The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
Officials Tell Workers
to Submit Without
Amy Struggle
BY Carl Reeve

NEW 4Ohh.-I Lie ISpOIC
of the Executive Council of
the A. F. Of L. given yester-
day to the national conven-
ton in San Francisco, is a
platform of abject surrender
of the demands of the Amer
lean workers, for which millions
have been striking since the last
convention, to the employer-con-
trolled boards of the Roosevelt
government.
In its 157 printed pages there is
not word of encouragement for
these millions of workers who have
been battling on mass picket lines
from coast to coast for their ele-
mentary rights and their economic
demands. There is not even rec
ignition that this far-flung struggle
is going on. The sixteen million
unemployed are told that their
struggle for federal unemployment
insurance cannot be successful.
On the contrary, the theme song
of William Green and company is
the familiar strain of no strike, no
struggle, no militant program of
action-but cooperation with the
employers. The Executive Councils
report is completely in line with
Greens praise yesterday of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's proposal to outlaw
all strikes.
The pressure Of the rank and file
membership affected the report.
The militancy of the masses of
workers forced Green to include in
the report strong criticism" of the
results which the MIRA. has
brought. He admits that wages
have not been bettered, hours have
not been shortened, that the COM
pany unions have grown.
But what is Green's answer to
the question-H0w Shall We Secure
Better Conditions? Green counsels
that the workers should go back,
hat in hand, to the very employer
controlled boards which have placed
them in this deplorable condition.
I'VE must provide for joint en-
ployer and employe responsibility
and joint employer and employee
control" says the report. "But this
must come thorough voluntary
arrangement, not compulsory,
through direct participation of
representative of organized labor
In the deliberations of industrial
administrative agencies"
After painting the blacklist pic
ture of the present condition of the
workers under the NJ R. A, the re-
port proposes that the workers rely
solely on the government agencies
and boards which have brought
about these bad conditions.
There is every Indication we
are told, "That the National Labor
Relations Board is going to be an
effective agency for the enforce
ment Of Section Ia"
This strikebreaking board, which
has perpetuated Green's sell-out of
the steel workers demands, and
has encouraged the company
unions, is recognized by Green as thu
successor tc Wagner's National u
Dor Board. Ar the latter, WI lch
has broken nl.Ilerous strikes, Green
has only praise. His only criticism
was that it had not enough. power.
"While these Boards( the National
and Regional Labor Boa, 4s) settled
many disputes, they hid to suffi-
Gent power to make t.lem effective
agencies in estabis' ing principles
for industrial relat .ons in the new
order evolving up4er the Codes" he
writes.
Unable to fol the workers re-
garding the yavaging effects of the
crisis under the N. R. A., the A.
F. of L. Cedncil's report admits that
the codes have actually worsened
conditions of the workers. On the
question of wages, I'm many indus
tries, codes have meant a real de-
erase in wages and earnings. :"
Admits N. r. A. Ravages
Regarding hours: Many of the
codes establish, in fact, a longer
work week than that which has
been in effect in the industry dur
ing the entire depression"
The N. R. A. has brought a
growth in company unions. Com
pany union plans Cor constitutions
legal under the N. R. A., were
worked out and the company union