The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 19, 1934, Page 4

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1934 * Billionaires Wallow in Luxury, oo * Lenin Said of U. S. Masses Capitalists Now Swallow 66 P. C. of National Income Workers Wages Beaten Down to 1-3 of °29, Report Shows NEW YORK. The economic orisis is smashing down on the wages of the working class at least twice as hard as it affecting the huge incomes of the mi bondholders, coupon-clippers, dend collecting stockholders, 1 lords, bankers, etc., etc., an official United Stat survey of the Depart- ment of Commerce reveals. While interest payments to Wall Street bondholders have been rising steadily even through the bitter years of crisis since 1929, and divi- dend payments have been sharply jacked up by the fat profits pro- vided for the employers during the last year by the slave-driving N.R.A. codes, the wages of the working class of this country were slashed 6@ per cent, bringing them to about 4@ per cent of their 1989 level, the Government report reveais, During this period income derived solely from the possession of proper- ty declined by less than 30 per cent This latter figure does not reveal the rising interest payments to| bondholders | Thus for every dollar of decline | in property income to landlords, etc., | ete, the workers have had their | wages cut by at least two dollars, | under the Hoover and Roosevelt ad- | ministrations. | Wealth Concentration | The enormous concentration of | wealth into the hands of the Wal| Street clique of finance capital since | the crisis began has been just re-| vealed in a study of national in- | come by Robert R. Doane in a book called “The Measurement of Amer- ican Wealth.” This study reveals | that since the crisis began Wall | Street monopoly corporations bet- | tereci their position by gobbling up| at least 20 per cent more of the | otal national wealth. Doane calls this terrific concen- book gives further remarkable confirmation of the analysis of Karl Marx regarding the steady concentration of wealth ag a re- sult of crisis. Doane reveals that | whereas three years ago, the cap- | talist class, constituting less than 1 per cent of the population, owned 59 per cent of the coun- try’s wealth, now, as a result of the crisis and government actions, | this 1 per cent of the population now owns at least 88 per cent of the country’s wealth. This handful of capitalists actual- y rule the country through their dictatorship, the capitalist dictator- ship. ernment apparatus, as well ag the | press, the movies, the radio, schools, | and the Army and Navy. In 1929 Wall Street monopoly corporations were swallowing al- most 50 per cent of the total na- Honal wealth. Under the effects of the crisis and the N.R.A., Wall street corporations are now swal- lowing more than 66 per cent of the national income. Deane calls this terrific concen- tration of national wealth within the record-breaking time of less than 48 months “the most rapid, drastic, and gigantic dissipation, redistribution of capital that has, | in all probability, taken place in | so short a period in the history | | of modern times.” These figures are vivid expres- sion of Lenin’s description of American capitalism in his “Letter to American Workers” as a “coun- try where a handfal of billionaires wallows in luxury while the vast majority of the population lives in hunger and misery.” Lenin arged the American working class to take the road of revolutionary Struggle against this capitalist rulmg class and set up its own Soviet Government as the work- ers of the Soviet Union did in the October Revolution of 1917. The Communist Party today leads the struggle for this revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist minor- ity who rule the vast toiling majority. The Roosevelt N.R.A. program is accelerating this process of concen- tration to a large degree. Recent reports of profits reveals that since last March, the Roosevelt New Deal- N.R.A. program has raised the re- turns of 810 Wall Street monopolies from a deficit of $45,000,000 in 1932 to a profit of over $440,000,000 in 1983. Since Roosevelt took office, the veal wages of the entire American working class dectined by at least 11 per cent. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY | 107 BRISTOL STREET | Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 | 10 AM, 1-8, 6-8 Pe ‘ROOSEVELT They contro! the entire gov- | « Starve,’ ‘NEW PROGRAM, WALL STREET ORGA DEAL” Is BANKERS ADMITS NEW YORK.