The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 25, 1933, Page 3

KML a ENE anne ees a oe eS A Armour Scabs Held Prisoners Stop All Production ; Strikers Farmers Holiday Association in 14 Counties} Withholds Livestock from Plant; Three Are Arrested ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 24—The second week on Thursday with production still at a standstill and the picket lines being maintained day and night. strike-breaker, who was caught by pickets trying to get through the lines with @ gun, was arrested. Meanwhile Swift workers were awaiting an answer Armour packing strike entered its Three strikers were arrested, and one to the demands presented by their? committee to the Swift management, which will be reported at a Swift workers special meeting Thursday night. Workers in the Cudahy and United Packing Plant are awaiting the action of the Swift workers, be- fore taking a strike vote. Scabs Are Prisoners. The newspapers are carrying on a vicious campaign against the strike. Reports are appearing regularly in| the press that the Armour plant has hundreds of scabs working, but this ts not true. There is a handful of scabs inside, practically prisoners, who eat and sleep there, but no work is being done as the skilled labor needed to start the killing floors re- fuse to go back to work. The A. F. of L. leaders, McCoy and Carpenter, are desperately attempting to get their members into the plant to scab, but have so far failed. Most of the A. F. of L. rank and filers refuse to scab, sticking with the Packinghouse Workers’ Industrial Union which called the strike, and the few who want to go back to work are unable to get through the watchful picket lines. Workers Reject Company Union. N.R.A, representatives have held several conferences with the strike committee and the Armour manage- ment, but at Thursday noon no defi- nite developments toward negotiations had started, with the strikers reject- ing arbitration and insisting on direct negotiations, and the Armour officials refusing to negotiate with the strik- ers and insisting on dealing with the Armour Conference Board, a fake company union which the workers refuse to recognize. The Conference Board members tried to crash the Picket lines on Wednesday to have a conference with the Armour officials, but the strikers refused to allow them to go through. The Armour company and the capi- talist press tried without success to bring in the “red issue” to frighten the workers, but this maneuver had no effect on the strikers. The Pioneer Pre: issued an appeal to the Presi- dent and the Governor to intervene erd smash the strike. Huge paid eds of Armour & Co. are appearing 1 all newspapers against the strike, ‘The Farmers’ Holiday Association of Faribault County and 13 other counties informed strike headquarters thas they are calling on all farmers to withold their stock from South St. Pavl for the duration of the strike, end picketing of the highways will goon begin. Chicego Mass Meets for Meat Strikers} | CHICAGO, Ill—Two mass meet- | ings in sympathy with the strike of! the packinghouse workers in St. Paul and Pittsburgh have been arranged} for Sunday, Nov. 26, by the Packing House Workers Industrial Union of} Chicago. i | The meetings will be held at Sik- ora Hall, 4758 S. Marshfield Ave., at WIR Seeks Aid for Paterson Strikers: Need Food, Clothes & Money to Win | PATERSON, N. J.—The Workers’| International Relief and the National | Textile Workers’ Union have issued an urgent call for food, clothes and money for the Paterson silk strikers. They have been striking over three months, ‘These should be sent immediately to any of the three headquarters: The N.T.W.U, Relief Commitige, 222 Pater- son St, Paterson, N. J.; T.U.U.C., 799 Broadway, N. Y. C; WIR, 870 Broadway, N. Y. City. Push Union Drive in Brooklyn Metal Shops | NEW YORK. — The organization drive of the Steel and Metal Work- ers Union in the Brooklyn metal shops has resulted in substantial im- provements in the conditions of the workers. In the Star, Karp, General Metal Box shops and in the Federal Steel Products Co. in Newark, the workers, through stoppages and strikes or preparations for a strike, have won wage increases, reinstatement cf fired workers. division of wor: e-d recognition of the union or shop com- mittee. The union is achievin | s..a.- Jar successes in a number of Brook- lyn machine shops as a result of its campaign. Workers in metal box shops, in electrical switchboard and _ allied lines of work, and unemployed work- ers of the industry are called to an organization meeting on Tuesday, Noy. 28, at 5 pm. at Union head- quarters, 80 Smith St., Brooklyn, at which time the policies and program | of the Steel and Metal Workers In- dustrial Union will be explained. | Plan to SpreadUnion at Shoe Repair Meet Sun. NEW YORK.