The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-01
at DIX
Meet

ANA@EE
The White Sulphur Springs con-
ference was run by a steering COM
mittee Of less than half a dozen
men. Among them was Robert L.
Lund. vice-president of the Lam
bert Pharmacal Co. Lund is a Cru
sader. And he is chairman of the
board of the National Association
of Manufacturers.
In other words, all of these or
CARNATIONS and groups are domi-
mated by representatives Of the same
corporations and banks. And the in
dividuals behind these group forces,
moreover, are linked to the main
top-camps of American industry,
finance, politics, military ranks, and
educational or neutrality-suspicious.
ing institutions.
Yet nowhere among all these does
one find J. P. Morgan or q
Rockefeller or a Hearst in person!
The obvious question is, why not,
If these are merely patriotic"
forces, and not forces which, now
or later, will perform duties for
which those gentlemen would not
wish to take responsibility?
This group represent the main
camps of top American finance
capitalists, both Morgan and
Rockefeller. They dominate, of
course, the banking financial
commercial heads of the Chamber
Of Commerce and the industrial
clique of the National AssOcia-
tion of Manufacturers.
These two organizations, long
open-shop belligerents, are seeking
and organizing new and typically
Fascist methods of applying their
historical anti-labor tradition to
New Deal" conditions. Particularly
since the continuing misery of the
masses in the economic crisis has
produced more and more militant
struggles for bread and work I'M
precedented mass struggles such as
the Bonus March, the Hunger
Marches, etc.
1t was this crowd, in fact, who
originated the plans out of which,
according to Former N. r. A. Ad-
l1inistrator General Hugh S. john
son, the N. I. r. A. was evolved.
Having used armed fascist
bands, the California "vigiIantes,"
as well as the old standby police
and National Guard, to break the
General Strike of san Francisco.
the Pacific Coast induStriaIists
and bankers, especially william
Randolph Hearst, launched a new
!. Red-baiting campaign, the loud
est yet.
1t was this U. S. Chamber Manu-
facturerS' crowd who initiated the
wage-cutting campaign which got
under way few months ago. Spe-
officially, publicity handouts of
these organizations suggested, then
demanded wage-cuts for weeks. And
suddenly three Roosevelt officials.
secretaries IckeS and Perkins and
Relief Director Hopkins, came out
for abolition of the already meagre
minimum wage for public works
jobs. The same crowd similarly
initiated the unemployment-relief-
cutting demand which President
Roosevelt has just executed, throw
ing 100000 "unemployables" off the
rolls by February 1 and offering
"empioyables" only work relief at
wages lower than the generally I'M
precedentediy low N. r. A. wages.
Right here the financial back
ground of James Rand's Remington
Rand corporation is pertinent.
Among its directors are B. F.
Pope and j. G. Blaine. Both of
these gentlemen are directors of the
Marine Midland Trust Company. A
substantial interest in this bank be-
longs to the Observation-Disclosures
who commands an industrial do
main the expanse of which is gen
orally unknown-William Randolph
Hearst.
Another director of the Reming-
ton-Rand Office equipment com
pany is G. E. Warren, vice-presi-
dent of the Rockefeller's bank.
Chase National. And another,
G. Blaine, a director Of j. P. Nor
CAMS American Securities and In
vestment Corporation. In short this
corporation represents an aggrega-
ton OF three groups of American
finance capitalize three, Morgan,
Rockefeller and Hearst.
And the head of this Morgan
Rockefeller Hearst corporation is
an organizationaI link between
such q general, traditional anti
labor outfit as the N. A. M, and
so obviously pOtentialIy-storm
troop an organization as Father
Coughltn's Union for Social JUS
tice!
One more link: one of the Rem
ington-Rand directors is j. G..
Blaine. He is also director of the
American Securities and Investment
Corporation-on the board of which
are Morgan partners Thomas w.
Lamont and George w. whitney.
Another gentleman who sits on this
Morgan Board is Felix M. Warburg
who was back of the steering of
the Dickstein- MeCormack Commit
tee to suppress rather than to in
vestigate Fascist activities in the
United States, where these activ-
tiles, especially the spectacular Fas-
cist-army plot, where backed by
Morgan and other too-infuential
interests.