The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 20, 1933, Page 3

DALLY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1938 Page ‘Three _ Organize to Fig AMERICAN INDUSTRY IS| The Words of||neVELOP ACTIONS AND ‘Many Cities ht for Federal Unemployment Insurance Words of|neverop ACTIONS ANT)|Many Cities [TO SAVE INCOMES OF | RICH AND ROB THE CONSUMING MASSES Roosevelt’s Sales Tax ProgramWouldTax Food and Clothing, and Pass Manufacturers’ Excise HEADING FOR ANOTHER Roosevelt SHARP FALL ‘and His Deeds { * * * . | dio address from Albany on ; Lack of Retail Buying Power, Decline in Mer-| suiy 20, i992, reported in the New] | chandising Carloadings, Drop in the Foreign | | PROTESTS AGAINST] Rebort Frice | FEDERAL SALES TAX) DtEGSES Clothing Wholesale Prices Up a REND TSOP picay NEW YORK, May 19.—Prices at The sales tax means a rise in the cost of living. | | wholesalé are advancing steadily and The sales tax means a new indirect wage-cut. are expected to cross the levels of York Times, July 31) Roosevelt said: “Our party says clearly that... -! | Trade, and Budget Crisis Show the Rotten Foundation of “Prosperity” Propaganda By MILTON HOWARD In our article last week, we anal- yzed the current prosperity propa- ganda in the light of the actual data presented by the business indices. We showed that the sharp rise in stéel capacity, upon the basis of which the loadings. But the increases are wholly negligible, rarely exceeding more than 5 per cent, and averaging less than 1 per cent. Thus, the superficial expansion in certain of the indices are based for the most part on inflationary press- This is a declaration in favor |of/ graduated income, inheritance and profit taxes, and against taxes on food| | and clothing, whose burden is actu-| ally shifted to the consumers of these | necessities of life on a per capita basis) rather than on the basis of relative! size of personal incomes.” The Nation, January 11, 1933) rich. speaks of “Governor Roosevelt's em-| | Che sales tax means a smaller loaf of bread. | The sales tax means less milk for your baby. | ployed while the bosses pay little or nothing. The sales tax-inflation—this is the Roosevelt new deal— | : a policy of taxing the poor to guarantee the profits of the | | The sales tax means that the poor Support the unem- | Demand that the rich be taxed to pay for public works | 1931 soon, it was announced today at | | the meeting of the Affiliated Cloth- iers Association. | || Clothing prices have increased 40 | | per cent in the last three weeks, it | |was announced by M. Ellner, the | president of the Association, which represents over 150 clothiers from all over the country. Shoes Cost More ST. LOUIS, May 19.—The Interna- On to Toiling Masses, to Pay $220,000,000 Annual Interest to Bondholders By LABOR RESEARCH ! During the election campaign, Roosevelt held out as a bait for the masses the fact that he was “in |favor of graduated income, inherit- ance and profit taxes and against (sales) taxes on workers would actually be much more. For instance, the price of a five-cent commodity, be raised at least one cent. makes an increase to the consumer of 20% instead of the mere 1.1-8% (or the amount yet to be determined) 5 ction ‘of the Sales Tax} | , Sia . ; | hich ¢ anton ai | in the crisis, was based on an ex- ‘ é: Shae iS t | The Roosevelt Public Works Program is o , ? er increase in the price of shoes, ad-| the consumers of necessities of et $i a s tremely rotten foundation, that js, the|°22sing power to provide a material | probable that that device will be in e Roosevelt Public Works Program is to carry thru WAelog Welt prices Ato dp ments | fo ont a ber co nther than |as imposed a 3% sales tax. Under basis for a real turn in the crisis. | sure will have to be applied by Roose- cluded in-any measure passed either) 2 jarge navy construction program under the guise of help- {small amounts are being compelled | The. presi lon th t rson- | it, the Illinois Federation reported, attempt of the automobile industry to 14 ion of Congress or| | ° Ger u pair. The president of the company/|on the basis of r e of person- |i e expand production upon the basis of Budget Crisis Continues ie Ge erg a pian ue e | ling the unemployed. Demand a Public Works Program toj| | has stated that this increase does| al incom |“Persons of limited means who are a complete lack of retail demand. That this further inflationary pres- | aceite ui aii | build workers’ homes, recreation halls, hospits etc. not cover the increased costs which} But now that he is president, |bliged to make their purchases in We showed that whatever business activity has ‘developed is merely the transferring of manufactured goods. yelt is a practical certainty. The crisis | in the budget, despite the optimism | of the capitalist press, continues to/ Garner “told