The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-05
Communist Spokesman
Challenges Govt To
End Discrimination
MEETS HARD SILENCE
Exposes Aid for ''New
Deal" by Socialist
Party Leaders
BY SEYMOUR wALDM1AN
DAILY Worker. WaslaingtOn Bweas

DAILY Worker, washington Bureau
WASHINGTON March 2.-Speak-
ing in the name Of the Communists
Party Of the USA., Robert Minor o.
the Central Committee yesterday
challenged the National Recovery
Administration to cease It's officially
directed discrimination against the
Negros throughout the country. The
challenge was met by stony silence
eloquent proof the Blue Eagles m
tention to continue its ruthless jim
Crowism and the various forms q
recovery" race differentials.
''The NR.A. gives its OK. and Us
Blue Eagle TO theatres, restaurants
hotels, any institutions which discri-
inmates against Negroes and excludes
them from service" charged Minor
in the afternoon criticism" session
held in the luxurious, Jim-Crow Nay
flower Hotel. IT wish to ask, for the
record, and I ask this Of the whole
Administration Of the MIRA. Would
you gentlemen agree to withhold the
Eagle from all business or other in
stitutions which carry on unfair prae
tice, the unfair practice OF refusing
service to Negroes, or in the segTe
cation of NegroeS?' I should ike
very much to have a reply" he added
Alvin Brown, Chief Executive On
GER of the MIRA. and Chairman Of
the session, remained coldly silent.
with more than suggestion Of q
sheer on his face.
Minor explained that though the
Communist Party opposes the pur-
poses Of the MIRA. .. we are prac-
teal in our struggle for every pos
sible gain for the working classes
With the MIRA. in effective control
although we disapprove Of the fight
Of the N.R.A., we find that every
possible gain that can be gotten by
workers should be secured, not be-
cause Of the MIRA, but because Of
our pressure against the NR.A.,
therefore propose the elimination Of
differentials."
In discussing the Socialist Party 3
endorsement Of the purpose and sh=
jectives" Of the N. r A., as enun-
ciated here by Louis Wadman, Code
Chairman Of it's Public Affairs Com
mittee, Minor declared: THE Social
ist Party has clearly stated that it is
third capitalist party, defending the
interests of capital from the point Of
advantage inside OF the labor move
ment against the interests Of labor
itself. The Socialist Party's state
ment speaks Of the N. r. A. as hav-
ing established principle that the
conditions Of employment are the
concern of the Government. 1 wish
to point out that the N. r. A. makes
questions Of employment its concern
only from the point of view in the
last analysis Of the welfare of the
employers"
Company Union and N. Il. A.
On the Socialist Party pretenSe that
the company unions serve to defeat
the purposes Of the Recovery" Act.
Minor said: II deny that fatty. We
say that the company union expresses
precisely the purposes Of the National
Recovery Act. Labor is represented in
the N. r. A. by gentlemen Of the
type Of Mr.. VOL, although he may
not himself be directly connected with
1t, Mr.. Green, Mr. Berry, MIR. Wald-
man, and Mr.. Lewis.
"All Of these gentlemen, without ex-
ception, are supporters Of the capital
iStic system, and antagonistic to the
ultimate aim Of the labor movements.
and are, therefore, quite consistently
serving today in the N. r. A. to break
down the American standard Of living
TO enable American capital to com
pete in foreign commerce at 3 low
cost. In making that statement I
am positive of what I say. Now, we
may expect Mr.. Norman Thomas and
Mr., Louis Wsldman to be indicted
into the N. r. A. because certainly
they would seem to be glad to come.
in, but certainly the Communist Party
will decline, as any representative OF
the working classes that must refuse
to participate in strike-b breaking or
yanizationS."
How Demands Win Be Won
In addition to calling for enactment
Of the workers unemployment and
social insurance bill Oh. r. 1888
Minor demanded the shortening OF
the day, with no decrease In the total
weekly wage paid, substantial in
| crease, not alone to cover the in
crease in the standard of living, but
much above that.
However, we call attention that
such demands will be obtained only
under pressure of the masses, through
strike action, of a strike movement