The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-11


for Progressive Labor Action, in st
The Cleveland trade union confe
all workers to fight against the
Roosevelt New Deal, by strengthen
Ing their ranks in the struggle for
higher wages, better conditions, the
right to organize and strike,
( Muste's statement against the
Z Roosevelt strikebreaking tactics,
reads, in part, as follows:
when the National Industrial Re-
covery Act was first promulgated,
the Conference for Progressive Labor
Action charged that it wss moving
toward abolition of the right to
strike and universal system of COM
pulsory arbitration. That prophecy
has now been unmistakGEly fulfilled
by the actions of the President and
the Recovery Administration in the
last few days, namely, by the way
In which the coal strike has been
called off and by the appointment
of the so-called National Board OF
Mediation to arbitrate all labor dis
putes under N.R.A.
1.-THE MIRA. contains high-sound-
ing provisions about the right OF
labor to organize and bargain col
lectiyely. Not even small Dement'S
under the various codes can be
really secured unless in each indus
try there is a strong and fighting
organization of labor able to cops
in some measure with the great Or
carnations of capital whose power
is vastly increased under MIA.
when labor surrenders the right
TO strike. it has been enasculated.
Compulsory arbitration has never
anywhere worked in the interest OF
labor.
1.-THE composition of the super
BOARD of mediation into whose hands
the government is trying to commit
the whole future of the American
labor movement, gives further eVl-
dence of the dangerous tendency OF
present policies. Not one OF the
representatives of industry on that
Board has dealt with union labor
In his own business. Two OF them,
w. C. Teagle and Gerard Swops,
represent opsn-shoD, company union
corpcrations, the Standard Oil and
General Electric, which have long
record of the most bitter opposi-
lion against amortization OF their
employees. John L. Lewis OF the
United Mine Workers, so-called
labor" representative on the media
lion board, is the most hlgh-handeo
md autocTatic official in the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Who at this
very moment is responsible for a
policy of terrorism, including kill
ings, against miners, former mem
bsrs of his own union, in Illinois
and who has for years used smuggling
rs his one argument against any
progressive opposition or criticism In
his own union.
Workers and farmers will not
abandon the fight for immediate i'm
proyenent of their conditions and
the building of militant unions, be-
cause they are starving, being evict-
ed from their homes, deprived OF
relief. and are unable to be "patient"
any longer. The Conference for
Progr sssiye Labor Action will sup
port every effort of the workers in
this critical hour to put an end to
their misery and to oppose the at
tempt of the NR.A. to lull them
into false and fatal sense OF Sc
curity.
1.-THE developments of the last few
days lend vastly increased import
snce to the Trade Union Conference
for United Action to be held in Cleve-
land, Ohio, August 1921. This con-
yention will bring together repre-
sentatives of economic organizations,
A. F. of l.. unions, T.U.U.L. unions,
independent unions, women's auxi-
laYies, unemployed leagues and
councils, VIII, see the dangers to
labor in the Roosevelt program and,
regardless of political afflliation, are
interested in mapping out program
of action against wage cuts and evic-
tons, against compulsory arbitration,
against labor officials whose sole
policy is cooperation with the COM
pany union foes of labor, for vim
dicating the right of labor, in actual
fact, and not in fine-sounding de-
ceptive words, to organize and strike.
We urge all unions and unemployed
organizations to send delegates to
this great Congress of Action of the
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