The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14
l. Persons entitled to Social Insurance.

/. Persons entitled to Social Insurance.
(a) All workers. unemployed because of no
jobs being available for them or incapacitated
thru accident or Sickness shall be entitled to
social insurance for the whole period of their
unemployment If two or more unemployed
workers belong to one family, they shall each
receive the insurance.
Cb) Workers reaching the age of SIS years
shall be entitled to retire on full insurance
rates.
Co Ex-Servicemen, workers, and all those
incapactated as result of their service in the
military and naval forces, shall be entitled to
social insurance, of SIS. per week for partial dis
abement and $25 per week for total dsablement.
cd Women workers, for six weeks prior to
and after childbirth, shall be given leave of
absence from work, and allowed full insurance
(e) Abolition of child labor under ID years
of age and government maintenance of all those
now employed under that age. All child work.
ers IA years Of age and over shall come under
the insurance law provisions.
81 Part time workers shall be paid insur-
ance sufficient to raise their incomes to the
regular insurance rates.
(g) In applying the insurance law, no discrim-
ination shall be made against young workers
Negro workers, women or foreign born workers.
CHI The insurance law shall not be used to
compel workers to work under non-union wages
and conditions
2. Amounts to Be Paid As Insurance
All workers are entitled to unemployment in
surance, as above set forth shall, during the
whole period Of their Unemployment, receive
SIS weekly, with SO additional for each dependent
8. How to Finance the Insurance Fund.
All appropriations heretofore made or now in
effect for military naval or other war purposes,
including war pension funds, shall be repealed
and all such sums shall be appropriated for
financing the unemployment insurance. The
additional funds necessary shall be raised by
(a) graduated capital levy upon all capital
and property accumulations in excess of $25,Ooo
and (b) by graduated income tax upon all
incomes in excess of $4,000 per year. The work.
ers shall not be required to contribute to this
funds.
a. Administration of the Insurance Fund.
The Unemployed Insurance Fund shall be
managed and administered by workers COM
mission, elected solely by the unemployed and
employed workers, and in such manner as they
may see fit.
5. Special Winter Relief
We further demand an immediate emergency
federal appropriation to pay for two winter
months of unemployment insurance on the basis
Of IL times the regular rates proposed herein
In Support of the Workers Demands.
On Point l. The social insurance provisions
must cover all workers unemployed for any
cause whatever The government, not the work
ing class, must assume the responsibility for
maintaining workers industrally incapacitated
in any form. The insurance fund must not be
used as strike breaking institution
On Point 3. The worker and his family
must be guaranteed at least the minimum neces-
sary to live upon The rates proposed here pro-
vide only the barest necessities and the workers
will fight to further increase these amounts
On Point 3. The United States Government
can find billions of dollars yearly for past wars
and to prepare for future mass slaughters of
the workers; we demand that these funds be
used to provide the unemployed and their FAM
lilies with the necessities of life. The capitalists
must pay, out of their wealth which they sys-
tematically steal from the workers in their in
dustries, for the cost Of the unemployment in
surance. Efforts to throw this burden or any
part Of 1t upon the workers will be militantly
resisted
On Point A. ManifestIy the workers alone
must control the unemployment insurance funds.
To allow the capitalist politicians to get their
itching hands into the monies would be to
render the workers dependent upon them and
to add new saturnalia OF graft to that already
existing in every section OF the national, state
and local governments
On Point s. This immediate appropriation u