The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Workers Delegates
To Flay the N. R. A.
At Open Hearings
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passed out through its publicity ma
chine the fact that Robert Minor
viii present the Communist Party's
criticism. They have divided the
cr1ticism-fest into I'VE groups. They
announced they received no word'
beyond the initial request for Minor
to speak, but officials assured the
Daily Worker that militant labor
Spokesman would be given q chance
to speak In each of the five group
meetings. Each Is to be limited.
however, to fifteen minutes time.
Official announcements OF delega-
lions registered convey at once the
balance CD there will be in the con-
ferences between employers and en-
ployeS. For industry, the announce
ments say, 220 industries chad regis
tered 1,130 delegates" on Saturday
morning. THE Code Authorities for
the Cotton Textile Industry and the
Lumber and Timber Products Indus
try, have sent word each will have
80 representatives on hand for the
conference. The average deIega-
tion will consist of six persons"
No figures are given on the num-
bers OF trade unionists registered
only q hodgepodge list of q hundred
or so individuals have requested
| time. And even these include MANY
spokesman for businesses, particu-
larry small businesses squeezed by
the monopoly trends of the New
Deal. Among them also are repre-
sentatives of Consumers" who are
in the Roosevelt fiction, creatures
unrelated to the great consuming
majority, the laboring class.
Industry accuses labor, labor &C
cuseS industry and the consumers
accuse BOTH" General johnson said
in his radio address explaining the
conferences, That was what was
foreseen and Intended
That, in fact, has been the tack
OF the Administration throughout
the New Deal. And that is one fic-
ton which will be exploded again
in the hearings,
johnson announced that his "ulti-
mate aim" in the conferences is ito
have the industrial control organi-
cation spread out like the keyboard
OF piano Whereon by concert of
action economic harmony can at last
be had" Notice, economic har-
mony' under the present relation be-
tween employers and employees.
We Will give heed and apprehen-
sion to the words of any man who
can show that the effect of an
MIRA. code or any provision thereof
has been harmful or that it might
be improved or that it ought not
to exist at all" johnson declared.
But I say, with equal earneStness
that N.R.A. is law for the COM
mon good and that any man who
seeks to undermine the common con-
tidence in such a laW-not by argu-
ment or statement of fact, but by
unsupported abuse OF men or aroi-
trary and improved assertions-anv
such man is an enemy of the COM
mon good"
Doesn't Want Codes Disturbed.
Lest that confuse you, listen to
what the General revealingly added:
Il don't mean to say by any means
that there is anything SO much the
matter with the codes as they stand
that they all have to be reopeued
and turned inside out"
To attempt to prevent even the
suggestion of such a thing. appa-
rently, Is where the Green gang come
| in.
Green will represent labor" on
the platform in the public meeting
OF Group No. /, on employment and
related subjects" Col. R. w. Lea.
Assistant Administrator of MIRA. for
industry and Edward F. McGrady.
Assistant Secretary of Labor, who
recently brought about the falling Of
Ben Gold, will be Co ellairmen."
Pierre dupont, munitions and cheni-
Gals king; DR.. Leo Wolman, chief
liberal front refornnist Of the Labo
Advisory Board; millionaire Mary
Harrison Rumsey of the Consumer
Advisory Board; and Clarence Oar
row, the lawyer recently named TO
q review board supposed to look after
the interests of small husiness-all
of these and more will act as ad-
visors.
The lineup is similar for other
groups, who will study, respectively.
trade practices, control OF produo-
ton, code administration, and the
effect OF MIRA. on small businesses
and minorities.
! physical arrangements indicate the
Capitol will take on a kind of inaug-
uration hustle for the period of the
conferences, One railroad reported
it had 1000 reservations for trans
portation to the code conference. :"
the disbursements meeting following
the public meetings. The housing
situation is expected to become
acute; a room-space committee has
been set up, in one of Washington's
most expensive hotels.
There is every probability that the
Characterization of this series of
conferences as "the first Fascist con-
gress in the United States" may
prove TO be historically accurate.
obviously, with unemployment
mounting as it is and with another
strike wave generally anticipated for
the spring, it would not do for Cen
eral Johnson to call industry to-
gether to devise news ways to
strengthen its dictatorship. All, but
the public conferences beforehand.
the effort to discover exactly what