The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-04
Barrow Partner Shows
ALL. Heads Aid
MOnOpOlists
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
Daily Worker Washington Bureau

SHOWS GnaC the LABOR ADVISORY
Board itself is not interested in
protecting the interests of the work
ing class as a whole or in facing
the basic social and economic issues
raised by the Darrow report" Will
liam o. Thompson, member of the
National Recovery Review Board
and former law partner of Clar-
ence Darrow, its chairman, declared
today in a statement denying the
Advisory Boards charge that or
ganized workers we're not invited to
the Darrow feast"
cit is fact that members of the
Labor Advisory Board were invited
to attend hearings Of the Darrow
Board where labor matters were I'M
der consideration and did as a mat
ter of fact attend such hearings and
were given full opportunity to ex-
anime witnesses and to participate
in the hearings" Thompson said.
He is the only man on the Darrow
Board who fought consistently for
labor during the Darow Board
hearings.
"The attack Of the Labor Ad-
visOry Board, in fact, serves as Il
smoke screen to cover the very
evils of the MIRA. that the Oar
row Board has exposed" and
their the L.A.B.) fundamental
sympathies lie on the side of big
business" Thompson stated. The
Labor Advisory Board implies also
that the small business man would
benefit by rising prices resulting
from N.R.A.. when actually as q
consumer of monopoly priced
goods he is being forced ont of
business and into the ranks Of the
working class Thompson pointed
ont.
A. F. OF L. Officials Attack Report
The attack on the Dsrrow Board
was issued by John L. Lewis, q
member of the LAB. and president
OF the United Mine Workers Of
America. It was unanimously APP
proved by other N. r. A. F. of L,
officials, including William Green,
Sidney Hillman and George L.
Berry.
The Lewis broadside, however, was
inspired by Hillman who has been
making frantic efforts to escape
meeting the fundamental challenges
made by the barrow Thompson re-
port. Eager to discredit this report,
Hillman got the LAB. to attack the
entire Darrow Board despite the
fact that Thompson had personally
notified him of hearings which con-
s cerned labor and that he knew
Thompson had Waged a vigorous
battle against such anti-labor men,
bers of the barrow Board as w. w
Neal, the North Carolina textile
manufacturer, whose workers were
shot down in 1929.
Hillman, in addition. has ignored
even the officially published account
that it was MIRA. Administrator,
General Hugh S. johnson, who per-
'sonally suggested Neal to Senator
Nye when the latter was forming
the Board.
Made Dsrrow Charges
Thompson, mainly responsible for
the famous Darrow- Thompson "Spe-
cial and supplementary report"
which upset the Roosevelt Admin
1stration so much by describing the
NR.A. codes as "regimented organi
cation for exploitation" and by de-
clsring that monopoly sustained by
government" is "the trend in the
N.R.A.," made the following indict-
rnents of what he termed the "obvi-
Gus distortions and misrepresenta-
tons of the labor spokesman (the
L.AB0;
81. The LAB, through the mouth
of John L. Lewis, has not single
word to say about the significant
trends towards monopoly which we
have exposed. Evidently these labor
leaders are in favor of monopoliStic
practices and approve Of the social
and economic set-up which not only
permits but encourages them.
%. The LABS record in specific
cases together with its implied ap-
proval of the monopolistic tenden-
cies of MIRA. prove rather that
it operates primarily in the inter-
ests of the employers and against
the interests of the broad masses
of workers and farmers"
Thompson in concluding attacked
the LAB. for its approval Of the
"merit" clause in the automobile
code, its members participation in
the breaking activities of the
National Labor Board" and the
hearty approval of the National
Automobile Labor Board which aim
ed to break strikes, legalized COM
pany unions and enforce compul-
sorry arbitration, its approval of
minimum wage scales, below de-
cent standard of living" and its
allowing loop-holes and innumer-
able exceptions permitting the eva
sion of even these low minimum
standards"
Referring to the silence of the
other members of the Darrow Board
in the face of the LABS attack
on it, Thompson explained that lin
making this defense of the proce-
dure Of the board I am not dealing
with the individual attitudes of the
members of the board toward labor's
claims" and that 81 want it dis
tinctly understood that have only
dealt with that portion of the
N.R.A. Labor Advisory Boards at
tack on the National Recovery Re
view Board for its alleged failure
10 accord labor fair hearing"
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