—Remarkably frank admission that the Roosevelt New Deal and N.R.A. are dear to the hearts of the biggest Wall Street 's and ist bar A The “Annalist” “THE CAPITAL IN THE VELT) PETITIVE METHODS, TOGETHER OF THE THE GOVERNMENTAL TUS, THE INCREASING DINATION (OF THE N. ARE ELEMENTS states ARGE AGGR LONG finance-capitalist billionaires is given this week in the leading financial journal of America, in its eurrent issue. EGATES OF FINANCIAL STAND TO BENEFIT SUBSTANTIALLY RUN FR REGIME—THE ELIMINATION OF COM- THE PRIVATE BANKING WITH OM THE NEW (ROOSE- CLOSER WELDING FINANCIAL APPARA- CONTROL AND CO-OR- R.A. CODES—ED.)—ALL OF STRENGTH FOR THE FU- TURE OF FINANCE CAPITALISM.” Here is frank admission by the leading Wall Street journal that the Roosevelt New Deal-N.R.A. program is the program of the biggest billionaires and exploiters in the country, and that Roosevelt is giving them exactly what they want—monopoly profits and use of the gov- ernment furids and power for the Protection of their investments. INCE the Roosevelt N. R. A. was put into effect the following have been some of the salient features of economic development. The cost of living haé risen at least 30 per cent since last March. The cost of living has risen at least 20 per cent since last March. Real wages of all wage workers have been cut by at least 11 per ° cent, since the rise in the cost of rise in wages in certain industries living has outstripped the nominal by that amount. The profits of 810 largest WaH Street monopolies have jumped enormously, rising from a deficit profit of $445,000,000 in 1933. of $45,000,000 im 1932 to a huge The Roosevelt government has poured at least 10 billion dollars nto the hands of banks, mortgage holders, insurance companies, loan companies, railroads, etc., etc As a result, many railroads and industrial corporations are de- claring dividends for the first time in 25 years, while interest pay- ments to millionaire bondholders are establishing new high records. Dividends have been restored or increased in more Wall Street corporations than at any time since 1929, according to the studies of the National City Bank. The American masses have paid almost one billion dollars in processing taxes, which in turn have been turned over to rich plan- tation owners and landlords to compensate them for the destruction of more than 25 per cent of the wheat and corn crop, and almost 40 per cent of the cotton crop, This in turn has reduced the supply of goods so that prices have advanced by at least 25 per cent. Whereas before the N.R.A., 1 per cent of the population owned more than 59 per cent of the country’s wealth, now this 1 per cent of financial-monopoly capitalists country’s wealth. owns at least 88 per cent of the Pr eae Striker Describes Struggle: Praises “Daily” “Yours a Teuly Geel Light;” Paper; Showed Us the Was Far from Communism, But New Sees Facts (By An Aluminum Worker) NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.—To the Editor of the Daily Work About two weeks before we declared our holiday” here at the Aluminum | Works, the Company posted notices | throughout the mill to the effect that any person that misses seven | |or more days of work must be re-| examined by the company doctor. A day before our “holiday” was call- ed. a fellow worker who had twelve years service with the company came | hack to work after losing about eight days through iliness, and was| immediately || mient Office, aan he was informed | | that there was no work for him. | When he told the employment agent | that he was fit for work, he was | informed to report again in the af- ternoon. He did so and on being | examined, he was found fit for work, | but he had to be rehired over again at a beginner’s wages, after doing | twelve years’ service in the mill- | wright division. | This is just one of the many reasons which caused us fellows to | call a strike. Yours is a truly great paper. and sent to the Employ-| it was through your paper that I} good. F ood, Clothing Now 25 Per Cent Higher Since Codes Began New Deal Drives Workers Levels Down Study Reveals NEW YORK—As a result of the workings of the N.R.A. codes, the} economic position of the working! class dropped sharply during el month of February, the National In-| | dustrial Conference Board reveals in | its latest report. The cost of living jumped one again, rising sharply by more than | 86 per cent, effecting another | deep slash in the real wages of all | workers through cutting the buy- | ing power of all pay envelopes, during this monta. The sharp rise in the cost of living was due primarily to further rapid | advances in the retail prices of com- | | mon necessities as a result of the | N.R.A. price-fixing