The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-29
.ooNrrxUnD FRoM FACE ONE,

ment insurance as the only means to
ward off wholesale starvation by the
workers and their families, and
1.-THE decision of the 1881 conven-
ton of the American Federation of
Labor and the policy of the Execu-
tive Council Of the A. F. L., which
has again been repeated by McGrady
before the Senate Committee recent
ly, to reject and fight against gov
eminent unemployment insurance is
against the interests of the member
ship of the A. F. L. and of the
workers, generally, abandoning them
as it does to the present actual
starvation, and
"The big employers and the gov
eminent constantly use the stand OF
the A. F. L. leaders as one of their
main arguments against the estab-
ishment of a system of national gov
eminent unemployment insurance,
and for the continuation of their
existing hunger program. and
This critical situation makes 1t
absolutely imperative that the great
rank and file of the A. F. L. unions
speak their real opiniol- on this life
and death question, and see to 1t that
a movement is initiated nationally by
our organization, in favor of unem-
pIoyment insurance at the expense Of
the government and the employers,
therefore be it
"Pesolved that this conference of
A. F. L. local unions of New York,
assembled on January 9th, 1882,
goes on record in favor of the fol-
lowing workers unemployment insur-
ance bill:
Immediate unemployment insur-
ance at full wages (on the basis of
the yearly average)-that a system
of federal government unemploy-
ment insurance be Immediately
established by an act of Congress and
made Immediately effective, guaran-
teeing full wages to all workers
wholly or partly unemployed, through
no fault of their own, for the entire
period Of unemployment.
"For all workers, no discrimination
That unemployment insurance be
paid TO every unemployed worker,
adult and youth, whether industrial
or agricultural, office employees and
all other categories of wage labor,
native or foreign born, citizen or
on-citizen, white and Negro, men
and women, mad without discrimina-
ton against any race, color, age or
political opinion. No worker shall be
deprived of unemployment insurance
because of refusal to take the place
of strikers or to work fro less than
union rates Of pay.
Insurance at the expense of the
employers and the goYernment-that
the full funds for unemployment in
surance shall be2raised by the gov
eminent from funds now set aside
for war preparations and by taxation
upon the capital and profits of cor
porations and trusts and also by
sharply upward taxation taxation
upon all income over $4,000. In no
! instance shall there be any contribu-
tons levied upon the workers in any
form whatsoever for this insurance.
Administration by the workers
that the unemployment insurance
fund shall be administered and con-
trolled by the workers, through COM
mittees elected by the workers them
! selves.
For other forms of social insur-
ance-that social insurance be paid
to workers to the amount of fri
wages to compensate for loss of
wages through sickness, accident, old
age, maternity, etc, and be it fur
! ther
Resolved, that this conference goes
on record in favor of initiating a
referendum in all A. F. L. locals and
RR Brotherhoods, so that the rank
and file membership of our organiza-
tons may register their opposition to
the decision of the A. F. L. 1881 Con-
vention against unemployment in
surance and express the mass de-