The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 5, 1933, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY, JULY | Federal Workers Learn Lesson Under ‘New Deal’ toosevelt Cuts Payrolls’ and Discharges Civil Service Workers (By a Federal Worker Correspondent) WASHINGTON, D. C—The Ci Service was organized many years ago, allegedly to place the Federal Government's routine functions an efficient basis; to secure some permanency for federal workers threatened with upheaval every two or four years; to ensure that work- ers are competent to handle their jobs, by competitive examination for recovery.” These organisations, of course, require a large personnel They are filled with political vorites entirely, by the people who on| helped foist the New Deal upon the country. No Pay Cuts for the “Ins” Not only are these supposedly im- portant positions filled with polit- ical favorites, but the pay of tl favorites 1s not affected by the cuts the various jobs; and to remove fed-| and furloughs imposed on the regu- eral employment politics. The as the football “New Deal” for Federal Workers The result of having a safe, abso-| covery budget” which can be unbal- | the Civil Service; anced to any extent so long as the lutely safe job in has been to make many of the fed- of | lar civil service. Their pay does not come out of the “regular” budget which it is so important to balance ‘They are paid out of the special “re- recipients are good Democrats (or eral government workers apathetic to/ friends of good Democrats) the plight of their brother-workers all over the country and the world. “too bad” “of It people were out of course, we are safe Service.” was work, but, ra awakening gov- workers from their foc Repeated cuts in pi furloughs dis- Js under any become the ord without pa. or no prete: of the day. Mar- ried women were dismissed. Work- ers who have been in government Service for 30 years have been re- ) tired on inadewuate pension. Wash- “ ington, be’ the last stronghold against depression, most government workers have been supporting rela- tives who have lost their jobs or b driven out of business by bank fai ures and closed factories. The co: of living in Washington has re- mained very close to its unusual high level. Rents are al y Olethes are expensive. Food dropped but little now rising again. Sham Government Economy Weil, the government has to econo- Mize. The federg] workers must share these economies. The budget must be balanced. The veterans got cut, too. The federal work: are fn a position they sham end futility of Mics.” Th federal w insion can see the operation of go emment “econcmy” and “recov cp “Recovery” can and the Experienced Worker name of “Recovery” are made, vast ations are crea’ the huge or- CHARGE. SINCLAIR DISTORTED FILM BY EISENSTEIN Statement Issued b *Film-Photo League (The following statement has been issued by the Workers Film _ and Photo League on the distor- tion of “Que Viva Mexico,” pro- duced by the famous Soviet df- rector, Eisenstein). HE Workers Film and Photo League of New York City pro- the pillage and distortion of i ’s_ socioloeicel film of Mexico, “Que Viva Mexico,” by the |= producer, Sol Lesser, of Hollywood, who has recently released to the public “Thunder Over Mexico.” bearing Hisenstein’s name as the director, and yet no more Eisen- stein’s original film than a melo- @ramatic western with a reaction- ary nationalist ending can, by any Stretch of the imagination, be mis- » taken for a revolutionary film of Struggle for land. Whatever reasons Upton Sinclair, one cf Eisenstein’s backers in his trip to Mexico, had for turning wer the 200 reels of film to Lesser for editing, nevertheless the fact remeins that Lesser has deliberate- ly distorted Eicenstein’s intention in the film beyond recognition, and is using his name to win support * from the liberal and radical movie - public. This act of vandalism in \ iteelf calls for loud protest on the Part of mevie-grers and film work- “ere. But a much more serious aspect ‘of this affair is that the conclu- Sion of “Thunder Over Mexico” in MLesser’s hands, is definitely reac- ty and nationalistic. The \ a ing bands, olympic champ- tn Aztecs handling the ma- f of indus! taken by Lesser bed the context of the film, were a My a part of the epilogue Eisenstein intended to anti- ite the revolution in Mexico. in Lesser’s butchered version, epilogue is cut in right after beginning of the revolt of the ns, giving the misleading im- that victorious revolution- workers and peasants are ac- lly controlling the reigns of gov- ent. The struggles of the peons, which make up a large part ‘of the criginal film of Ficenstein, « entirely eliminated for good esoons in “Thunder Over Mexico.” © The Workers Film