the house he had never favored a Sales Tax,” writes Paul Y. Anderson in the Nation, Ap- | Demand immediate relief and Federal Unemployment | Insurance at the expense .f the bosses. | have developed as a result of price rises in the This leather markets. means that there will ave to be fur- Roosevelt includes among his methods to raise $220 million for the fina cing of his “public works” program, to pay a ‘tax’ of 20% or even more. Thus the working people of Illinois | 4 ‘ } r, ther increases in the selling price of very pri 7 e 4 jy | are being required to pay far in ex- from one section of | the capitalist | OT tin severity, ‘The government 1s Til 12, 1932. Y | Workers, employed and unemployed, organized and un-| | shoes in the near future. > earths del arp nebo le teee pel Of the 36. provided iy the laws pena sane of nerehaael currently running up an enormous) | | | organized, Negro and white, call mass meetings in every lo- tdiaveade oe |from the consuming masses. " |And some commodities may actually presi — | ri } by the basie sections of the popu- lation. No Rise in Retail Auto Sales Evidence which has developed this week not only confirms our conclu- sions, but demonstrates that the pre- sent rise in certain indices is almost entirely due to nothing but infla- tionary gas, and not to any basic upturn in the crisis at all. The first important news of this week is the news about retail sales of automobiles. Obviously, retail sales sre hot increasing and the whole seasonal spurt in automobile production is going to suffer a sud- den collapse, The reports of R. L. Polk & Co., specialists im reporting retail auto sales, show that retail sales of the }, first 20 states reporting sales only 8 ® managed to exceed by a trifling mar- gin sales for the same period last year, while the rest wereg below the same period last year. Registration of new cars for the en- tire 20 states reporting hows that retail sales are proceeding at a rate 10 per cent below last year. sales operating deficit. The Roosevelt gov-} ernment has introduced a distorted} type of bookkeeping into the budget} | reports which gives the appearance | of improvement in the budget. Over} one and a half billion dollars which | has been paid out to the R. F. C. is not directly charged to ,the budget any longer. Large advances to the Federal Land banks and to the Agri- | cultural marketing funds are no| longer included as expenses in the current budget. When the proper corrections are made, Roosevelt's fig- ture of the current deficit $256,000,- | 000, becomes acttially a current def- felt of $523,000,000. The deficit from | March 6th to May 6th this year was On May 19 (last Thursday) Roose-| | velt’s budget director, Douglas recom-)| mended to the House Ways and| | Means Committee a tax program | | which including a sweeping sales tax) | on all manufactured goods without | exemption, as well as suggestions for | district. | protest immediately! special taxes on tea and coffee, and| | Call meetings in your neighborhoods to demand in-| | | | creased relief and unemployment insurance. | Workers in the factory—raise your voices against the | | sales tax which will drive down your living conditions. | Only immediate mass protests and actions of the toiling | masses will defeat the proposed sales tax. Send copies of all protest resolutions to the press on the lower priced theatre tickets. | GRENNAN BAKERY | IS A SWEATSHOP | $24,000,000 as contrasted with $11,000,-) | 000 last year. ee ; Ohi | With the budget crisis intensifying, | Roosevelt will unquestionably be Many Such in 10 |forced to print enormous quantities) ——— |of inflated paper currency. | CLEVELAND, (by mail).—Grennan | The outlook, therefore, is for fur-|Cake Bakeries, Inc. which does a lot | ther inflation in a vain effort to|of high-pressure advertising in this |pump some life into the prostrate/part of the country about its “clean body of a strangled capitalist produc-|kitchens” and “pure ingredients” 1s tive system. Investigation Reveals \just another sweatshop, an investi- gator for thé Ohio Industrial Com- mission has revealed. NJ Workers in |cality to protest against the sales tax and adopt resolutions | | | to be forwarded to the congressmen of your congressional Hold meetings of your organization and forward your ‘Marx Lays Bare Fourth Price Rise in Soap CINCINNATI, May 19.—For the fourth time in the last three weeks | | Proctor and Gamble has advanced | |the prices of its soaps. This is the jlargest soap manufacturer | country, and is under the control of the Wall Street firm J. P. Morgan. e Cant os Articles of Steel in for Rise PITTSBURGH, May 19.