The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-11
Writ Calls N. R. A.
Men, Soviet News
Writer Real Reds
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drive by some Of the most powerful
capitalists to stop the Roosevelt
Administration demagogic efforts
to convince the working class that
the New Deal" means that certain
labor rights, such as collective bar
gaining, will be recognized. The
capitalists, with whom Writ has
been working actively for many
months, particularly those of the
Fascist-inclined Committee for the
Nation" have decided that, now
that profits have been recovered
through attacks on labor under
demagogic promises, 1t is time to
stop making promises. Particularly
since the employers have seen labor
fight, through strikes, to make good
those promises.
The Writ charges will show up
the demagogy Of the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration; they cannot fail to
bring forward the fact that many
Roosevelt officials. while actually
carrying out the commands Of the
big trusts for lowering labor stand
ards under the NR.A. codes, and
while driving poor farmers off the
and through crop-reduction
schemes to hike agricultural prices,
actually have promoted the fiction
that Roosevelt is carrying out
silent revolution" to bring about
Social Justice" These people thus
aided in spreading Roosevelt's dem
agogic promises.
Writ told the committee today
that at a dinner party attended by
six Satellites" of the Roosevelt
Brain Trust, the political philosophy
Of the brain trust was discussed, and
that these people declared that
Rexford G.. Tugwell, Assistant Sec
rotary of Agriculture, is Of the
opinion that economic planning"
means chat business will be largely
required to disappear" and that 1t
requires notifications so serious
as to mean destruction and rebuild
ing" Writ also declared that
Speaker Henry T. Rainey Of the
House of Representatives told
someone who told him. Writ: "Con-
gress will meet and adjourn about
MAY IS. and in a couple Of months
the government will take over a
few industries, and in couple OF
months more the government will
take over a few more industries.
and then I don't know what will
happen" Also, Writ testified, Tug
we'll was quoted to him as saying
that "if we could find some way to
stop feeding them people on relief
we could make better Roadway TO-
ward what we are trying to accom-
plish."
That what we are trying to &C
complish." Writ contends, is the
scrapping of the Roosevelt "Recov-
cry" program in order to render the
nation ready for a revolution"
which would result, says Writ, in
a Communistic system.
Demagogy of brain Trusters"
The important fact about all
these matters is that the very Of
ficials of whom Writ speaks-while
actually carrying out the demands
of the big trusts under the New
DeaI-do spout continuously, in
private conversations here in the
capital about the Social changes"
they are accomplishing.
The Roosevelt government Is &C
con1plishing social changes" -
toward fascism-but the brain trust
ers and a host of liberals in minor
Jobs throughout the Roosevelt ma
chine insist that the regime is "n1ov-
ing left" They aid in putting over
the Roosevelt attacks on the work.
ers by spreading these illusions.
They cannot or will not listen to
such clear-cut announcements as
Gerard's Swope's recent declaration
that nothing like the recent MIRA.
Code Authorities (big business)
meeting ever happened Except in
(Fascist) Italy" They refuse to
recognize that all the mounting
about social justice" has been ac-
companied by the reduction of the
workers real wage, that the G. w.
A. has been scrapped under a de-
clared policy of providing only
forced-labor at below subsistence
wages for a small fraction of the
unemployed, etc., and these brain
trusters and their satellites-I have
heard them babble all over Wash
ington-are continually inspiring
ballyhoo, which maintains the il
lusions that Roosevelt is champion
ing the forgotten man"
Strikebreakers Named by Writ
DR., Writ, by taking them at their
word, has brought the Roosevelt adj
ministration considerable en1bar-
raSs1nent. The House Committee,
which first blusteringly set out to
disprove Wirt's charge, today care
fully restricted the investigation so
as to prevent going into anything
beyond statements bearing directly
on the specific charges. Writ, was,
therefore, a sorry figure. None of
the six at the dinner party actually
were brain-trusters. He called them
brain trust satellites" but naturally
had to admit later that Todd had
no connection with the brain trust.
II call that a Commmistic eff
fort" Writ said. 1t is, of course,
nothing but a plan to force the I'M
employed into the double harness of
factory work and agricultural pro-
duction-they are to produce their
own food on poor land and work at
the bench for a few pennies to pro-
vide a minimum in shelter and
clothes.
'iYou considered this part of
concrete rlan of bringing about tbe