The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-22
u.s. CLAMPS WARTIME LID DOWN ON NAVAL INFORMATION
New Anti-Strike
Clauses for N.R.A.
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launched at the recent Roosevelt.
blessed convention of the American
Bankers Association. The manufac.
turers, like the bankers, will help
the Government work with natural
forces of recovery" which, the "bus-
mess leaders of the U. S." say seem
definitely to be getting under way
The bankers and the President have
made it clear that by natural
forces" they mean steady cutting Of
relief to the unemployed and desti-
tute and no adequate unemployment
insurance law.
Stripped of the demagogy about
the distress" which the "depres-
sion" has inflicted and continues
to infiict upon our people" the man.
ufacturers propose to dump the
illusion breeding sections of the N.
I. r. A., such as Section TIA, and
take over into their own bailiwick,
in the form of new legislation
those functions Of the N. I. R. A,
which have proven worthy of fur
ther trial Obviously, those
functions" which have proven
worthy to the employers and
Government officials who assisted
them formulate the codes, are such
DEGREES as the merit" clause (fire-
at-wilD automobile code, recently
extended by the President without
the public hearing promised the
workers by General johnson, and
such flexible hour codes as the cleo
trical code, which was drawn by
Gerard Swope, President of the j.
p. Morgan g. Company's General
Electric Company and a leading
Roosevelt advisor.
In stating its specific recommen-
dation for moving the N. r. A. di-
rectly under the wing of the big
manufacturers, the latter call for
Clarifying definitions of collective
bargaining and provisions for more
elastic working hours" That is,
new legislation for containing an
out-and-out open shop declaration
and for legislation which will apply
the flexible hour provisions of the
electrical to other codes.
The Associations specific legisla-
ton proposal declared
Prior to its expiration, new legis-
lation should be enacted in order
that those functions of the N. I. R.
A. which have proven worthy Of
further trial may be continued. Pro-
vision should be made for the tran
sition period by permitting indus
tries in which codes are working
satisfactorily, and which voluntarily
desire to do so, to continue to OPP
crate under these codes temporarily,
pending revisions necessary for adj
justment to the new legislation.
THE committee recommends that
the congress be urged to enact for
a period of one year from the ex-
piration date of the present N. I.
R. A., appropriate legislation which
would permit the continuance dur
ing the period named, Of the labor
provisions prescribed in existing
codes, pertaining to child labor,
minimum wages, maximum hours
and collective bargaining, with
clarifying definitions of collective
bargaining and provisions for more
elastic working hours added"
The Association also calls upon
Congress for flair practices act to
become effective on the expiration
of the N. I. r. A. which" should
permit" any industry trade or
other representative group volun-
tarily desiring to do SO, to adopt
and make effective code of fair
competition practices containing
prohibition of unfair practices and
permitting if desired, provision for
publicity of prices"
This part of the act would be run
by industry through ian indepen-
dent administrative court Of five
members" without the help of the
Labor Department.
The fascist program of the bank
ers and manufacturers is empha-
sized by the fact that their legisla-
tive proposals provide for Govern
ment participation only for the pur-
pose of using the courts backed by
Government guns to keep labor
from striking or doing away with
the open shop policy Of the Rooses
welt Administration. This is what
the manufacturers mean by the
demagogically ornamented conclu-
sion in it's announcement:
THE committee believes that the
principle and policy of its plan
would stand the light of authorita-
tive law, would be workable and
would represent practical method
of establishing desirable transit
ton from abnormal highly central
lied control of competitive prac-
tees to the normal and orderly
| method through which free people
in its own interest authorizes its
| private enterprises to demonstrate
by voluntary action their capacity
for self-enforcement of that con-
troll in the light of their expert
ences."
Speakers who will "emote" the
"industry's platform for recovery"
discussion at the next months
congress of industry convention in
New York, the publicity folder
declares, include professor Moley.
former Assistant Secretary of State
and editor of the Roosevelt organ
Today, and Donald r. Richberg,
Executive Director OF the Erner-
gency Council of the Roosevelt Adj
ministration. The Manufacturers
advertise Moley as "the confidant of
the Administration, and Richberg
as mo. 2 man of the Administra-
ton"