The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-12
The Right to Strike
"THE plain stark truth Is that you cannot tolerate
the strike. ="

"THE plain stark truth Is that you cannot tolerate
the strike. -"
Who said that? Was it Hitler? Or Mussolini?
Under German and Italian Fascism, the right TO
strike against oppression and exploitation has been
crushed by the naked military force of the capitalist
State. --.s. =ss
ostensibly, the American working class still has
the right tc strike.
But the speech that General Hugh Johnson military
keeper of the NR.A. Blue Buzzard, made yesterday
to the assembled burocras Of the A. F. of L. at the
swanky Willard Hotel in Washington, Is nothing
less than official outawry of all strikes, and
threat of increased State military violence against the
working class, 1t dares 10 rise In strike struggle
against capitalist employer exploitation.
The speech that Johnson made yesterday was the
speech Of conscious agent of the Wall Street indus
trial monopolies giving grim warning that the Roose
welt government, like the Fascist dictatorship of Hit
ler the Fascist dictatorship Of Mussolni is fully
prepared to crush with brutal military savagery the
strikes of the American workers against the inten-
sified exploitation Of the hated MA. codes.
Labor does not need to strike under the Roose-
veit PLAN" johnson said yesterday
And by that he meant that the working class is
forbidden to strike under the Roosevelt plan.
AND what is this Roosevelt plan, which is beginning
n to bear remarkable resemblance to the Hitler
and Mussolini plans?
1t is the plan to increase employers profits at the
expense of the workers. plan against which
100000 coal and steel workers have risen in tremendous
strikes.
The recent Roosevelt command" to the 100000
coal miners of Pennsylvania to return to the mines of
their coal masters, to the mines of the Morgan United
States Steel trustthiS Is the actually behind the
N.R.A. hypocrisy of collective bar saining"
The murder of coal and steel pickets by State troops
and now the threat of blunt, military oItla wing of
s srikes-these the deadly ruling class realities
that the working class now see coied within the
fFar1 nf tt1e D6anea NJ A
There Is good reason why. johnson addressed his
strkebreaking speech especially o-the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor officials. 49, ts@s ~ 4~--s
He did that because the leaders OF the A. f. of L.
the Green's the VOLS the LeVises have already shown
themselves to be willing agents of the whole N.RA.
strkebreaking machinery.
Johnsons strlkebreaking speech was already an
ticpated, thanks to the carefully timed machinery
the whole strikebreaking Roosevelt propaganda ap-
paratus, by Green's recent speech, warning the work
to be cautious In the use of the strike weapon.
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IOHNSON'S speech to the assembled A. r. of L. buro-
Gratis call to them past masters of betrayal
and treachery to strange the strike strug
giles of the American workers, rising to ire
mendous heights.
1t was desperate call to them TO head off the
growing movement of the American workers into the
sphere Of the revolutionary trade unions call them
to throttle the fast rising rebellion of the rank and
file A. F. of l.. workers, rebellion which even the
steam-roller tactics of the A. F. of L. Convention
could not wholly restrain.
Il implore you TO acqut yourselves like.
Anererican leaders m this great crisis. You
like the boy ut the Holland dixie with his finger at
the crevice You the principal props against
collapse"
And the Greens, the VOLS, the tewises, all the
corrupt and Vena apparatus Of A. F. of L. official
dom, listened with pleasure and understanding They
know what johnson, talking for the big monopoly cap
italst5, expects of them. And their applause shows
that they fully intend to fulfill the high hopes the
capitalists place In them.
The Roosevelt government successful In Tightening
the group Of monopoly capital but facing the failure
Of the Wanted N.RA to provide jobs, to alleviate
hunger to solve the hdeous capitalist crisis prepares
for more open class war.
In every A. r. of l.. local. in every revolutionary
trade union, In every factory, mine and MILL where
workers gather this RoosevetJohnson threat to OUT
law the strike weapon must be met with the answer
OF trade union organization increased hundredfold
for the resolute defense of the interests of the work.
ing class for the right to strike against capitalist
robben
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