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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY', MARCH 3, 1934 Page Five WALL STREET’S Thomas Screens His Vast N.R.A. Ballyhoo CAPITOL By SEYMOUR WALDMAN By Sham Criticism to Deceive the W orkers WASHINGTON, March 2.—‘The Communist Party does in- ’ deed express the only fundamental difference, the only Now Asks “Why Did N.R.A. Go Wrong,” When He Originally Hailed it as a “Powerful Weapon, if Rightly Used, fundamental rejection of the National Recovery Act,” declared «*, isliuji* Mre '’A i for | Robert Minor, representing the Party at one of the Thursday Progress Towards Genuine Socialism; Admits Now Wages Slashed Through N.R.A., But Wants Workers To Submit ’CnSgßggjfe 'fcJalfSsE/rL - S 5- -jScxJ’flff to Section 7-A and to Avoid Strikes Against Bosses and Roosevelt New Deal. of the week’s “Field TTmfrt ft family and the family’s spiritual *• Day f - By li GANNES for Critics,” inaugurated health. A hundred years later it’s *tY vith a fanfare of publicity “retardation in by recovery.” Demagogy is a lot of chest-thumping. collecting its toll from the entire glowing promises to induce them to amples at minimum wages cut in the bombastic drillmaster, N. R. A. is the final art of capitalism,—and a FtEREamong those who helped Roosevelt American workingclass. For that forget their empty stomachs. half in pay envelopes with a con- black Administrator General Hugh S. John* one. spread his sweet words about the N. reason, the Reverend Norman l On June 10th, five dajte before the temptuous assurance on the part • * • I son. R. A. As the workers begin to. Thomas, in order to serve the cause N. R. A. became law—the Socialist of the employer that the employes was no accident that placed the awaken, and find sweetened N. R. of keeping workers from ! leaders as restive as racing can do But Minor or any other the j the revolu- j were dogs nothing about it.” before diamond-figured as » • • working r* William Green A. dose really contained the worm- ! tlonary struggle, finds it imperative In their efforts to help capitalism—- class critic, such as Pat Cush, the last speaker of day’s main (he stirring and magnetic president the wood and gall of wage-cuts and com-j to cover his N. R. A. traces. | Mr. Thomas hailed it as follows: N. R. A., Thomas admits, now program—the main supporter pany of the scrappy Steel and Metal Work- In the unions, those responsible in | Hence, he now writes and circulates i “The labor clause of the bill as F:Eturns out to be an instrument of ers ranks of the working class of starva- their own midst begin to set up a a leaflet entitled "Why did N. R. A ; introduced into Congress rightly the greatest oppression of the work- Industrial strike-breaking. Union, was per- tion and For Green chorus of howls about the N. R. A. 1 go wrong?” j used will give the workers an enor- ers. By means of It the bosses slash mitted to speak Is American capitalism’s chief left “not working.” The Thomases, Greens | “What did the workers, or a large mously powerful weapon for prog- pay in half and tell the worker to go demagogue, the diminishing on the starvation of whose and Waldmans, sensing the vast number of them, hope the N. R. A. I -1 ress towards genuine socialism.” to hell. In fact, while the bosses and strike-break- Influence among workers is an indi- disillusionment, atune their howls to would do?” he asks. “They hoped Nothing less. were doing this, and when the work- mg cation of the growing appreciation of it, and utter "critical” words about that N. R, A. and the codes set up What Section 7-A Did ers through strikes, nature of the 1 resisted the New N. R. A., ad- the Communis Party as the leader the N. R. A. | under it would, by shortening hours It is precisely by means if this Leader told them not to hamper the the fellow-flghter ministration lead- and of the working What they are afraid of is that the and increasing wages, abolish un- clause (sectioi. 