The daily worker., 1934-09-04

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the workers demands.
Donald Richberg, for the N. R. A.
showed disastrous results for the
workers. Profits staggered upward
900 per cent for the big corpora
tionsl The real wages of the work
ers, the purchasing power of the
money received. was showed down
ward by the skyrocketing of the
most elementary needs of life.
Green was no longer able to hide
the seething discomfort of the work.
ers and their growing disillusion-
ment with the Roosevelt govern
ment. Many employers" he ad-
mitted, organized into employers
associations through the assistance
of the government, prevented labor
from organizing into unions of its
own selection. Working people
smart under a sense of injustice. "
But he did not even mention the
great General Strike of San Fran
cisco, and the other great battles
OF the American workers for their
most elementary rights. He did
not mention the growing fascist at
tacks on the workers, because Green
q Co. are a party to these terror
istic drives against the workers.
Green was called a strike breaker
and an agent of the employers in
the San Francisco strike by the lib
eral weekly paper, the Nation"
Facing the future, with the ad-
mission that greater starvation
faces 100000 of the population
(including the unemployed and
their fanlilies) both Green and
Morrison advised the workers to
have faith in the government that
aided the bosses, and smashed
strikes. From all the speeches it
could be seen that the Department
of Labor and the A. F. OF L. Off
cialdom had worked out a new
demagogic program in their attempt
to stave off the hatred of the big
trusts on the part of the workers
and their smart under a sense Of
injustice"
AS announced by Green this is a
program of fake unemployment
insurance." and lowering of hours
of work; though Green says not
word about either not cutting the
weekly wages, or increasing wages
to meet the admittedly staggering
rise in the cost of living.
Madam Perkins goes into the
greatest detail on the Roosevelt
governments unemployment insur-
ance schemes, arguing with the
bosses that the program conceived
of will not hurt their profits.
plans for social Insurance." she
said, which will not retard recov-
cry this, in the language of Wash
ington, means will not retard prof
its-H. GIL, and at the same time
will mean the development of a
more stable income are now being
studied by the committee and its
expert advisers"
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scheme they want-State measures
which will force the workers to
pay, or any other form suitable to
the needs of the bosses. Her whole
scheme very clearly is not insur-
ance for unemployment, but insur-
ance for the employers profits
against relief payments to the I'M
employed.
Matthew Vol, vice-president of
the A. F. of L., assisted the fascist
drive against the Communist Party
on Labor Day from another angle.
There was little division of labor
necessary to meet the discomfort
of the workers with the NR.A
Vol admitted the N.R.A. brought
the employers huge profits, and
lower wages to the workers. He
admitted the Communist Party
was growing rapidly. On the ques-
ton of the bitterest drive and po-
grom against the Communists he
agreed 100 per cent with Green,
differing only in that he called for
the abolition of the NR.A.
The A. F. of L. officialdom' S
speeches on Labor Day showed,
above all, that the great masses
of workers in the A. F. of L. are
moving into action against low
wages and starvation. The main
brunt of the attack was against
the Communists, because greater
thousands of workers are begin
ming to realize, not only that the
Communists are the most stalWart
fighters for the day-to- day de-
mands of the workers, for the
preservation of their unions, and
for their most elementary rights,
but in the condition of worsened
economic plight, only the Commu-
nists offer way out, a revolu
tionary solution of the capitalist
crisis, ar-d an ending of capitals.
misery and oppression.
The promlneEe part given to un-
employment insurance by Green
and Perkins testifies to the force
of the Communist Party'S cam
paign for the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. Only this
measure provides adequate relief
for I'll the unemployed on lel-
eral scale, at the expense of the
employers and their government. It
is the growing cry within the A. F.
of l.. for the passage of this bill
that forces Green once more to
come cut with phrases in favor of
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