The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-07


, creased faster than the consuming
| power Of the country, with result
| ing curtailment Of business activity
and lsssening Of employment; that
in some cases the difIerentials in
wage scales between different sec
tons Of the country have not been
equitable >"
The resolution passed by the
! Chamber Of Commerce on employ
/ ment relations" says: Each indus
try should continue to be given
separate consideration in the deter
mination Of the minimum wage
provisions of its code with recogni-
/ ton Of community and sectional diff
| ferentials existing prior to the
! passage Of the national industrial
recovery act.
On the question Of wage scales,
the employers of the country, in
/ meeting assembled. issued the edict
that the r. r. A. shall continue
to keep down the wage levels Of the
workers.
The Roosevelt policies against
the granting of any unemployment
/ insurance were approved by the en-
ployers meeting in resolution as
follows: &. opposed to enactment
Of legislation for compulsory unem-
ployment benefits but favored plans
for creation of unemployment re-
serves by industries under the N.
r. A." IN. Y. Tribune, May 81.
Tie Chamber OF Commerce pro-
posed measures for the acceleration
Of the mcnopoEes' control OF in
dustry. and recommended that code
authorities be permitted to inter
pref codes subject to reversal by
the n. r. a"
Auto Labor Board Sell Cut
The fact that the n. r. A. is the
| instrument which from the beginn-
| ing has carried out the policies Of
finance capital is seen in the ac-
tivities of the National Auto Labor
Board in breaking the general strike
in the Fisher Auto Body company
plants Of st. Louis, Cleveland,
Tarrytown, and Kansas City.
The policy of the General Motors
Corporation, Of which Fisher Body
is a subsidiary, is described in the
speech of Aired P. Sloan, its presi-
dent, on April Is, before the Boston
Chamber of Commerce. Sloan de-
clared that the General Motors will
under no circumstances recognize
any union as that term is inter-
preted by the American Federation
of Labor-that means the closed
shop" He said the route through
which the real interests Of both en-
ployer and employe can best be pro-
NOTED is through the employe re-
presentation plan or company
union" He strongly opposed reduc-
ton in working hours. He more
than limited his opposition to raises
in pay.
And it was on the basis of the
General Motors demands that the
Auto Labor Board ended the Fisher
Body strike. The A. F. OF L. leaders
sent the strikers back to work. They
did not get recognition. The Gen
eral Motors plants deal only with
the local representatives Of the en-
ployes, factory by factory and only
> on issues of the current strike. The
men are back at work. After the
strike began, the Chevrolet plant in
Tarrytown reduced wages to a sixty
| cent an hour level The company
union is preserved. Strikes were
, outlawed and compulsory arbitration
, by the Auto Labor Board instituted,
{ Thus the analysis of the Eighth
t National Convention Of the Com
! munist Party is carried out to the
. hilt. The increased strike breaking
activities Of the N. r. A. and the
/ Labor Board-the bringing forward
} Of the company union side by side
2 with the A. F. of L. officials in
r working arrangement. the keeping
of wages at minimum level, and
: the outlawing of strikes
, Disagree on Method Only
. There are undoubtedly disagree
ments among the employers them
selves as to how best to conduct the
= strikebreaking drive. There is an
n increased tendency for speeding up
t the drive toward fascism. There are,
s. on the other hand, those that think
: the growing working class strike
j movement can best be smashed by
{ furthering the demagogic features
Of the new deal.
4 But in meeting these differences,
: the Roosevelt administration re-
spends to the pressure Of the most
n powerful financial and industrial
groups, taking the road more and
more clearly toward open suppress
sion of the workers movement.
Hartman, president OF the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce, proudly
claimed for the C. of C. the author
g ship of the N. R. A. He declared,
d IF 1 rightly sense the judgement of
/ business men on the workings Of the
e Industrial Recovery Act it is that
: the law has done much good" His
y proposed amendments were in line
II with increasing the efficiency Of the
e N. r. A. as the strike-breaking inn
% plement Of the employers.
! And William Green, NJ R. A. Ma
y ticnal Labor Board member, said
= Ton May y 1--WE cannot permit the
National Recovery Program TO stand
Il still Labor wishes 10 sec the Ma
ticnai Recovery Program rl1de q
complete success Green's mild
"oritici-ms" are made for the pur-
pose of retaining a rsvo,ting rank
and file in the services Of the en-
sr ployers' apparatus-ths N. r. A.
N The moves of the employers ir
re the past few days to strengthen the
s. strike hraal,ing- 1ninn snasl1ine