agreements. Prices of basic clois ing necessities on March 1 of this year touched a new high point registering 28.9 per | cent above March of last year, ac- | cording to the latest reports of the | Fairchild Retail Price research sta- tisticians. The report reveals that in the past few weeks, the N.R.A. codes have been jacking prices up faster than at any time since last November, the rise during February being the greatest in the last five months. Rents are beginning to show slowly rising tendencies for the first time in many months, despite the vacancies which still remain unfilled | by tenants unable to meet the ad- vancing rents. Rents rose by 0.2 per cent, and are close to the high levels of last year’s peak. . R. BR. Raises Food Prices Roosevelt processing taxes, N.R.A. codes, and crop-destroying program has sent the coists of daily foods sharply upward, latest figures reveal. Since last March, the price of flour has doubled, eggs are from 75-100 per cent higher. ‘The following are some of the pare with prices a year ago before the Roosevelt N.R.A. and A.A.A. pro- gram began to take effect: March March 1938 1934 Pot roast beef Jb. 8 1044 butter Ib. 18-23¢ -26-33c bread 1b, 4-6c 7-9¢ was able to foresee things in their true light. And echoing the senti- ment of your paper, we must pre- pare against this menace of the working class, that is slowly gather- | ing its power—fascism. And just a short time ago I was as far from Communism as the next fellow, and it was through your paper that I came to realize facts. And, fellow workers, we must not waste precious time in trying to organize a unit to combat this foe of the working class, but we must join a working man’s organization biow for blow, and step by step— the Communist Party, and let us join this organization for our own latest retail food prices as they com- | that is fighting this enemy of ours, | NEGRO AND WHITE ALABAMA MINERS UNITE IN STRIKE. A strike meeting of Alabama miners outside of the Bradford mine. Nearly 14,000 Alabama miners are recognition, defying the orders of striking for higher wages and union the N. R. A, labor board and their U.M.W.A. officials to return to work and “arbitrate” afterwards. ‘We Must Work More Intensively in the By WALTER BOLT In spite of their craft barriers and right wing leadership the 21 standard railway labor unions are |numerically and strategically the most powerful combination of or- ganized labor in the United States today. Over 400,000 workers are members of these 21 Brotherhoods. The agreements signed by them determine the wage rates and working demands of the entire in- dustry because the railroad com- panies use these agreements as a yard stick for measuring just how far they dare go, not only with their organized employes, but with the unorganized and company un- ionized men. Work within the standard railway unions is there- fore of the utmost importance. The Ferment in the Unions Inside the railway unions a real ferment is developing. In some of the brotherhoods this ferment is already coming to a head in the formation of groups around certain issues. The membership of the Big Four (Hngineers, Trainmen, Fire- men and Conductors), has been taxed to exhaustion for all sorts of capitalist ventures; banks, real es- tate investments, huge administra- tive headquarters, insurance fea- tures of every kind. The Grand Lodge officials, dethroned as mas- ters of finance, have tried to pull themselves out of the mud as best they could, appealing to the “loy- alty” of the membership to save the good name of the organization. At the same time in order to stifle opposition and maintain themselves | in office, they have resorted to gag {rule methods. In the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen a lodge can {not circulate a petition to other | lodges without running the risk of being disbanded by the Grand | Chief. Wholesale expulsions of | members who dare to express dis- satisfaction with Whitney or his methods are notorious in this or-| ganization. Similar gag rule tactics used in the last Convention of the office at the very time they were being indicted for misuse of funds and speculation resulting in the; crash of the Brotherhood’s Cleve-| land bank, The discontent of the rank and (Note: The rapid preparations for war under the N.R.A. are ex- posed in this fifth article in a series by Marguerite Young. Pre- vious articles showed the speedy development towards _ fascism through the Roosevelt regime, as exhibited at the conference of 4,000 bosses in Washington re- cently. A concluding article in this series will be published to- morrow.) By