The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-07
F. D. R. Pledges NeaV
Anti>Labor Offensive

IT IS no ordinary gathering OF capitalists
L that we are witnessing now at the Con-
gress of American Industry now meeting
at the Waldorf Astoria to present series
of proposals to Congress in January.
What we see there now is the most
formidable mobilization Of American industrial
capital for the greatest ant-labor offensive since
the days following the war
What We see there is the grim preparations for
the smashing of trade unions, the Gripping Of
strikes through anti-strke laws, the cutting of all
relief appropriations and the girdtng of Wall Street
monopoly capital for the execution Of policy Of in
creasing political reaction.
And the patron saint of all this Wall Street
mobilization is Roosevelt
1t is Roosevelt who invited the Wall Street mo-
nopolists to outline the program which they wished
the administration to put into effect in the coming
months,
1t is Roosevelt who has sent his spokesman to
the Congress for American Industry to pledge the
cooperation" of the government in the new anti
labor offensive of the industrialists.
1t is Moley Roosevelt's spokesman who pro-
claimed as the slogan Of the Congress the drive
for profits and the preservation of capitalism who
bluntly defined the New Deal as the bulwark Of
capitalist exploitation.
It was Roosevelts right hand man, Richberg,
who yesterday told the Wall Street exploters that
they have nothing to fear in their new offensive as
far as any hndrance from Roosevelt is concerned.
On the contrary he made it very plain to them that
Roosevelt is bursting with eagerness to fall in with
any plans that the Congress Of American Industry
may approve.
THE plans for the new drive are now complete.
First the Bankers Convention in Washington.
Now the industrialists meeting in New York And
lowering above it all the Roosevelt government
pledging aid and cooperation.
The Congress of induStrialists has laid it's plans
1t knows that the New Deal has given them fat
profits that it has accomplished this at the expense
of the masses. 1t also knows that the New Deal
policies at the same time and by this very token
has intensified the crisis that the crisis is heading
for new plunges downward.
Above all, the assembled industrialists are aware
Of the steady march of the spirit of proletaran
class struggle which every day carries the radcan-
cation Of the American working class to new levels
It is this rising proletarian menace to their whole
system, as the New Deal promises are revealed in
their ruling class rottenness that the Wall Street in
dustrialists mobilizng to meet with fascist le-
action.
The monopolies are girdng to smash the living
standards of the to new depths of misery and
starvation And Roosevelt is pledged to assist them
and carry through their policies That is the brief
harsh meaning of Moley's and Richbergs speeches
THESE developments mean that the American la
Dor movement that the American working class.
and especially its revolutionary vanguard the
Communist Party, are confronted with the life and
death job Of modifying the great united front of the
working class for defense of daily standards and
for a counter offensive against political reaction.
1t is every trade unionist. every militant worker
every Socialist Party worker every jobless worker
who is menaced.
They unite against us. We can only answer by
uniting against them.
For united front against the New Deal De-
fend the organizations of the working class and the
right to strike Against fascism!