The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-17
STAFF CHOSEN
FOR INDUSTRIAL
PEONAGE BILL
Military Experts for
Program of So-Called
Public Works

WASHINGTON, June 16.-The or
ganization being perfected under the
direction OF Hugh S. johnson, the
administrator of the industrial re-
covery" act, reads like a cross-section
of strike breakers and scab herders
in all the industries of the country.
Johnson, himself, is an army Of
f1cer, and connected with the Moline
Pillow Works, notorious for years as
one of the worst open shop estab-
lishments in the country.
Military Man Chief Aide
The administrator of the public
works" section is to be Colonel
George R. Spalding, division engineer
Of the army on the upper Mississippi,
with headquarters in st. Louis.
Spalding will have his headquarters
in the Navy department. Herded into
forced labor camps the unemployed
youth will be used to build military
auxiliary forces, while at the same
time Shaving under conscript regula-
tons at one dollar or less day.
Spalding will have as his aides
Colonel H. NJ Waite, who will be
deputy public works director; Major
c. H. Cunningham of the Army En-
gineers' Corps; and P. B. Fleming,
former graduate manager Of athletics
at the West Point army officers
academy.
Prominent Strike Breakers
Nelson Slater, president of the
Slater Mills and of s. Slater & Sons
of Webster, Mass, with mills also in
Slater, Greenville County, South
Carolina, is also member Of the
johnson organization. This man is
one of the bitterest opponents of or
ganized labor and lives off the ex-
ploitation of women and child mill
slaves who toll for hunger wages.
Another member is Arthur D.
Whiteside. president of the National
Credit ONCE, president of the Wool
Institute. The latter organization is
the leading trade association of the
wooden and worsted manufacturers,
members of which include the lead
ing wool manufacturing companies of
of Lawrence, Passaic, Philadelphia
and other low wage centers.
Dudley Coats is also a member OF
the johnson outfit. He is a vice
president of the March g. McLennan
concern of Chicago and director OF
the Export Insurance Company OF
New York City, the Swiss Oil Cor
poration, the Ashland Refining Com
pany, the Chicago Investors Cor
poration, the scabby Minneapolis
Moline Power Implement Company
and the Lea Fabrics Corporation.
Every one of these concerns is strong
ly anti-labor.
Steel Trust Strike-Breaker
Each of the above open-shop bosses
will have charge of debating wages,
hours and conditions in different in
Gustries. w. L. Allen of New York,
consulting engineer and steel manu-
facturer is to be "coordinator" for the
steel industry, which is the most ag-1
gressive anti-labor outfit In the
United States.
Also in the organization under the
direction Of Johnson are a score OF
university professors, alleged econo-
niists. Among these are DR.. Alex
Sachs, formerly associated with the
Lehman concern in New York, and
s M. Du Bruhl Of the General Mo-
tors Research Division.
Edward F. McGrady. notorious
breaker, red-baiter and union
wrecker, who has for many years
been legislative agent for the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, is also in
the organization charged with the
special job of acting as liaison officer
labor betrayers at the head of the
various international and national
unions.
All industries are to draw up pro-
posals for carrying through the pro-
visions of the industrial recovery"
act which outlaws strikes, makes ar
bitration compulsory, enables the
president to dictate wages, hours and
conditions of labor, does away with
all antitrust legislation and throws
the full power of the government be-
hind the finance capitalists striving
for bigger monopolies. The discard
ing of "unproftable" units in all in
dustry will throw hundreds of thou
sands of workers into the army OF
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