- port to Japan’s robber war against China as well as to the undeclared wars in South America which were in- stigated by U. S. imperialists in their bitter rivalry with British imperialism for control of the markets and natural Tesources of the semi-colonial coun- tries. At the second session, Scott Nearing spoke, as did Jane Addams and J, B. Matthews of the Society of Reconcili- ation on types of opposition to war. Matthews stated that although he considered himself a pacifist he was opposed to violence in opposing war, thus clearly showing that he opposed to violence except when it is used by the exploiting class. Jane Addams came out even more openly in an at- tempt to throttle the growing anti- war sentiments of the students, declar- ing that it was useless to talk of op- posing imperialist war since there were no longer ary, this, despite the fact that Japan is pushing its robber war against China and threatening armed intervention against the Soviet Union, and that the two undeclared wars raging in South America are threatening to plunge that entire con- tinent into a bloody slaughter as a prelude for the new world war for which all the imperialist bandit powers are frantically arming. Workers Power Can End Wars Scott Nearing pointed to the pre- sent wars in the Orient and South America in sharp refutation against the deliberately misleading statement by Jane Addams. He declared that wars have been going on incessantly in various parts of the capitalist world since 1910, that imperialist war is the chief business of the capitalist gov- ernments, that it is a continuation of their class policies “by other means.” He declared that only the seizure of power by the working-class can end war by abolishing the capitalist sys- tem which breeds war. Nearing was followed by a student delegate from Colombia, whose gov- ernment is now engaged in the un- declared war with Peru, The Colom- bian delegate told of the heroic strug- gles of the illegal Communist Party end revolutionary workers against this war. He pointed out that the socialist, deputies there, as elsewhere, had voted war credits along with the bourgeois deputies. Adopt United Front Program ‘The evening session was devoted. to study groups where the delegates had an opportunity for individual discus- sions under capable leaders, The del- egates ranged from pacifists to Com- munists, Considerable discussion and clarification was therefore necessary for the adoption of a united front program. Accordingly, the entire sec- Finally a minimum program was un- WORKERS Letters from marine workers ers’ Groups in A. F. of L. and Pr apple gb peg animously adopted against imperialist war. This program correctly analyses causes of war, calls for the untiy of students with the workers and en- dorses the pledge of the Amsterdam Congress to vigorously fight against imperialist war, Resolutions were adopted demand- ing the recognition of nine Soviet Un- expose the war-making role of the League of Nations behind ward at Dawn of New | ARMOUR TOILERS ‘TALKING UNITY, ORGANIZATION Ready to Resist More Wage-Cuts and Lay-Offs KANSAS CITY, Kansas.—Armour packing plant is laying off quite a number of workers and putting them on the stagger system, the worker working one week and laid off the next. They are building a new chute be- tween Fowler’s and Armour’s, to cost, they tell us, $40,000, and this will mean more lay-offs because of in- creased mechanization. The mechanical department in Ar- mour’s—machinists, boiler makers, etc.—has laid off very many workers. Workers have been working for only 25 cents an hour which is much less than they used to get. Then they lay them off and hire them back at 20 cents an hour. Some system! Workers here will not stand for this without resistance. They are now talking unity and organization and it is high time we had such unity without such misleaders and traitors as Danny Lane, T. A. McRish and Johnny Hart of the A. F. of L., who | wrecked our union years ago. Xmas ‘Present of No Pay in Wealthy Blackstone Hotel CHICAGO, Tll—All the employees of the Blackstone Hotel, one of the biggest of its kind in Chicago, re- ceived a Christmas greeting from the happy years. This is the most clever joke ever played on the workers of this hotel, because it is now the third week that we did not receive our pay, and, instead of paying us our wages, the management are merely telling us “Merry Christ- mas.” And, if you please, with a notice that we will be paid after January, because the hotel is ex- pecting to increase its business in that month. In this manner the 300 workers of the Blackstone Hotel -have~ mo reason to be thankful for the myth- ical coming on earth of God's. son. A thousand times better was.our pay, and not wishes which, after all,.do not fill the empty stomachs of our families. We serve the parasites with the best of food, and we did not even get our money in order to buy something for our ‘families. It is high time that the workers should wake up and examine all these conditions, and decide what to do about them, for they are lately be- coming unbearable. A SLAVE OF THE BLACKSTONE HOTEL. Rob Wages of. St. Moritz Workers Discontent Growin g Among Employees NEW YORK CITY.