—An ad- ‘ance of 5 per cent in the price of |magnesite and chrome refractories | used in building metal smelting fur- | naces is reported by the General Re- fractories Co. and the Harbison Wal- \ker Refractories Co. This will raise el | the price of all steel products. | 0 80 oe in the| Exploitation of Labor by Capital | Wage-Labor and Capital, Karl Marx. International | 10 cents. Publishers. ae cha Machinery in the Soviet Union is Food Price Rise | CLEVELAND, O.—A survey just completed by the Cleveland “Press” shows that the price of bread has | risen 1 cent per loaf. Meat has risen | from 1 to 6 cents a pound, while flour | has been advanced several cents per sack, The following list is given by With an Introduction by Engels. the servant of the needs of the work-| the Press comparing prices of May 5| 48 pp.| ing masses. Machinery only becmes| With March 3, showing sharp ad-| | capital, a source of expicitation of the | nces all along the line. working class, under given social |_ Prices March 3—Butter, 19-25¢ Ib.; The sales tax, as we know, is advocated by members of the capit- alist class to escape heavier taxes jon their incomes, gifts and estates. The sales tax is a tax on goods con- |} sumed, in the main, by workers and farmers. It thus becomes another effort to burden workers who still {have any kind of a job or ability to purchase at least some of the neces- jSaries of life. |To Save the Incomes of the Rich. | As with Hoover's sales tax proposal | such as the New York Herald Tribune the Hearst press, etc., are conducting an intense campaign to assure the passage of the Roosevelt tax. Thus | 16, 1933, declares that it has been | advocating such a tax “for many years” and that it would reduce |“burdensome and restrictive personal |and corporate income taxes,” “He aimed to saWotage the income tax which chisels so deeply into his own fat purse,” wrote the Washington | correspondent, Paul Y. Anderson, in \explaining Hearst’s backing of the sales tax. |six months ago, capitalist newspapers, | Hearst's New York American, May | {be raised as high as 100%! The dif- |ference, of course, is pocketed by the | manufacturers and the business men, | Clothing, shoes, stockings, furni- | ture, cleaning material, oil, house- hold utensils of all kinds, medicine, lice, coal and a thousand and one jother commodities necessary to the |existence of the worker's family are to be taxed. Such practices are not {unknown to the workers of this |country. The war period, it will be recalled, brought with it “luxury” taxes. Prices of soft drinks rose from 5 to 7 and even 10 cents. The same | Would now apply to articles which are prime necessities—stockings, me~ dicine, shoes and a host of others. Double Taxation. When it is remembered that a | number of states, New York, Vermont, Arizona, and others already have. |passed sales taxes, and that still jothers have such legislation pend- ling, it will be realized that a double | burden is to be the lot of the Ame- rican workers unless they defeat the |present bill. The New York Times, |May 16, 1933 admitted this saying |that “passage of a Federal sales tax General Motors increased its The investigator visited the plant Reviewed by PETER BOLM condition: : cs Eggs, 15-25¢ doz.; Beef, 15-29¢ lb.; 4 , t tomobile wholesale @palers; but 7 3 ze is, under a system of “bour- | ; ri s "i And to these forces of reaction has| Would result in ‘doubling up’ for Me eetaaiti pes De es eas pave at 8:30 pm, and found women work-| This simple pamphlet on economics | geois relations of production.” |Pork, 9-llce Ib; Flour, 49-69c| 1 added the voice of William|Many States where turnover taxes ing the month of April over 12 per cent from 81,573 to 71,5993 This is true of practically all the producers, and indicates that there is being added to the present stocks large quantities of indigestible sup- plies. The auto business is headed for a sharp fall. It is clear that with such retail markets, a crash of the automobile “boom” will inevitably follow the pre- sent feverish spurt in auto produc- tion. ' Even more significant confirmatory evidence that commodities are not getting into the hands of the people is given by the figures for retail sales of the largest chain stores. The A. & P., for exafiple, reports a decline of 15 per cent in sales for the month of April compared with last year. No Basic Steel Demand As for the. steel industry, capit- alist journals.are being forced to ad- mit more and-more openly that the current rise in steel capacity is not only as sharp as the reported figures would seem to indicate, but that no basis exists for its continuance. The American Metal Market in speaking of the increase in steel industry in its weekly Iron and Steel Review, points out that “the cumulative total in 120 workitig days from January 1 to the end of this week is nearly 10 per cent under the total in the same number of werking days last year.” Even more significantly, this re- view admits reluctantly “that there 4s no further increase in demand