The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884
Mr.. Green Reports!

THE report of the Executive Council of
L the A. F. of L. to its national conven-
ton, continues the policy of cooperation
with the employers; policy which has
lost the demands of the workers where
ever William Green and his ieutenants
have been able to put it into effect.
Green in his report includes many pages which
describe miserable conditions, low wages, growth Of
company unions and long hours. These sections
of the report Criticize" the codes.
But these criticisms are cover for the main
tenance of illusions that the problems Of the work.
ers can be solved within the N. r. A. machinery.
The Green report proposes as remedy for the
miserable conditions described, only further reli-
ance on the N. r. A boards, and on Roosevelt
The report tries to make the workers believe
that they can win their demands by dropping their
strike struggles and by relying these government
boards It claims that the demands of the workers
can be won by merely adding few labor leaders
to the N. R. A. boards. Green proposes, not the
scrapping of the whole strike-breaking N. R. A,
program but little tnkering with the N. r. A.
Green claims that Roosevelt and the federal gov
eminent are impartia1y working in labor's in
terests and that the N R. A. is being violated" by
few bad" employers
The facts are, of course, that the N. R. A. is
fulfilling the purpose for which the employers and
their government created it. The N. R. A, entirely
in the hands of and a creature of the employers,
is keeping down wages while living costs soar; 1t
is developing the company unions; frightening
hours, increasing speedup, and is continuing fas
cist terror against strikes and unemployed strug-
giles.
The report of the Executive Council of the A. f.
Of L. brazenly ignores the strike in which the
workers are engaged. 1t comes out openly against
federal unemployment insurance for which the
workers are fighting. 1t pleads for cooperation
with the government, whose armed forces MUIR
dering strikers on picket lines 1t advocates peace
wi employers who are starving masses of workers
to death.
The report is in line with Green's whole policy
Of betrayal of the workers struggles Green advo-
Gates arbitration. 1t was under this slogan that
Green, together with Roosevelt, sold out the de-
mands of the auto workers, the steel workers, the
coal miners and now the textile workers. Arbitra-
ton has meant to the workers that they go back
to work before any of their demands are granted
that they agree beforehand to place their demands
in the hands of a government board which is con-
trc'1ed by the employers.
arbitration is the slogan under which the textile
workers are now suffering blacklist, speed-up low
wages and long hours. The Roosevelt arbitration
boards, agreed to by Green and company, are set
up 1OI CIlG express purpose VI IlldlLGdl1lIlg GDe
profits of the employers and maintaining the mis-
cradle conditions of the workers.
Arbitration is the only remedy which is proposed
by Green and his Council. But the rank and file
has another remedy. They demand militant fight
for the rights of the workers to organize to strike
to meet and to picket. They demand an end to
government terror against strikers and unemployed
They demand the development of the strike wave
In order to secure these eliminary rights, as wen
higher wages and better conditions
The rank and file of the A. F. of L. opposes to
Green's empoyer-policy of no-fight the policy of
militant struggle for all of the demands of the
workers.
The rank and file in every local and in every
union should take their union into their own hands
kick out the Greens and Germans and all the be-
trayers and institute real fight for their demands