The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-28
WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1884
The Wagner Bill and
"PeaCe IN Industry

THE truce" engineered in the auto industry, with
the obvious purpose of postponing strike action
by the workers to enforce their demands for union
recognition no discrimination the abolition of COM
pany unionism and, what the officials of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor try so hard to conceal,
demands for better wages and working conditions
and job control by workers committees as a weapon
against the speed-up, confirm the analysis and in
dictment of the Wagner Bill and the whole N. r. A.
policy in regard to the working class made by the
T. U. U. L. representative William F. Dunno, last
Thursday before the Senate Committee on Labor
and Education
In the present situation the Roosevelt admins
tration is rocked by series of wage organization
and strike movements of a score unprecedented in
this country if take into consideration the varied
character of these movements and the fact that
they include practically all categories of workers.
These movements and struggles are marked by I'M
exampled militancy and determination.
The illusions created by Clause IA are disap-
pearing. Workers have learned by bitter experience
that in Clause IA company unonism has found its
most fertile soil. Now the Wagner Bill. 1t is
the latest attempt to cajole American workers with
promises. At the same time it proposed to set up
strikedelaying and strike breaking machinery that
shall be in the hands of National Labor Board
with arbitrary powers.
The Wagner Bill, based on the N R. A theory
of the indemnity of interest of capital and labor
and endorsed by the A. F. of L. and Socialist Party
officials just was Clause IA place industrial
peace" as the main issue-irrespective of what the
conditions Of workers may be in such paradise of
monopoly capital.
BY its emphasis on industrial peace" the Wagner
Bill helps to make clearer the fact that national
recovery" is a euphemsm for more systematic sup
preston of such elementary rights as the right to
strike, hamstringing and suppression of basic or
CARNATIONS of the working class and still greater
exploitation of workers
The Wagner Bill is to be new weapon against
the American working class The Washington COR
respondent of the New York Sun stated on Saturday
last in his dispatch that in all probability the
Wagner Bill would be so amended before passage
as to meet the approval of both industriasts and
labor leaders"-meanng, of course A. F. of L. Off
cialdom and that of the Socialist Party
AS was the case with Clause IA, the Trade Union
Unity League with its AFFILIATED unions have been
the only labor unions to expose the Wagner Bill
from the standpoint of the class needs of American
workers As was the case with the N r. A program
the Communist Party is the only political party that
challenges and exposes the Wagner Bill and calls
upon the working class to organize for struggle
against its Strike-breaking provisions.
This service to the working class will when the
history of the American class struggle is written
be rated as one of the outstanding achievements of
the revolutionary trade unions and the Communist
Party in this decisive period when the big new bat
tahons OF workers are moving forward into battle
THE Wagner Bill must be considered as an integral
part of the disrupting and suppressive activities
OF N. R. A in the ranks of the working class 1t
represents an attempt to legaze the encouragement
OF company unionsn the drive for increased profits
through low wages and speed-up and the open use
OF the powers of the federal government to enforce
these policies witnessed under Clause IA but seen
In the sharpest relief in the open Intervention of
President Roosevelt into the auto strike on the side
OF some Of the biggest organizations of MONOPOLY
capital in the country
But the great power of President, aided at every
step by President Green of the A. F. of L. and his
fellow bueaucrats on the Labor Board while they
were sufficient to postpone the strike during the
period OF peak production, aroused auto workers to
the danger of their use.
In the ranks of the auto workers there is sullen