The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-04
By HARRY RAYMOND


Mr.. Ben Golden and his asso-
ciate high pressure statesmen of the
New Deal in New York City have
lost considerable of the hypnotic
influence that they exerted over the
workers during the early days Of
the N.R.A. Reports from the Re
gional Labor Board Offices at IS
Broadway show that the Blue Eagle
folks are having trouble selling their
wares.
1t was not long ago when Ben
Golden, the chief custodian of the
Blue Eagle in this region, was able
to kid the workers along with a
ministerial smile and a well-chosen
remark or two about being some
what of a MarXist" and "a reader
of the Daily Worker" But those
balmy days are gone. The workers
of New York, entering into a new
round Of trade union struggles, are
Graduating the idea that the N.R.A.
will help them. They have learned,
at least a great many of them
have learned the simple truth-that
the MIRA. is a breaking ap-
paratus.
But just because the MIRA. stands
discredited and exposed before
greater sections of the workers it
does not mean that the danger of
the MIRA. has lessened. The MIRA.
is greater danger today than it
ever was and the struggle against
it and all its agents must be in
tensified more and more.
The Regional Labor Board in
New York City is developing new
methods for putting over its class
collaboration policies. In the past,
when the Blue Eagle could wear
with considerable grace and ease
the robes of democracy, Mr.. Golden,
Mrs. Herrick and other ladies and
gentlemen Of the Roosevelt entour-
age gave audience to all and sundry
groups that requested a hearing.
ke-breaking maneuYers, of
course, were worked out and put into
action with the aid of the top re-
dictionary officials of the A. F. of L.
Today a rank and file group has
great difficulty in getting past the
door at the Labor Board Office.
New conditions have brought
about new methods of work. With
the mounting strike waves, the
N.R.A. was forced to drop its mask
OF democracy; the New Deal became
more openly fascist.
While this development has be-
come more obvious on the West
Coast, where General Hugh S.
johnson, national head of the N.
RIA, issued an open call over
radio broadcast for a fascist pogrom
against Communists and militant
unionists, Mr.. Golden can no longer
hide his fascist face in New York.
N.R.A. and the Painte,s
Take the present general strike
of the painters, for instance. Mr..
Golden has chosen to recognize as
the leader of the painters Mr.. Philip
zausner whom every honest per-
sons knows rode into the Office of
secretary treasurer of the Painters
Brotherhood through fraudulent
voting. The rank and file strike
committees of locals 400 and 848
were not invited to the conference
arranged between the Master Paint
ers Association and zausner, de-
spite the fact that Louis Weinstock,
chairman of local 499 strike COM
mittee, sent personal letter to Ben
Golden pointing out that zausner
did not represent the strikers, de-
manded that representatives of the
rank and file committee be allowed
to appear Golden's policy, the
policy of the MIRA, is one Of sup
porting the reactionary union leader
and the boss against the worker.
A whole series of strikes is now
developing in New York: fifteen
thousand knitgoods workers are
ready to strike; general walk out
of all heavy construction workers
in sympathy with 5000 workers en-
gagged on the midtown Hudson
Tunnel, P.W.A. project, is in the
making; seamen and tugboat men
are getting ready to answer wage
cuts with strike.
N.R.A. Strategy
The strategy of the MIRA. in face
Of this development of the class
struggle is TO attempt to isolate the
growing rank and file leadership,
to swing the leadership of the strug-
giles over to the reactionary leaders
whose aim it is to betray them, and
to cooperate with the LaGuardia-
Organ fascist Rife Regiment bv
keeping LaGuardia informed at all
times on the development of the
struggle so that when words and
trickery fail, bullets can be used to
put down the workers.
In the knitgoods situation David
Dubinsky, reactionary president of
the IL.G.W.U., is already maneuver-
ing with the Regional Labor Board
to halt the strike. When the first
wind of the strike sentiment
reached Mr.. Golden he prepared a
conference between the manufac-
turers and the IL.G.WU. leaders
He conveniently overlooked the
Knitgoods Workers Industrial
Union, the first and Oldest union
in the industry, which has on its
rolls 5000 members and which
voted to strike.
The Knitgoods Workers Industrial
Union was not invited to the con-
ference because Golden knew that
this union stood on policy of class
struggle. Goidens aim in this situa-
ton is to place the reactionar-v