The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 31, 1934, Page 3

TWO UNE MPLOYED ONE ON PART-TIME, OUT OF EVERY FIVE Wages Now Stand at 5 3.5% of 1925-7 Level, While Work Relief Wages Average $6.10 Weekly, Report Admits NEW YORK.—The regular monthly report on unem- ployment by the Pen and Hammer which was issued yester- | day shows that 450,000 workers lost their jobs in the month | of November. The Pen and Hammer survey follows an an-| workers of South Jersey are open- nouncement by the American Federation of Labor that 42,-| ing another campaign to force the 000 workers lost their jobs during the same period. Out of every five workers in the United States, there are two em- ployed, one partly unemployed and two totally unemployed, the pre- liminary figures of the Pen and Hammer show. © This ratio is based on the employment estimates for November as follows: 16,575,000 fully employed. 8,500,000 partly unemployed. 14,525,000 totally unemployed. “These figures,” Hammer survey pointed out, “do not include the 12,700,000 independ- ent farmers, self-employed profes- sionals and the small shopkeepers and businessmen that make up the balance of the working population. Figures Include P.W.A. The figure for the employed in- clude all P.W.A. workers. Those for the unemployed include 3,330,000 new workers who have come of age since the 1930 census. The Pen and Hammer in revising its figures of October for young workers, based its estimation on 1928-29 conditions, Although giving this lower figure, the Pen and Hammer pointed out that statistical evidence has not/| been computed by the government agencies, and when and if such computation is made, the estimates for the totally unemployed will al- most certainly have to be revi upward by 500,000 to 1,500,000. “The loss in production resulting from partial and complete unem- ployment is greater than has been the Pen and/| ‘Oregon Parley LaunchesFight for Civil Rights 'To Work for Repeal o | Criminal Syndicalism Law f | By DAWN LOVELACE | PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 30.—One | hundred delegates, representing 29 organizations, as well as a large as- sembly of spectators, attended the | Oregon Civil Rights Conference here | last week which worked out a pro- gram of action for (1) repeal of the Oregon Criminal Syndicalism Law; | (2) to appose legislation against the | rights of free speech and assembly, and (3) to resist all attacks on civil rights and liberties. Harry L. Gross, International La- |bor Defense, made the keynote speech, showing the relationship be- | tween local anti-working class ac- | tivities and the New Deal, Matt | Meehan of the International Long- | shoremen’s Association stressed the | need for combatting the efforts of | the employers to smash organized labor, as demonstrated by the frame- ® DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1934 SURVEY SHOWS 450,000 MORE LOST THEIR JOBS IN NOVEMBEh Farin Workers Move to Force Release of 11 South Jersey Militants Also Demand Return of Fines to 8 | VINELAND, N, J., Dec. 30.—After | Tescuing one of their militant lead- | ers, William O'Donnell, out of the | hands of the authorities of Cum- berland County through an inten- sified campaign of mass pressure, return of fines and dropping of charges against nineteen workers, | growing out of the militant resist- | ance to fascist tactics during the re- leent Seabrook Farm strike at | Bridgeton. | On Friday, January 4, the cases of | eight workers arrested during a free | | speech fight in Vineland last Sep- | tember and fined $75 and costs, will come up for review before Judge | | LeRoy Loter in Cumberland County | Courthouse, Bridgeton, South Jersey | workers are sending protest tele- | grams into Loter’s office demanding | the immediate return of the fines. | Workers and workers’ organizations throughout this part of the country are urged to send similar protests, “Hundreds of protest telegrams, letters, resolutions, phone calls, dele- gations, and demonstrations forced Prosecutor Thomas Tusso and Recorder Craeamer to back down | and release O'Donnell,” a statement. of the defense committee said. “Sim- | ilar mass pressure will force Judge | Loter to return the fines imposed on | these eight workers for daring to up- | hold the right of strikers to speak in the streets. All organizations are urged to send resolutions to Judge | Loter and Prosecutor Tusso, Cum- Bridgeton, New Jersey. Eleven farm workers, arrested dur- ing the Seabrook Farm strike, still vo TE for the Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill H.R. 7598 This ballot is sponsored by the Daily ,QWorker crores: o84as COMERS TT RS CRETE OF COMMUN Hr HEEETONAL? America’s Only Working Class Daily Newspaper 50 East 1 New (Cut out and sign 3th Street York this ballot today) BALLOT I have read the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill and vote FOR CO Name AGAINST O Address City. Vote without delay and return your ballot at once to the worker who gave it to you, or mail it to the “Daily Worker” Sebati Plan Mass Actions As Buffalo Relief Is Slashed Employed and Unemployed Name Delegates to National Insurance Congress—Hunger Marchers Elected in Lackawanna BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 30.—Spurred into greater activ- ity by a recent ten per cent city-wide relief slash, employed and unemployed workers here are electing delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance and _plan- berland County Court House, ning a series of demonstrations. Immediately following the announcement of the relief cut, 100% members of the Black Rock and Riverside locals of the Unemploy- hava charges hanging over them in | ment Council jammed the relief sta- spite of a promise by Tusso to drop prosecution, when he was badly tion. Supervisor Blackwell offered to meet with a small committee, and | generally realized. When the loss yp “riot” charges aga:nst 34 I.L.A.| frightened by the intensity of the| when the workers refused, police | due to partial unemployment is roughly estimated as one-fourth that of complete unemployment, then the total production loss equals that of approximately 18,000,000 workers.” Based on Census The Pen and Hammer figures for partial unemployment are based on studies of the Census of American Business, 1933; report of the Presi- dent’s Organization on Unemploy- ment Relief (1932) brought to date from the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, local surveys of unemploy- ment in Buffalo, Louisville, Ky., and Philadelphia, reports of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, data by the Department of Labor cover- ing various industries, and reports of employment of members of the American Federation of Labor. CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 28.—‘Consid- | men and a number of textile work-| ers. | Rey. Ross Anderson, President of | the Portland Civil Liberties Union, urged united action by labor and | liberal groups. | member of the Central Labor Coun- | cil, also urged united efforts against | the reactionary attacks. Resolutions passed included pro- tests against the “riot” frame-ups lof A. F. of L. workers; protests against the transient camps, and the practice of forcing jobless single men into them at the cost of their | franchise; demand for. the repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law, | |assemblage rights of the toiling, masses. i} | Permanent committees were, | elected to broaden the united fromt movement established at the con-| mass campaign for O'Donnell. South Jersey Workers are demanding im- |! mediate dropping of all against these workers, and are urg- ing workers’ organizations to also ing he keep his promise in these cases, | Union Forces L. R. B. To Admit Furniture | Companies Violate 7a | BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 30. — The National Labor Relations Board, | and opposition to the attempts of | after a delay of three weeks, has | c: the bosses to curb free speech and| made a sterile decision that five up-| fore all relief stations on Saturday, A city-wide demonstration | holstery firms have violated Section | 7-A in discriminating against union workers. The upholstery firms are the Peerless, Union Parlor, Freeman Parlor, Bay State, and Soboff and erably sharper than average seasOn~ | ference, and to organize actions for | Clickson companies. All five com- al declines” in both wages and jobs ‘were reported yesterday by the Illi- nois Department of Labor. Jobs fell 2.7 per cent from October, and total wages were cut 3.6 per cent. On the basis of the 1925 to 1927 average used by the Department of Labor, wages now stand at 53.5 per cent of normal. Among the weekly average wages reported by the Department of Labor are $13.50 in the men’s clothing industry; 13.29 in miscella- neous textile trades; $11.40 in fruit and vegetable canning; and $11.43 in the thread and twine industry. Hotels and restaurants paid an average of $14.97 a week to all workers, These averages, it must be remembered, include high wages paid to those in executive positions, and do not represent the miserable | wages given the workers. at an average weekly wage of $6.10. Even this was not all in cash, but | in grocery orders, coal, shoes and clothing, the Illinois Relief Com- mission pointed out. Destitution Rises in Massachusetts BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 30.