and Photo League of New York City calls upon all workers’ organizations, in- divi als and sympathizers, to pro- L the corruption of Eisenstein’s Wiva Mexico,” and the pro- d Carveth Wells film “The About the Soviet Union,” 1 urges that demonstrations be é in and out of every theatre in which these two films are shown. ' Gesters of protest should be for- d to Upton Sinclair, 614 Arden Drive, Beverly Hills, and Sol Lesser, Hollywood, de- g that the remaining 180,000 j of film be turned over to Eis- fein for mounting, and insist- that Eisenstein’s name be im- diately struck off the vandal- d version of the film now being under the title “Thunder have | Representativ ed to speed up| fore, that after all, we are work | demands for | most is the inflation snowball that {s | se) them | beginning to roll downhill, riding for | They Raids on the Civil Service These avaricious buzzards are not content with all the appointments they can get out of the Recovery Acts, They would take this and that Bureau out of the Civil Service. The senate passed an Act to take all jobs _en-| Paying $5,000 or over out of the Civil House of all Members of the demand tha nder Civ Service. reaus placed the last twelve years be “ So that they can fill them with their friends. Functions of the regular departments are being taken over by the “Recovery” organizations, so that Civil Service workers be fired and politicians be placed on them instead. Nobedy is concerned with the fa’ of the discarded workers. There is no Unemployment Insurance. The Workers Awaken What about the federal worker: has| How do they take this state of af- in price, and is| fairs? First there was a shock. The Civil Service, that impregnable bul- wark of continuous employment and advancement, had crumbled. They find themselves being reduced to an even lower standard of living as ages and salaries fall and prices rise. Now they realize fully that ‘ omy” is merely an excuse for tak their means of existence, to hand out as political rew They alize that there no sole reductions and y one way of p: is to economize, while dishir patronage, But, more important than thes we realize now, as we never have bi Stenographers and clerks, legal and technical experts,-we are all part of the great body of workers. The fate of the workers at large effects us. Only insofar as all workers get a quare deal will we get a square deal. We know that the New Deal is only another ise for further oppression and political corruption, for us and for all worker: we t unite with our brother- wor! ere to overcome those who oppress us all. GEORGE KING (Signature Authorized) Cyril Briggs, | Liberator Editor | On Trial Today | Was Beaten by Cops As Part of Terror Against Negroes NEW YORK—Cyril Brigg: Negro editor of the Harlem Liberator, 1 volutionary weekly in Harlem, will go on trial this morning, in the 170 E. 121st Street court on a charge of disorderly conduct Briggs was attacked by police, beaten nd arrested late Sunday night while he was accompanying a Negro woman special writer for the Liberator, to her home in Har- lem The police thought Briggs, who has a light skin, was a white man and attacked him as a part of the cam- | paign of ter against white work- ers in an attempt to prevent their the Negro workers in Har- N. Y. District Defense will de- Negro and white 1pon to be in court calle large numbers to force his release. News Briefs No More Land of Promise WASHINGTON, July 4.—Immigra- tion visas for entry into the United States dropped to a total of 7,240 for the first eleven months of the fiscal year ended July 30, it was shown in a report issued by the State Depart- ment. The total immigration quota authori: n is 153,831. This meant that 146,591 possible visas remain in reserve. teens Mussolini a Legionaire ROME, July 4—Benito Mussolini became an honorary member of still another Fascist organization when Colonel William E. Easterwood of ' | Dallas, Tex., national vice-commander pinned an American Legion button on his lapel. Mussolini said he may attend the Legion’s national conven- tion in Chicago and posed for a pho- tograph wearing the Texan's hat. When Colonel Easterwood said Texas -| hed @ woman governor, Mussolini re- plied, state?” “How can a woman run a Storm Dead Toll 14. MIAMI, Fia., July 4 now increased to fourteen persons a tropical storm that ead destruc- tien in two arees hundreds of miles apart—Jamaica and Cub: Ss moy- ing in the Gulf of Mexico some 200 mites off the extreme lower Florida West Coast last. night. There was no indication of danger to this state. 