by the automobile industry, railroad de- mand is almost. absent and little steel is going into building construction.” The Annalist, one of the leading organs of Wall Street finance, admits that the current steel operations have developed on.an extremely narrow base, with fundamental factors in the industry, unimproved. As we pointed out last week, build- ing construction, a very sensitive in- dex of business trends is continuing thout interruption its long three- year drop. The Illinois building ing there who had been on the job from 8 a.m., while there were othérs who had been working since 10 in \the morning. The women were not al- ‘Militant Fight on P vice Rise lowed time out for either lunch or PASSAIC, N. J., May 19—The price | of bread has gone up from 6 cents to 9 cents a pound during the last week. The Jewish Women's Council called a meeting on this issue on May 14. An action committee of 25 was elected. including members from the Y. P. S. L., Workmen's Circle and others. Several days later_a meeting was called on the same isstie by the Workmen’s Circle. The workers at this meeting favored a united front against the price increase for bread. But the chairman and leaders op- posed it. The chairman appointed a committee against the will of those present, who wanted to elect one. ite aie 7 upper. S Anothér sweatshop, discovered by the city sanitary police, was operat- ing in a two-story frame building in the rear of a two family house. Elev- en men and three women were em~ ployed. Another starvation wage concern recently discovered is an oil comy pany which operates about 25 sta- tions in Cleveland. Attendants’ ré- ceive 1% cents for each gallon of gasoline they sell, work 12 hours a day seven days a week, and are charged with the operating éxpenses of the stations! Govt. Hands Over | Income Tax Refunds |to the Rich Estates | WASHINGTON, May 19.— The | government announced today that it had reduced the income tax pay- ménts of several large estates as follows: William Porter Estate, New York, reduced $732,167; estate of Adele Low, Chicago, reduced $286,- 000; estate of Francis Pratt, New York, reduced $159,000. | In the last 10 years, thé United |States government has returned over $3,000,000,000 to the rich as income tax refunds. ROSELLE, N. J., May 19.—Police attacked workers today who were picketing in front of the Kiel bak- ery at 365 St. George Avenue. The picketing was part of a mass move- ment of the working men and women of Roselle against increases in the prices of bread put over by the St. George avenue bakeries. When one policeman, Louis Alex- ander, tried to tear a sign from the jhands of a four-year old girl, the girl’s father, Benjamin Butler, came) forward to defend his daughter. But-} ler was seized by the cops and drag- ged off to the Police Court, where hhe was released, pending a hearing tomorrow night. BIG SALARIES MOVE UP, WORKERS’ WAGES DROP ee, There are no rich men any more, said Charles Schwab. We all are suffering from the crisis, said Roosevelt. The following FACTS show the true state of affairs. is now issued in a revised translation at a cheap price, and as an attractive booklet, well printed. “Wage-Labor and Capital” is made up from lectures given by Marx to the German Workingmen’s Club at Brussels in 1847. Marx was never tired of répeating that, though bour- Seois “professors” and middle class people generally, often had great dif- ficulty in understanding his books, the workers usually found his argu- ments easy to understand, and con- vincing. Engels, in thé introduction to this pamphlet, makes reference to “how greatly the uneducated workers, who can easily be made to grasp the most difficult economic analyses, excel whom such ticklish problems remain insoluble their whole life long.” Thé | explanation for this is simple. Marx | writes about |the problems of the | Worker, and writes from the class Point of view of the worker. He ex- | plains in this short book thé means | by which, under capitalism, the work- er is robbed of the greater part of his product, and how this “surplus ee is taken. away by the capital- ists. Worker Sells Labor-Power Tt is with this question that Engel’s preface deals. Hé takes the question determined by labor-power, so how is the value of labor determined? This was the riddle that the bourgéois economists were never able to answer, Marx answered it by making clear the distinction between what the workér produces jin the shape of goods, and what the worker gets in the shape of wages. The labor time he spends in making things is the measure of their value. But the wages that he géts are merely the price of |the labor-power that he | brings to sell in the market; and this | labor-power is treated by the capitel- ist system as just one more commodity to be bought and sold. The différence between what