The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-27
Bolster Influence of
Green, the Leading
Strike-breaker
By Burck

Strike-breaker
that 1t marks the rising struggles
of the American working class
against the yoke of the N. r. A.
codes. The N. r. A. has already
been exposed by the Darrow an
alysiS of the N. r. A. as the in
strumentality through which the
Wall Street monopolies were
driving forward to intensity their
exploitation of the masses, and
tighten their monopoly grip on in
dustry.
But Norman Thomas and the So
cialist Party in this issue Of the
New Leader assist in maintaining
the yoke of the N. r. A. by pre-
tending that the strike struggles of
the workers are not directed
against it but rather in favor of a
more stringent enforcement of it!
For example, the leading edi-
torial in the New Leader declares
that the source of the strike is not
in the intensified wage slavery in
PRODUCED by the N. R. A. codes, but
rather in the fact that:
:" the working class is act
ing in its anger over the chisel-
ing and sabotage of the codes by
the exploiters of the workers"
And the leading special comen-
tator of the New Leader on the
San Francisco strike, Benjamin
Meiman, writes:
Had the Federal government
enforced strict observance of
Section Ia of the N. r. A. the
trouble would have been averted.
:. Section Ia can and should
be enforced, with or without a
CODE"
And then finally, the most sig
nificant of all, the New Leader
commentator asks:
ct the Federal government SO
weak that it cannot compel the
employers to obey the law?"
In these statements we have in
all its essentials the breaking
propaganda of the employers, that
the salvation of the workers lies
in the enforcement of the N. R. A.,
the very instrument through which
the exploitation of the working
class is intensified.
More, in the question which the
New Leader correspondent asks, he
is already laying the basis for a
movement towards a stronger
government" a government which
will compel the employers to obey
the law"
But what is this stronger gov
eminent which will compel the
employers to obey the law?"
Since when is it that the law and
the employers and the govern
ment have different interests?
Is not the law the capitalist law,
in the interests of the capital
lists? Is not the government the
capitalist government, the gov
eminent which enforces the
wishes of the employers and pro-
tects the system of wage slavery?
Is it not clear that we have here
a political theory which is prepar-
ing the way for a Fascist govern
ment? Do not the FasciSts base
their propaganda upon the illu-
sion that the capitalist state has
interests other than the interests
of the capitalist class, and that the
workers can use the neutral" cap
italist state against the capitalist
class?
THE ardent declarations, there
l fore, of the Socialist Party lead
ers in support of the strike only
masked political conceptions hos
tile to the interests of the strikers
and the working class.
1t is the peculiar qualities of the
ideas propagated by the Socialist
Party in this situation that they
supplemented in every detail tht
propaganda requirements of the
capitalists and their government ir
! the breaking of the historic Pacific
eCoast General Strike.