5 death toll “Endowed . . . with and the Pursuit of Happiness. Life, Liberty ” | | And this little waif, found abandoned in a New York street garbage can yesterday, Inéepentience day, @ growing capitalist orisis, has “the right,” in the words of the Declaration of Independence, nay the “duty,” “to throw off a government” guilty of “abuses and usurpations” and “to pi young viciim of poverty due to the rovide new guards for its seourity,” Workmen’s Benefit Society Executives Break Agreement Not to Evict Fox Street Tenants NEW YORK.—When last Febru- Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society tried to evict unemployed workers from the house at 556 Fox St., which is owned by the organiza- tion, a rent strike and the pressure of the organization's membership, forced the Executive to sign through its lawyer, Mrs. Rose Weiss, an agree- ment with the tenants that no un- employed workers should be evicted and that Home Relief checks were ‘to be accepted in payment of rent. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Weiss was vithdrawn from the administration of the house and a well-known scab agent, John Penger, replaced her. He at once began to drive out the tenants who had been active in the tion’s money at his disposal to-have demanding the recognition of the rent strike. Two families were forced to move out on account of his con-! put into a truck, the family in a scab agent, Penger. : WHAT BOSSES SAY TO ONE ANOTH ; Stant insults. He had two more fam- | | Relief Checks for | the agreement. He is now trying to| evict Mrs. Collin, chairman of the house committee, and Elion, an un- employed worker with two little chil- dren. He openly stated that he | wanted them out of the house, be- cause they were “undesirable ele- ments” and “connected with the ; Communists.” | While the National Executive: dis- claims all responsibility for Penger’s actions, he himself stated that he was acting under their direct instruc- | tions. case, is further proven by the fact that he had enough of the organiza- | one of the cvieted tenants’s furniture’ | store, demanding jemployéd Committee gained 71 new | members and the Porto Rican Anti- Imperialist League gained 26. | Harlem are urged to send their dele- | gates to the July 17 conference. the National Executive of the) ilies evicted, refusing to accept Home taxicab and driven from house to the rent, as per) house to find a new apartment. In | the evicted tenants $30 for rent! That the latter is really the | workers, like they did last February. , They are called upon to at once send ‘Act To Organize | Spanish Jobless Workers of Harlem Conference July 17 to Build Council NEW YORK.—The Unemployed Committee of the Julio Mella Cuban Club has issued a call for a broad conference on July 17 of workers’! organizations located in Spanish! Harlem for the purpose of establish- | ing an Unemployed Council. The committee feels that all workers in Lower Harlem should réalizé the tre- | mendous need for organizing Span-| ish and Latin-Ametican masses in! this community who, together with; the Negro workers, form one of the} most oppressed sections of the city population. Workers of Spanish Harlem are willing to fight to keep their fam-| ilies .from starvation and to keep their belongings from being thrown into the gutter. A week ago 500! workers fought against 50 police, who tried to prevent them from replacing the furniture of an evicted worker. | Another illustration of what this| committee has already accomplished | fn the case of a Porto Rican worker, | who was unjustly accused of steal- | img a pair of socks in the W. T./ Grant department store at 113th St.| and Fifth Ave. He was taken to the) cellar of the store and beaten up by| taree men under the manager's or-| ders. Two Spanish girls working in| the store were fired because they re-| fused to back up the manager's story accusing the Porto Rican of being! a thief. | Word of what had taken place was | brought to the attention of the Un-| his release. jemployed Committee and a mass |meeting of more than 400 indignant | workers was organized outside the| immediate rein-' statement of the two girls, removal of | the manager, and against discrimin- | |ation of Latin American and Negro| tion of the workers here, led by the | workers. | ranted immediately. All these demands were Through this action alone the Un- | All workers’ organizations of lower | order to get rid of them he also gave The National Executive of the Workmen’s Sick and Death Bene- | fit Society is represented in the | German Workers’ Anti-Fascist United Front Committee. How do the fascist scab methods employed against working-class tenants in their house, agree with this? The membership of the organiza- tion will undoubtedly again show their solidarity with their fellow- telegrams to the National Executive, agreement: and the removal of the | tional Association for the Advance- “SURE WE FAVOR UNEMPLOYMENT | INSURANCE”, SAY UNION MEMBERS By J. PASCUAL A definite disgust with their grafting trade union officials was mani- fested by many of the workers interviewed regarding Unemployment In- surance. “Certainly I'm in favor of it,” said one worker in the Brotherhood of | Painters Decorators and Paperhangers WILLIE PETERSON ORDERED TO DIE NAACP Made Legal-| istic Defense for Negro MONTGOMERY, Ala.