—To counteract the activities the chain shoe repair com- panies, such as Kliens and others, who are organizing their workers into | an A. F. of L. company un the | Shoe Repair Department of the Shor and Leather Workers Industrial Union announces that it will inten- | sify its drive to win the shoe repair workers. The department calls all shoe re- pair workers, employed and wom. ployed, to a mass meeting at Ir Plaza on Sunday, Nov. 43, at 9:00 am., to take up the many problems | confronting the workers during the coming months and to strengthen the union in preparation for any at- i |said, “I will spend my time riding 'f DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER | The Fighting 'Bedacht’s 50th Birthday To Be Celebrated Tonight at-/ Central Committee onc, P, Lauds His 380 Years Vets By H. E. BRIGGS A Diplomat’s Reward Pelham D. Glassford, diletante ist, diplomat, society idol and man| about Washington is a prospective | candidate for Police Chief of New York,, Major LaGuardia likes Gen- erals. He thought Glassford handled | the Bonus Army with tact and sym-| pathy, especially the murder by Glassford’s Police of Hushka and Carlson, Such diplomacy must be rewarded. What d’ye say, Buddy? All you fellows on the Bonus March should have @ vote in the matter. All those in favor of a GENERAL demonstration signify by the usual; sign, Watch Ya Step, Cap! | Capt, John Foley, while on his| honeymoon in New York, fell out of | @ fifth story window when walking | in his sleep. You can’t blame Mae West for this. It seems the Captain is a pill-roller attached to the Civil- ian Conservation Corps Camp at Montpelier, Vt. This is a veterans “forced labor camp,” where you work for $5.00 a month and your family} gets $25.00 instead of the $40.00 paid) « . . by the Home Relief. This is what is) known as a relief measure. But every- thing is not “Rosie.” We have inside information about several demonstra- |tions by the vets and boys in these|7ade Bedacht as member of the C. C. camps, protesting against the bad food, back-breaking work and lack of medical attention. Maybe Capt. Foley was worrying about these protests. Now about that fractured Jeg Captain, just take one of those Cc, C. pills; the kind you give the boys in the Forced Labor Camps and everything will be alright. No Friend of Ours We don’t like to advertise all these generals, captains, and majors in the news this week, but it is our duty to comment on the doings of these parasites, as a sort of warning ex- ample. Imagine these parasites call- ing us friends, especially Major von Stuepnagel. He just arrived from the land of the “Brown Brutes” to be leader of the American and Canadian Steel Helmets. He will reside in Bronxville. We hear the residents, especially the veterans have arranged to greet him at reveille and retreat with their famous cheer. When in- terviewed by reporters, the Major to hounds, hunting, etc.” Okay with us, Major. The W.ES.L. would be delighted to take you and all Fa- scists like you for a ride. Us Veterans The best attempt at a veterans newspaper to reach us comes out of “ie rank and file committee in Pitts- burgh. The editor is Comrade Car- reno, The make-up is fairly good, but the contents show the defects of @ one-man job, Draw in the Veter- ans, get correspondence, don’t depend on rehashing old material too much. One of the best pieces is the review of the lors! fi~ht for the State bonus. “he paper points out that the loca!, just as the natio-al backers of the National Economy League are mil- lionaires, bankers and big business men. Despite these enemies and their fight against the State Bonus, word comes to us that it was carried through, Local Pennsylvania veter- ans can thank themselves and their rank and file committees for gaining ‘is. If this State ficht was carried out on a national scale, through rank and file organization, these enemies who onnose State grants and the Na- tional Bonus, relief, disability allow- ances, etc., could be defeated. The Pittsburgh Renk and File Com- mittees are do's? cond work in car- ing on where the National Conven- tion left off. Dore power to the rank and file. The prominent display of the Three-Point Prosram at the head of each page could be copied to good tempts by the bosses to beat down the | wages and conditions of the wortcrs. | Fred Biederton= o-a-? 3p. ind Forum Hall, 323 E. 43 Si., :30 p, m, of the union, and George Martin, organizer, will speak. advantave by other vets, contemplat- ing bulletins, newspapers, etc. The nledge to support the struggle of the miners links the veterans in a decis- ve manner with the working class 25, 1 of Workingcelass Activity in Statement pected to be attended by hundreds Charles Krumbein. pianist; Miss Gressler, violinist, will NEW YORK.