—Em- ployment dropped 14 per cent in November as compared with Octo- ber, and wages slumped 1.5 per cent, according to the Massachusetts De- partment of Labor, which based its reports on returns from 1,583 manu- facturing concerns. WHAT’S ON Chicago, Ill. New Year's Eve Celebration Mon- Dec. 31 at 2733 Hirsch Boule- Auspices John Reed Br. 546 W.O. Adm. 30c. Booboisie Frolic, New Year's Eve, given by Theatre Collective. Un- usual entertainment. Adm. 28c, 3419 Roosevelt Road. Time: 9 p.m. Philadelphia, Pa. New Year's Eve Dance and enter- tainment Monday, Dec. 31.at Girard Manor Hall, 911 W. Girard Avenue, Good orchestra, bar and buffet. Lenin Memorial Meeting Friday, Jan. 18, 1935 at the Market St. Arena, 46th and Market Sts. Prominent excellent program. Buy War or Peace in the Saar Plebiscite? Lecture and discussion at Lulu Tem- ple, Broad & Spring Garden Sts. Auspices Phila. Relief Comm. for Victims of German Fascism. 8:15 p.m. Thursday, January 3, 1935. Lawyers’ Banquet, Friday evening, Jan, 4, 8 p.m. at Broad St. Mansion, Broad and Girard Aves. Prominent speakers and talents. Adm. 50c. Aus- “pices International Labor Defense. Cleveland, Ohio ‘The 10th Ward Assembly Unemployed Council 1 will hold a benefit for its tes Jan. 1, 8 p.m. wi Delegat at Slovenian Hall, 5607 St. Clair Ave. HELP WANTED: Agents to sell NEW MASSES subscriptions. Live leads furnished. Commissions and _ex- penses for active workers. Apply: NEW MASSES, Midwest Bureau, ‘Room 1500, 5 N. Wabash Ave., Chi- cago, Tl, any day at 3 p.m. | calism Law. Cliff O’Brien, I.L.D. attorney, was elected chairman of the conference. | Send your greeting today on the Daily Worker’s Anniversary! Send a subscription with it! By DAVID RAMSEY T the end of 1934 American cap- | italism still finds itself in the | midst of what Stalin called a “de- pression of a special kind.” Indus- trial production and business ac- tivity are a little higher than a year go, but there has been no funda- mental improvement in the general economic outlook. If we cut through the rosy ballyhoo of the administra- tion, we will see that the situation is probably more acute in the United States than in most of the other capitalist countries. In the first place unemployment has been increasing steadily, and now the number of unemployed is larger than it was a year ago. Even the conservative A. F. of L, figures show the number of unemployed workers in November to have been 11,459,000, a half million more than last year’s total. The actual volume of unemployment is probably be- tween fifteen and sixteen million. It is now admitted by bourgeois economists that this is he most sig- nificant indicator of present condi- tions, Unemployment is the cen- tral problem of the crisis, and its growth after 18 months of the N.R.A. is eloquent proof of the fail- ure of the New Deal to solve the economic problems of decaying cap- italism. The two upturns that took place under the New Deal indicated that capitalism can never solve the prob- lem of unemployment. The specu- lative boomlet in.the spring of 1933 pushed production up about 70 per cent, but wages went up but a few per cent, and only a small fraction of the jobless were reemployed. Pro- duction almost reached “normal” levels, yet some fourteen million workers remained unemployed. In the spring of 1934 there was another upturn, but again no significant re- duction in unemployment. Fewer workers were turning out a larger output of goods. The rapid increase in exploitation which had been an outstanding feature of the “prosperous” twenties continued right through the crisis. From 1919 to 1929 the speed-up of workers (productivity) increased by forty per cent. But from 1929 to 1933 there was an even faster rate of in- crease, the degree of exploitation increasing by twenty-seven per cent according to Charles A. Bliss of the National Bureau of Economic Re- search. Under the N.R.A. the work- j Economie D ® union affiliation. Two other firms, the Prime and Standard companies, refused to “bargain collectively” with the union. The decision came after members of the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union bombarded the La- were summoned. The workers held their ground and forced a