MARGUERITE YOUNG (Daily Worker Washington Bu.) In a new spurt toward complete | co-ordination between the N.R.A. and the War Department officials who are mobilizing industry war, ten more regular officers of the U. S. Army have just stepped into} key positions in the N.R.A. Eight of them came directly from the of- fice of the fascist-minded Assist- ant Secretary of War Harry B. Woodring, who is responsible under existing law for gearing’ industry to be ready to shift to war-time production on telegraphic notice. The appointment of the army men was announced at a moment when some 4,000 industrial mag- nates were disclosing, in last week's Congress of Industry, that they cannot reconcile the conflicts of in- terest that exist among themselves. In this Congress, repeatedly the business moguls showed that al- though they can organize for con- certed drives against their workers —under the N.R.A—they cannot solve the antagonisms inherent in the interests of various sections of their own class. And in the simul- taneous announcement of the new army appointments there is a dra- matic reminder that these magnates and their New Deal government of- ficials are deliberately planning to use imperialist war to meet any problems they cannot answer with fascization, #1378 STNICHOLAS ave 1690 Lexinaron ave. |p oat !70" STAY ab 10615 STNY oH Leading World War industrialists already are playing a leading role in Whe New Deal. Gerard Swope, cen- for | Engineers kept the ruling clique in} 21 Railway Unions file in the railway unions has been for the most part a movement of individuals. In some cases it has been led by demagogues and office seekers no better than the men in control of the organizations. No- where has there been organized, ef- fective left wing leadership. Amaigamation, the One Big Union and New Unions Disillusioned railroad workers are looking everywhere but within themselves and their own organi- zations to find a solution to their national and local grievances. The One Big Union idea has always been popular with railroad men and in many parts of the country an I. W. W. card was considered with even greater favor than mem- bership in one of the standard unions. The I. W. W. is played out now, but the ideas in the minds of railroaders still persist. All kinds of amalgamation schemes for the 21 railroad brotherhoods are on the market and their promoters are hard at work getting Tom, Dick and Harry to sign up for their par- ticular pet scheme. And all the while that these blue print pana- ceas are going the rounds, condi- tions are slipping from us thriigh the neglect of machinery which is already set up for taking care of local, union and job grievances. It is a serious mistake to place before railroad workers the illusion that amajgamation by itself will right their wrongs. It is quite true that we could get along much bet- ter with one organization for the \engineers and firemen, and one for the trainmen, conductors and switchmen, but that one organiza- tion in control of Whitney or John- ston or Robertson would represent the interests of the men no better than the five existing organiza- tions do now. And Johnston in control of the funds of two organi- zations could have swindled the men even more thoroughly than he did with the engineers. It is not so much the form of the organization which is at fault or its size. It is its policy. For | experience has shown that a small’ fighting union can win demands) where a large union which shakes | hands with the boss and refuses to use the weapon of union power gets Administrator General Hugh until the passing of the peak Sounding the strike-delaying toc- sin with revealing clarity, the Gen- eral, after his conference yesterday with the employers and their law- yers, declared, “An automobile strike threatens the whole dustry. Thu: he continued, “it seemed wise to ali concerned to make an at- tempt to give the self-govern- ing Code Au- thority (which consists of the very manufac- turers who drew up their own “merit” clause clause code—S.W.) of the whole in- dustry an opportunity to act in its proper function to try to settle the trouble. . . eration (A. F. of L.) officials have agreed to postpone aggressive ac- tion... .” (Emphasis mine.) So what? With the full knowil- edge of Roosevelt, Johnson pro- posed to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce (the propa- ganda organ of the automobile in- terests dominated by General Mo- tors) the “creation of a board of review to determine in its own way whether the claims made by the union leaders that they have been delegated by a majority of