—Max Bedacht, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of U, S. A., and National Secretary of the Inter- national Workers’ Order, will be the guest of honor at the banquet tended him tonight upon the celebration of his 50th birthday and 30th | year in the revolutionary movement. } The banquet, which is being given by the New York District of the | Communist Party and the Central Committee of the I. W. O., is ex- | of workers. Speakers include Earl Browder, Clarence Hathaway, James W. Ford, William Wiener, and A musical program with Andre Cibulski, Soviet singer; Eugene Nigob, be part of the affair, which will be | heid at Irving Plaza Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place. 5 . 5 © COMRADE MAX BEDACHT, Revolutionary Leader of the American Working Class, Statement by the Central Com- mittee of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., on the Fiftieth Anni- very of Comrade Bedacht. ‘HE Central Committee of the Com- munist Party of the U.S.A. extends jits revolutionary greetings to Com- Central Committee and one of the leaders of the revolutionary labor movement in the United States of America. From his youth and up to the pres- ent time, Comrade Bedacht devoted all his energy and his fruitful work to advance the interests of the prole- tariat. Himself @ proletarian, earn- ing his living by his labor, he gave all his free time and all his attention to the class-struggle of the workers. First in Switzerland, where he came from his native Bavaria as @ young worker, then in the United States, where he emigrated in his twenties, he was engaged in the work of or- ganizing labor unions and leading strikes of workers against their ex- ploiters. Having joined the Socialist Party in America, he soon found himself in opposition to its reformist leadership. A labor leader in San Francisco, he consistently fought on the side of Tom Mooney against the leadership of the Socialist Party of |California, which insisted on dis- |avowing Mooney and expelling him from the party. URING the war he occupied an internationalist position, exposing the reactionary imperialist nature of America’s participation in the war, and advocating a revolutionary strug- gle by the American workers agains! the war. For his revolutionary stand on many vital problems, he was hated by the reformist leadership of the Socialist Party, but he gained the confidence and respect of thousands upon thousands of rank-and-file workers who later formed the foun- dation of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. Since the foundation of the Com- munist Party, in which Comrade Bedacht is a, charter member, he has is a good start in the right direction. What it lacks proves again the need for a National Veterans Newspaper. We hope to bring out in the future such a paper and hereby extend an invitation to every veteran in Amer- ica to send in their ideas and material for it, Let Us Give Thanks The W.ES,L, is out with the firing | squad to get the Blue Tutkey Buz-/| zard. If you see them coming your way with tickets, don’t turn them down. Here is your chance to eat, drink and dahce—ALL YOU WANT, for 50c. Besides there will be fine entertainment. Two bands will keep you on your toes from 2 P.M. until 2AM. Bring the whole family. The Red Magician will distribute favors to the children, so keep November ‘ruggles, It is not a dull paper. It 30th, Thanksgiving Day, open. | | MAX BEDACHT been one of the outstanding leaders. Comrade Bedacht occupied various positions, but he has always remained in the front ranks of the Communist movement. From the foundation of the Communist Party. He has been a member of its Central Committee and during the last few years a mem- ser of the Political Bureau. By his indomitable energy, and ‘yurning devotion to the cause of the Communist Party and the working slass, by his ideological struggles in he first ranks of the Party, by his “aithful following of the line of the Jommunist International at the time of the gravest crisis in the history of cur Party, by his relentless struggles gainst the right and “left” oppor- ‘unists within the Party and against the renegades of every shade, Com- vade Bedacht has won the love and respect of the membership of the| Communist. Party and revolutionary workers, IN THE last few years, Comrade Bedacht has done good mass work as one of the leaders of the Inter- national Workers Order of which he has been elected General Secretary at its last convention in Chicago. Comrade Bedacht has become, for | large numbers of workers, a symbol | of revolutionary activity, a symbol of | Communism. In greeting Comrade Bedecht and wishing him many more years of successful work in the ranks of the Communist Party, the Central Committee urges the workers to emu- late the example of Comrade Bedacht and to express their recognition of his 933 Seattle Unemployed Thank Communists for Aid in Strike SEATTLE, Wash. Nov. 24.