The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-23
A. F. of L. Leaders Try
Neev Method Against
Unemployed

THE text of the report of the subcommittee unempoy
nent insurance of the Executive Council reveals the
fact that the A. F. of L. leadership forced to retreat from
open opposition to insurance engaged in the most amb-
tiousand vicOusmaneuver of its entire with the
exception Of that carried through by GCme at the Buffalo convention
affiliated unions for support Of Wall Streets
The Executive Council the
e tremendous the revolt OF hundreds Of local unions and
opposition
its Vancouver convention last and OF the growing power
government employers by and the
Unemployed Councils has made right about face in Cincinnati
The report which formally endorses compulsory unemployment IN
state basis with federal participation of statutory
but not financial character marks oeoed ana poaG cnnee IN
unemplOymen
ndness-to accompanied continuing the
bodies undertake
serious campaigns force compulsory unemployment insurance
The strategy OF the F Of L leadership is to check and disrupt the
political report With rejection
consultation Is ntepetated by the courts is intended to divert the
struggles which thousands of members Of l. unions take
legislative procedure
report existing
Tnf1nct Is entirely proposal for the d and distant future
pensions state basis which has dragged period Of more
states or exists the form of laws providing pitu pttances for
leadership.
The recommendations Of the report far from proposing additional
with minimum standard living actually
their unemployment payments from their federal income
The financing of the F. of plan recommended in the
pretends be financed by cent levy
part-tme years acquire plan
m put state laws no operation even for those
The report is forced recognition of the fact that the individual
bureaucracy and its excuse for continual series reaconsr
rs Is fiction It has vanished with other sb0olets like perma
under the impact OF the worst crisis in the history Of American capital
ism and the decline Of capitalism throughout the world
THE growing mutany masses is
basic and ndsputable fact Their militant struggles especially
o immediate relief and Unemployment insurance are organized and
tyranny bureaucracy growing
movement for trade union democracy and policy Of militant
and he convention Of several hundred delegates from local unions
for UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 'u' e nS
Communists leading part denagogc
nneu OF the A. F. Of l. buaucrats is directed not only against It's
ezrdtaTss class u "D'
It is designed to split the ranks Of working
IN the aght for unemployment insurance create hesitation and con,
millions of their revolutionary
bureaucracy It's recommndations with some minor executions viii
leadership remains p part OF ts machinery OF cspat g 1
But the deagog1c character OF its maneer places before the
denagogy bmeaucrats must be utilized
WIN sun s ecos Of 1ne union membership Tor the struggle
government and employers.
fact that THIS @ last s Te eR uan ad the ngs 81 os
insurance can more effectively be carried within
the unions and attempts made to institute policy
pulsons and backistng
influence of the OfncialdOm administering
TEE "noe movement OF revolt against the A. F. OF L. ocadom
strengthened greatly by the
at the calculated and caous hypocrisy
capitalism which prompted the change tactics
1t not among the bureaucrats the
the WIN
hundreds Of thousands of jobeS F.
workngClasS
whole sections
con explained exposed breaking
of
in fis the OF crisis
On with the
mediate relief
OF the employers and their government
the National
the hunger policy Of the A. F. of L. bureaucracy