The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-22
barrow Report on
NRA Confirms C.P.
Study of New Deal
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wages and reducing the living
standards of the workers"


standards of the workers"
So that is how, in the last II
months, Roosevelt helped the Wall
st. monopolies to increase their
profits to over S410, 100000 by "low-
ering the living standards of the
workers"
The Communist International, in
the report of its 18th and 18th
Plenums, pointed out how in all
capitalist countries the governments
are assisting the biggest monopohes
to maintain and even to increase
their profits at the expense of the
masses and small producer through
the mechanism of getting control OF
the raw material supplies.
The Darrow report confirms this
development. 1t states:
Complaints come from small
BUSINESS that they cannot pay the
minimum wage set by the codes.
Analysis shows that this difficulty
arises out of the increased costs
of production, WHICH HAVE
THEIR ROOT IN HIGHER
PRICES FOR RAW MATERIAL"
lone of the evidence of monopol-
istic tendencies).
The N. r. A. was to regulate in
dustry" in the interests Of the
people. And Norman Thomas and
the A. F. of L, leaders asked fol-
places on the N. r, A.
The N. R. A. is nothing but the
instrument for cutting more profits
out Of the hides Of the masses, said
the Communist Party and the Daily
Worker We must not Improve the
N. R. A. as Thomas urges. We must
destroy it as an agency of Wall
Street"
The Dsrrow report confirms this
Communist analysis to the full
"The anomaly arises from that
form of administration that mo-
nopolistic combinations are ex-
pected to enforce against them
selves a law to prevent monopoly"
Darrow expresses ama7ement al
the extraordinary monopoly grip
fostered by the N. r. A. He sees in
this some kind of miscarriage of the
purpose of the Roosevelt govern
ment,
He does not see that 1t was pre-
cisely to accomplish the Tightening
of the Wall Street monopoly grip that
the N. R. A. was created by the
Roosevelt administration.
The N. r. A. has failed, declares
Darrow. On the contrary, the N
R. A. has succeeded in achieving at
least part of it set out to achieve
the solidifying of the economic po-
sition of the big Wall Street mo-
nopolies.
The Roosevelt government is dis
mayed by the Darrow report. They
didn't bargain for this blast of truth
The barrow review board was
created by Roosevelt and johnson
to give the masses the impression
that some of the defects" of the
N. R. A., which was bringing such
palpable misery to the masses
would be investigated and i'm.
proved"
Now johnson and Roosevelt havt
what they ordered-an honest in.
vestigation of the N. r. A.
And it is they who are leadins
the fight to squelch and crush it,
The Darrow board is being
cursed by johnson for doing ex-
aetly what 1t was supposedly Gre
ated to dO-to give a truthful re-
port of conditions under the N.
r. A. They are trying to wipe
out the impression of the report.
But they cannot erase the view
which 1t gives of the Roosevelt
Wall Street government.
THE barrow report gives an ex.
1 traordinary confirmation of thu
Daily Worker analysis of the N.R.A
The Communist Party Of the
United States based itself on Marx
isnl-Leninism in its fight against
the NR.A. slave codes.
The NR.A. planning" will give
the masses chance to use tbs
codes for their own benefit" Nor.
man Thomas told the American
working class.
On the contrary, answered the
Communist Party, the words Of
Lenin will come true:
"The advance of capitalism leads
to the growing power of mo-
nopoly capital into ever new Sec
tions of the population"
With stunning accumulation Of
evidence, the Darrow report con-
firms the Marxist-Leninist anaIy-
sis, which the Communist Party
made Of the Roosevelt N.R.A.