The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-26
Oar Reply to Gen. Johnson

GENERAL JOHNsONs announcement Of open hear
ings on all NRA. codes beginning next Tuesday
and lasting until March gives the workers OPP
portunity raise their demands in the shops and in
Washington against the starvation codes.
General Johnson hopes to put on a OaIlyhoo show
ia order TO give the appearance Of fairness and
thoroughness in public hearings all grievances
But it is up to US up to every militant worker,
especially up to every Communist to use this occasion
rally the workers for the widest discussion agita-
tion and action against the codes and for their own
demands
Now that General johnson says every code can
Questioned in each shop must take the initis-
tive in making this a reality, calling meetings,
aiming the effects of the code discussing the depra-
dations against the under Section Ia These
meetings should formulate the workers grievances and
demands against the codes. They should be used to
organize departments, shop committees to mobilize
against the company unions.
Wherever possible through the rank and file oppo-
sition in the A. F. OF L. trade unions through the in
dependent unions, in the revolutionary unions we
should propose the election Of workers representatives
70 go to Washington, expose the codes, and put for
ward their own demands.
This is especially an opportme time TO direct the
attack against company unions. The MIRA has
fostered the mushroom growth Of company unions
We must lead the brunt Of the offensive against the
company unions by exposing them before the eyes Of
5ss agitation lead to organization in the shops in
o.6er to smash them and build the workers union
organizations.
General johnson and William Green want to make
n2 bearing into that will drain of the bit-
s~es5 complaints Of the workers They feel once they
AVE e-nptied the discomfort put halo Of critical"
aroach over Green's head the way will be open for
ehtening Of the snti-labor attacks under the code
3ut it is our task to defeat this whtewashing Of
,ns BRUTAL results Of the NRA, by making the voice
% tea workers Enthusiastically heard at the hearings
Ay nashing their trickery and by tying this up with
tne codes.
General johnson and Green want torrent Of
meaningless words TO be poured out in Washington
at the hearings They feel that this viii pick up the
badly damaged illusions of the workers
OUR TASK must be to expose this nsneuver TO
the opportunity Of this public hearing to get
the protest and demands Of the workers Above all
e must see to it that the hearings not the end
OF the protest and discomfort, but the beginning OF
organization everywhere In the factories against the
codes against the slave conditions imposed by them
against the strikebreakng National Labor Board and
for the workers demands, for union recognition.
In this situation every Party member in the fac
tories has an important task It is up to the Party
Units and Sections take the initiative in the lead
ing factories to issue leaflets the hearing calling
on the workers to put their demands against the
and file opposition should take this opportunity to raise
the whole question Of the codes, the National Labor
Board and particularly the strikebreaking action Of
the A. F. Of L. officials the NRA.
The revolutionary trade unions should organize
delegations workers to go to Washington to present
the protests and demands Of the workers. The whole
hearing must be punctuated especially with the loud
demand Of the workers for increased wages TO meet
the rising cost Of living against the strikebreakug tao
tics of the MA, against company unions FOR the
right to organize and strike
Particularly in concentration industries in the
basic Industries coal steel textile, marine transporta
ton we should TO It that representative deega-
lions are modified to sound the call for struggle
against the NR.A. codes
Meetings should be held when these delegations
return to expose the public hearing maneuver, and
the whole history and experience Of the NRA, giving
the lead for future organization and struggles
And It is up to to develop the widest agitation,
organization in the shops in connection with our
tests and exposure in the shops and factories