The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-15
LABOR DEFENSE CALLS FOR MARCH ON WASHINGTON
IN FIGHT TO SAVE NINE INNOCENT SC0TTSBOR0 BOYS
The NeqU Roosevelt Green
Agreement

The conference of the officials of the A. F. of L. and Rail
road Brohehoods with President Roosevelt Secretary
Labor Perkins, resulted in agreement which assures the
ndustras that they rely heretofore upon these
agents to do everything that lies within their power continue
the HooverWa Street hunger program Wide publicity at
tending this conference only for the purpose decevng
the workers that the government will do something
1t is attempt to again smother the developing struggles
against wagecus the stagger system and unemployment
The Hoover-Green-Woll no-strke agreement after the
stock market crash in 1922 made for the purpose
rendering the workers to the bosses wagecung
The present Roosevelt Green Hman agreement has similar
purpose The resistance of the workers to their mpoveh
ment and to the reduction of the value of their wages still
Their by initiation sharpening into struggle wage
creases This new agreement to se the rising
struggles.
They put forward program of public involving
penditures to billion dollars In this connection
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eve did not consider minimum wage necessary for
public buildings the Bacon-Davs Law provides for pay
ment at the prevailing rates of wages that for
pubic works other than public buildings the Public Works
Administrator should be given power fix minimum wages
What the prevailing rates of wages today for the
building workers in public works They the scale
Of They the coole-scae ranging dollar
day. down to kind This will be the prevailing
for the unemployed who to be benefcares of the
great public works program" of Green Roosevelt Hman
We have already the nature of the Roosevelt public
works in the mtarized forced labor camps
foresaton We have seen in the doaraday standard
which the Roosevelt government expects to maintain
building works program.
sinister feature this gorifed public works program
found discussion at all at this conference We refer to the
fact that high officials in the army navy fully confident
that hundreds of millions of dollars borrowed for public
works will go into the building of machinery battle
ships, army camps etc.
Public works? Yes At full wages at decent standards of
living without discrimination against Negroes and foreign
born
Public works? Yes. Clearing the Sums building modern
houses for all workers and their families building
pitfalls and Fairgrounds building of schools This is the
public works program which the workers demand.
They have made the proposal of Minimum Wage Board
IN certain industries Does this that the workers will
be assured decent living wage? No. 1t will an aid
the bosses to bring down the wages of all workers
ally low bottom level The minimum wage will become the
maximum and the living standards the whole working
class will be reduced to pauperism Mr. Green wants to defer
the struggle for higher wages till the when business i'm
proves" He says
THE American Federation of Labor should be estab-
shed in the textile industries trades and other
industries where labor not organized protect itself but
wants to be free to collective bargaining to secure in
creased wages when business improves in organized
tries
The A. F. of L. leaves the conditions the unorganzed
worker to the of the Roosevelt whose
est lies in driving down the wages and preventing any
resistance against this onslaught
Not q these officials who conferred with Roosevelt
and his secretary of labor Frances Perkins, the unda
mental question that faces the tong todayth
ton of unemployment insurance.
Instead they discussed the infamous Black Bill which will
compel the employed to bear the additional burden of poverty
and share with few who would otherwise be unemployed
This continued teachery in face of everncreasng misery
for the masses should to determined action rank
and file members of these organizations In face these in
creasng vicious attacks there must be built up the broades
united front movement to carry forward the struggle
against hunger and for immediate relief and un
employment insurance at the expense of the and
the employers
government that find billions to aid the finance
capitalists find enough to feed the starving men, women
and children of this country 1t will never do that willingly
but be forced to do it by relentless struggle the
of the demands put forth last winter by the National
Marchers at Washington !