The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
Their Secret Conference

GENERAL JOHNSON hastily called into the cur
rent meeting Of the Executive Council of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Washington to help cap
the boiling volcano of protest among the rank and file
against the MIRA.
Everywhere there are symptoms of a rising strike
wave anthracite hotels, agricultural aborers fisher
men, metal, etc. against the mSeraby low wages and
ntolerabe conditions imposed by the slave codes with
out exception
The A. F. of L. leaders find it extremely difficult
to use the old lies about the boom of the MIRA Too
many strikes have been brutally broken by the Ma
tiona Labor Board and the A. F. of L. officials The
promised higher pay and better conditions have turned
out to be fire traps
Now the A F. of L. officials propose that more of
them be given jobs administrators in drawing up
the codes John L. Lewis is proposed for administra-
tor in the coal codes Here he will be even better able
to serve the coal operators in actually slashng wages
imposing still sayish conditions on the workers
Major Berry of the Pressmen'S Union is already an
assistant administrator to Johnson. General johnson
as one of the recommendations for Major Berry de-
cared ne would not too ardently press labors cause"
Berry, an exposed racketeer and strikebreaker a
swindler and crook is put administrator to deal
with the conditions and lives of the workers through the
Codes
These gentlemen will not be labor" representatives
They will do the bidding of the bosses as NRA adj
minstrators, wearing the label of labor" Their very
presence on the NRA administrators will be used
to revive the workers faith in the NRA to keep them
from independent action, to fill them with hopes while
their wages being cut.
Besides, Green talks about Strengthening the la
Dor sections of the MIRA. He wants the compulsory
arbitration and strikebreaking features made more
drastic
EVERY MEASURE proposed is directly aimed at the
rank and file and their struggle for improved con-
ditions in the face of the brutal imitation measures of
the Roosevelt regime.
The bureaucracy of the A. F. of L. is being drawn
more and more into the government apparatus to act
as code administrators, to help directly lower real
wages and then to their union positions to break
strikes.
ALL OF THIS is in preparation for the coming sharp
"A class battles Initiation crushing down still fur
ther the workers living standards Along with the
gold bill, Roosevelt, with the help of the A. F. of L.
ofhciadom perfecting the MIRA codes to defeat the
workers resistance and strikes to hold real wages down
so the big bosses benefit on increased profits
through imitation
No wonder Green wants secrecy
There should be no secret made of IT, however, In
the local unions. Here is the task of the rank and
lille opposons, or militant workers where these oppo-
stions have not been organized:
Demand the withdrawal Of these strike breakers
from NRA posts! They placed there as labor
representatives and in this guise commit the most
dastardy crimes against the workers. Smash all the
Illusions about improvements and amendments of the
NRA in the interest of labor! Every change in the
codes will be against the workers. Show the only
way to defeat ROOsevelts attack. Organize and pre-
pare for Struggles to win, by the workers own might
improved conditions, higher wages and union recog-
milton.