The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-16
"Wholeheartedly"

rocking the country.
The MIRA was designed originally to prevent the
growth Of the strike movement, expressing the work.
ers' growing discomfort with four years of crisis
misery, wage cutting.
The plan was for Roosevelt with his corps of
highly skilled Wall Street propagandists, like General
Johnson to promise the workers that the government
through its codes would raise the workers standard
of living Meanwhile, the leadership OF the A f. of
L., through the National Labor Board, and other
instruments valuable to the exploiters, was drawn
closer to the Roosevelt government to use all their
forces to keep the workers from struggling.
DUT the workers reacted quickly They did not stand
u for the slave codes. The workers, by over mill
lion in active militant strikes, took the offensive
against the bosses program of fastening coolie levels
of living on them Despite all the pressure of the
A. F. of L. offcialdom, despite all the attempts of
the MIRA, the courts, the police, and the gunner
of the big trusts the workers struck and still
striking by the hundreds Of thousands
Nor does that tell the half of it, Millions more
workers and are seething with strike sentiment,
especially in the basic industries like steel, COAL
aluminium, stockyards. Not only were the workers
striking for economic demands, for bread for higher
wages, against the murderous speed-up for shorter
hours, but they striking for the right to or
ganize and against government attempts to impose
slave conditions on them.
1t was here that we saw the Roosevelt regime drop
and come out in the person of armed strkebreakers.
The Ambridge massacre is not isolated instance.
It is the nub of the Roosevelt policy of supporting
the steel trust in smashing the rising struggles of
the workers 1t is the opening wedge Of the fascist
trends Of the Roosevelt attacks against the workers
The government of Wall Street. graced by the per-
son of Roosevelt, now steps Immediately into every
strike situation, and against the whole strike move
ment in the United States today.
1T IS in this light we must scrunize the role OF the
A. F. of L. bureaucracy, and the latest pronounce
ments of William Green
For the past week it has become crystal clear that
the Roosevelt regime preparing to show its iron
fist against the workers. General Johnsons declara
ton that strikes would not be tolerated followed
by the revelation by william Jockey, financial editor
of the New York Times that Wall Street had ordered
a drastic and big stick" policy against aggres-
sive labor. This followed Immediately after the shoot
ing of strikers the West Coast in Anbridge, and
after the attack the $4,000 Weirton Steel Co.
strikers.
How deep and thorough are these preparations
against the workers can be further seen by Governor
Pinchot,s order to the miners to return to work.
delivered by the state troopers with the threat: "He
thisl"
On top of all these preparations to shoot strikes
cut Of existence" get the thrust of William Green
sort of Gaping climax to the A. F. of L. Conven-
ton:
we join intellectually with the desire to avoid
stOppages of work." chimes in Mr.. Green.
In short, the A. F. Of L. oficialdom entrenched
in government Office in the service of the govern
ment of the powerful bosses and trusts, announce
that they will join in the campaign against the work
struggling for union recognition, for improved
working conditions and against MIRA. slavery
Green continues: Il think have made it plain
many times recently that the American Federation of
Labor is seeking to curb hasty Judgment in the mat
ter of strikes and that the strike should be used only
last resort
That must warm the cookies of the heart of every
gunman of the steel and coal trust waiting for the
order to shoot down strikers.
m THE same day that Green blessed the Roosevelt
regimes strong measures to smash down the
growing strike struggles oily Miss Perkins secretary
of labor said that the great mass wakouts the ire
mendous picket lines, the bloody battles for higher
wages and union recognition weren't strikes at ALL"
Why did she say that? For the same reason that
Philip Murray of the UMWA. told the 100000 strik-
ing miners that their strike was rebellion against
the government. Every effort of the workers under
the N.RA. to organize to improve their living con-
ditions because it hurts the capitalists because it
nterferes with profits for the parasites, becomes i'm
mediately tusse in which the government steps
out openly the chief agent of the masters Be
the strikes bring forward the struggle for the
workers most elementary rights they not strikes
1uey are outlaWed. Iney are beyond the pale Oh
civilization and be shot down without the slightest
conjunction.
This should into the mind of every worker
to what pass the struggle for the most elementary
needs of life and work have come to.
In this situation we must definitely brand the role
Of the A F. of L. ofhcialdoIn They the chief
strkebreaking instruments of the government and the
bosses. They are the reverse side of the medal of
the militia, police, and coal and steel trust gunner
shooting down pickes Their role is not only to keep
the workers from striking but by all to bolster
up capitalism and in this critical situation preserve
the rule of the big bankers and ndustriasts AS the
struggle grows sharper, the A. F. of L. leadership will
become more and more openly fascist.
THOSE with their ears close to Wall Street, that is
close to the real rulers OF the United States as
for example James McrlIn, in his october IL column
in the New York Evening Post News Behind the
News" have the following to say about the A. F. of
L. officaldom:
strange as ii seems, many persons in Wall Street
favor allowing the A. +. Of L. to go right ahead and
organize up to the limit without employer resistance.
Why? In order to preserve Immediately the open
shop and ultimately caDitaisrn for as the same