—I have worked in the St. Moritz Hotel as a dish- washer for a few months. We work from 10 to 11 hours, and sometimes more, for the miserable wage of $45 per month. We get no time off ex- cept 3 or 4 hours every week. The food is bad and is prepared as in every other hotel, especially for the help, from scraps, etc. Every worker in this joint is dis- satisfied on account of these con- ditions. The buss boys suffer like we do, and their wages are from $10 to $15 per month, and they depend on the percentage of tips given to them by the waiters. The waiters get $15 a month and some of them work split shifts. Besides this, the sister of the boss got married recently and all the workers of the hotel were forced by the management to give $1 for a gift for the bride. To this the workers must answer by getting together and organizing themselves into the Food Workers’ Industrial Union. NO PAY FOR HOTEL SLAVES LAKEWOOD, N. J.—In this resort town, many hotel owners are taking advantage of the unemployment sit- uation not to pay wages to their help. The workers get only board and room. In a restaurant on Ocean Ave. the boss refused to pay any money till Christmas. After Christmas he was told he’d get $10 per month, besides board and meals. One worker re- fused to take this job. Last year an attempt was made to organize the workers here. The waiters were organized into a club. This year, however, the club does not exist. ond day was set aside for this purpose. | ° its sham peace manouvers and warns against such betrayals of the toiling masses as carried out by the socialist leaders of the Second International in 1914. Socialists Try Split ‘This program was accepted by all groups despite the objection of social- ist leaders who sought to split the Congress on technicallities but were finally forced into line by pressure from their own rank and file mem~- bership, A permanent committee, of students of «ll shades of was elected, as well as a delegate to the South American anti-war Con- gress to be he'd in Montevideo, Ur- uguay, beginning Feb. 28. THe meet~ ing then 0°’ ~yfned. WORKER CORRESPONDENCE Hl FOOD WORKERS CONDITIONS, STRUGGLES management, wishing us many and ion, forcing the salesgirls to ring the cash ® | Chats with Our Worcorrs Whenever the Worker Correspond- ence Section is devoted exclusively to letter from workers from one in- dustry, as today, for instance, the letters from food workers, a special distributfon of that {issue can be made very effective. We will have letters from marine workers on Thursday and plan a section for let- ters from miners on Monday, Jan. 9. | We ask miners throughout the country to write us of their condi- tions and struggles. So far we have | letters already on hand from Cover- dale, Pa.; Welco, Ky.; Bonanza, Ar! Brownsville, Pa.; Garrette, Ky.; and Old Forge, Pa. How about the metal mining, and the mines in the west and south? Write not only of your conditions, | but of your struggles, your participa- tion in the militant campaigns of the working class, your activities to expose misleaders, your solidarity actions with the unemployed miners, progress in organization, and sug- gestions for improving the methods of struggle and organization of the/ militant miners, $5 WEEKLY FOR 18 HOUR DAY New Britain Food Toil-| ers Score AFL Heads NEW BRITAIN, Conn.—Unorgan- ized food workers at the time of the so-called good times, were work- ing 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Wages in small cities averaged $20 to $40 per week. Time and time again the Food Workers’ Industrial Union called upon the food workers to join with them to struggle for better conditions, more wages, less hours and the six-day week. After the so-called good days of capitalism, these workers are now working 18 and 20 hours a day for $5 @ week, and some even without wages, but only for their meals. The bosses took advantage of the fact that the~ workers .were not organ- ized. Why not smash this system? And why are we suffering? Because we are non-union, of course. Of course the workers say they belong to the American Federation of La- bor,-but we have plenty of proof that their leaders are only joining the bosses in exploiting the workers. Food workers of the U. 8. A., join the Food Workers’ Industrial Union, the only union that struggles and defends the right of every food worker. Join the united front with the rank and file of the A. F. of L. and smash the leaders of it. Read the Daily Worker. —GEORGE CARTER. Share-the-Work Plan Put Over on Hotel Taft Workers NEW YORK CITY.