—Willie Pe-| terson, Negro véteran, was sentenced to die August 25 on a framed charge| of having murdered Augusta Wil-| Hams, Birmingham society girl, in| 1931, The state supreme court over-| ruled the appeal taken by the Na-| ment of Colored People from the ver-| dict of the lower courts. ‘The special prosecutor in the cas¢ was Roderick Beddow, the Birming- ham attorney to whom the N, A. A. C. P. paid $1,000 of the money col lected by that organization for Scottsboro defense. | Peterson, a miner, suffering from) tuberculosis, was shot and seriously wounded in Birmingham jail by Dent Williams, brother of Augusta Wil- liams, while jail officials looked on. No attempt was made to punish any- one for this crime. The defense of Peterson was con-| ducted in a purely legalistic man- ner, no mass pressure being organ- ized by the N. A. A. C. P. to force} | Force Recognition of! Unemployed Council SALEM, Oregon.—The recent ac- Unemployed Council, when 50 work- | ers parked overnight on the county | lawn demanding an increase in re-| lief, to be paid in cash, has aroused the countryside. Reports are that the farmers plan organizing into committees of action which will be pushed forward in their state con- vention. The county commissioners and| Judge Siegmund refused to deal with the Unemployed Council as a body, but only with individuals. The re- sult was picketing for three days and two nights of the Judge’s home in the middle of the city by the unem- ployed workers and the overnight camp on the county lawn. The workers are firm in the demand that the county officials deal with the Unemployed Council as their repre- sentative. SPOKANE, Wash.—After refusing Mrs. Burmore any hospital attention the county doctor, despite her being on the verge of death, ordered her to go to the poor farm. The indig- nant workers in the vicinity refused to permit this. Another doctor was called in and she is still alive and at home. ER ABOUT THE ‘UPTURN’ “Speculation”, and An) men as to the practical significance | Jever, remain stable for a short while,, contradiction is made worse. How? “Artificial” Move They Admit HE American capitalists have two ,“P sets of views a bout the present business situation. One is for the consumption of the workers the “happy days” propaganda to thwart unemployment insur- ance and wage rises; and, the other is for their own discussion, wherein they express the deepest doubt and fears for the future. Every capitalist newspaper carries the first view, spread on very thick. But let us see how the capitalist for | themselves, in their banker's journals, in their economic organs (not written for the enlightenment of the masses) look at the present stage of the crisi: Benjamin Baker, the editor of the Annalist, the foremost weekly eco- nomie organ of the big bosses, in the latest issue of his paper, June 30, stimates the upturn in a far from hopeful mood. “The interpretation of the busi- ness outcome of such activity,” he says, “depends on an appraisal of the soundness and firmness of the forces producing it; and just at this point the critical observer is justified in taking a somewhat skep- tical attiude.” He does not believe the forces pro- ducing what the daily, popular organs of the capitalists want the workers to consider as the beginning of “re- covery,” is created by sound or firm causes, HE Daily Worker has posed some of these causes, previously ex- like the gambling on higher prices lead- | ing to overproduction, with its greater unemployment and misery for the workers, But what worries the capitalists | of the present recovery.” IN short, the upturn is not a “nor- of the crisis, or the r that Roosevelt wants Tt is full culation,” has been “‘ar- the workers to believe it is of “pure Dp! | tificially stimulated through currency depreciation.” Even that would not matter to their exploiters, if it would only hold up. But the very origin of | the e, “speculation,” “gambling,” “inflation,” contains the germs of its own di uction leaving American ‘capitalism in a worse state than be- |fore the extreme dose of inflation | | adrenalin was injected. | Workers are not taken off the breadline to produce stocks and bonds for speculation. Those who remain | in the factories will not stay there | long to fill up the store and ware- house shelves that never empiy be- cause there are no markets. Roo: inflation and price- raising scheme through the industrial | “recovery” act is an excellent exam- ple. American capitalism wants to increase its home and foreign mar- kets. Roosevelt starts in by a pro- gram of inflation thet lets loose an upward movement in the figure-ex- | pression of commodity prices. That | is to say, by the trick of lowering} |the value of money, the appearance | is given that the price has suddenly been increased. And as inflation in- ; creases the prices (expressed in | blown up dollars) continue to rise. There are many basic factors involved in this process which it is difficult to cover in a short article. We will deal with the most important ones. We must ask: Why, in the period | of crisis, do prices drop so rapidly? The .quantity of commodities pro- duced before the crisis had become so | great, and the ability of the market | to absorb them so small, they become superfluous. The capitalists could not immediately at a profit. choked up production. Pro- is! |® new smash. For them the future | duction slowed down to nearly noth- | is full of question marks, just as the | ing, future for the workers is filled with hunger. The gambling element, the speculative bubbles, the uncertainties, the fear of sudden and precipitous crashes wrack the bourgeoisie. The bosses know the present move- ment is not at all the healthy upturn that they want, at all costs, to im- press upon the workers. all of the factors (despite the four years of crisis) that led to the stock market crash of 1929. “It is generally conceded,” writes D. W. Ellsworth, another writer not for popular perusal, “that the element of pure speculation in busi- ness activity is larger today in Proportion to the total volume of business being done than at any other time in recent years.” “In view of the fact that the rise In commodity prices has been arti- ficially stimulated through currency depreciation and other devices, it is small wonder that there is wide- spread confusion among business ¢ It contains | |. The drop in price is a means where- by the capitalists try to get rid of the surplus at any price. They fire mil- | lions of workers, This makes it still | more difficult for them to sell these | commodities. Prices go still lower. | This has gone on in the United States for four years. | Suddenly Roosevelt inflates the | currency, Prices shoot up, not be-| cause there is a shortage of goods, | not because the demand is greater | than the supply, but because of the | “artificial” marking up of the figures | by the lowering of the value of | money. | ETAILERS and wholesalers who have not been buying from. the manufacturers, uncertain where the | inflation rise in prices will stop, spe- culate by buying immediately to sell! | ;at the expected later higher prices— | speculate on greater profits on the ‘basis not of demand and hit infla- tion, But if prices, even at the higher /y the movement stops. Because the basic cause of the crisis (overproduc- tion)—remain, the movement of prices then continues downward. But Roosevelt is not going to let this happen. He is going to continue in- flation every time prices show a sink- ing spell. His message to the Lon- don Economic Conference made that very clear. He is going to “stimulate” preduction,and with it he will stim- ulate the contradictions which the capitalists fear, . HAT is the main contradiction in the inflation perio€? It is 9 continuation and an extension of the main contradiction of capitalist economy in general, 000 are unemployed and the rest. of the working class are on short vations, make it impossible for capi- talism to get rid of its surplus. In the period of inflation this The value of money drops. The | | worker can get less for his dol- lar than before, Prices rise. The worker can buy less in the period of inflation than he could buy be- fore. Wages are lowered in this way. The capitalists haye more dollars (taken from the workers) to divide among themcelves, but at the same time they contract | their inner market. The workers’ | poverty is intensified through in- | | flation, his position mede more in- | secure. That this is fully borne out | by the facts of the pzecont situ- | ation can be seen from some of ; the statistics published by the cap- | italists. jactually declined. Sales for May and | theoreticians are worried about the | “speculative” | tensified. |the United States is yet to be put ‘upsetting the whole financial stabil- |ing that Roosevelt intends to use in- |flation as a battering-ram to smash 'HILE production has gone up in | Ssepese countries, these countries i | will take measures to stave off the some lines, the retail trade has | food of American commodities. They | will try to do it so effectively that in- June