the em- seymour Waldman bargaining are correct.” Now, Johnson knows very well that it is extremely dubious whether the A. F. of L. unions, even with the nothing. And we in the railroad unions have seen time and again, as we see today, that where the of- ficials of our 21 unions WANT to get together, as in the matter of wage cuts, they have quickly come to an understanding, against the wishes and at the expense of the membership. What is to prevent similar sell guts if the 21 crafts are amalgamated mechanically from the top? On the other hand what is to prevent the rank and file of the 21 organizations from setting up their own machinery for united ac- tion, for fraternization, on the job, and in terminal and system federa- tions? It is possible to hammer out a Unity Movement of this kind within the existing unions, among groups of unorganized railroad workers and even inside the com- peny unions ; being developed right now around the fight for the Workers Social Insurance Bill, for a united retire- ment pension law and particularly on the issue of the return of the 10 per cent wage cut and an increase in wages to meet inflation prices. Leadership for the Rank and File A united front and opposition movement is developing among rail- j road workers, but too slowly and in too haphazard a manner. The pressure of events which forces a member of the Communist Party to join a right wing union for his economic protection as it is (Continued on Page 5) N. R. A. Bosses’ Meet Showed Huge Spurt i in Mobilizing Industry for War ; LEADING WAR INDUSTRIALISTS PUT IN PROMINENT POSITIONS TO DIRECT N. R. A. ATTACKS tral figure in last week’s planning for fascization, Chairman of the Business Advisory and Planning Council of the Commerce Depart- | ment and a member of the N.R.A.’s National Labor Board, was a mem- ber of the War Industries Board, which was commander-in-chief of | the industrial set-up of the United States during the World War. An- other member of this War Indus- tries Board, which ordered the transportation, the movement of food and of all other industries, was | George N. Peek, now head of the Department of State’s Committee in | Charge of Foreign Trade. Who is | General Johnson himself if not au- thor of the selective draft and the | research assistant of Bernard M. Baruch, war millionaire and chair- man of the War Industries Board? One Out, Ten in Johnson, last January, placed in the N.R.A, several War Department associates including Col. Robert H. Montgomery, former Secretary of | the War Policies Commission, which studied, among other things the best methods of mobilizing men and procuring munitions. Montgomery has gone, now, but ten others step in! Naming the eight captains, ma- jors and colonels, the N.R.A. an- nounced that they “are now on spe- cial duty in the office of the Assist- ant Secretary of War in connection with industrial studies.” What Johnson didn’t say was that these “industrial studies” are nothing but mobilizing industry to be ready for war and placing contracts with key industrialists—contracts for muni- tions, chemicals and other war ma- terials. These officers were named as “government representatives” on the N.R.A. Code Authorities of the following industries: Fabricated metal products, manufacturing and metal finishing and metal coating; cement industry; malleable iron in- dustry; plumbing fixtures industry; special tool, die and machine shop industry; cast iron pressure pipe industry; feldspar industry; and cooking and heating appliance in- dustry. All of these are potential war in- dustries. For example, metal prod- ucts manufacturing may become gun manufacturing; tools and dies in themselves may be vital means of production in the manufacture of guns, artillery, etc. The posting of army men in strategic industries is significant. But General Johnson probably will place army men on many other Code Authorities also. Along with the announcement concerning the above eight came another—naming a lieutenant colo- nel of the Army Engineer Reserves, formerly assigned as chief of the Pittsburgh Procurement (industrial mobilization) District, as govern- ment representative on the pipe nipple manufacturing industry. Soon afterward came the an- nouncement that a colonel of the U. 8. Marine Corps will represent the government on the hand chain hoist manufacturing industry’s Code Authority. In other words, the Code Authorities are to be peppered with army men—the auxiliary command who will be ready to swing into war action immediately, complet- ing the set-up headed by Johnson and his buddies. Planning Higher Prices Yes, planning for