member charges of the County Welfare Committee to meet with the entire delegaion of 100. Immediate relief increases were Volney P. Martin, | flood Tusso with telegrams demand- | given all workers present and cloth- ing orders were promised. Black | vonday Jan. 7, at the office of Rock local of the Unemployment Councils alone is sending ten dele- | gates to the National Congress. In Lackawanna, a steel town out- side of Buffalo, five of the recent Hunger Marchers, who were met by police clubs in Albany, have been chosen by their respective organ- izations as delegates to Washington. | The Unemployment Councils have alled for mass demonstrations be- Jan, 5. will be held Monday, Jan. 7 de- manding withdrawal of. the 10 per cent relief cut, a 20 per cent in- crease in relief, and endorsement of the National Congress since Buffalo recently endorsed the Workers’ Bill. To Hold Mass Rallies in Rochester ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 30.—A sendoff mass meeting will be held here Thursday, Jan. 3 to greet the delegates to the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance. A mass demonstration will be held Welfare Commissioner Kelley de- manding a general increase in all | relief and endorsement of the Work- ers’ Bill and the National Congress Returning delegates from the Con gress will report at a huge mas: meeting to be held Saturday, Jan- uary 12. Under the leadership of the Un- employment Councils, workers here are enlisting the support of small storekeepers against the policy of the Welfare Department which forces them to make all purchases iin the big chain stores. bor Relations Board with protests the repeal of the Criminal Syndi- | panies fired workers because of their | against the discrimination. In the cases of the mattress com- panies, where over one hundred cases of discrimination occurred, the board ruled for the employers and declared the union had failed to make a case. The furniture workers will only evelopment Shaws the Fail work at a faster pace and later fig- ures would show an even large in- crease in the rate of exploitation, Unemployment Permanent This means that unemployment has become a permanent problem which capitalism can never solve. It has been estimated by economists | that even if American cconomy | | could again reach the levels of 1929 there would be no jobs for six to eight million workers. Capitalism’s one solution for the unemployed problem is starvation and forced la- | bor, Along with increasing unemploy- ment there are other indications of the inability of American capital- ism to emerge from the throttling grip of the economic crisis. Business is borrowing less from the banks than it did last year. There was a decrease of $625,000,000 in business loans in .1934, and assets are piling up in the banks despite all efforts of the government to loosen up credit. Despite the surplus of capital there has been practically no new invest- 'ments. New capital investments in | 1934 were even lower than in 1933 and were only two per cent of what they had been in 1929. The frozen money market is a reflection of the inability of the capitalists to utilize the present plant capacity of the country. With industry operating at only a fraction of capacity there is no incentive to finance new under- | Then there is the acute state of the construction industries. Build- ing construction is smaller than in was a year ago, and no amount of housing ballyhoo will launch a new building boom. From the point of view of the capitalist market there is no shortage of shelter. , Conse- quently the efforts of the adminis- tration are not directed toward pro- viding workers with low cast hous- ing or clearing the slums. It is anx- jous to cut the wages of the build- ing workers as part of its general offensive for lower wages. With low wages and with government sub- sidies, the building interests hope to be able to start another speculative real estate boom, But in view of the | ‘ /* estate field this is not likel place on any large scale. The emphasis in production has been toward war materials with the government spending over two bil- lions for the construction of an im- | of 1934 made labor history, and | perialist war machine. While war preparations do not account for the entire improvement over the lowest point of the crisis, they played a large role, and their importance will increase as the capitalists strive for an imperialist offensive all over the world. The other characteristic of the period is the continued pouring of money into the