The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-22

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! the employers during the next few
years." In this plan, the workers
must contribute l per cent of their
! earnings while the bosses contribute
2 per cent of their entire payroll.
Benefits begin only after workers
are employed in the plant for one
year, and only after weeks unem-
ployment. The maximum allowed is
| IS weeks of benefit. IT, however,
during this period a worker is laid
off, he is compelled to wait another
three weeks before the so-cafied
benefit begins. And to cap the
climax when do you think this
brilliant idea is to go into effect?
Three years from now-after jan
uary, 1881 In the meanwhile, says
Tammany Hall and the other reac-
tionary parties, socialists included
let the unemployed starve!
The Women's Trade Union League
Strike Breaker.
The role of the labor takers in
the conspiracy of class collaboration
was played by Rose Schneiderman
secretary of the Women's Trade
Union League. A faithful hckspittle
of the bosses and their fascist
agents, the A. F. of l.. leadership,
Schneiderman, has been rewarded
for her service as a strikebreaker,
by the Governor himself, who re-
Gently appointed her to the Com
mission on Prison Industry.
To find out what labor is doing
now to alleviate the present situa-
ton" Schneiderman sent out a
QUESTIONABLE to the International
unions Of the A. F. of L. Those in
cluded were the Typographical
Union, the Electrical Workers, Ma
chinists, Printing Pressmen, jour
neymen BARRIERS. Plumbers, Paint
ers and Decorators, Railroad Train
men, Street 81 Electric Railway, Ex-
pressmen, Carpenters. Stonelayers,
and others.
In the Mems Clothing industry
where the HiIlman sangsters rule,
a similar type of company union
benefit plan has been in operation
for six years. The typographical
Union was reported as having paid
out sol, 900 in Unemployment Bene-
fit in April, and this would have
been more but for the fact that the
workers in the newspaper branch of
the trade had decided voluntarily
to go on the five day week, thanks
to the willingness of the employers
to agree to an equal division of
work" added Miss Schneidernan.
The solutions proposed by Schneid-
erman to the burning question of
unemployment, wage-cutting, mad
dening speed-up, and hunger are as
follows:
ca The 5-day week s-hour day
(b) Ratification Of the Child
Labor Amendment.
(c) Raising the compulsory age
flinit fro school attendance. to 16
years.
Id National system Of Unem-
piogmeEt Exchanges.
teo Some guarantee of a fixed
yearly employment - another class
collaboration policy such as is car
RED out at the Proctor & Gamble
soap plant. where she says the
workers are happier lot"
And ~ the most important of all
A National Council for Industrial
Planning, since in the opinion of
this traitor to the workers, there
are enough brains among the indus
trial leaders to meet this situation. .
Miss Schneiderman would place
the whole burden of the crisis which
finds 100000 jobless and starving
in a land of plenty, on the backs of
the workers and would crush any
attempt of the workers to fight back,
to strike or struggle even for the
crufnb of Unemployment Insurance
from the state.
Challenge of Soviet Union.
Butu even this one time yellow
socialist, Miss Schneiderman, tool of
capitalism, cannot escape the chal-
lenge Of the Soviet Union, and con-
cluded her remarks by pointing out
the startling anomaly in the land
where the workers and peasants
rule, where three are no idle starv-
ing workers, where the dynamo of
the Five Year Plan whit its gigar1-
tic output makes the capitalists of
the world tremble.
Think OF that, says the lady.
while here where we have the raw
materials and the workers and
everything that is necessary for a
happy and peaceful and good life
here We are struggling because we
have too much--it shows that some
thing is wrong!
Yes. we reply, something is de-
cidedly wrong, and all the long
range planning" the bosses talk so
much about these days will not and
cannot overcome the steady capital
list decay with its cancer of unem-
ployment. Only in the Soviet Union,
under workers and peasants gov
eminent, where the workers own the
means of production, can there be a
planned economy-not under the