war and for fascism are simple matters for the barons who conceived the N.LR.A. and who now dominate its admini- stration. But “capitalist planning,” which they are also attempting within the framework of their competitive (profit) system is something else again. They have not reached first base with it. They divided their Congress of Industry into five groups and in those groups that were considering such subjects as control of production and control of prices, their bewtlderment, was com- plete. Here the antagonisms be- tween small fry and kingfish flashed | manufacti into the open, giving the lie to the administration’s pretense that it has a magnificent, philanthropic in- terest _in the “small business man.” A. Blishewitz, small-fry New York hat manufacturer, worded the situ- ation thus, in speaking before a group meeting on industrial organi- zation in the Code Authorities: “Even where the majority of the members of an industry are smail units, the larger industrialists have more power and greater representa- tion on the Code Authority. The representation is such that we can only veto any measure undesirable to the small firms, but we cannot on the other hand bring about any corrective steps for our benefit.” How It’s Done When they came to open-price listing, again, they found them- selves in chaotic disagreement. Open-price listing is the device by which they fix prices (and fix them high) under the N.R.A—the device of having various members of an industry file notice of prices with his trade association or Code Authority, and then allowing a “waiting pe- riod” before adopting new prices. During the “waiting period” the central trade body exerts pressure on the lower-prices members to bring their scales up to those main- tained by the kingfish who want prices high enough to recoup lost. profits on over-capitalized busi- nesses. Deputy N.R. A. Administrator Whiteside opened the session on prices by warning in advance that it was the “abuses” of price-fixing rather than the evil itself on which he wanted testimony. Sidney Hill- man, A. F. of L. faker of the Labor Advisory Board, fell in with that suggestion by declaring that “labor recognizes the necessity of increased costs [not lower profits—M. Y.] as @ necessary incident to the raising of labor standards,” although, he Rene “abuses” might “act ges a ”" Frank N. Bond of the manutactring Go hint brazenly should be “compulsory.” Whereupon Whiteside asked whether he ap- proved of price-fixing by the Steel Code itself, rather than leaving it to the Code Authority. Bond re- plied: “Positively and absolutely.” Such practices, Bond pointed out later. permit a “dignified” profit for ell, But on the other hand C. Ellis Ellicott, Jr., of the Dredge and Floating Plant Association, de- clared that open-pricing means price-fixing, and that: “If these open price provisions remain in the codes, they will break the N.R.A.” Similarly, A. W. Finlay, Boston boss printer and member of the Graphic Arts Industry Cede Authority, de- clared that the open-price feature “is nothing more than a price-fix- ing feature as it works out in this industry.” To resolve all this, Dex- ter Keezer, Liberal ornament of the Consumers’ Advisory Board sug- gested—guess what? That the “abuses” of open-pricing be at- tacked “temperately and carefully.” This on behalf of the nation’s con- sumers! George L. Berry. the scab-herd- ing A. F. of L. head of the printing pressmen, now a deputy admini- strator presided at the group meet- ings on production. He asserted that “we can adopt” any of three “attitudes” toward controlling pro- duction—“return to ‘laissez faire’; socialism; and the middle course of industrial self - government under the N.R.A., which it is our task to make better than its alternatives.” “Budgeting” Production If the N.R.A. course is adopted, Berry declared, “the danger of ac- tual over-production may be elimi- nated by the voluntary control of inventories and the joint budgeting of production. The trade associa- tion would find out beforehand what the competing companies, tak- en together, are going to be able to more and more production-restric- tion, the smaller fry squawked that any restriction was plain “freezing” of industry at depression lows. Cor- win Edwards, speaking for the N.R.A. Consumers’ Advisory Board, admitted the dilemma: “It is pos- sible for a Code Authority, given the power to fix output, to do so in a way calculated to create a short- age in the market and to maintain the price. It is also possible to waver between the alternatives of giving favorable quotas to its own members or of treating