— A letter, unanimously voted upon at a meeting of 100 members of the Unemployed Citizens League of Bothel, thanking the Com- munist Party for its help and leadership in the recent strike of the relief workers of Seattle and King County, was received here today by the District Office of the Communist Party. The letter states that: “We, the Unemployed Citizens Lea~ of Bothel, have unanimously de- cided to thank you for the help that you have given the unem- ployed im this forced labor strike.” As a result of the three-week strike against forced Iabor in Seattle, the relief officials have been made to give cash for all relief work of the ‘anteseahtel | National Events DAILY WORKER BANQUET Tr PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A prom- inent speaker will address the Dally Worker Victory Banquet here this Sunday eyening at Jefferson Manor Hall, Broad and Jefferson Sta. An outstanding entertainment Program will include Bella Dorf- man, of the Artef, the Workers Laboratory Theatre and a play by the local John Reed Club. All workers, all friends of the Dally Worker are invited to attend. . . Talk on C. P. and Fascism NEWARK.—Rebecca Grecht, Dis- trict Organizer of the Communist Party of New Jersey, will speak at the Workers Forum this Sunday, Nov. 26, 1933, a 3 p.m. at Kreuger’s Audi- torium, 25 Belmont Ave. Her topic will be “The Communist Party and the Struggle Against Fascism.” Patterson at I.L.D. Banquet ROXBURY, Mass.—William Pat- terson will be the main speaker at the ILD. banquet vand dance on ‘Thanksgiving Eve, Wednesday, Nov. 29, New International Hall, 42 Wen- onah St. WASHINGTON BOOK SHOP ANNOUNCES FALL SEASON SALE Good news for Washington work- ers! We all want to keep up with the rapidly changing economic and political situation and to prepare jourselves to fight better in the struggles of the workers. So here is the “good news.” The Interna~- tional Book Shop, 806 Eye St., N.W., in Washington is announcing its First Season Sale, to begin on No- vember 25, and continue through December 5. There will be a 15-20 per cent discount on current revo- lutionary literature as well as on the more expensive editions of the Marxist-Leninist classics necessary to understanding the world we live in. Since the recognition of the So- viet Union an increasing number of people are asking the question, “What is life like in the land with @ workers’ and farmers’ govern- ment?” Literally dozens of pamph- lets and magazines as well as books give the answer to this question. Other questions, for instance, “What work by joining the Communist| does the N.R.A. mean to the work- Party. ers?”, “What is the dollar worth Long live Comrade Bedacht. under Roosevelt's inflation pro- Long live the Communist Party of gram?”, “Why do we hear so much the U.S.A.! Long live the Communist Inter-| \Marxist-Leninist analysis. national! about lynching just now?”, etc., are answered in the clear light of “Letting Power Out of One Hand, To Ca Trundles Forth Sociali: Old Parties No Longer Popular; Capitalists Fear Only the Communist Party By JACK STACHEL In a recent article that appeared in the Daily Worker dealing with the city elections throughout the country, we pointed out that almost everywhere the “ins” were turned out and the “outs” were turned in. We pointed out that this was one of the exvressions of the growing dis- content of the masses expressing it- self in the face of the lack of poli- tical maturity of the masses, through the traditional two party system. This situation was seen in the city @f New York where Tammany was defeated by the Republican-Fusion forces, in Cleveland where the Re- publicans again took power from the Roosevelt Democrats, in Pittsburgh end Philadelohia, where the Mellon and Vare machines were defeated by the Democrats, and in Bridgeport, where the Socialists were elected against both of the two old narties. ‘We pointed out that so far as Bridge- port was concerned the capitalists could no longer fool the workers with the two old parties and resorted to the use of the third party of capi- talism, the Socialist Party. Use Other Parties But there is one important lesson from these elections that was not emphasized. This is the methods through which the capitalists main- tain their rule. Much has already been written in the past of how the capitalists of the U. S. utilize the two party system to keep the work~- ers chained to the capitalist parties. It_ is becoming more and more clear with every election, as the crisis con- tinues to grow, that the capitalists are putting forward and building up the Socialist Party as the third party of capitalism in those nlaces where they can no longer keep the workers chained to the two old parties, They also