The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-31

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Action Congress which concluded its
sed resolution calling on all worker
attack.
The resolution adopted follows:
1.-THE Trade Union Conference for
United Action, meeting in Cleveland
August 1921, takes note Of the pub
lie declaration Of Grover Whalen
MIRA Administrator for New York
City, who says that the MIRA forbids
strikes and even 'picketing in an Or
derby manner of employers who have
signed MIRA codes; who declares that
the NRA, at the same time that ii
removes all restrictions of the anti
trust law against justification OF
capital, also puts new restrictions
upon the organization and action OF
the workers, threatening to take away
their established rights Of strike and
picketing.
1.-THE Conference declares that IN
the action Of Grover Wha1en there
is exposed the true intention of the
capitalist rulers of the U.S.A. to use
the NRA to enslave the workers still
further, to intensity their exploita-
ton, and to withdraw from the work.
ers all their democratic rights. While
on the surface this attack is aimed
merely against the so-called red
unions, experience both in the USA
and elsewhere has clearly demon
strated that it vii swiftly develop
into a fascist attack upon all the
trade unions and all dissenting ex-
preston. Hitler began with an at
tack upon Communists and left-wing
organizations, but within few
months has smashed the whole Ger
man trade union movement and out
lawed all political parties except the
Nazis.
1.-THE Conference instructs its Pre-
siding Committees to organize del
egation of workers and their friends
to go to Washington to formally pro-
test before the Roosevelt admins
tration against this outrageous at
tack upon trade union rights under
cover of the very act which sup
posedly guarantees the right to or
ganize and bargain collectively.
1.-THE Conference pledges all par
ticipating organizations to carry on
an intensive campaign Of exposure
Of the MIRA upon the basis of this
and other examples of its true ma
ture as an instrument of enslave-
ment.
1--WE urge that the delegates to the
Conference from New York City take
immediate steps to organize in that
city a mighty movement of protest
against this attack upon trade union
ism and democratic rights. All the
unions, whether A. F. of l.. or in
dependent, all unemployed organiza-
tons. the Communist Party, Socialist
Party, Conference for Progressive
Labor Action, American Civil Lib
critics Union, and all organizations
and individuals concerned about the
defense OF the trade unions and DEM
ocratic rights should be called upon
to join in this movement. AS the
attack is spread to other sections oil
the country, similar steps should be
taken there.
I'm view of the urgency Of the SIT
uation, we call upon all organiza-
lions throughout the country, and
especially upon the local unions OF
the A. F. of L. and branches Of the
Socialist Party, to send kilograms Of
protest against the Whalen anti
union and anti-strike edict, to the
Roosevelt administration in Wash
ington.
"The Conference calls upon the
American working class to openly re-
sist this and all other attempts to
outlaw the strike weapon, to deny
the rights to strike and picket. The
Conference calls upon the workers
to take full advantage of the favor
able moment for strike action to
win substantial increase in wages
and better conditions and to boldly
defy the edicts Of Grover Whalen and
all similar attempts to deny workers
rights in the name Of the National
Recovery Act"