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

there IS the attempt to give the N.
R. A. a "pro-labor" comuIexion-but
this is pure cosmetics. Trade union
leaders furnish the window dress
ing" Of the N. R. A., while in fact
it is an offensive against the working
class Of America. AS in Germany,
workers are forced into COMPANY
unions, and labor leaders" furnish
the "pro-labor respec- ability" behind
which strikebreaking is carried on.
New Deal War Plans
The N. R. A. offers nothing better
than militarization Of the unem-
ployed whom it has failed and will
continue to fail to restore to en-
ployment.
Assistant Secretary Of War Wood
ring has openly declared that the
Civilian Conservation Corps is in
fact a part Of the preparation Of the
population for war, and openly in
the press, writer's are calling for the
complete herding Of the millions of
unemployed Americans into mil. airy
camps under the command of army
officers.
The worst sufferers Of all the
unemployed are the Negro workers.
Out of five and half million gain
fully employed in 1880. there were
one and One-half million unem-
p'Oyed NEGROES in 1888. In many
places destitution Is twice as great
among Negroes as among whites.
For instance, in the Harlem Sec
ton of New York City, there are
$1,000 unemployed now among the
10000 Negroes PAINFULLY employed
in 1880. in Chicago, Cleveland. st.
Louis and especially BIRMINGHAM,
Ala, the Negro workers are facing
the most terrible starvation. The
N. r. A. offers to them not relief,
but the most callous discrimination
and derivation of even that pit
lance which the white workers get
here and there from some recovery
project.
The MIRA. shows by all its actions
as well as by the composition of its
leadership-with its preponderance Of
employers interested in lowering
labor costs and preventing any effec-
tive form of unemployment insur-
ance-that it is a measure of the
government and of the employing
class, conserving the interests of the
employing class and striving above
all things to prevent "encroachments'
of labor against capital.
General Johnson pointed out this
morning that he IS limited in his
freedom Of action, that he cannot
force wages I'D, etc. This undouht-
eddy applies also to the problem Of
unemployment. It is not from any
sources within the NR.A. that the
necessary answer to the unemploy-
ment question will come.
Rising Strike Wave
However, it is necessary to point
out that the American working class
is not bourd by the limi atoms Of
the National industrial Recovery Act
under the domination of Messrs.
Teagle and Swope, etc, 1t is no secret
that there is now brewing a ire
mendous storm Of strikes a@ainst the
N. R. A. This storm will inevitably
be connected. and must be connected,
with the growing mass unemploy-
ment movement.
In order to solve the problems Of
the unemployed, the struggle Of the
employed workers and that Of the
unemployed must be coupled to-
gether.
Where gains for labor are made
under the N. r, Ait is only by
striking or threats Of striking that
any gains are made.
just so, the only way that unem-
pigment relief and the establish
ment Of unemployment insurance by
the federal government can be OBJ
tanned is through the building Of
powerful unemployment council or