put forward and sup- port various so-called Farmer-Labor parties as is the case in the State of Minnesota, where the Farmer- Labor Party is the ruling party. In the recent Detroit elections a can- st Party When Two ward on the so-called Forgotten Man’s Ticket. These are the methods used by the capitalists. But this is not an American invention. It is the methcd used by the bourgeoisie throughout the world. Merx’s Prediction Karl Marx in the year 1855 al- ready saw this and wrote about it in connection with the developments in England at that time. He wrote as follows: “The oligarchy perpetuates it- self not only through the aid of permanently keeping power in the same hands, but also by turn and turn abont, letting power out of one hand in order to catch it in the other.” “Letting power out of one hand in order to catch it in the other’— what a profound observation made already in the year 1855 by the founder of scientific socialism, the greatest thinker of all time. tch States. The bankers and real estate interests will rule now through La Guardia just as before they did through O’Brien and Walker. So it is in Pittsburgh. The Mellon in- terests will continue to rule through MeNair just as they did through Herron and Cline. And so it is in Bridgeport where the capitalists, as in Milwaukee, have helped to bring the Socielist Party to rule for them. Of course the capitalists will shout that the new rulers are for the masses in order in that manner to be able to better maintain their rule. In Pittsburgh the Democratic Party made its main election slogan against the Mellon control. To be sure here and there the special immediate in- terests of the various sections of the ruling class may be in conflict on definite questions of policy. But this does not in the least alter the fact that the elected officials will be the representatives of the ruling class as a whole fighting to maintain the rule of private property, of exploitation and oppression of the toiling masses. Probe Class Program It is only by inquiring into the class character and class program of a political party that we can de- And how applicable to the present day conditions not alone in the U. S. A. but throughout the world. Without understanding this method used by the capitalists it would be impossible to understand many of the complex problems of modern Politics. Problems that can only be understood on the basis of the theories elaborated by Marx and es- nerinllv the teaching of Marx that the history of modern society is the histroy of class struggles. What did the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt represent? Was it not “letting power out of one hand in order to catch it in the other?” What are the nolicies that Roosevelt is carrying through at the present time? They are the policies dictated by the ruling class thet now rules throuvh Roosevelt as it did before through Hoover. So it was in Germeny. The ruling Class contiruss to rule throvzh Hitler just es before ther ruled threugh Bru:nin>, before that through ths Sociolist Braun, and be- fore that through the Maisor, And so it was with the recent didate for Councilman was put for- municipal elections in the United termine the interests that a given volitical party represents. The two eld parties openly stand for the con- tinuation of capitalist rule. This means that they stand for the rob- bery and plunder of the proletarian and other toiling masses in the in- terests of the exvloiters. Roosevelt does not deny that he stands for the saving of the capitalists system, any less than the Republican party ef Hoover and Mellon. He claims that he will administer the capital- ist system in the interests of the masses. But it is impossible to re- concile the interest of both the ex- ploited and the exploiters. Roose- yelt is the representative of the ex- ploiting class. Every measure of the Roosevelt administration is a class measure against the toilers, And so it is with the “little” Roose- velts, the LaGuardios, the IMfcNairs, Already with the deepening of the crisis and the apparent failure of the N. R, A. to solve the crisis ihe capitalists are more ovenly brinzint forward the Pepublican onr en to the Roosevelt measures. By doing this they are preparing for the time when the disillusionment of the masses brings down the Roosevelt government, when they will again play the game of “letting power out of one hand in order to catch it in the other.” This has already hap- pened in the Cleveland elections where the Roosevelt Democrat Miller was defeated by the Republican can- didate, Don’t Fear Socialist Party As for the Socialist Party. The capitalists no longer fear the Soci- alist Party. After the lessons of the role of the party of Hilquit during the war, and especially after the war end the Russian revolution the