The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-03
The Savobe johnson Plan

GERARD SWOPE, General Electric head Spokesman
v for the House of Morgan powerful figure behind
the Hoover regime, and through General John
closely linked with the Roosevelt administration,
proposes new set-up for the N r, A.
General johnson, lackey Of Bernard Baruch
wall Street manipulation contact for Roosevelt
with the mighty banking institutions, embraces
swopes plan his and adds: We will Of course
forbid strikes and 1ockouts"
The proposed change which openly gives full
control of the N. R. A. to the most powerful trusts
IN the U. s., comes at a period Of mass dsilusion-
n1ent with RooseVelt's program 1t is the answer of
the Roosevelt regime to the deep-going, seething
widespread dissatisfaction expressed by the toing
through strikes and farm struggles 1t is the
concrete steps to meet the criticism of the bourgeoise
themselves especially against the demagogy that was
part and parcel of the N. R, A. It is designed 70
strengthen the attacks of the big bosses against the
workers.
RaSAcaly, the new reflects two tsnden-
eies: They are, ~ The elimination Of those
features of government control industry,
Objectionable to the biggest trusts; ~ An IN
crease in the control of the government by the
biggest monopoly capitahsts-the Wall Street
bankers
Through the STope-Johnson plan, the VARIOUS
Industries set up their dctators centraize their
power through government Chamber OF Commerce,
and the n r. A. to their own choosing in every
detail There is thereby formed new extra-gov-
eminent apparatus subordinating the Roosevelt
regime more directly to the Wall Street banks and
giving greater fexbility and driving power In the
fascist attacks against the workers.
The steel trust the textile trust tn. metal tr,sst
the aluminium trust the industries, the bank
become the al-powerful dctators in determining
the action to be taken under the n R.A
TIE preteXt thai the government is sort of sIpsr-
body standing snd above society," "fnpartially'
Judging between the classes is largely dispensed with
There is set Up administrative apparatus that be-
comes quite openly dictatorship of the bankers
The New York Herald Tribune reports that SOME
Of Roosevelts close advisers term the whole
scheme Business Fascisln.'
The ballyhoo about Section Ia Of the NJ r. A.
supposedly granting the workers the right 10 orsanss
ard the right TO bargain collectively is STAMPED out
and in its place fascist relations are 10 be set
Up for labor The chief scsb corporations would be-
come the interpreters of the labor clause and Its
executors Those who directed the shooting of steel
workers and coal miners would openly direct the
forces against labos throughout the United
States.
This proposal is puS forward as q plan"
as "Swopes Plan" with the endorsement however Of
General Hugh L. Johnson, which indicates clearly
that it is an administration measure. Actually though
With the exception Of those phases OF the proposal
which are purely structural that Is those concerned
With the character Of the N. r. A. apparatus and It's
relations TO the bosses associations these changes
are being put into effect already
$500 fl1c voice Of the bankers Is becoming daily more
decisive in the N r. A. administration less consdera-
ton Is given to labor the mo strike" policy is being
applied, ruthless terror 10 smash the workers re-
sstance is the rule in all strike areas
Along with this sharpening In the administrator OF