7-a), which Norman N. R. A., because they would be in- ers endeavored to class. workers will not only recall the Com- employment, increase spending power Thomas greeted as progress to terfering with the development of Parroting give “genuine map out the li- Johnson's demand for THE FASCIST HEIMVVEHR munist Party analysis, warning and and to the workers’ own unions socialism,” that the bosses socialism. pa- up mits of the critic- criticism,” Green reiterated his advice on the N. R. A., but will now recognized standing.” I set company unions, broke the On 5, act of calling Austrian artilterynsen, out of range of the guns of the Viennese August 1933, an article ap- ism. trtoteer’s on the work- fdllow It in action. Thomas's Trickery ! Weirton, Budd, Ford, coal, steel and peared in the New Leader, declaring ers to “stand behind the President a leaflet with | Here the Socialist reverend is doing lowered the real "We shall con- workers, rain death and destruction on their lives and homes, drowning Recently appeared other strikes, and “Whatever the risk we run on bank- tinue in and the Administrator of the N. R. the heading: "Why did N. R. A. go some sleight-of-hand skullduggery. wages of majority of the em- the fu- the recent uprising in a river the ing too much upon effort A„” (the A. F. L.) of blood. you He his this »o ture as in the and “labor of will wrong,,” Who do think wrote it? j doffs pink vestments and dons ployed workers in the United States. place industry on an even foundation Seymour Waldman The overalls. The workers While Norman past to weicome stand with the Administration.” very same Norman Thomas who American had | | Thomas was embel- i that is, a smooth, basis)— • • • the Workers so no reason, from bitter experience, to lishing the of socialism, as no-strike constructive criticism,” sang out promised much would charter much more danger lies in trying to Johnson. one adminis' ration supporter come out of the N. R. A. expect from capitalism but what they written by Roosevelt and passed by hamper Ha try-out.” In other words, did recite 'n Norman Thomas work- eventually got. a capitalist congress, the Communist Then Ricliberg, ONLY not the main act—the wants the the Socialist official organ told the Donald SU.UOO-a- Socialist to forget his past | However, when President Roosevelt ■ Party accurately warned the working- year head lawyer N. i Party. Which did not deter ers preachments workers not to rock th# Roosevelt of the R. A., 1 Louis ’he Code Chairman Delegates to Demand Release about submitting the N. R. A., not unloosened his flood of ballyhoo class of what actually would happen. meetings are the Waldman. to recovery boat by strikes. orated: "These for of the Public Affairs Oomm’ttee of striking against it. He this for j promises, the Socialist leaders Now Norman Thomas, in that wis- purpose of discussing principles does A little later, Joseph Baskin, an- . the Socialist. Party, from misreore- the express purpose of keeping the stepped in to help the bosses. They dom which comes of present necessity, rather than the individual provisions ' other Socialist leader, general secre- i senting the Intrinsic character of the Filipino Workers' Leaders workers from following the path of strove to instill into the minds of. writes: tary' of the Workmen's in the codes ...it will also be Os Circle, strove most N. R. the class struggle against the whole the workers just what Mr. Thomas “But today, after covering a helpful, aThough perhaps A., starvation codas and strike- to revive dwindling faith among the this is ask- breaking Socialist, program, to revolutionary says now the workers hoped the N. large part of the United States, I ing too it edicts. “The Party leading i R. I workers in the N. R. A. On August much, but would be most the representing in struggles against capitalism. Just as A. would do. The object, of course, can add my voice to the voices of helpful if appear in of United States, Roosevelt, Hughes, Quezon, Guevara All 26, 1933, he wrote: witnesses who case a as well Refuse the Austrian social-democratic lead- was to keep the workers from fight- millions of workers and say N. R. these meetings would bear in mind this consumer Interest jj “We are not inclined to shout as producer interest, approves and to Hear IV. Y. Workers' Demands ers preached that peaceful submission ing back to improve their o™n con- || A. Is not working; it Is not ending that there are usually two sides to a democracy bring many that the entire recovery act is a supports the obiectives of N. I. R. A. to Dollfuss's would ditions. Mr. Thcmas himself, at the unemployment. In cases question, and sometimes three or swindle designed to blind the in so far as they create a socialism, so Norman Thomas ranted time 100,000 coal miners and 25.000 C. W. A. wages are higher than eyes tour, because is not entirely help- public NEW YORK.—President Roosevelt, to see the delegation by stating that of the masses, that the of the it agency which through, government that working for of the steel workers were striking last fall, wages fixed In codes. None of gains ful to present wholly the Supreme Court of the United “It is not only unwise but also em- the success th? workers in one side of a capable of N.