capi- talists have recognized the Socialist Party as the third party of capital- ism. They have not been blind te the fact that it was the Social Demo- crats who supported their govern- ments in the last world war. They have not forgotten how the Soci- alist leaders of Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary and other countries saved their ruling class from the Bolshevist revolution. They have not forgotten the loyal service of Eberts and Brauns to the German ruling class and the paving the way for Hitler by these Socialists in order to stop the Communists from gaining power. In this country they have seen that the Socialist Party is do- ing everything in its power to fight, arainst the real interests of the workers, Communism. That Hillquit like Easley and Whalen and Fish was the bitterest enemy of the Soviet Union. That the recent Socialist candidate for Mayor of New York, Charles Solomon, took out injunctions against a mili- tant union. That the Socialist Party of Thomas and Lee, of Waldman and Oneal, of Dubinsky and McLevy is concerned first and foremost with a@ struggle against the Party that fights for the rule of the working class, ond that they have made the saving of capitalism as their banner slogan. The capitalists are not | frightened by the “holiday” profes- | sions of faith in the “future of Soci- elism” by these gentlemen who dati fight against the victory of S ism. And for that veason the capi t press sings praise to Norman | ham, candidave for President, and | supports James McLevy when the en ne NNN nro aE It in Anoth er ”-- Marx Capitalist Class Uses Two Party System to Maintain Power in Face of Mass Anger at Unemployment Democrats or Republicans in Bridge- port. Fear Communist Party There is only one party that the capitalists fear — the Communist Party. In this the capitalists show a full understanding of their class interests. The Communist Party openly proclaims as its aim the abolition of capitalism. And it is proving its understanding, devotion and sacrifice to this cause in the Caily struggles in the interests of the workers and other toilers. Our Party must clearly bring before the masses these elementary truths re- garding the class struggle and the class character of the various poli- tical parties. It must expose the methods through which the capital- ists maintain their rule. It must prove to the masses that only the Communist Party is the party of the working class. Communist Vote Grows In this connection the recent city elections though far from being satisfactory as far as our activity in enlightening the masses as to the ‘rue issucs, and mobilizing them for struggle and teaching them the truth through their own experience, never- theless can record progress in many sections of the country in winning over new strata of masses to the cause of Communism and the strug- gic under the banner of the Com- munist Party. And in the same way it is en- couraging to note that where seri- ous efforts were made our Party was able to show a growth of influence much greater than that of the Soci- alist Party. In the New York elec- tions the ton vote for our Party of some 31,000 was almost half the ton vote of the Socialist Party, though | the previous year the vote for the Socialist Party was more than ten imes that for our Party. In Paterson where there has been for the last few weeks a very sharp st le our Party increased its yote and topped the vote of the Social- masses no longer wish to support the | ists, In a number of industrial cities | and NRA Misery where important struggles have taken place recently the Party through the application of the united front tac- tics and grouping around itself a number of militant workers organi- zations was able to secure a large vote comparitively. This was the case in Dearborn, Mich.; in Helper, Utah; in Lynn, Mass.; in Hamilton, Ohio; in Ambridge and many other cities. In Detroit, the top vote of the Party was larger than that of the Socialist Party and also in San Francisco. Improved Methods This shows that once our Party improves its methods of agitation and propaganda, in exposing the various capitalist parties, and above all the role of the Socialist Party, once our Party learns to improve its leadership in the mass struggles and to combine the daily struggles in defense of the economic and political interests of the masses with the teaching the masses the only way out of the crisis in the interests of the masses, that our Party can | rapidly become the mass party of the American working class. The working class does not have the treachery of the Socialists as did the workers in Germany. Drawing the lessons of the inter- | national and home role of the Soci- | alists we can expose it before the masses as one of the capitalist par- ties through which the ruling