The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-08
ANTI.LABOR
PROGRAM SET
FOR CONGRESS
Major Offensive Aimed
At Workers Planned
By Industrialists
AT F. D. RS REQUEST
Strikebreaking, Relief
Cutting Legislation
Is Demanded
AT F. D. RS REQUEST
By Milton Howard

NEW YORK.-The detailed pro-
gram of action agreed upon by the
Congress of American Industry,
which brought together 1900 of the
country's leading capitalist indus
trialists in the greatest Wall Street
mobilization since the last war, will
be presented to Roosevelt and Con-
gress for action in the coming
months.
The resolutions and proposals
adopted cover the whole economic
scene and are directed mainly to
guiding Roosevelt's policies regard
ing relief, the open shop, trade
unions, strikes and the N. r. A,
administration of industry, with
especial reference to hours, wages
and arbitration of strikes.
Tighten Monopoly
The industrialists, following the
lead given them by Roosevelt's
Spokesman, Raymond Moley, DON
aid Richberg and Daniel Roper,
who addressed the convention, pro-
posed that the N. R. A. be contin-
ued for another year, with all those
provisions which have been found
obstructing "the government of
industry" to be discarded. What
ever N. R. A. machinery aids the
monopolies will be maintained, the
resolution provides.
The principle of tightening mon
opoly grip on American industry
will be continued, it was made
clear, in the proposal that in the
revised N. R. A. a Fair Trade
Practices Commission be created to
supervise industry in order to per-
nit the regulation of unfair COM
petition" referring specifically to
monopoly competition. In
addition, the principle of extending
monopoly control was affirmed in
a resolution demanding that any
Industry or group should be per-
mitted to prohibit injurious and de-
structive acts of competition"
Slash Relief
Following the line laid down by
Roosevelt's spokesman, Secretary of
Commerce Roper, the assembled in
dustrialists demanded drastic re-
duction in Federal relief appropria-
tions, drive against the principle
of Federal responsibility in relief
problems, and proposal that re-
lief be considered local and pri-
vate question.
Unable to ignore the mass de-
mand for unemployment insurance,
the Congress made bow to this
sentiment by proposing that Roose-
welt appoint commission to study
the question with the assumption
that the working class must Shout
der its share"
Also. the convention set down
the proposal that work-relief wages
must always be lower than the
lowest wages paid in private indus
try, that relief should never be paid
to strikers, that work forced
labor should be substituted for
cash relief as quickly as possible,
Anti-Strike Laws
Regarding the trade unions and
the right to strike, the convention
went on record as favoring laws
that will make the trade unions
legally responsible" that will per-
nit the open shop through pro
lection of the right to work." that
will abolish the labor boards as be-
ing cumbersome, and substitute
local action" on strikes, that will
abolish the right to sympathetic
and general strikes,
On the question of taxes, the
convention proposed the Tightening
of taxes on corporation SURPRISES,
the fixing of taxes on small in
comes. and a nationwide Federal
sales tax.
The convention proposed the
ignoring of the demand for the
soldiers bonus and all demands for
.noratoriums on mortgage pay
ments.
The resolutions, based on Roose-
velt's recent speeches, declared for
the continuation of private prop
erty. capitalism, and against all
forms of government competition
with industry"
Finally, the resolutions warn
against the menace of Communism
and agitators" and calls for a de-
portation drive of all aliens, as well
as militant native workers.
Taken in its entirety, the adopted
program and resolutions are the de-
tailed program of the most reac-
tionarv sections Of Wall Street
monopoly capital as requested by
Roosevelt for action By Congress