—We, the workers of the Hotel Taft, want to explain how the management came out with a policy of helping the un- employed with a share-the-work plan. The waiters were working 6 days a week at the rate of $4.50 a week. Now we work 5 days a week at the rate of 50 cents a day. They were able, of course, to take more work- ers on to work, but this didn’t put a penny more on the pay-roll. On the contrary. They saved money— how? Before they applied this phony share-the-work policy, they were compelled to hire extra men for every occasion to guarantee service, at the rate of $1.50, but now the steady men have to come and assure the service for $1. They applied a sys- tem of terror by exposing any little fault, laying you off for three days or more without pay. No overtime is paid for extra hours. To show an example of co-opera- tion, the management laid off the bread girl, who was paid $12 a week, to hire another at the rate of $9, with two hours added to the time. The dish-washers have to work 11 hours a day, with a speed-up sys- tem, at the rate of $11 a week. We also want to know that for the purpose of publicity the manage- ment did not hesitate to take off one day out of our already starvation wages, without our consent, to sup- port the Gibson Committee (relief for unemployed—Ed.) Loft Candy Girls Report Pay Cuts and Speed-Up BROOKLYN, N. Y.—In Lofts Candy Co. women working for $15 a week have these intolerable con- ditions: 1. The girls have been speeded to their utmost. 2. The capitalist owners of Lofts instituted a cut of 25 cents from their pay, to insure the girls eating lunch at the Lofts lunch counter and preventing their leaving the store and thus having them on the job all day. Girls who brought their Junches with them had to eat be- hind the counter when time was found to do so. 3. All night cashiers were fired, register. This is\ capitalist rationalization, throwing ‘kers on the streets to starve, to save and cut down expenses. —z. ¥. Murdered by Deputies and Militia in Strike Against UMWA Paye (LEFT TO RIGHT.—Dominic Lauranti, found with a bullet in his back after the picket line at Zeigler, Ul., was shot up by deputies. Joseph Colbert, caught in his own yard,’ picking grass for din- ner, because his family was starving, and shot to death by an auto load of company assassins. Colbert was president of Local 303 of the United Mine Workers, but turned against the Lewis gang when they cut wages of Mllinois miners 18 per cent. militia in Christian County, Ml. The last on the right is Andrew Gynes, murdered by the HOOVER BODY | MAKES REPORT Adthits New Attack on| Toilers in 1933 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) antagonism with the existing pro- duction relationship, or with the property relationships within which they have hitherto developed. From being forms of productive forces they are transformed into fetiers on those forces, There follows the period of social revolution. With the change of basses there occurs a transforma- tion in all the enormous superstruc- ture also.” This is the explanation of the ad- vocacy of the “speeding up of social invention,” that is, sops to workers, and of the term “grave maladjust- ments” which the compilers of the Hoover Committee report say ‘are certain to result.” No Real Answer The political purpose of this re- port is first of all to answer the ever growing number of middle class critics of American capitalism who declare that it does not try to plan production and distribution; to an- swer the increasing number of un- favorable comparisons with the plan- ned economy of the socialist system of the Soviet Union; second, to show that American capitalism is not only trying to plan but that it can plan and in this way solve the crisis, once again restore prosperity and a measure of economic security to the masses of the toiling population, while at the same time maintaining profits, Two Props Weakened In this respect the report is a com- plete failure. It fails to erase the question mark that not only the working class, but an increasing number of middle class sections of the population have placed before the doorsteps of Wall Street and all it represents. The effect of the rapid industrial- ization of America upon those two great props of capitalist society, “the church and the home,” the revolu- tionizing effect of the change of the principal base of American economy from agriculture to industry is ad- mited in the following extracts from the report: “Of the great social organizations, two, the economic and the