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the Fords and the Rockefellers.
He heaped unstinted praise on the policy of the
labor-hating conservatives of England those who
passed the Labor Disputes Bill, which ties the hand
OF labor and penalties them for conducting strikes
against the policies of the big trusts.
That is how Roosevelt answers his critics in the
camp of the Republican Party in the trust offices
in Wall Street. He says to them in substance:
Gentlemen, I am following the policy of Eihu Root,
the great corporation lawyer, who worked in your
interest I am taking my preeedents from the
Tory mperialist government of Great Britain in
their fight against the workers"
When Roosevelt announced his program of
stranging the struggles of the workers for higher
wages, for shorter hours, for improved labor con-
ditions, what did William Green say? He let the
cat out of the bag. He showed the whole thing
was timed to help the reaetiohary efhcials Of the
A. F. of L. in their drive against the upsurge of
the American workers. Green declared:
"I feel that the Presidents address was timely,
appropriate and impressive" Why is it timely to
Green? The smoke of the great textile battle still
hovers over the whole working class The textile
workers have been miserably, ShameleSsly brutally
betrayed The truce" is Timely" to help the Tex
tile Labor Relations Board in its trickery of arbitra
ton. 1t is Timely" in Green's and Ryans efforts
to stop the marine strike; it is Timely" in their
strivngs to stop steel strike against threatening
wage cuts.
Why is it appropriate" and impressive? 1t is
appropriate" because it suits the needs of the
Bosses who want this truce so that they can fasten
the low wage codes on the neekS of the workers so
they fight against union recognition, SO they
can teach the workers lesson. And for Green
it is impressive because it gives him an opportunity
to overawe, to fool, to mslead, to betray the work
ers by new set of promises He thinks the work
ers have short memories. He hopes they have for
gotten the Hoover truce that cost them so dearly
He hopes they have forgotten Werton steel the
steel strike, the threatening auto strike, and the
hundreds of instances of stark betrayal Through
bitraten" boards
Roosevelt wants the workers to believe that if
truce is called with William Green sticking his
feet under the table with the employers, that they
can be assured of an improvement in their condi-
tions
Does Roosevelt also believe that the workers are
utter fools?
How did the government act in all past strug-
giles between the workers and the employersP How
many workers were shot down. wounded and ar
rested in strikes for higher wagesP Over 60 were
butchered; thousands were wounded or arrested
How many employers we're even SO much as touched
by the governments Not single one.
The government is the instrument of oppression
Of the employers. striving in this crisis to safe
guard the bosses profits under the cry of recovery
while the most vicious and furious attack is leveled
against the workers In the period of so-called
truce, the Roosevelt government hopes to put over
the employers wishes and at the same time elimi-
nate the resentment and resistance of the workers
Roosevelt utilizes the differences he has with
the Liberty League and with certain sections of the
employers around the demagogy of Section Ia of
the NR,A. to further the illusions he is trying to
spread about the role of his government He saws
on the one hand, there are the striking workers
and on the other, the employers In the middle
he maintains, stands the Impartial" government
By this fable of the separation of the government
and the interests Of the capitalist class he hopes
to strengthen the hand of the government for
smashing blow against the working class
Every worker should answer right now: "No
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Green, no you exploiters
of labor and your labor heutenants, you will not
get away with this trick. We know that behind
your honeyed words behind your promises turks
more vicious onslaught against labor You have
sweated us SO that you could coin profits out of
our toll and blood Now you want us to submit
like slaves to your new demands. We will not do it.
We will organize our own forces, the mighty arm
OF labor, to resist your schemes of new slavery
Your NFS.A. codes have brought us new mseries
We will fight against them And we will fight against
the traitors and betrayers in our own ranks who
are SO ready to unite with you in your rotten schemes
that smack of Fascist attacks against the workers
The Communist Party from the very beginning
warned the workers against the N. r. A. tore off
every shred of its lying demagogic promises, and
showed the naked mailed fist of the big trusts be-
hind it, The Communist Party, back in 1880, when
Green and Hoover declared their truce warned the
workers that the mo strike" agreement would mean
drastic wage-cuts, That came to pass only too soon
and with terrible effects on the workers
Now, more emphatically than ever before, the
Communist Party sounds the alarm, warns the
workers that Roesevelt's truce means for them the
most drastic attack not only on their standards of
living, which Roosevelt has been whiting awav
with wantonness and shamelessly never before