The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17
isis n Y Workers Rally Against White Guard Meeting
The n. r. A. and the Crisis

JUST as was necessary to put the original glowing
. tributes to the N. R. A. to a whitening criticism
it is necessary to tear through the real meaning
Of the cry: THE NRA has collapsed"
We can say definitely that all the promises OF the
NRA for higher wages improved standards of lvings
for ending the crisis have ANONYMOUSLY collapsed. In
fact the NRA. has intensified the crisis immeasur-
ably, heighening all the basic factors of capitalist
crisis It increased overproducton 1t has sharpened
the conflict between town and country. Unemploy-
ment, starvation are growing by leaps and bounds The
whole financial structure of American capitalism is in
the most perilouS position in its hstory-itsef the
effect of the sharpened crisis and itself acting as one
of the most powerful forces to make still sharper this
crisis.
But has it already failed as the instrument for
direct, brutal attacks on the toing masses in
merging more openly the whole state apparatus with
the trusts and finance capital to pave the way for
growing fascist attacks? To this We must answer
that the NR.A. is becoming a more growing menace
to the toilers in the United States.
What was the basic original intent Of the NRA?
1t was move by the Roosevelt government inter-
twined and interaced with finance capital to smash
down the growing strike Of the workers. 1t
a maneuver to enlist the quite willing A. F. of L.
bureaucracy in the service of this government to act
as the official strikebreakers through the NRA Labor
Board 1t is true that along with this campaign
of the most vicious demagogy was carried on center
ing about Section la (the labor clause Of the NRAD
THE MA. was the initial drive towards fascism to
meet the surge for organization and struggle among
the workers Has this failed? Not at all. The miners
were driven back to work, with the help of the MIRA
The steel workers shot down. their organization
tramped under foot, and driven back-with the help
Of the NRA Hundreds of thousands of strikers were
driven back to the shops without wage increases
without union recognition without the right to strike
b IF The %
law rules, with it's bloody attacks and its drum head
trials, in the OF the N.RA. Yet despite all
these attacks, the workers have been able to
strengthen their organizations in preparation for
greater struggles. The farmers are carrying on a Bit
ter struggle against the MA.
The hue and cry about failure Of the N. r. A.,
coming from the ranks of the expoters ceners around
the danger OF the promiscuous demagogy They did
not want the workers to be promised too much as
the workers were already fighting and intent to see
that the promises were realized through their own
independent action
But when the bosses came to discuss the results
for them flowing from the growing present deeds of
the NRA, they do not speak of failure.
For example, a result of the N-RA attacks
against the workers. learn from the New York
Times financial writer, c. F. Hughes Nov. 12) "that
earnings of eighty-nne industrial companies in the
rdqnarter eleven times What they were in the
same period of last year"
From the National Industrial Conference Board
We learn Also during the same period real wages of
the American workers went down sharply. The very
A. r. Of L. ofncialdom in Washington, which helped
accomplish this situation admit that the workers real
income in September actually below March by % per
cent"
EIAS the NRA failed in smashing down living stand
AZ ards--its central aim from the very start? Now
with the deagogy soft-pedaed and the brazen drive
against the workers appearing openly, the So
called inside critics of the MIA say less and do
more to speed the drive against the workers.
The very discussion of the bosses around the n
RA arises from the fact that the whole working class
as well as the farmers is showing greater militancy
stronger organization and desire for more organiza-
ton. The workers showing the greatest spirit
Of the offensive in their struggles
The same Mr.. Hughes already quoted tells us how
the bosses estimate the MIRA now in their own
councils. He writes:
Revolt against the NRA by both direct and in
direct assault suffered serious reverseS last week when
some of its leaders publicly modified their views SO
as to indicate almost complete sympathy with the OBJ
jeetives Of the plan"
The detectives of RooSevelt's plan, shorn Of its
demagogcy lace, is the OPEN brutal ruthless drive
against the workers For this the bosses can have
nothing else but complete sympathy with the OBJ
jectives of the plan"
11uelleS CUES O1 10 give more OF the results
OF the exploiters' estimation of the NRA, saying:
"If the present drive for recovery can be COM
pared to depression and therefore per
mltted some of the regulations imposed during an
actual state OF war, be developed against
reasonable opposition to the program. Proper
criticism should be welcomed and serves as a cons
structive guide to an improved plan.
"On the other hand direct violations Of the
law, sabotage and propaganda with that purpose in
view, should be dealt with promptly and not Ienient-
ly. Since the labor provisions the pith of the
Recovery Act, attempts to set them aside are aimed
at the heart Of the recovery measure
TIE Hptch" Of the N. A is the national guard
bayonets the polcemen's clubs the deputies ma
chine guns and tear gas bombs, and the MIRA ''ned-
ators, working with the A. F. OF L. oficiaIdom. It's
aim is to drive the workers back to their slave pens
70 sweat out greater profits for the bosses and to
smash the struggles Of the farmers seeking to prevent
an alliance in this struggle between the poor and
middle farmers and the workers.
By means Of the MA, the capitalist state, its
government. could openly brutally use naked
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