The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15

6GSeH on IlTSb Hd4lu HhVEHi0bEOD
gained at the Business Congress"
of 1000 leading expIoiters held re-
Gently in Washington, these arti-
cles show how the new develop
ments in the N.R.A. speed the at
tacks against the workers. They
bare the rapid growth of a war
machine, through the N. RIA, and
particularly the new maneuvers
to make the company unions more
flexible instruments in the hands
Of the big trusts against the gen.
uine unions of the workers and
against the right to strike.
By MARGUERITE YOUNG
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 14.-Ger-
ard Swope, president Of the COM
pany union General Electric Com
pany. left the Congress of Industry
in which more than 1000 leading
industrialists re-shaped the National
Recovery Administration last week,
smacking his lips over this declara-
ton: There has never been such
a meeting anywhere except possibly
in Fascist) Italy"
And no wonder! In that Con-
gress of Industry the N. R. A. was
edauted to four major provisions
of the plan Swope himself designed
with the aid of n. r. A. Admins
traitor Hugh S. johnson to set Amer
lean industry's first bosses squarely
on short path to fascist control
OF ell the economic life Of the United
States. Further. that Congress of
Industry heard highest authorities
confirm that the N. r. A. is nothing
but plundsrbund. AS Johnson
himself put it, the N. R. A. devel-
oped from many industrialists'
plans-plans among which "the dis
tinguished feature of nearly all was
to restore 1929 profits"
And instead of any suggestion of
turning aside from these aims, the
Congress- of Industry heard only
DISCUSSIONS of how they can be fur
ther developed. On these matters
tire Congress actually voted on gov
e-'a"7ent policies, as the members
q that half-forgotten Congress on
C7oitol Hill vote. tt was the first
tie in history that this happened.
j IVES the firsta time industry en-
r. -se openlv voted on orders to be
e~0-utad Immediately through their
FCv2r7r7 eCt of the United States
orAe~S to promote particularly the
r~'-inT in Of profits at the expense
CT lohor.
Hoss' Press SURPRISES Facts.
The boldness with which these
facts were laid bare in the Congress
Of Industry was equalled only by
the vigilance of the capitalist press
in suppressing them. That press
naturally contended itself with
streamer- heading the demagogic
announcements which were formu-
lated by the Congress of Industry
OF these there were many, for the
industrialistS devised a new dema-
gogy to cover up at the same time
they formulated each successive step
of a new advance against their
workers.
l only wish these millions of work
ers, for whom the employers fash
Toned straightjscket, could have
seen them at work in their public
sessions. The workers wouldn't
have needed to know what under
cover work went along with these
events, they wouldn't have needed
interpretations of the events. to see
In. them the immediate threat of
open capitalist dictatorship and
wsrl 1t was all set forth quite
boldly-with william Green and
other till-keepers of the American
Federation of Labor, taking part
and smiling blandly upon it.
Concealed Fascist Guidepost.
Through it all ran the unmistak-
able principles Of the infamous
Swope johnson plan, as the Daily
Worker predicted they would. In
fact the Congress OF Industry made
IT obvious that this plan for months
had been what forecast it would
be. In the Daily Worker of Novem-
Der 7, 1888 concealed budapest
for those colossal powers pushing
the trend towards American Fas-
cisfn."
To appreciate what the fusion of
N. R. A. and the Swope johnson
plan means it is necessary to recall
that the N. R. A. from the outset
has been what the Communist
Party and the Daily Worker said
It was = a plunderbund. This is
how General johnson, standing be-
fore the assembled hosts of the in
dustrialists, confirmed that descrip-
ton:
May we go back together to some
of our memories of March. April
and May, 1888? when the MIRA.
was being planned-M. " Let us
not mention the depression itself.
AS result of it, American Industry
was in Washington seeking saliva
tion at all hazards. Hotel rooms
were smoky with planning. Each
plan bore its sponsors name. The
distinguishing feature Of nearly all
was to restore 1929 profits immedi-
ately
"One proposed that, at govern
ment risk, all industries start on a
given day and hour to produce at
1929 rates-much as the Sleeping
Beauty and all her court awoke in
an instant to vibrant life at the
magic kiss Of young Prince Charm
ing. There were many others as
fantastical. On the other hand.
there was another bill apparently
q reference to the then pending
Connery- Black 30-hoW week bill in
Congress-M. Y.) to reduce all in
dustries to a thirty hour week. The
President had all these ideas as
sembled and dieeeted and, between
the extremes, the Recovery Act be-
gar to take form
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