The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
What Has the NR.A.
Brought to Workers
In the United States?
An Capitalist Contradictions Are Embodied
in RoOSeueIt'S 'Neto Deal Policies
BY HARRY CANNES

Ia was a hoax and a travesty.
Anbridge steel workers had this
fact brought to them by 500 armed
steel trust gunner who murdered
strikers. Weirtcn steel workers dis
covered N. r. A. meant enslavement
in company unions. New Mexico
miners found out that N. R. A. ad-
Illustrators were the National Guard.
with their concentration camps, and
court martials. Fayette County
miners learned the N. r. A. meant
that to strike was ito rebel against
the government" phil Murray,
vice president Of the United Mine
Workers Of America. In short, as
Senator Wagner reported, the N. R.
A. National Labor Board was able
to drive 100000 strikers back to
work.
Workers VS.. n. r. A. Today
The second wave Of strikes Of
which we are now experiencing the
ebb and in some places a new tide
was clearly and definitely against
the N. r. A. The workers had their
fill to their very necks. In auto
they are struggling against COM
pany unions, and the worst condi-
tons ever experienced in the in
dustry
The new wave Of strikes. "the
worst epidemic in our history" in
the words Of General johnson,
shows that the workers are COM
ing into q head-on clash against
the ~ R. A. and are struggling de-
spite the wishes and orders of the
enemies within their own ranks, the
A. F. Of L. officials.
Millions for Munitions
The N. r. A. was a double
barreled addition to the war
machine. It was divided into two
sections. The first dealt with
justification. which itself speeded
the impcrialist conflicts, the strug-
gle for markets and colonies. At
the same time, it regimented in
dustry for war. General johnson,
draft expert, is not an accidental
war figure administering the N.
r. A. The now -obscured Part
II of the N. r. A., provided $780,
100000 for public works which be-
came the original New Deal swine
trough of the big munition manu-
facturers, Hundreds of millions
went, not to public works or the
unemployed, but to "a navy second
to none" and to an army prepared
for every war emergency"
The N. r. A. is sharpening all of
the contradictions of diseased
capitalism. These contradictions,
widened and deepened by the New
Deal, have been ably summarized
by Earl Browder, general secretary
of the Communist Party in his main
political report to the Eighth Ma
tional Convention Of the Commu-
mist Party:
"All capitalist contradiction
are embodied in Roosevelt's New
Deal policies. Roosevelt promises
to feed the hungry by reducing
the production of food. He
promises the redistribution Of
wealth by billions of subsidies to
the banks and corporations. He
gives help to the forgotten man
by speeding up the process of
monopoly and justification. He
would increase the purchasing
power of the masses through in
fation, which gives them dollar
worth only so cents. He drives
the Wall Street money changers
out OF the temple Of government,
by giving them complete power in
the administration of the govern
ment machinery of the industrial
codes. He gives the workers the
right of organization, by legaliz-
ing the company unions. He in
augurates a regime of economy,
by shifting the tax burden to the
consuming masses, cutting apprO-
priations for wages. veterans, and
social services. while increasing
the war budget a billion dollars,
and giving ten billions to those
who already own everything. He
TtoNutsS ino l"tNh VI hhO hASoSn
in democracy, by beginning the
introduction of fascism. He works
for international peace, by LAUGH
ing the sharpest trade and cur
rency war in history"
This is what the American work
ers face on this May Day.
May Day, day of the rising revo-
lutionary spring, should be day
of rallying the forces Of proletarian
revolution for a struggle against the
N. R. A., against the New Deal, a
struggle that to be victorious must
travel the Road of Soviet power
to a Soviet America.