in retail stores dropped from |stead of gaining markets, American 2 to 3 per cent while production in | capitalism will find themselves with 'steel, textiles, automobiles increased|less markets than before. To try from 20 to 100 per cent, No wonder thet the capitalist and “artificial” feat- ures of the rise in production. But this speculative, artificial stimulation will becotme more in- The Wall Street Jour- nal says: “The inflation program of under way.” Now the world battle over inflation, ization of world capitalism, will make matters still worse, because recogniz- | into the markets of England, France, Germany, Poland and the other Lay-offs and 11 Cents an Hour in Breweries (By a Worker Correspondent) MILWAUKEE, Wis.—The workers of the Siemens Body Co. are working much harder than ever before, work- ing on a@ piece work basis. Instead of pay increases they are getting plenty of hell working three and four days a week, six to seven hours a dey. Prices on commodities going higher every day. They lay off in the breweries every day. My room mate worked one night extra, and he said to me they work ten and one-half hours for fifty cents an hour, but only get paid for ten hours, one-half, hour goes for lunch, ‘There is Pabst Brewery in North Mil- waukee, in some plants offering the employees eleven cents an hour. Brewery Co. Reports Increase, Doesn’t Pay By a Worker Correspondent BROOKLYN, N. Y.—In the New k Times of June 27, there ap- peared a story stating that the Rubel Corp., which controls the Michel Brewery and the Ebling Brewery, had announced a ten per cent wage in- crease for their employees. The story failed to mention that the brewery been paid in more than four weeks. The truckmen and salesmen have nat received either their expense money or commissions. The Brewery offi- cials told them that they would get paid when business is more organ- ined. —H. BR. Cut in Wages, Laid Off | By a Federal Worker Correspondent WASHINGTON, D. C.— Federal workers have been particularly for- tunate in getting repeated re-shuffles of the New Deal. First there was a straight 15 per cont cut in salary, That was fine. Had not the cost of living gone down? (In Washington it had dropped very little if any). Weren't the veterans getting a more drastic cut? What were we kicking about anyway? Then came more “economy” symp-| toms. Bureaus were cut. Employees were dismissed on furlough. Always the lowest paid workers bore the brunt of economy. The president's plan for farm aid and industrial recovery involved the creation of huge bureaus. Were these to employ civil service employees fired from other jobs, men and wom- en of tested ability and experience? They were not. The man with the most pull gets the job. Not satisfied with all the patronage he found in the new emergency bu- reaus, the senate voted recently to take all jobs paying $5,000 and more onnually out of the Civil Service so that they can appoint their relatives and friends. It is important that the people of this country’ know the political tricks and disregard for the workers and their rights which is being shown at the Capitol. The president knowe things. If the people know them they | employees of the corporation have noi | will know how much faith to place in Roosevelt, the New Deal and his shining promises. There is but one salvation for government workers and all other workers, united mass action. The new deal is for Wall Street bank- ers; we workers will get only what we foree them to give, —G. K. i cckevs Write How ‘New Deal’ Looks on Job ® Civil Service Employes! Rush Order at Arm- strong Tire Won’t Last (By a Worker Correspondent) NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A fortnight ago the capitalist pavers were jubil- ant over the Armstrong Rubber Tire! Co. They have started up again and mercased the wages 10 per cent. I tell you it takes Roosevelt to restore prosperity, said his admirers. The factory has gone on a 24-hour sched- ule, two 12-hour shifts. They put on a few strangers with high speed galore. The order will be finished in a very short time and then “rouse mit him.” WILLIAM LANE, %6 Grace St., N.H., Conn. Insurance Co. Puts Through Big Lay-Off HARTFORD, Conn —An office worker in the Traveler's Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn. (the Insur- ance City) told me that the firm laid off 700 workers, This is their f! big lay-off, although they have in- termittently had small ones. Nice go- ing. Roosevelt! Eh, what? —HIL, Waiting for ‘Recovery’ in Vain at Coles Plant|% By a Worker Correspondent NEW HAVEN, Conn.