hands of the cap- italists by the government although as the capitalists improved their Position these subsidies have be- come smaller, Profits Increase The bright spot in the general pic- ture for the capitalists is' the huge increase in profits as a result of the N.R.A. By increasing the exploita- tion of the workers, by direct and indirect’ wage cuts (higher prices), they were able to make the biggest profits of any year since 1930. Ac- cording to the Federal Reserve Bank, 209 companies alone had profits of $202,800,000 during the first nine months of 1933. In 1934 they increased their profits by 112 per cent to $430,500,000, They more than doubled their profits in the face of a constant decline in pro- duction from May to October. The capitalists have improved their position at the expense of the workers and small farmers. As a result of the N.R.A. codes which are written and administered by monopoly capital, the minimum wages of the codes have tended to become the maximum. Conditions of work have grown worse, and part time work has nullified what hourly wage increases the workers were able to win from the employers. Taken as a whole the American working class is worse off than at any time during the crisis. The worker has seen his living stand- | ards constantly lowered by the rising cost of living which has risen by 10, per cent under the New Deal, achonst sources, be able to end this discrimination, in both cases, by means of their or- ganized power and protest, a state- ment of the Furniture Workers In- dustrial Union declares. The rul- ings of the board which seem to favor the workers are ignored by the employers whenever they see fit. Unemployment Gains, Wages Sink, V alue of Dollar Declines as Profits Soar —Balance Sheet of 1934 Shows i Have Evaporated in Thin Air Roosevelt’s Promises ers are being continually forced to | sharp conflicts of interest in the real | Food and clothing are 30 per cent | ly to take higher than when Roosevelt took ft office. | The American working class has |fought back against this reduction ‘of its living standards. The strikes indications point to a mounting | Strike wave in 1935. Already in steel |and in automobiles the manufac- turers are extending their schedules in anticipation of strikes for bet- | ter conditions and higher wages. |“Nation’s Business,” the official voice of the United States Cham- ber of Commerce, is worried that “strikes will continue a serious drag on business for the next year.” Poor Farmer Hit The poor farmer like the worker also has not benefitted from the New Deal. The things that he buys have increased in price far more rapidly than the products that he Sells, The drought and the crop restriction program of the Roose- velt regime have only added to his burdens, Higher farm prices and government benefit payments did not materially increase his purchas- ing power. It was the rich farmers and the insurance and mortgage companies who benefitted most from the A. A.A. The latter were able to collect their interest payments and increase their holdings of farm lands. Cor- porations lending on farms by 1933 had increased their holdings through foreclosures from $294,000,- 000 to $511,000,000 in 1932 and $770,- 000,000 in 1933. The money value does not give an accurate picture of the acreage acquired since land values fell drastically during this Period. For the worker as the Department of Agriculture has admitted, the A.A.A. has meant higher food prices and the cutting down of his pur- chases. Since the A.A.A. was in- augurated more than $550,000,000 in processing taxes was added on to the food bills of the masses. Consequently while the profits of the capitalists have grown enor- mously, they have diminished the purchasing power of the miasses. This stands way ofga real i improyemer ia @ ‘SocialistsJoin (GUILD PLANS UNION | Fight To Free PARLEY TO MEET! PUBLISHERS’ DEFI Hilisboro 14 | Mase Pressure Forces Senator to Propose Repeal of C.S. Law CHICAGO, Tll., Dec. 30.