class rules “by letting power out of one hand and catch it in the other” just as it rules through the two old par- ties, and rally the leftward moving masses behind the Communist Party. For example, the Socialist Party | | leaders rushed forward to praise the | whole N. R. A. attack against the) workers as already containing ele-| ments of Socialism, and Norman} Thomes prvised it as nermittine the “peaceful transition to Socialism.” | And Josver McLevy praises the Roosevelt relief program which drives 2,000,000 families off the relief lists inte forced labor camps. | that is, he supervises a staff of news- to go through the exneriences of | ASHINGTON is a happy hu industrialists, ambitious liberals WALL STREET’S CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN Page Three nting ground for bankers and intellectual racketeers, outright labor fakers, labor “experts,” and hack politicians. bureauocracy is the greatest in the history of this country. | The “New Deal” pork barrel has| mn many staves. Theodore Bilbo, ex-Governor of the $6,000 a year Special Agent in the Division of! Publicity and In- formation of the Agricultural Ad- justment Admi- i nistration. Special Seymour Waldman Agent Bilbo helps to “adjust” things for poor farmers, paper clippers! N. R. A. (approximately 1,500 are on its capital payroll) has a pub- |licity department of about 150 ad- \vertising and newspaper men, a press |“4ntelligence” service for noting and clipping the views of 400 daily pap- ers, hundreds of expensive desks, chairs and lounges, a special library, limousines, and other comforts of “recovery” which thus far have cost | the people, for administrative ex- | |penses alone, about $5,000,000. And every day sees the arrival of more labor fakers, politicians, professors, |and other Roosevelt salesmen-career- ists. ee. HOST of bright young lawyers and other practitioners fresh from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and other points wander around wondering what it’s all about. Re- |leases are issued around the clock. Reporters seem to be in constant dither about the gestation of the codes. And to make it a perfect |ballyhoo madhouse, the Commerce | |Department hall bells clang at reg- | ular intervals. Literally, tons of publicity releases, much of which is reprinted word for | word, are spewed out each day from a thousand different departments. Everything from the continually re- | peated demagogic falsehood that “85 per cent” of the “Public Works” war program goes to “labor,” to daily Commerce Department blather such as recent releases on sight-seeing buses in India and another on the best department store method of im- personating Santa Claus. Part of the N. R. A. ballyhoo con- | sists of mimeographed releases on radio “interviews,” staged along orthodox vaudeville lines, with feed- ers and principles. N. R. A. Release No, 1482 (we're now in the 1800s) Senator from New York and Chair- S°, “successful, ta | With the possible exception of the World War period, the |present evergrowing governmente— is entitled “Radio Interview With Senator Wagner—Robert F. Wagner, man of the National Labor Board will be interviewed by two of his fellow members on the Board, Walter C. Teagle, Chairman of the Standard Mississippl, Whos | Oil Company of New Jersey, and Hi condi the| William Green, President of the Seen s now|American Federation of Labor, the ew being broadcast over a na- al hookup by the National Broad- asting Company.” “Senator Wagner: My only regret is the absence tonight of the other members of the Board, including those outstanding leaders of indus- try; Gerard Swope, Edward N. Hurley, Louis C. Kirstein, and Austin and those able spokesmen for Dr. Leo Wolman, Father J. Haas, John L. Lewis, and George L. Berry... Mr. Gree: Mr. Chairman, what about all these strikes which ‘have been taking pla ince the establish- ment of the Board? Do you conm- r the number alarming? “Senator Wagner: I do not... “Mr. Teagle: Do you mean, Senator, that you are satisfied with condi- tions as they are? “Senator Wagner: By no means; all I am trying to point out is’ that the situation is not so serious as to banish hope. Of course, I am not satisfied with conditions which reflect philosophies of conflict: and hatred, for they can never be the basis for economic reconstruction . .. “Mr. Teagie: Senator, how would | you characterize the Board’s method of dealing with disputes over recog- nition of employees’ representatives? “Senator Wagner: Just one word is necessary—democracy. We are taking the American ideal of political | government and projecting it. into the industrial field. Whenever a question arises as to who shall be the recognized spokesman of the workers in a particular plant, our solution is simple. 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