The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-02
Leaders of Militant
Trade Unions Hit
N.R.A. at Hearings

N.R.A. at Hearings
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unions piled their complaints before
the NR.A. officials last night and
today.
A Negro spokesman raised the is
sue of lynehing and all other dis
! examinations which have increased
1 under the New Deal. A striker from
the Ford plant at Chester told how
they got--and are still getting-the
rrm-around from the blue eagle.
Jesus Christ Couldn't Speak
Reporting increasing tyranny
against independent unionism. in
tensified speed-up, complete denial
Of the rights of free speech and as
sembly, Cush said that 700 workers
at the Carnegie Steel Plant at Du-
quesne, Pa, are ready to join the
SM.WIU. but are prevented by
owner-terrer. 1t reminded Cush, he
added, Of the Mayor of DuqueSne's
declaration during the historic
strike of 1919: Even Jesus Christ
himself couldn't speak in Duquesne. /"
He added: Section IA deluded
many workers into believing that
they could join a union of their own
choosing, but they realize now that
the N,R.A, has been used to break
strikes in the steel industry and has
interfered with the inherent right
Eof' workers to Join unions Of their
own choice" ,-.s.s ....
MIRA. Strikebreaker
AT the Republic Steel Companys
plant in Buffalo, Cush continued his
union has $500 members but when
a strike occurred there, an N.R.A. Of
fetal publicly declared he would
step in and avert it, This Cush
quoted from a newspaper. Thus, he
declared, "the MIRA. says, we will
break this right to strike so that the
workers cannot protect their jobs,
their homes and children,
"At the Westinghouse gates in East
Pittsburgh they have a camera set
up to take pictures Of those speaking
TO the workers so that these can be
broadcast to other companies and
sent to the Department of Justice.
! NO public meetings have been
held since the MIRA, was announced
in the steel towns of Duquesne, Brad
dock, Homestead and Rankin. There
is an absolute denial OF free speech
and free assemblage The S. M. w
| I. U. tried to hold a meeting in
Duquesne last fall. The Chief OF
Police came in and asked who was
the chairman. The worker who an
sWered that the chairman wasn't
there yet was arrested. Neither the
S. M. w. I. U. nor the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers a. p. of L. are allowed to
| hold meetings. In the shotgun
election held in the q. S. Steel
plants in Pennsylvania on Feb. %,
company gunner and stool pigeons
stood at the ballot boxes and ter
rorized workers"
Cut Off Demands
The N.R.A. chairman called time
just as Cush began to present de-
mands. Cush protested, and was
! promised time to present them later
today.
! Ford Workers Yictimixed
Harry GiFstein, representing the
Ford Workers Protective Association,
I told how /, 900 to 1900 Chester strik-
ers are still refused re- complement
at the Ford plant. We promised to
| fight for the right to live" the youth
flu striker concluded. If labor is not
given the right to participate in the
making Of codes and in the enforce
! ment of the codes, we will take this
/ right for ourselves" The Admins
traitor asked Gerstein to 60 up and
see Compliance Chairman Davis, who
recently promised to investigate"
/ the Chester case, Gerstein went
anu later told the Daily Worker that
Davis said he would go to Chester
Saturday, but frankly declared, "if
they want to give you your jobs back,
they will; if they don't they won't.
There's nothing we can do to make
them"
Leave est Negroes
| Henry Shepard. Negro. representa-
tive of the Trade Union Unity
Unity League, told an employment
meeting last night: THE NR-A. de-
hberately left out the Negro worker.
/ The textile code proves this. Out of
the $4,000 Negro employees in this
industry, 10000 are outsiders and
cleaners under the code and do not
even get the miserable minimum.
The New Deal only means more hun
ger and misery for the Negro work
ers IN this country. 10 is only a
weapon in the hands of the bosses
and their agents against the workers
both Negro and white" Citing the
Scottsboro case as a symbol of the
whole reign Of terror against the
Negroes" he recalled that Presi-
dent Roosevelt refused to intervene
Ladies and gentlemen" he con-
cluded, IF any Of you here represent
workers, do not depend on the New
Deal, but go back home and mobilize
the workers for struggle against it"
Louis Hyman, President Of the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, exposed the manoeuyerings of
A. F. of L. bureaucrats, bosses and