The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-17
NRA Oils SC lool Machinery
AS Conveyors of Propaganda
Teachers and Pupils Are Enlisted by Board Of
Education To Check Up on Parents
and the n R. A.

who do not believe in Our forms OF
government and are working to sub
vert it or to modify radically some
OF its fundamental principles an
opportunity to promulgate their the
cries, sometimes openly, but gener-
ally. secretly and insidiously. AS the
schools are a BRANCH OF Gov
ERNNIENT, we should stand firmly
against those who teach subversive
doctrines or indulge in un-American
practices"
The teachers are further instruct
ed to tell the pupils of the differ
ent ways in which governmental
activities affect the well-being of the
people, particularly in protecting
them against crime (they forget the
half million or more boys and girls
on the road who can only exist by
what they call 'crine"C, by protect
ing them against disease (they for
get the fact that so per cent of the
New York school children are mall
nourished and bound to be open to
a great many diseases due to their
mdernourished condition., poor
food (what are the unemployed eat
ing?), unsanitary housing (the con-
gested East Side, and Harlem apart
ments packed with two and three
families in one home), and working
conditions starvation wages, and
against loss of life and property
(what property has the unemployed
worker?), and by providing for them
facilities for education, recreation
and wholesome community life"
Answer N.R.A. Campaign
The miners children of Universal,
Indiana, answered the MIRA. call,
and the MIRA. scab coal code for
their fathers, by striking from the
Universal grammar school. Nearly
400 children struck school in support
of their dads demands for a living
wage.
In answer to these pledge cards
parents should explain to their chill
dren what the NR.A. really means
and give reasons for not signing the
cards.
In one school 20 per cent of the
parents rejected the pledge cards and
refused to sign them. Many Of them
stated that they would not sign I'M
til the MIRA. did something for
them.
The first $4,000 pledge cards to be
returned from the schools were
placed under classification and the
reasons given for refusing to Signf
were many and varied. Eight pen,
cent of the first 800 to be studied.
said that they could not afford tq
patronize MIRA. stores. Sixteen PEI
cent said they had received no bene-
fit from the national recovery act,
and 8 per cent said they did not
believe in it, and therefore would
not sign.
Some of the statements we print
here: 81 am not satisfied for the
following reason. Two years ago my
husband made SIS week. Now he
is doing the same work at the same
place for only SIS a week. There
are six in our family"
MY mother hasn't any benefit
from it. My father is still unem-
ployed."
MIRA. didn't do any good to the
workers. Food went up SO high and
the wages didn't"
when I get q raise in pay TT
sign the NR.A. card" !;
Works for government. Has t.
work harder and is still being cut il
pay since MIRA. came in
THE wages are low and the prices
in the store are high"
Have been cut in salary since
firm joined MIRA. and hired two
more men"
Works fourteen hours day as 9,
baker and does not get enough pay"
MIRA. did not make it possible
for me to get employment, but made
it possible that my children should
drink only one glass of milk instead
of two by raising the prices 100 per
cent"
The workers know that the blue
buzzard had start from a bad nest,
and experience has shown them that
nothing good can come of a bad egg.