The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
By Seymour WaIdman

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 23.-
Indications point to an intensive big
business Roosevelt Administration
drive to cement the low wages and
open shop provisions of the National
Industrial Recovery Act into the
trade association mold being pre-
pared for them by the dominant
manufacturing and banking groups,
the chief sponsors of the MIRA. and
the leaders of the present govern
ment-supported wage cutting cam
paign.
An NR.A, strengthened by legis-
lative anti-strike injunction clauses
and administered under the anti
strike Department of Labor, with
the demagogy about the right of the
workers to select their own repre-
sentatives (Section TAD thrown over
board, is what the steel, auto, textile
and other industrial kingpinS desire
and plan to get in short order
In this drive, the radio, the news
paper, the bayonet and the con-
centration camp will be used in the
attempt to smash labor unions, es-
pecially the militant ones, to legis-
late out of existence even the for
NAL right to strike, to hound the
foreign born workers, to establish
the demagogy of guaranteeing" a
higher net annual wage while slash
ing hourly wage rates, to block the
mass movement for genuine unem-
ploynent insurance, and to cut
federal relief to the destitute down
to the bone. The teeth Of the preda-
tory Blue Eagle are being length
ened as well as sharpened.
AS the Observation-Disclosures
monopoly forces wind their fingers
more tightly around the State APP
paratus, the drive against the WORK
ing and poor farmer classes will
increase in intensity and coordina-
ticn. Demagogy, in the form Of
presidential and other Administra
ton speeches and gestures, Dolstered
by the conciliatory and anti-strike
policy of the American Federation
of Labor officialdom, will be spouted
to slow down the rising mass Genti-
ment for real unemployment insur-
ance for the present and future
and to still the cry for
bread instead of battleships While
the Speechmakers fill the air and
xtyift, nh n
about "Americanism" and free
DOM" such fundamental constitu-
tional rights as those OF free speech
and assemblage are being stamped
into the ground-partly due to the
mortal fear the Administration has
Of a militant labor movement, es-
pecially such a movements opposi-
ton to imperialist war.
Program of Bankers
The war preparations and anti
labor program of the administration
is what the recent convention of the
Bankers Association and
the National Association of Manu-
facturers meant by rational hui
and letting natural
forces" bring about recovery" The
demagogic description of program
d gned and executed by the
in short, is finance
capitals unrepudiated interpreta-
ton of President Rooseyelt's radio
"fireside" prayer to "the driving
power of individual initiative and
the incentive OF fair profit" a
White House bouquet which the
bankers grasped to their broad
bosomS and dubbed "reassuring," In
fact, said Francis Marion Law, the
recent head of the Bankers Asso-
citation, that one statement the
President made did more to reassure
business than any statement he has
made"
OF course, the bankers and in
didn't need any reassur-
ance concerning Mr.. Roosevelt's
continued efforts towards carrying
out their fascist tinted program.
What they wanted, and got, was
public remuneration of substantial
of the demagogy which
shared so many workers into believ-
ing section IA, that they were for
gotten" men, to whom the President
referred. They wanted, and got, |