The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-15
Morgan Trust Head
At RACOntabCives
Anti-Labor Program

ing leadership had fallen. in the
public mind, to complete and utter
disrepute What want to recall
is that, at that time and in that
atmosphere-and in the teeth Of
that furor-regardless of clamor and
by the strength of the candid faith
that was in him, one man turned
over to American Industry what it
had clamored for for many years
Industrial Self Government"
Sol Says johnson, President
Roosevelt "in the teeth Of that
Juror" of the nation for relief from
the oppression the capitalists Of in
duStry had spawned - President
Roosevelt regardless Of popular
clan1or' against these industrialists
and bankers ruthless indirect domi-
nation over the people-President
Roosevelt in the face of all this had
the gall to give these same indus
trialists "self government" If any
doubt remains as to what that self
government" means, 1t should be
erased by some N. r. A. officials'
statements to come
johnson neglected to say that a
plan for self government" Of in
dustry, devised by his buddy, Ger
ard Svope. was floating around
publicly, simultaneously with, if not
among, the plans that developed
into the N. r. A. Swope announced
this plan some time earlier. A few
months later, when he stepped into
the Business Advisory and Plan
ming Council Of the Commerce De-
partment, a council Of business
harons, from which Johnsons N. R.
A. Industrial Advisory Board is
drawn, Swope announced another
plan. Sometimes the latter is called
the Second Swope Plan In reality
it is an elaboration of the original
Swope Plan.
A Joint Announcement"
On the public announcement by
Swope. last November l, johnson
told the press that this was "prac-
tically a joint announcement" by
himself and Swope because, the
General said, he and Swope worked
it out together. johnson added
that "of course" the plan would
mean outlswing strikes. 1t meant
that the relations between employ
ers and employees, production, all
the economic life of the country,
would be handled by super Cham
Der of Commerce. absolutely domi-
mated by industrialists. Govern
ment representatives might sit in
on their discussions, johnson con-
tinued. They would be without
authority to vote, but would have a
veto power"
Now listen to Pierre du Point. mu-
nitions and chemicals king and an
other member of the N. r. A. IN
dustrial Advisory Board. speaking
before this same Congress of In
dustry last week:
Prior to December, 1898, 1t was
generally supposed that the Code
Authority, as the administrative
body Of Code operation, might not
be permitted entire self government.
Several hundred Code Authorities
who rule labor and industry under
the N R. A. made up the delegates
to the Congress of Industry
The original conception (of N. r.
An. " was that of a division of
power under which the interests of
industry and labor would have sep
arate treatment. Then when the
plan OF industrial government thru
Code Authority alone was developed
(an obvious reference to the publ
cation of the Swope johnson plan.
M. ", the first and most natural
suggestion was to place on Code
Authority. an individual. qualified
as government representative OF in
dustry, of consumer and labor, in
order that government might be in
formed at all times and might oc-
cupy a controlling position in the
affairs of these three supposedly
conflicting forces in industry"
In other words, when industrial
lists decided to come out openly with
absolute control, through the Code
Authorities, over both labor and
their bosses affairs, they decided to
put ON IAN individual" to be In a
"controlling"(D position among the
supposedly" conflicting forcesl Pre-
cisely as Swope planned.
Is it surprising then, that du Point
declared:
"You gentlemen OF the Code Au-
thorities have been given power
greater than that allocated even in
civil Or international war You
gentlemen are today part of the
government. You have been dele
gated authority to minister the gov
eminent of industry
This is not the time for govern
ment to step beyond its program in
order to promote issues not strictly
related to (Industrial-i. e. Indus
trialists' recovery"
Tomorrow we shall see how the
specific proposals of the Swope-
johnson plan behind all this are
being carried out. Before that, how
ever, one more general declaration
merits attention. Donald R. Rich
berg, the sometime Bull Moose Pro-
gressive, now head of the N. R. A. s
legal staff, had this to say to the
Congress of Industry:
There has been great deal of
loose talk about political control
and RECOMMENDATION and dictator
ship through the N. r. A. But no
one knows better than the audience
immediately before me that the
business men Of America have been
largely free to work out their own
industrial law as the means of their
own salvation. No one knows bet
ter than the audience before me
lat while many men have brought
70 this task all unselfish devotion
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