The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-19
The Six Governors Fake Unem-
ployment Insurance Plan

all workers in small shops, which faces the fact
Of insolvencies and bankruptcies whereby work
ers will be robbed of every protection, even in
the smallest form, from unemployment insur-
ance, and which totally disregards the 100000
unemployed in these states as part of the army
Of 100000 unemployed in the country has the
word FAKE written across its face.
The proposals of the six governors conference
have already been embodied in bills introduced
in the New York State Senate and House and
are merely fake gesture to make the workers
Of New York believe that steps are being taken
to believe their misery.
Why is this bill brought forward at the pre-
sent time? Under the leadership OF Roosevelt,
it is perfectly obvious that this is an election
stunt and thata Governor Roosevelt believes he
can fool the workers into the belief that, like Al
Smith, he is "a man of the people" and sincerely
interested in providing unemployment insurance
and relief.
Hoover, Roosevelt Walker, all talked about
building construction programs as one of the
means of reviYing work. These programs were
supposed to involve millions of dollars-but today
are non-existent The claim of these republi-
can and democratic politicians is that it is ne
cessary now to achieve economy" in order that
the tax rates may not be raised This means
that the millions of building trades workers in
the country who today are unemployed-or as
stated in the report, more than 81 per cent of
skilled labor is unemployed today-have been
faxed into support of these parties, and therefore
Of the present system. Hoover does not hesitate
to propose billions in relief for the capitalists
tthe bankers the railroad magnates, etc. He
advocates the issuance Of baby bonds" to extract
the last pennies from the pockets of the workers
and the small business men. But not one penny
is taken out of the pockets of the capitalists for
the benefit of the workers, and even the per
cent of the payroll as provided by the Governors
Unemployment Insurance Bill will come out of
the pockets of the workers.
This is quite in line even with the charity re-
lief plans that are the program in every state
of the country. The community chests, the re-
lief drives have been taken directly into the fac
tories where the workers were compelled, on
pain Of losing their jobs, to contribute either
lump sum or sum to be deducted every week
from their pay envelopes. The school teachers
in New York were bludgeoned into contributing
8 per cent of their salaries, and an attempt was
made to extort even 5 per cent for the relief of
the school children which the school chcildren
did not receive directly but only in part from
the emergency relief bureaus to which the teach
erS' funds are sent. The "Block-aiderS" now
being formed all over the country are for the
purpose of making the workers in the neigh
borhoods bear the responsibility Of providing for
the unemployed.
1t is clear from the above that the capitalists
have no intention of providing unemployment
insurance and are bluffing with every kind of
proposal because this is election year and be-
cause they are afraid not only Of the voters in
November but Of the safety of the country If the
millions OF unemployed organize and together
with the employed and part-time workers, put
up real struggle.
AS against all these fake plans, the Communist
Party, the revolutionary unions and the Unem-
ployed Councils, put forward the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill with unemployment
insurance covering EVERY worker, irrespective
OF industry, size of establishment ETC., Negro
and white native and foreign-born without dis
elimination to be borne exclusively by the bosses
and the government The Communists declare
that the same governments that can provide bill
lions for the bankers and manufacturers and bill
licrs fer war purposes, can and must be COM
PEELED to tax these same bankers and manufac-
turers for unemployment insurance. The rate
Of unemployment insurance shall be at full
wages for the unemployed workers. covering
THE full period Of unemployment, the fund to
be controlled and administered not by commit
tee weighted against the workers. but by COM
mittee of workers. who in these days of graft and
corruption, alone can be trusted to handle such
important responsibility
The schemes Of the capitalists as embodied
in the report of the six governors must be UNI
sparingly exposed and every worker be made to
understand that it is FAKE being perpetrated
against the millions now unemployed and those
still having Jobs and that only by united strug-
gle for the Workers Unemployment Insurance
BIZ, can real unemployment insurance be OBJ
tained In this country. ,--a,