The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-20

tary OF Labor,
are quoted in the New York Times
Of Aug. Is, as being quite optimistic
regarding business and labor. A
day before, however, Mr.. Green was
broadcasting unwittingly via the
capitalist press that unemployment
in the U. S. A. had not decreased
any appreciate extent under the
aegis of the N. R. A Three days
after the article of the fifteenth ap-
peared. Miss Perkins was also sing
ing another tune. "JObs and Pay
rolls Declined in July :. Seasonal
Loss Exceeded, said headline in
the Times on Aug. 10, and appear
ing under it was a list of statistics
compiled by Miss Perkins which
proved the point admirably well.
Miss Perkins had always been an
exceedingly clever juggler of sta
tistics, but despite her dexterity
with figures her statistics have al
ways belied her sweet chipping
about the N. r. A. prosperity that
looms like rosy dawn just over
the horizon"
Here's what Miss Perkins said
about the situation on Aug. 10,
three days after her optimistic out
burst about the pickup"
Factory employment decreased
three per cent and payrOlis
dropped 6.S per cent from July
to July"
Speaking of manufacture for
which an upswing was predicted
by her on Aug. Is, Miss Perkins
declared in a somewhat gloomy
manner on Aug. 10, that "a sharp
reduction from the increases in
July of last year, which were
wholly abnormal, was to be ex-
pected."
Thus the historians of the New
Deal and the biographerS of the
Blue Eagle let the truth slip out
when they try to appear "objec-
tive" and honest.
lust how William Green and his
y assistant new dealers in the A.
F. of L. are giving New Deal to
the working class was clearly re-
yealed in New Brunswick, New Jer-
Sey, last week. Leaders of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of Middlesex County agreed
with the contractors and building
capitalists to cut the wages Of the
building trades workers 80 1-3 per
cent.
This, of course, was done in line
with the New Deal and Mr.. RooSe-
velt's recovery" program policies.
Leaders of the A. r. of L. an
nounced that they had accepted the
cut in order to aid President RooSe-
yelt'S drive for home construction"
Meanwhile, due to currency in
fiationary measures, cutting of the
sown crop area and the drought
prices of building materials soar to
new high levels. The worker is
given fewer dollars for his labor
power and must accept fewer COM
moditieS for his deprecated dollars.
That's the New Deal
The new dealers in the trade
unions serve their masters we'll
Their policy of class collaboration,
aiding the capitalists to maintain
their profits at the expense of the
workers wages, is the key principle
Of the N. R. A.
PUBLISHERS of capitalist news
papers-Roy Howard, William F.
Brooks, James H. Furey, James G..
Stahlman, Frank E. Cannot, M. c..
Meigs, Paul Patterson, Edgar M.
Swasey, Anon G. Carter, H. v.
Jenkins, John Cowels and John N
Wheeler-are making a little tour
to South American ports in the new
thirty-tw passenger flying boat of
the Pan American Always.
The trip is called a good
tour But beneath the fine
phrases OF goodwill and peace
there turks the bloody u. s. i'm
perialist policy Of enslaving the
colonial and semi colonial coun-
tries, of struggling with the other
imperislist powers for markets and
spheres of influence, thus intensity
ing the contradictions between these