he produces and what he gets in return, the difference be- | small fraction of the value it pro- our supercilious ‘cultured’ folk, for) up in the form of a riddle—value is; Here again the lesson is made clear that only by overthrowing the whole capitalist system of production can the workers finally free themselves from the rule of capital, from starva- tion in the midst of plenty, and from insecurity in their productive jobs in the face of crying need for all sorts of goods; that only by following the path taken by the workers of the Soviet Union can we make industrialization and technical progress the means to an ever higher standard of living conditions; make it the contrary of what it is in the United States today, where with its accompaniments of! speed-up and labor displacement and the like, it acts as the scourge of the working class and as a source of profit only to the capitalistic owning class. I have dealt with only two or three points, whereas this pamphlet, though So short, covers an immense area of eighth; Sugar, 47c¢ 10 Ibs.; Oranges, 15-29¢ doz. Prices May 5—Butter, ’25-29¢ 1b.; Eggs, 15-20c doz.; Beef, 20-35¢ 1 | Pork ,15-19¢ Ib.; Flour, 79-89¢ eight! Sugar, 53c 10 Ibs.; Oranges, 29-39c doz. | questions, all of vital interest to the worker and revolutionary student. This most simply written book ex- plains many problems that especially affect us today, and no one should miss reading it who wishes to under- stand the nature of the present de- pression, or the causes of capitalist crises in general. ‘“Wage-Labor and Capital” may also be recommended as the briefest, easiest and best. intro- duction to the entire system of Marx's economics. International Publishers is to be congratulated on making this book available to wide circles, in such an excellent translation. Green. “Confirmation, in substance, of the report that President Green of the American Federation of Labor had told President Roosevelt that a@ sales tax would be acceptable to organized labor in financing a public works program, was given May 17 at Federation headquarters,” says a Federated Press dispatch from Wash- ington. Thus once again, the A. F. of L. leadership joins hands with capitalists and their government with Roosevelt, Hearst, and the like, in attacking the standards of the work- ing class. Taxing Food and Clothing. The $220 million which it is pro- posed to raise by means of a sales tax is to be obtained by levying com- modities on a percentage basis—at about 1 1-8%, it is claimed. But the share extracted from the consumer- Forced to Work in a Forest on Two Sandwiches in 20 Hours Aim of Camps Is to Crush Mass Struggles, CAMP NO BETTER “They Want | Us to Work but Don’t Feed Worker Points Out THAN CHAIN GANG Us Anything to Eat” By a Worker Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C.—Army ap- propriations havé been cut 10 per cent. Hundreds of men are dis- charged. I overheard a conversation of an army major: “Sure I’m going to be fired, but I’m not worrying. I’m going to be hired right back to super- vise the training of reforéstation recruits,” Full peacetime strength of the army is about 135,000 men. Roosevelt makes army. The effectiveness of the pres- iStarvation Meals | Served (By a Labor Camp Correspondent) |shame the way they feed the gangs) |here and that doesn’t mean just be- cause I am a cook I can eat better. I eat the same thing they eat and I don’t get any more than one slice of home. I wont run away from here, I) (By a Labor Camp Corréspondent) KENTON, Mich., Co, 662—We left Battle Creek, Camp Custer, at |2 o'clock in the afternoon, and arrived Friday in Kenton at 10 o'clock. For | 20 hours we lived on two sandwiches GLENNIE, Mich.—It sure is a and a cup of so-called coffee. The food that we gét Is not fit for a dog to eat. They want us to work and don’t feed us anything to eat. ‘The soldiers get steak and pork chops fried im butter, and oranges three day. were already in force.” The workers, who are poor and living from hand to mouth, and buy- ing in small lots, always pay more proportionately for what they buy than the rich. The workers will thus pay @ heavier tax than the wealthy. In fact, a workers family whose cost of living uses up nearly the full amount of its income, as is increasingly the case, will actually be paying a tax upon nearly every cent of its income. The rich, on the other hand, whose incomes are of course much larger than what they spend, are exempt from the tax on this part of their incomes. And the richer the person, the greater the exemption, More, with over 17,000,000 jobless workers, & sales tax would add further to the ranks of unemployed by de- creasing purchasing power. That is, with less being purchased, less would be produced and consequently, fewer employed. Roosevelt claims it is necessary to pay interest and principle