The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
AdmiralS, ArchbiShopS and
Judges = The NeeV Anti
Labor Set>Ub

ONCE more the Daily Worker has called
" the turn on the labor policy of N. R. A.
and the Roosevelt regime.
The appointment of labor boards for
marine transport and steel bears out COM
pletely the estimate of the Daily Worker
and the Communist Party in regard to
ant-labor, anti-union and general strikebreaking
character of the Roosevelt policy in labor relations,
especially in decisive industries
Nike Tighe, head of the Amalgamated Associs-
ton Of Iron. Steel and Tin Workers-in which the
newly organized workers are deprived of voting
rights by various subterfuges-acting with President
William Green of the A. F. of L. one Of the
principal Stooges for the steel companies and their
government already has hailed "the establishment
by the President of national labor relations board
for steep putting end to "the necessity
occasion for suspension of operations in the steel
industry" ASSOCIATED Press dispatch from Pitts
burgh, June 49,
Green and Tighe will now try to get all steel
workers to adopt policy of supne dependence
upon this new labor relations board, upon which
1t is not even pretended that steel workers or any
Of their organizations have representation
THE steel board is composed of former Chief
Justice of North Carolina Supreme Court
retired admiral, born in Alabama and Chicago
professional arbitrator, political friend of Sidney
Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
whom the minority report of the Darrow Commit
tee, signed by w. o. Thompson, experienced Chicago
labor attorney, characterized 'Strikebreaker'-
for % years chairman of the joint board of the
Hart. Schaffner and Marx Clothing Company and
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
The steel board has the approval of the Ameri-
can Iron and Steel Institute Its members would
not have been appointed otherwise
The board recently set up to deal with labor
relations" in marine transport on the Pacific Coast
is still revealing of the Roosevelt labor policy.
This board-and this is of basic Importance to
= snerican workers-represents an organic union
Or church and government against the united front
of workers in the best organized and most impor-
tan strike of the present series of mass struggles
against the N.R.A. anti-working class program.
The appointment of Archbishop Hanna an ag-
gressive member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy,
as chairman of the board is decisive and sinister
gesture Of appeal to clerical reaction the part
of the Roosevelt regime. 1t is an action practically
unprecedented in the history of the American labor
movement. 1t is motvated by the fact that large
numbers of Irish, Polish and italian workers who
are at least nominal Catholics employed in
marine transport The influence and arbitrary
discipline of the church is to be brought to bear
upon them. The intention is to attempt to create
definite split between these workers and the
revolutionary section of the working class headed
by the Communist Party. From this standpo
the appointment of the Right Reverend Hanna
as chairman of the board represents further step
in the anti Communist and anti working class drive
of the Roosevelt regime. This drive got off to a
bad start in New York result of its speedy
exposure by the Daily Worker, but the offensive
Is now renewed from the other side of the con-
tinent:,
The attempt of the board to split the ranks of
the Pacific coast strikers has the approval of the
A. F. of L. officials. This is shown by the inclusion
of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McGrady.
He is the representative of A. F. of L. oficialdom
in the government machinery, he is pioneer red
batter and of the most earnest strikebreakers
that the Roosevelt regime has at its disposal These
are facts that should be given the widest publicity
among the Pacific Coast workers. They can be of
major Importance in defeating the splitting tactics
of the new board and its Right Reverend chairman
IN THE steel industry the Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union and the militant rank and
file members of the A. A. can also counterfeit the
anti-labor policy and acts of the board by
exposing its definite capitalist character and its
specially reactionary composition-ts majority COM
posed of Southern ruling class representatives.
But of still greater value are the definite steps
that can be taken now, since the appearance of the
SMwIU delegation before the Department of
Labor last Monday and the publicity given as part
of the official Department proceedings to its esti-
mate of the situation in the steel industry and its
detailed proposals for carrying through elections in
the industry the question of genuine unionsm
versus company unionism and the selection OF
workers as representatives. There is the additional
and important fact of the minority report issued
by Allen former secretary of the Committee of Ten