—Joe G | Brinocar, State Secretary of the So- | clalist Party of Illinois, in a letter | to A. R. Newhoff, District Secretary of the International Labor Defense, | informs him that the Socialist Party jis willing to enter into the united front for defense of the Hillsboro defendants. He also expressed the willingness of the Socialist Party to accept the program advanced by the International Labor Defense as a means of defense, including mass actions and a broad -ampaign for the repeal of the Criminal Syndi- j calism Law. In the coal fields there is a grow- jing movement for the defense of | the Hillsboro frame-up victims, and for repeal of the Criminal Syndi- | calism Law. As a result of the mass | pressure, Senator Monroe of Collins- | ville is introducing a bill for the| repeal of the Criminal Syndicalism Law in the State Senate. The branch of the International Labor Defense in Benld is organiz- | ing a mass meeting on January 4, in the Colonial Theatre. The branch | extended an invitation to Senator | Monroe and to Robert Minor of the Communist Party. Invitations will |cision ordering the San | fired for Guild activity. The N. L. National Conference Pro ers’ Rights as Newsp jected to Fight for Work. aper Owners Plan to Meet on ‘Freedom’ to Fire NEW YORK.—Reacting ican Newspaper Publishers’ A special national anti-union convention of publishers. American Newspaper Guild y: national counter-conference of all unio industry. The Newspaper Guild’s step fol- lowed the unanimous approval | |the representative assembly of the New York Guild of a resolution call- ing for such action at its meeting Friday. The resolution also recom- mended calling an immediate mass meeting in New York in which the | false issues of “freedom of the press” raised by the publishers will be clari- fied. The publishers’ action came as a response to the reaffirmation of the National Labor Relation Board’s de- Francisco Call-Bulletin, a Hearst newspaper, to reinstate Dean S. Jennings, chair- man of the Guild unit on that paper, R. B.'s decision came as the result of the challenge of the Guild’s dele- - | editorials lay to the challenge of the Amer- ssociation, which has called a tne esterday made plans to call a ns in the newspaper Guilds throughout the couptry, to the A. F. of L. unions in the in- lustry, and to President Roosevelt }and other administration officials. Boycott Looms in Oakland SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30. =A boycott by organized labor agaty+ the Oakland Tribune is now in nent as a development in the Francisco Newspaper Guild's c: paign to get public support in fight to force reinstatement of thr Guild members discharged for o ganizational activity. The campaig, has already cut the circulation o the Trioune by 4,000 and ha’s forced the publisher to lying front page i the trouble to “out- The Central Trades and Labor ure of New Deal ~| Solve the crisis is now admitted in| gation which walked out of the first | ssion of the newspaper code hear- | 5 : ‘ ing, denouncing the N.R.A. admin- | ‘Be new turn to the Guil i 3 ‘ucting its secretary to in= istré s 1 é 3 istration as a tool of the publish-|torm Joseph R. Knowland, pubs x 5 ._ | lisher of the Tribune, that his id The publishers’ call for their ane be placed on the unfair lige emergency convention, spread on the | unless the three discharged workers front pages of almost every news- | were reinstated and the staff's free« paper in the country, completely | dom to organize and bargain cole concealed the labor aspects of the | lectively were recognized, The boy situation, raising the issue of “free-| cott movement is supported by of- |dom of the press,” which in this! fcials of the State Federation of case is freedom of publishers to pre- Labor. Fifty thousand handbills vent the organization of editorial have been distributed from house employes. to house, calling on the public to Plans of the Newspaper Guild are | cancel subscriptions. not complete, Jonathan Eddy, execu- tive secretary, said, adding that the aim of the Guild is to mobilize the broadest possible representation of} workers in the industry to fight for | the right of all workers to join an| organization of their own choosing. | Copies of the New York Guild! solution were sent Saturday to all! also be extended to the Progressive | Miners of America and to the So- cialist Party to send speakers to this meeting. The following are the additional local unions of the Progressive |Miners of America which have | passed the resolution demanding re- peal of the Criminal Syndicalist {Law and the quashing of the in- dictment. against the 14 Hillsboro defendants. They are Local 129 of | the P.M.A. of West Frankfor*, Local | 35 of Mount Olive and Locals 18 and | 37 of Staunton. | The trial of the Hillsboro defend- ants begins on January 7. Local 42 of the P.M.A. in Nokomis, has de- cided to supply trucks to carry the| miners from Nokomis to Hillsboro to attend the opening of *4e trial. | Council of Alameda County gave struggle | What is the real significance of | the Nazi “purges” now going on? The Daily