The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-07
Minor Tells What Roosevelt, Gen. johnson
Sought to DO by NRA Field Day Criticism
BdIhOO Sprnkled With Criticism" About NRA;
More Naked NRA As Brutal Drive


strikes, and more strlkesl United
States Aluminium Co. at New Ken
sington, Pa, 5000 on strike; Toledo
automobile parts factories, 1000 on
strike; at Kenosha, Wis, Nash Mo
tor Co. on strikei
Green, Lewis and HilIman. each
a stuffed shirt behind which are
Teagle, Swope and du Pont, fidgeted
in their chairs.
In refusing to come into" the
N.RA., refusing to become a part
Of the employers agency-the c. P.
did not refuse TO represent the
claims of the American workers!
On the contrary! The refusal to
become an agent Of the employers
is the first condition for fulfilling
the role Of leader Of the workers
in dealing with the employers
For this very reason the G. P.
stood out as the representative Of
the American workers interests
against the vast offensive which is
the n. r. A.
1t can now, and will, present at
Washington the specific disputes
on wages, codes, union recognition.
etc. 1t will do so only in the open,
not in confidential relationships
with Teagle, swope, du Pont and
johnson, behind the back Of the
workers.
Green In the name of labor made
an empty speech in which there
ratified around the insane eco
nomic" theories of dying capitalism
Even the criticism" on the part of
the labor" prostitutes of the open
shop could not obscure the facts OF
declining employment and falling
living standards, inhuman speed-up
company unionism, and open strike
breaking of the N. R. A. Tt became
clear that the attack Of the rank
and file trade unionist and the CO.
originating central attack of the
Communist Party were the only vita,
factor in the hearings. 1t became
impossible to obscure the fact that
the Communist Party represented
not only the general interest Of the
working class but was actually the
spokesman for the concrete day By
day interests of the workers ir
respect to code levels, union recog-
milton, the fight against company
unionism, etc.
THIS situation compelled Genera
johnson to the expedient Of try
ing to tar the Communist Party with
the same stick that had painted
Green, Lewis, Hillman and Co.
I Come into the N. r. A. and criti-
cize inside instead Of standing out
side and throwing brickbats!
pleaded the administrator OF gov
eminent strike breaking.
This invitation repeated three
times should be lesson to the
American workers. The Communist
Part cannot make itself part OF
a government agency for strike
breaking. any more than workers
on the picket line can at the same
Time make themselves a part OF the
strike breakers. IN. r. A. is not a
legislative body elected by the
masses, to which the workers could
elect their own representatives.
Tesgle, Du Pont, Swope and Co.
can see the danger to their interests
in the rising wave Of strike struggles
and the rising struggle of the IN
employed, taken in conjunction with
the existence and leadin activity oil
the Communist Party. In this sit
uation the strongest pressure is ex-
ercised upon the leadership of the
workers to make of this leadership
itself an agency Tor strike breaking
Capitalism in It's imperialist epoch
has succeeded gensrally in convert
ing labor leadership" into its own
agency. This was curiously, if un.
consciously. admitted by Ere
Hewett OF the International Asso-
citation of Mochinlsts who told Gen
eral Johnson's conference
We've gone SIS Ia as we can
to rTeyert oHr voters f~om TAX