governtal, are growing at a rapid rate, while two other historic organizatons, the church and the family, have declined in social significance . . . many of the economic functions of the family have been transferred to the factory; its educational functions to the school; ‘t3 supervision over sanita- tion and pure food to the govern- ment.” “The spiritual values of life are among the most profound of those affected by developments in techno- logy and organization. They are the slowest in changing to meet altered conditions.” “Modern civilization rests upon Power, upone nergy derived from inorganic rather than human or an- imal sources.” Here again, in technical language, is the admission of the growing weak- ness of the grip of capitalist culture upon the toiling section of the popu- lation, But the report, which, by the way, is not accompanied by direct, recom- Mendations, fails even to answer criticisms made as long as two years ago by capitalist writers such as Pro- fessor Bonn, the German economist. In February, 1931, Professor Bonn wrote in the Neue Rundschau: “Millions of unemployed, hun- -dreds of thousands of ruined lives, suffering in America under the blows of the crisis; they no longer grumble against individual economic leaders who failed to prevent the crisis, they are beginning to doubt the very system which has made the crisis possible. “Capitalism and the capitalist economic system hitherto appeared to the average American to be the reasonable form of existence. These forces had built up the greatness of his country in the past, and afford- ed the opportunities of existence to his predecessors. He expected from them the possibilities of a reasonable existence along the same road.” “This the system can no Jonger yield. And in thousands of hearts and brains the question arises; has the capitalist system any right to exist, if in one of the richest coun- tries of the world it cannot bring an order of society securing to a relatively sparse, industries and capable population, an existence that is consistent with the require- ments, and with the development of modern technique, without peri- odically throwing millions of people ont of work and them to ABOUT HUNGER MARCH Marchers who have been sick in hospitals have to be sent back to their respective cities, printing bills and other urgent expenses incurred for the Hunger March must be paid, we therefore appeal to all or- ganizations and individual workers to settle for their collection lists, collection boxes, tickets, etc. IMME- DIATELY, no matter how small the amount is. All districts and cities—column and division captains are urged to have their accounts audited imme- receipt books sent to the National Office without delay. So far the only statements received are from Chicago and Baltimore. Hunger March Committee 146 Fifth Ave. New York City. destitution and to the aid of soup kitchens and doss houses?” Such criticism arising in Germany a defeated nation whose toiling popu- lation groans under. the usury ex- tracted by Wall Street bankers, are especially damaging to the prestige of American imperialism. The re- port tries to answer them but does not. ; Professor Bunn also noted shrewdly that: “There is a peculiar charm to the American world emanating from Russia. .If the Five-Year Plan will be carried out in reality, it will lead many people to the idea that the Russians, who not so very long ago used to be considered as emotional, gifted barbarians .. . have now over- taken the Americans in the domain of technique, while in regard to con- scious social quidance of society, as demonstrated by their succes, they have surpassed the Americans.” The Five Year Plan came to a triumphant finish. In the Soviet Union they have the Second Five- Year Plan. The building of socialist society sweeps on in the Soviet Un- ion. There is no unmploymnt. In the United States we have 16,- 000,000 unemployed. We have a rapid extension of the crisis. ‘We have the Report of the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends. The perspective given the American working class for 1933 is in line with the general admission of capitalist bankruptcy and failure to find any way out of the crisis except by the still further destruction of the living standards of the masses. It says: “The American standard of living for the very near future may decline because of the lower wages caused by unemployment, possible slowness of business recovery and the weakness of mass action by employes.” The entire document is at one and the same time a defense and a con- fession. It is a revealing picture of the decline of capitalism and of the fear in which the American rulers stand of the working class and the revolutionary program and leader- ship of the Communist Party. It is an attempt to draw a favorable pic- ture of America as against the So- viet Union. The report is part of the general offensive of American im- perialism against the working class at home and against the Soviet Union as a source of inspiration and the citadel of the world proletarian re- volution. (The Hoover Committee Report should be studied with great care by workers. The Daily Worker will carry other material on various phases of the report it is obviously impossible to dismiss this import- ant document of American imperi- alism with one brief analysis of some of its main features.