The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-05


termed executive order has ordered the essential
changes in the National Labor Board which makes it
the most powerful strikebreakng agency the United
States has ever known.
The insdious feature OF the whole matter is that
it is palmed of as in the interest of labor In fact
the first deeds proposed under the new set-up are de-
signed to foster this illusion.
The wording Of the executive order ike the word
ing Of Section Ia Of N.Aq is designed to raise the
greatest illusions the workers while the Roose-
welt regime perfects its strikebreaking apparatus
The executive order reads: Whenever the National
Labor Board shall find that an employer has inter-
fered with the boards conduct an election or has
declined to recognize bargain collectively etc. the
board, In its discretion, may report such findings and
make appropriate recommendations to the Attorney
General or to the compliance division of the MIRA"
Together with this decree Roosevelt makes the
National Labor Board independent Of the MIRA Com
phanee Board new creature of the government in
cressing its officials from eight to thirteen.
This makes the National Labor Board an absolute
power In al labor disputes, with recourse to injunc-
tons from the Federal court ostensibIy against ee
ployers," but in reality against strikers
That the Roosevelt executive order and the new
form OF the National Labor Board is an instrument
against the workers, the first stage to gigantic anti
Iaoor apparatus, Is shown by its preliminary steps
First some Of the most powerful open shop bosses
are put onto the Board Gerard Swope president of
the Morgan General Electric Co. is put on the board
sWope some time ago out openly with a fascist
plan for the Transformation Of the MIRA and the
complete subsection OF trade unions to the government
Clay Williams, president Of the Reynolds Tobacco Co.
one OF the worst slave drivers in the country and
bitter enemy of genuine trade unions was likewise
made an official Not satisfied with this Roosevelt
ADDS Henry Dennison, expoliter of Frsminghan Mass
and Leon Marshall professor of Johns Hopkins Tniver
SHY law school Hence the increase in membership
on the National Labor Board is the increased control
over u by the most powerful trusts in electricity and
tooacco the increased power of those most closely con-
necteo with the biggest banks in the country.
4hs Is the main guarantee that the National La
Dor Board will be an instrument against the WORKERS.
against their strikes and against their unions Second
~ the courts are given the deciding voice No worker
should forget for moment that the courts arnon
the best instruments Of the capitalist class in tb;
struggles against the workers They are part of the
capitalist machinery of oppression against the workers
issuing nJunctions against strikes and railroading
strikers TO Jail Thirdly, the function of the National
Labor Board is to force compliance with the codas
Al Gne aluminium strike this means forcing the workers
to accept the Accent wage provided bv the code -
means, II strike should break and these ennlovors
on the National Labor Board decide that tbe r,or,
go PACK they will be forced to do so by the courts who
Army. o-ii'eu 0'aOeS
No wonder in putting over such decree that the
National Labor Board, sooner has it been en-
powered with this mighty against strikes covers
us tracks by diverse movement apparently against
four bosses But who are these bossesP Are thew
Ford, who smashed the Edgewater and Chester stres
WIN the help OF the MIRA? Is there included Mr.
Weir of the Weirton Steel Co.? Is the United states
Steel Corporations subsidiary the H. G. Prick coka
20. included? Is the Budd Auto Company mentioned9
MOI at ALL Some small manufacturers are mentioned
but even these are merely straw men against whom
only the most meaningless ong-wnded legal steps will
be taken. VA
CERTAIN spokesman of various groups of tbe ca,,t1
ISIS raise their voices against" the Wagner hill or
against Its offspring the Roosevelt decree Does this
show any basic difference in the class line pursued
against the workers? Not at ALL The differences lie
IN the method and the particular interests of certain
OF the capitalists which may conflict with the general
interest OF capitalism and its state power in seeking m
smash the whole strike rather than one strike
In an individual plant. These same bosses "grInbled"
about section Ia, and yet found it the most uSefuI
weapon in breaking strikes. They grumbled about the
interference OF the original National Labor Board
when IT was one Of the best forces in breaking strikes
Roosevelt finds It necessary to bolster up faith in
the A. F. Of L. officiadon, who, working with the Ma
tonal Labor Board in breaking strikes beginning
to lose face among the workers. therefore, their eec-
hvenesS as leutenants of the bosses is interfered
with Roosevelt does not want elimination of
pany unions, but he wants the bosses to maneuver
with them in conjunction with the A. F. of L. leaders
in order to stave off the storm of strikes Some Of
the bosses not yet ready to swallow the A. F. of L.
officaldom along with the ikebreaking apparatus
Not because they not faithful to them. But they
have learned that despite the Greens and Lewises in
fact against them, the workers go strike
There is not the slightest doubt that the Greens
Lewises and Hillmans will strive to this set-up
to stave off the rapidly increasing strikes to awaken
the workers illusions in the National Labor Board
Impartial instrument"
Every worker should be warned against this propa
ganda There must be no let-up in the independent
organization Of the workers. and preparations for
struggle To rely in the least with the
National Labor Board will lead to the defeat Of the
workers to the weakening and ultimately to the crush
ing OF the fighting ability Of their organizations.
This issue should be taken up in all unions, espe-
cally in the A. F. Of L. locals. where the National
Labor Board should be branded for what it is-the
most powerful strikebreakng apparatus ever set up
in the United States