on the $3,300,000,000 bonds which he pro- poses to float in connection with his “public works” program. In other words, the workers themselves are to be forced to pay for this con- struction program which holds out | to them the very dubious promise of | employment for a few thousand. | Financing Military Public Works. Yet at the same time, Roosevelt's , Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, pro- poses a battleship construction pro~ gram which amounts to almost the | same figure as it is expected to ex- tract from the workers—$230,000,000. The 1933-34 military appropriation stands at the staggering figure of $565 million, or nearly 214 times this figure. The capitalist effort to saddle |the masses with a load that very properly belongs to the capitalist | class itself, thus becomes even more (apparent. For that class received |betwee@ seven and eight billion dollars in dividends and interest pay- ments in 1932, the fourth year of And $1,050,000,000 could easily be \ “] td of follow! jes received salaries as follows: tee, an official 10 per cent cut in the army | bread, one spoonful of potatoes, one| times a day. W: t the hash, We/|the crisis. A mere 20% tax on this Wl | [eboom” so widely heralded in the) Presidents the ing compani sl ahd tween the valu Te ou eae value and creatés an unofficial army of | spoonful of gravy with two or three| cor eggs for eer ne ant .WY6 | would peovide orer 41,600,000000=m | op pg) eng Seas veollapeed, tha Intent itan Lif ae rarnnce: 06. $175,000 $200,000 | eee rated by ‘the capitalists who | 250.000 men. To say that this is an|cubes of meat as big as dice, and a reblletd get is without sugar in {t.|Sum which would cover the $230 | figures indicating that building op-| Me70p re ann OO en -cececceesa., 100,000 125,000 | erpley him. unemployment relief measure is the| half a spoon of pudding and thats) rts more like mud than coffee. |million revenue expected from the | erations theré are now 23 per cent New ya ais Oo. cesses 100,000 125,000 Engels carries the argument on hee afbarariap Me one eae BR hie, it's the) We have to work like jack- sales tax, would restore the 15% j below even the usual seasonal in- fe Insurance if 68,875 125,000 from heré to the theory of crises. As} ,, ere wut one conclusion. An am n ling a lie, it’s asses out hére. We're treated |like wage-cut to federal employees, re- creases, with expenditures for build-|_ Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, (Vice-Pres.) f sf the bot isie ‘bs surplus value ‘reforestation corps” is a reserve | truth, I am going to stay here till the (We're going to demand. better store the recent cut in veterans bene- | ing more than 60 per cent below the Prudential Life Insurance Co. 125,000 A | pod gel ese erat class gets only a| 8my of fresh troops to re-enforce thé | first of June, and if they don’t treat ee ote atetiaving oeaD: 6 fits and leave $70,000,000 to be distri- | Equitable Life Insurance Co. . 15,000 100,000 | weakening morale of the present | us any better I am going to leave for y Very | buted in cash relief to unemployed. | (Fifteen out of 27 executives of these ‘ve leading insurance companies got salary increases between 1929 and 1932.) Thousands of girls work in these companies for $6 to $9 3 week. . # . A study o° wages just made by Professor Wolman of Columbia Uni- versity shows that the decline in wages during this crisis, and particularly duces back in ‘the form of wages (purchasing power), a series of con- tinual crises of relative over-produc- tion sets in, which, to quote Engels, “brings it about that society smothers in its own superfiuity, while the great ent army in combatting internal dis- orders is questionable.Young men who can still be taught illusions as to the aims of the present government can be turned into a much more effective army to combat thé rising tide of will ask for my discharge and trans- portation home. I will stick out as long as I can. The night I was leaving I told a kid that they would run us on a chain gang idea and that’s the way jraised from personal income and | estate taxes upon the capitalists. But do you hear of any such pro- posals being suggested by Roosevelt, the man who in pre-election times demagogically declared for “grad- during 1932, was greater than in any previous year and exceeded by far the | majority of its members are scareel¥, | revolution, they run us. uated income, inheritance and pro- wage slashes made during the crisis of 1921. Total workers’ wages paid out| | o's “roday in the United States fit taxes...”