—Ed.Note FIRES IN NEW YEAR Two fires, one in Boston, the other in New York forced the members of 79 workers’ families out into the cold streets New Years’ Day. Several tenements were demolished in Boston workingclass district but in New York the tenants were able to return, MADE POSSIBLE PLANS TRIUMPHS | Prototype of New Man, Says Soviet Organ | (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) of the shock workers becoming boss of production. “We entered Socialism in the front |ranks of the toilers, marching, an {army of 3,000,000 shock workers, the prototype of the new humanity, the masters of socialist labor which has |been transformed “from a despised {and heavy yoke, as formerly consid- ered, into a thing of honor, glory, valiance and heroism (Stalin). The socialist onslaught over the entire field of socialist construction, the | Bolshevist trempoes in the building of socialism revealed the depths of the workingclass and toiling peas- antry, brought forth thousands of great organizers of socialist produc- tion who succeeded in a short time in mastering the “secrets” of tech- niques, management and organiza- | tion; it also produced tens of thou- sands of inventors, hundreds of thou- hands of rationalizing suggestions, saving the state many billions in | money and energy. The Greatest Revolution “The shock brigade movement and socialist competition are the expres- sion of a revolution characterized by Lenin and more difficult, more es- sential, more radical and more de- cisive than the overthrow of the | bourgeoisie, “for this is a triumph over our own backwardness, laxity and petty-bourgeois egotism, over the habits left as a legacy of accursed capitalism to the workers and peas- ants.” “Socialism as the first stage of Communism has become invincible | due to the triumphs of the first Five- Year Plan. This struggle of the pro- letariat is inevitably encountering the desperate resistance of the dying classes and all the elements of decay of the former society. The second five-year program calls the shock workers of city and village to fight the enemies of socialist. production— the remnants of capitalist elements and their influence, everybody who tries to corrupt the labor discipline of socialist production, to frustrate the Bolshevist tempoes and dissolve the collective farms which are the basic support of socialist reconstruc- tion of peasant economy and the re- education of the collective farmers, The growth and strengthening of the shock workers, a. new wave of social- ist competition—such is the fighting response of the toilers of the Soviet Union to the slogans of the second Five-Year Plan. This reply expresses the deepest devotion of the toilers to the Communist Party, its Leninist Central Committee and to Comrade Stalin, leader of the world prole- tariat.” SUICIDE EPIDEMIC IN JAPAN Dispatches from Tokio report that the number of suicides occasioned by hunger and privation is on the in- crease. Incomplete reports of the Tokio welfare organizations indicate that over 700 families have committed suicide during the past two years. Five hundred ninety-eight fathers and mothers have killed their chil- dren and then committed suicide to- gether, 820 children losing their lives in these tragedies. ‘This sidelight on present conditions in Japan does much to explain why the militarist-imperialist ruling class is trying to divert the attention of the laboring population from their misery at home by grandiose military adventures in China and Manchuria, Discuss Non-A, ggression Pact Maxim Litvinov, Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs (right) and M. Pateck (left) Polish ambassador to the Soviet Union are shown discussing the non-i treaty recently signed between ‘aggression the two countries. Poland is the ally of France which systematically provocations engages in war pacts the danger of an attack on the capitalist crisis deepens. the US.6.R. Despite the the’ U.S.S.R. gtows more acute a0 Year vt| PRODUCTION BACK ‘TO LEVELS OF 35 'T0 50 YEARS AGO |Gov’t Spends Billions | for War Machine As | Masses Starve | While the capitalist press, | the economists of the univers- \ity chairs, government and | banking “business forecasters” like Dr. Julius Klein, assistant | Secretary of Commerce, are | predicting recovery from the “depression” as the New Year gets going, the cold economic facts | refute them. Steel making operations were down to 14 per cent of capacity, the last week of the year as compared to 15 per cent the previous week. Unfilled orders for steel have decreased 114% in November, which indicates a still further decline in actual production. This figure brought unfilled orders down to a new record low for all time. | Back More Than Three Decades | ‘The catastrophic fall in production exceeds anythng ever before known in all recorded history. Steel, lead, zinc, silver, gold, coai—production of these have gone back to the levels | of 1895 and some as far back as the eighties of the last century, that is from thirty-five to fifty years. This | is one of the new features in capital- ist crises—all previous declines in production during a crisis having stopped * short of the point from which its own cycle started While the number of unemployed |has gone up a further 18 per cent, bringing the number to more than 16,000,000, wages of those still em- ployed have sunk more than 3 per cent the past thirty days. Capitalist agencies that furnish in- formation for the ruling claas, how- ever, refute the lying propaganda of the capitalist press and admit that the coming winter will be the worst ever experienced. Thus Standard Statistics, says: “The unemployment relief problem will reach new heights during the coming winter. Not only will the number of unemployed be greater than last year, but a larger propor- tion will be dependent upon charity for support at a time when thé finan- cial resources of private and public agencies will have been weakened by three winters of e: need. + . The $300,000,000 provided in the Relief Act promises to be . ... In short, both the near and Jeng term aspects of the domestic employ- ment situation are such as to defy any early or conclusive settlement.” The Annalist of December 16 (pub- lished by the N. Y, Times) shows that all business activity has declined at the season of the year (holiday buying) when there is usually a slight upturn even under worst conditions. Billions For War Machine Far from “retrenching” on war ex- penditures in face of the mass misery and starvation of the working and farming population of the country, the United States government, con- tinues to pour billions of dollars into its already gigantic war machine. Of the total government appropriations of $3,685,000,000 recommended by Hoover for the fiscal year beginning July, 1933, there is to be expended the sum of $2,326,000,000-—or 63 per cent of the appropriation, to the Times of December 8, 1932. 2nd PLAN BEGINS NEW TRIUMPHS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | | set itself such tasks. During the years of the Five-Year Plan the pro- duction of socialist industry doubled. while the production of heavy indus- try advanced three and a half times compared with pre-war Russia. Yet this isn’t all, the very quality of the industries has changed. A number of entirely new industries have been created which the Soviet Union did not know before and the creation of @ powerful industry laid a firm basis for the technical equipment of agri- culture. Supported by the new ma- chine technique, the Soviet Union left far behind the pre-war cultivated area, achieved cardinal changes, de- veloped industrial cultures amd ore- ated her own raw material base for industry. “Capitalism in the countryside fas been entirely uprooted and the USSR has been converted into the country with the biggest agricultare in the world. he hopes of our enemies and the right wing elements in the Com- munist Party that the collective and state farming system would fail and be unable to replase during the first years the individual peasant house- holds have been reduced to naught. The socialist sector of economy has become predominant not only in the town, but also in the countryside. To Continue on Same Scale. “In 1933, the first year of the see- ond Five-Year Plan, the development. of construction and production will continue on the same scale as in the previous period. A new colossal sweep of socialist construction is com~- ing. Simuletaneously, the first year of the second Five-Year Plan will be a year of struggle for quality in work, | for the utmost utilization of the tre- mendoys internal possibilities prevall- ing in Soviet economy, for the utmost mobilization of internal resources and for the new resources of socialist ac- cumulation. This is the main ob- ject. “with these ends in view, Party and workingcless collective try with even greater fight for the realization of Five-Year Plan for up sotialiet society.” i.