The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-29

way of supporting the most reactionary EN-
ployers who propose to adopt the "staggeI
plan." This is proposal to shift the whole
burden of starvation and unemployment on
to the shoulders of the working class, employed
and unemployed and to save the capitalists
from all expense The workers who are en-
ployed they say, should divide work. with
those who have no jobs. The so-called six
hour day" proposal with pay reduced accord
iIigly) is really a proposal to have all of the
workers go on part time-with their weekly
wages cut down about thirty to fifty per cent;
The A. F. of L. does not demand the six-houf
day as shorter wOrk-day, but as part-tme
system. It does not demand the same wages
for this so-called "six-ho day" that are being
paid for the eight, nine and ten hour day of
the present. Furthermore the A. F. L. stub
bornly refuses to permit the workers even to
struggle for an eight-hour day! (And the
workers have already. lost the eight-hour day
in almost all industries, thanks largely to the
A. F. L.
In short, the A. F. of L. program ON unem-
plOyment and social insurance is to support
the capitalist class against relief for the work
ers of any kind, and for the most violent re-
preston of the working class
c. The Socialist" Party (the party of
social fascism, agents of capitalism, trying to
secure support of capitalism amongst the
working class, using the name Socialist only
as a means of deceiving workers.. The 80
cialist" Party is compelled in order to divert
and confuse the masses, to pretend to be in
favor" of the unemployment relief and social
insurance. But the Socialist" Party program
on these points is entirely pro capitalist pro-
gram-a program which, behind its nice look
ing words, in reality does nothing less than to
support the Hoover program of starvation for
the masses.
The Socialist" Party calls for the relief of
unemployed through the construction of public
works, although it is clear that:
~ The building of public works would
not employ more than small number of
workers, and would only slightly reduce the
number of unemployed, but the Socialist Party
uses this demand to turn the workers away
from the Unemployed Councils and from de-
handing more effective measures.
(2) The "overproduction" of the capitalist
system today is nowhere more marked than in
building; it is not general building, but the
building of workers homes Ito replace their
present unsanitary barracks) and hospitals,
etc, that are necessary.
81 The kind of public works that would
be constructed under these plans of the Social
jst Party, A. F. of L., ETC., would be chiefly for
war purposes, directly or indirectly, and thus
leading straight toward the drawing of the
working class into imperialist war.
But the Socialist" Party proposals look at
every dollar sharply in the interests of the
capitalist class and do not at all propose that
the workers should receive full wages when
thrown out of employment. The Socialist
Party proposal would:
l. Limit the number of weeks that an I'M
employed worker would receive relief
2. Make sharp limitation of the workers
eligible for relief residence qualifications,
etc)
g. Compel the working class itself to de-
liver over part Of their meager wages to pay
for their own unemployment insurance (prac-
tcally taking wage cut now against the fu-
ture chance Of unemplOymen)