The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-17

bosom Of the government which in
one short year has sponsored and
condoned the murder, clubbing,
casing, wounding and falling of
more striking workers and unem-
ployed, Negro and white, native
born and foreign born, than any
five previous administrations, during
their whole terms of office.
Praise from S. P. Secretary
The A. F. of L. oficialdom, con-
graduated for so doing by Clarence
Senior, secretary of the Socialist
Party, accepted with cheers the die
tum of President Roosevelt, elab-
GRATED upon and emphasized by
Johnson, Wagner and Perkins, that
the role of government was to secure
cooperation of the three factors in
industry-capitaI, management and
and labor.
Strikes, said both Wagner and
Johnson, were not to be tolerated.
A. F. Of L. officialdom agreed.
The codes were established. Labor
had nothing of a decisive character
to say about them during the period
Of their formulation. The anti
strike coal code was signed. The
wage-cutting and stretch-out tex
tile code was signed. The company
union strike-breaking automobile
code was signed.
Company Unions Grew
Company unioniSm grew like a
muShroom-embracing some $780,
900 industrial workers, as against
something like 100000 before the
N. R. A. Early in 1884 it had forced
some as per cent of industrial work
ers into its strangling folds, while
other unions included only some 9
or 10 per cent. In the steel industry
it was estimated that IS per cent
Of the workers had been forced into
the company unions.
The A. F. of L. officiaIdom con-
tinued to be the loudest boosters of
the N. R. A. and Section Ia, in the
face Of the ravages it was bringing
to workers living standards and
their efforts to organize in unions
Of their choice and to better their
conditions.
Against JObleSs Insurance
The A. F. Of L. oficialdom once
more set its face against compulsory
federal unemployment insurance for
all workers. 1t continued to fight
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill blouse Bill 1899.
The A. F. of L. of1cialdom, headed
by Green and Vol, continued it's
slanderous attacks on the Soviet
Union. 1t tried to prevent recog-
milton of the U. s. s. r. Since rec
ignition, it tried continually, CO.
operating with the National Civic
Federation, with Vol as its acting
president, to bring about rupture
of relations and, working with the
Reverend Edmund J. Walsh, head
of the Foreign Department Of
Georgetown University, is actually
aiding japanese imperialist propa-
ganda in this country directed
against the Soviet Union.
President Green and his colleagues,
concerned first of all with the pres
ervation of American capitalism,
staked their all on the ability of
N. R. A. and the Roosevelt admin
istration to pull capitalism out of
the f1ve-year crisis and stage real
recovery in industry and agricul-
ture. Under Section Ia they
dreamed of an organized labor
movement with all reds" and other
militant workers eliminated by the
strong arm of their protector-the
government of new and vigorous
monopoly capitalism. They visual
lied themselves as the hierarchs of
an enlarged but cowed and docile
labor movement, tied SO closely to
the employers and their state ma
chinery that it never could extricate
itself. They drugged themselves with
the old soporif1c of class collabora-