The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-16
Green Fears Auto
Strike, Pleads for
Anti-Strike Bill
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tion?" Green holly replied, mo. "
Its developing in my mind as
you go along that this may lead to
i compulsory arbitration, Davis per-
sisted. Green answered only, I'VE
don't favor nor do we ask for COM
pulsory arbitration" Which didn't
answer the question as to whether
or not the Wagner bill doesn't lead
to" compulsory arbitration.
New Power Against Labor
The bill provides specifically that
ANY of the parties"-such as the
employer-may seek arbitration by
new and more powerful national
labor board and get it, with the
beard working through the courts,
with injunctions if necessary. to en-
/ force its findings. It would place
in this enlarged Labor Board a new
police power against labor-it would
subject anyone" interfering with
or failing to obey the Boards edict
to a fine of 5000 or a year in
prison or both.
That penalty is put there. Of
OOu1 DC do IAlOuen ~ WCI6 W NC uSSO
against defiant employers, but the
history Of the present Labor Board
and other MIRA. boards, as we'll as
of the courts, shows amply that it
will be used against labor. Has the
N.R.A. machine done anything to
remedy Weir, Budd, Chester, Ford
or other notorious cases-although
the MIRA. supposedly provides GRIM
insl action? But have MIRA. and
the National Labor Board missed
an opportunity to declare workers
strikes violations of their decisions
rendering the workers liable to
/ iniunctions which have been issued
repeatedly against them2
Even the American Federation Of
Labor officials previously have OPP
posed legislation such as the new
Wagner Bill. The A. F. of L. re-
peatedly has endorsed the opposi-
ton Of the Canadian Federation
against the Lemieux Act (known in
Canada as the Lemon Act'0
an act very similar to the Wagner
proposal. Today, however, the Wag-
ner bill was staunchly defended by
Green and other A. F. of L. leaders
whom MIRA. Administrator General
johnson just recommended to 1000
bosses by saying: Their interests
are your interests"
Green In WeirtOn Case
In the most shameless omissions
of vital facts, Green shouted and
waved his hands to describe the
Weir, Budd and other infamous
cases in which he declared, the en-
ployers "defied" the National Labor
Board-but without pointing out
that the National Labor Board, of
which he and Wagner are leading
! lights, itself actually aided these
/ employers performance against
their employees. He cited the null
tiplication of company unions and
! the NR.A. He told how the Har-
riman. Tennessee, Hosiery Company
had strikers representatives jailed
for coming to Washington to appeal
to the Nib; he told how the
National Lock Company, of Lock-
port, Illinois, got an injunction
against the Regional Labor Board
of Chicago restraining it from max
ing a report in the caSe-without
noting that this is exactly a fore
cast Of what will happen with
greater smoothness under the pro-
posed Wagner bill.
Reciting the Weirton case, Green
guilelessly admitted that when the
workers there accepted the Labor
Boards scab-herding decision that
they must go back to work on a
promise of an election. "the work
ers surrendered whatever advantage
they might have had They were
tricked." And Green and Wagner,
don't forget, we're leaders in the
Board that tricked them, and so
now that the workers are preparing
for strikes, Green wants more power
to break their strikes.
Pathetic and Tragic
Going over the infamous Budd
case, Green actually declared: Its
pathetic-it's tragic-the faith these
workers have in the Government
and the Labor Board" The fact is
that the Labor Board with the aid
of the A. F. of L, leadership coerced
those workers into returning to
work. They promised much, it's
true, but it was the local leaders
that in pretended gullibility ac-
cepted these fake promises.
After ranting further about Weir
Green shouted; IF I had my way
I would pillage Mr.. Weir as a public
enemy" And then he added, AT
the present time he weir stands
as a challenge to the government"
AS though Green didn't know that
the government right straight
through has been serving Weir
the Labor Board itself serving him
from the moment it broke the strike
with the election maneuver.
In his effort to defend the Wag-
ner Bill, Green let slip for once the
statement that independent unions
outside the A. F. Of L. are not all
company unions-something A. F..
Of L. leaders in many cases, such
as the fur industry, have been loath
to admit. Senator Borah of Idaho
asked Green whether there were
any company unions that were or
ganized voluntarily by workers.
Green said there were non-"but,"
he confessed, there are some indie
pendent unions outside OF the A.
F. of L.
Fears Strikes will Spread
Contending that the employers
who "fout" the Labor Board, are
a minority" Green asserted that
the majority" are willing to make
good the N.R.A. promise. Then he
said:
Not only will there be strikes
in the automobile industry-not
30 much for wages as against
company unions-this will spread