Worker is the only Paper that tells you. Read the Daily Worker every day! Sub- seribe to the Daily Worker! Give presenis in the form of subscrip- tions to the Daily Worker! | Government Employees | Call Roosevelt Policy E A ‘National Disgrace’ | WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The Roosevelt government has been pur- uing “the spoils policy for more han a year and a half so that it j has become a national disgrace,” | while “living costs have sharply in- creased,” it was declared today by the National Federation of Federal Employees in a statement summa- | rizing the year’s activities of Roose- | velt as they affected government employes. The organization pointed out that the Roosevelt government has in- troduced “economies” at the expense of the federal employes, and de- nounces these pay cuts as “ill-ad- vised.” Thousands of federal employes | had to give up over $500,000,000 of their year's income this year as a result of the drastic pay cuts insti- | tuted by Roosevelt in the interests of “economy.” ABOUT LENIN | Available for Small Cities Write for Terms and Dates to GARRISON FILM DISTRIBUTORS, Ine. 729 Seventh Avenue, New York City — Cleveland, Ohio — NEW YEAR'S EVE. RED PRESS MASQUERADE BALL PROSPECT AUDITORIUM 2612 Prospect Avenue DANCING — GOOD ORCHESTRA DEC. FAMOUS SOVIET MOVIE 3 1 st Admission at door 30c, with ad 26c ARRANGED BY DAILY WORKER, MORNING FREIHBIT and YOUNG WORKER PS iat ve ) increase in unemployment with its accompanying reduction of the |purchasing power of the masses | | Will lead to a further intensifica- tion of the crisis sooner or later. The failure of the New Deal to! CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — | guarded form by the bourgeoisie themselves. The best that they hope ‘or is that 1935 will be slightly bet- | | ter than 1934. But there are no ex- | |pectations that there will be any | improvement. Colonel Leonard Ayres, economist and vice- | president of the Cleveland Trust |Company, has predicted that 1935 th ‘ | Anniversary DAILY WORKER will be “another year of depression.” FEATURING Berton Pacem | . NEW THEATRE NIGHT The sixth winter of the crisis | therefore finds the capitalists all/ PRESENTING the more determined to find a way Through more speed-up and fur- . es cr ther wage cuts, and through the || JAN. 8 p.m. ING - CAPITALIST FOLLIES OF bagsinytd rise of Lrg they hope | 1934-And Many Other Attractions put even more of the burdens of | the crisis upon the workers. The |] NORTH SIDE 25e in Advance = 35e at Door factors making for inflation are in- Tickets at 2019 West Divisi creasing in pressure, and the next TURNER H ALS, State St.; 4305 So, Park six months will see new develop- | Roosevelt Road. ments in this direction. By that | time the national debt will have run over 31 billion dollars, besides | municipal and state.debts totalling over 15 billion dollars. Already the | interest on the government debt | alone amounts to about a billion | dollars a year, More and more the | government is depending upon) short-term loans which must be constantly renewed, These factors, | the increasing sale of government | securities to the banks and the per- sistent efforts of the administration | to raise prices, can only lead to new | inflationary moves. | In the face of such dark pros- | pects the workers must intensify | their struggles against the capital- ist offensive* which is driving for starvation wages, forced labor for the unemployed and imperialist ex- pansion, More than ever it is nec- essary to push the fight for ade- quate relief and unemployment in- surance; for higher wages and bet- \ter conditions; against taxation of | | the necessities of life, and for taxa- | tion of the monopolies and the rich. Only in this way will the workers take the burdens of the crisis off their shoulders, and take fhe first steps through struggle to learn- | ing the fundamental lessn that their welfare lies in the oyerthrow of capitalism which is responsible for their present miserable \ “BOSTON, MASS. FIFTEENTH ANNUAL New Years Eve Celebration Monday, December 31, 1934 NEW INTERNATIONAL HALL 42 WENONAH STREET, ROXBURY Concert Starts at 9 P. M. Dancing from 11 till morning ‘Two Large Jazz Orchestras Symphony Quartet, Special Soviet Selections by Preiheit Gesang Farein and Russian Quartet Checking 75 cents, with ticket 60 cents Auspices: Daily Worker. Freiheit. New International Hall \ LOS ANGELES, CAL. Grand Annual Concert b Giv-y by the ; SAT., JAN. 5th at are M. Music Art Hall 238 S. Broadway Admission 25¢ >maga