The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01

as automobiles and textiles, the
'speed-up" and the 'Stretch-out" ac-
company every step of the N.R.A. and
mean that for every wage dollar that
is paid out to the workers, more pro-
duction is being demanded Of the
workers. Therefore the capacity of
the market is relatively decreased by
the NR.A. in proportion to the stocks
Of unsold goods.
This means that unemployment is
permanent, as far as the capitalist
system is concerned. If the MIRA.
were to succeed in opening all fac
tories, mines and workshops to full
capacity, there would be millions still
left unemployed. 1t will be remem-
bered that there were estimated to
be at least three million unemployed
at the height Of the boom days OF
1929. Since then the "speed-up" and
Stretch -out" as well as chronological
developments have greatly decreased
the number Of men employed for a
given unit of production.
Therefore we of the Communist
Party declare that there must be
instituted now a system of full un-
employment and social insurance
on a single nationwide scale by the
federal government. The Workers
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance BilI (H.R. 1888. now pending
in Congress) is the bill which meets
the needs as far as they can be met
for the immediate present. We
insist upon this bill as the most
crying immediate necessity Of the
American working people. Let us
have no confusion of this bill with
the sO-caIled "unemployment-in-
surance" bills, such as the Wagner
Lewis bill. All such bills are en-
plOyers' measures and not workers
IneaSures-inten5ed to protect EN-
p,oyers against the expense Of real
unemployment relief, and not to
protect workers againsts the ravages
of unemp' Oyment. Such measures
general'v propose to leave the nres-
ent 100000 unemployed without
relief, while providing mythical
future insurance" for UNEMPLOYED
workers over and above the 16,000,-
0C0 who at some future time may
become unempIoy,a. Furthermore,
these Hills attempt to relegate re-
sponsibilitv to the states, away
from the federal government.
The N. r. A. shows its class char
acter in every step Of its operation
Who Direct N. r. A.
The N. R. A. is composed in its de.
cisive framework of such men al
Walter Teagle, head of a tremendous
non-union oil corporation which
fiohts sayagely against labor on every
occasion and ruthlessly SURPRISES al
attempts to organize among TIT
workers; and Gerard Swope. head o.
an electrical Industry which is notori.
Gus as the most callous enemy o.
labor organization These are only
examples which can be carried or
down through machine manufacture
ing and other industries. Tt is moi
accidental that the big industries Of
the United Sta 1es, which are the
most reactionary and the most VIC.
lently anti-labor, are the most de-
-cisively represented in the N. r. A
We do not agree with those who say
that the industrial conference open
ing March will be "the first fascist
congress" of the United States. But
certainly strong strain Of fascisn
will be found in it.
The most powerful men in the
councils of the N.RA,, as represen-
tatives of industry" are men who
are fighting at every turn and with
all weapons against the struggle Of
the workers for unemployment in
surance and relief.
We hear irresponsible demagogy
about revolution" In connection with
the N.R.A., claiming to represent "the
forgotten man" All along the line