The Daily Worker

CENSUS FIGURES PROVE 7,000,000 ARE JOBLESS

Councils Organizing Everywhere: Prepare July 4 Convention

Bosses Forced to Admit Hungry Hordes Crowd to Read Want Ads

In flat contradiction to the lies of President Hoover and of President Green of the A. F. L., setting unemployment at something around 3,000,000 facts released by the census bureau in New York City confirm the Daily Worker estimate of the number of unemployed as correct--there are at least 7.000,000.

The federal district census supervisors Tuesday announced that in New York the number of jobless is about 6 in each 100. Applying this percentage to the country as a whole, with its 120,000,000 population gives 7,200,000 unemployed. And this with an incomplete report planned to cover first the most prosperous districts!

Other Cities Worse

The significance of this admission by the census supervisors, although covered with the usual Pollyanna dope, "not as large as expected," etc., is obvious when it is remembered that the numbers for March as stated by the New York state industrial bureau, show employment relatively high in New York city because of the garment and other seasonal industries, which show some gains at exactly this time of the year, even though much less than in years in which the crisis does not prevail. The state figures show a decrease for the state as a whole of one-tenth of one percent, and for the city a gain in March, over February, of 1.4 per cent. This indicates that unemployment is much less in New York than in the rest of the state.

Wipe Out Spring Gains

The bosses' Wall Street Journal yesterday admits these facts, saying, "In New York City, seasonal increases, particularly in the wearing apparel industries. were sufficient to cause a net increase of somewhat more than 1 per cent, although many industries continued to lower forces. Most of the up-state cities reported fewer workers employed than in February," and before this. The downward movement was contrary to the usual spring gains," and "March is usually the month of greatest activity in the spring season."

Furthermore. this bosses' information, not for general consumption, gives little hope of any immediate betterment, saying, "the factories have shown no general anticipation of spring orders."

More Soft Soap

Julius H. Barnes, chairman of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference, addressing 350 business men at the Hotel Ambassador Wednesday, continued his prosperity dope, and had Col. William Cooper Proctor, owner of Ivory soap, present to boost the latest fake scheme of a company union and "distribution of work throughout the year," of course with rationing

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CENSUS FIGURES PROVE 7,000,000 ARE JOBLESS

Hungry Hordes Crowd to Read Want Ads

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...and a cut in working forces, as a "cure for unemployment."

This Barnes and Proctor call, "insuring a job."

July 4 Convention

From all sides come reports to the national secretary of the committee of 35 elected at the National Preliminary Conference on Unemployment held in New York, March 29 and 30, of active organization of unemployment councils and of preparations for the building of a delegation of 10,000 to the National Convention of Unemployment in Chicago, July 4-5. The unemployed have already shown by numerous demonstrations, factory gate and employment office meetings that they will join full force in the May 1 demonstrations in every city.

Hungry Scan Want Ads

NEWARK, N. J., April 10.—Mobs of ragged and hungry men, sometimes as many as 1,500 of them, crowd the street around the office of the Newark Evening News, day after day. They gather at dawn and wait, clutching pennies in their hands, to purchase the first edition and search the help-wanted columns for possible jobs.