? You do not. Because have dropped over 50% in the last 2 years; purchasing power has dropped | .. have starvation ona scale never the Roosevelt government, like every : pects before experienced. We have the 9 capitalist government, in line with * * ¥ largest army of unemployed in our its central function of protecting the { Dividend payments for 1931 and 1932 were the highest in the history) history. The Department of Agri- incomes and property of the rich | of the country reaching the gigantic total of over $15,000,000,000. And this | culture advises the farmers to destroy ! | Parasites, attempts to place upon the does not include many small companies. a large percentage of their crops. e toilers of this country, the respon- high Aad tiroads work part time, thousands at one or two | Wheat has been burned, coffee thrown sibility for carrying out its anti-labor Drops ‘Workers on the rai 20 to 25 cents an hour, for a| into the sea, vegetables left to rot in < - 4 i campaigns. : tates De-| days a week. Track maintenance men get eespuraten i the fields, machinery deliberately and Against forced labor and military “civilian” conservation corps The previous efforts to put over has published | three-day working week, getting weekly earnings of less than $5.00 a week-| systematically broken up. Capitalism For immediate cash relief for unemployed youth! the sales tax in the first and second trade, .TneY| Machinists helpers get 50 cents an hour, for @ 3-day week. ‘The average /{s truly being “smothered in its own For Federal Unemployed Insurance for all workers; no discrimination sessions of the and Congress, wer | trade WDE | wage for all rallroad workers is less than $1,000 @ year. eae ea a Exploitation| | 2€%nst Negro workers! of ‘the rising indignation and rebale el since 1899,| Railroad executives get the following aniual salaries: Pres teens Maa Bee Pepe wih Against eliminating any families or youth from relief because of re- Wonaness of the. malvec’ the i to nineteenth Southern Pacific. ........++++++++ «+ $135,000 definition of 2s. He then goes on| | fusal to enter camps! i {of mass pressure, The present Roose- Ww. W. > Me ¥ third chapter, “By at Is the Price For increased rates of pay equa! | lefeated, ie workers mi pal New York, New Haven ...... s+ 93,000 of a Commodity Determined?” gives! | type of work. | aroused to protect their interests ea Deeaadile car- And so on down the list, The average salary of the railroad president | in five pages a complete and pene- Against deductions from pay for the upkeep of families! Families to r3 ‘ irate ae EA ait bara of 4 Heston of| PING above 95,00 year sa worker’ Wages and | Sl aa ahead cause oleoe in ost | | be supported through regular relief funds! Full pay o the youtn io camp) | /Denial of Fare Turns |r, "rey can best do this Se foe the confirm ve ie“ i {| | to be used as they see fit! 4 iowits a aw 4 pe of oer. eoee ny | Weeeane. Rortes, Chapter V explains what is meant} | Pe vets te net empts to cut off the relief of families or youth who are|||CAMps Into Prisons) |iowing ou: sucn » campaign as out- flices that consumers’ goods are not Ait banks have oF to the bone. Thé First National Bank by Capital. “Accumulated labor that y ape ree sd i pave in the Daily Worker, which has 7% ‘wages ‘3 serves as the means of new production ischarged or leave the camps (By a Worker Correspondent) | been their champion in this, as in i eUE Mino th, Tithianene ‘onto of Boston just cut the wages of its workers again. is capital. So say’ the economists. Against all military discipline or training in the camps! For the||| CAMP LURAY, Vncheren men} | other struggles. | ings totalled 164343, a decrease of| Philip Stockton, president of the bank, collects $100,000 every year as What is a see stave? |A man of the/ | removal of all military authorities in the camps! * | || from Washington wanted to leave | anon Te i 784 below last year, Total car-|h’i lary. rea Pebp cg Mei liege cg ap For the right to organize committees of the youth in the camps to/ | | this forestry slave-camp because) | .iRon 6. pr, Joshua Ki as ine for the week showed a de- A by noes Ria ot Ale dpa tae i3 ep safeguard their interests (food, housing, conditions of work, etc.)! borg Psa ee A tregiokantf fu | of New York, author, erate eee , \ cline Mra below the Dope 4 The workers in the Bethlehem steel mills get starvation wages. Prem Bae dine pa ecg ep een For the recognition by the camp administration of regularly elected bet ‘our: they 4 si Al +! | turer, will speak at Perkins Soh¢ol, Weck’ in i0e2, ond 21981 cars under| THe offers of the company are paid as follows: spinning machine is a cotion-spinning | | committees of the workers! ee ae eate foo° mites | Auditorium on Saturday, May 2%, at © \the same week in 1931. A few of the i Poet deep Biase ea iy yee salary Pence aanete of pak machine, Only under certain condi- Against segregation and discrimination of Negro youth in the camps! | | | from Washington—J, M. see he Cass “Soviet Russia, have reported increases in car| #1: tof Arius ® year. ‘ ® year. | tions does it become capital.”