members of the industry alike.” But George Sloan, the textile king, whese Cot- ton Textile Institute has been given carte blanche to restrict production at the exnense of thousands of em- ployees whose hours he cuts to the bone, declared that the production- limiting feature “is the keystone of the whole structure of our National Recovery.” While W. E. Whipp, modest member of the Machine Tool and Forging Machinery Code Authority, insisted that “any form of limitation” would “retard re- covery.” In allowing such free expression of dissent within the Congress of Industry, of course, Johnson and his big buddies had the same pur- pose they had in calling for public criticism during the preceding week. This purpose was to win over the whole employer c] While the little fellows were blowing off steam in the open sessions, the real lead- ers of their class, the top monopo- lists, were again making hotel rooms, in General Johnson’s phrase, “smoky with planning.” The re- sult? The meetings of the 24 com- mittee members who will be, as Johnson put it, “for the next few weeks , . . in,continuous session.” They will over-ride the small busi- ness interests that counter to the sealed trend of N.R.A. toward ever greater tightening the nyo of season when they will be at} a great disadvantage in a strike. | . In the meantime Fed- | ployes as spokesmen for collective | assistance of the Administration, | Such a movement is]; forcing thousands of other unor-! WALL STREETS?’ CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN ASHINGTON, March 17.—Confronted with an imminent (perenne strike, the Administration, through N. R.A. S. Johnson, is straining every nerve to stop it by keeping the workers in the plants with promises of future freedom ¢ could muster a majority of the auto workers, especially in view of the notorious practice of the company |managements in voting their entire office forces. Thus, in addition to showing again that the much pub- licized Section 7-A of the N.LR.A. does not enforce the right of the workers to select their own unions, Johnson is begging the companies to use his scher instead of ma-~ chine guns to nt the workers from organizing their own unions. Secondly, Johnson knows that even if the workers could score a majority, the months it would take to “create” his “board” which will “determine in its own way” the “claims made by the union lead- ers” would stall off the strike until after the peak of the season. Assisting the Administration anti- strike forces is the greatest assem- blage of bosses’ agents in the his- tory of the United States. Green, Lewis, Hillman, Panken, Murray and others of the same A. F. of L.- Socialist Party stripe are here. All are beating their breasts for com- jpulsory arbitration, all are begging | the employers for instructions for | promulgating an acceptable “union,” and all are scrambling over them- selves to prevent the workers from using their only weapon, the strike, The A. F. of L. has already hitched its strike-breaking hopes to the slogan, “Wait for the Wagner Bill.” It is probable that Johnson, in his testimony this coming week before the Wagner Committee, will also add his voice to the chorus. |The employers, now cold to the ; Wagner Bill because they don’t un- derstand its usefulness to them, j will accept compulsory arbitration rather than genuine unionization. In short, Tory capitalism, which really dominates Roosevelt’s poli- cies, is now telling Roosevelt that it will not stand for unions, will not, without ironclad guarantees, even accept the assistance of the A. F. of L. leaders, and will not agree to genuine union organization, know- ing from recent experience that workers, in spite of all efforts of the A. F. of L. leaders, depend mainly on the strike weapon. These coal owners (remember Western Pennsylvania), these steel magnates (remember Ambridge and Home- stead and 1919), these automobile manufacturers (J. P. Morgan’s Gen- eral Motors Corporation and Ford), believe in smashing workers with machine guns and tear gas and not, meeting with them in board rooms. j“You can't run a coal mine with- { out machine guns,” said R. B. Mel- lon, of the Melion interests, one of the strongest organizations of American monopoly capitalism. A worker to them, in brief, is some- one to be exploited and shot down if he becomes obnoxiously human enough to organize to better his condition, The lines between capital and labor, despite the desperate efforts of the A. F. of L. to control and sell the rank and file to the em- ployers, are being clearly drawn. 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