—There is a lHow Inflation Hits the Workers Thru Lower Wages Higher Prices further to win these markets they will proceed to direet wage cuts. Many of the leading American bankers know that this will bring greater difficulties and that is why! the Commercial and Financial Chro- nicle (July 1) said in its leading edi- torial: “No one appeared to that ander such a disruption of foreign exchanges, the whole world may be engulfed in disaster, the United States with the rest”. Quite contrary to the popular screeds that the masses are required to read, the big bankers see world “disaster” staring them in the face. The workers are now beginning to feel only the initial stages of infla- tion (rise in food prices 19 per cent, Dun and Bradstreet; rise in the price of bread in California, Iowa and Il- linols). Soon this trickle of inflation will become a huge wave. The Com- mercial and Financial Chronicle ad- mits this saying: “Among disinterested outside ob- servers (they sre not so far outside nor quite so disinterested) there is grave questioning as to whether the decline in the dollar so earnestly | sought by the advocates of a de- based dollar may not be proceeding too fast. What is feared is that in the precipitate downward plunge of the dollar the movement for gen- eral depreciation may s#¢t ont of hand...” In this situation it ts well to récall the words of Lenin about the ac- tions of the capitalists in a crisis: “The bourgeoisie acts like an im- pudent robber who has lost his head. It commits one folly after another, increases the difficulties of the situ- ation thereby, and hastens its own destruction.” But this does not mean that the situation is hopeless for the bourge- oisie. By its day to day attacks on the workers, by its cutting of living standards, of relief, the capitalists gain advantages, try to weaken the resistance of the workers, and ex- tend their domination. In the day to day attacks, only the resistance of the workers to lowering their stand- Suranoe, cam prevent the basses 10! surance, can prevent rom, trying by bgsr4 attacks to get out of the crisis at expense of ing class. As Lenin pointed out. “One cannot ‘prove’ that there is no possibility for the bourgeoisie to put to sleep any minority of the ex- ploited with the aid of small conces- ions, and to suppress the movement or the uprising of any small section of the oppressed and exploited . . ‘We must now ‘prove’ by actual prac- factory here known as the C. C. Cowles & Co., who are hanging on waiting for “recovery,” but the men come in and hang around and go home with 40 to 90 cents for their trouble. I guess they will keep on ‘waiting, tices of the revolutionary parties that they are si ntly class conscious, and that they possess an intimate on West 14th Street. “I fought in my union for it,” he added, “and was , almost kicked out.” None of the workers would permit their names to be used for publica- tion. As this painter put it, “Any worker with an honest opinion who jgets up and talks is immediately ex- pelled.” He has been in the union for 27 years, is unemployed two years, jand the Relief Bureau refused to | sive him aid because he is living with his wife and two children at the |home of a relative. “These damn grafters got every- body tied up,” he said bitterly. “What can you do? Unemployment Insur- ance would give me at least $10 a week. I could breathe a little bit.” A Printer in “Big Six” A member of Typographical Union No. 6 on West 16th Street was pretty definite about Unemployment Insur- ance. “I don’t want to give my in- dividual opinion, but I’m willing to ign any petition on the subject.” He has a family of five to support, and is unemployed a year ‘and a half. The Relief Bureau refuses to aid him because he gets $10 weekly from the union, out of which he has to pay assessments. “How much help does that $10 give you?” he was asked. For answer he pulled a dispossess notice out of his pocket, and said with a wry smile: “That's the third one in six months, I owe three months’ rent.” “It's graft, graft, graft,” said an- other printer “so what’s the use talk- ing about Unemployment Insurance, How can you get these guys together when they're scared stiff to talk out?” This worker as well as many others contacted thought the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill was sim- ilar to the bosses’ program, namely that the employed should support the unemployed workers. When the bil) was explained that it means to tas the wealthy to raise funds, the worker quoted above exclaimed, “Say, that’s even sweller than what I thought Un- employment Insurance was.” A young worker unemployed for a year was approached at the Electri- cians’ Union headquarters. “They ought to soak them rich guys and soak them plenty, so’s a guy kin live in this world,” he answered in re- sponse to a question on Unemploy- ment Insurance. 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