The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-22

system of genuine unemploy-
ment insurance.
No longer able to stand
against the mass demands in its own
ranks for unemployment insurance,
the executive council has placed be-
fore the Cincinnati convention a re-
port that, under the pretense of fav-
oring unemployment insurance, in
reality sabotages it.
The vancouver of the American
Federation of Labor leadership is
made to help the Wall Street govern
ment at Washington fight against the
great National Hunger March that
is now under way and to defeat local
struggles for immediate relief. Bill
Green and company falsely state
that sit is practically impossible to
enact constitutional federal legisla-
ton" covering the question, as they
favor the states dealing with 1t, each
in its own way.
The text of the report speaks fay-
orably of the so-called Ohio plan
which probes that after a waiting
period of three weeks per year to
pay benefits for maximum period Of
sixteen weeks in year based upon
so per cent of the normal weekly
wages, but not to exceed SIS a week
Worse Than Starvation Rations.
The normal wage" under the
stagger system now is eight to twelve
dollars a week in Ohio Thus, after
three weeks out Of a job the worker
would be entitled to half that amount
or from 81 to Sc a week for but Is
weeks out Of the year How the I'M
employed worker and his family
would manage to exist the other So
weeks in the year is not dealt with
in the "Ohio plan"
Wait Years For This.
But under the A. F. of L. plan, even
this sort 'of thing could be put into
effect only after years of lobbying
in the various state legislatures of
the country.
Then, when such a fake bill is pas
sed. it would be administered by
a state commission, which would have
as advisors representatives of the
employers and officials of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
This system would enable the state
to list and regiment the workers in
industry. 1t would enable additional
numbers of labor bureaucrats to be-
come part Of the capitalist state ma
chinery.
Nothing for Unemployed Millions.
Aside from being designed to dupe
the unemployed masses and defeat
the mighty mass movement for I'M
employment insurance, and disrupt
the Hunger March to Washington,
the A. F. of l.. resolution absolutely
shuts out of the picture the fifteen
million at present unemployed, mas
much as it deals only with those now
in industry who will later be thrown
out of employment
Thus it aids the capitalist class in
its policy of imposing mass hunger
and starvation upon the Millions now
out of employment.
Rank and File Action.
AS against this shameful trickery,
this pretense of the A. F.. of L. lead
ers to approve unemployment insur-
ance only to enable it to carry out its
traditional policy of fighting against
any effective relief for the unem-
ployed, the rank and file of the A.
F.. of l.. unions and central labor bod
les are fighting in increasing num-
bers.
The Rank and File Convention also
now in session here is working out
a program for real unemployment
insurance and will expose before the
whole membership the undetermined
tricks of the executive council. AS
against such swindles the rank and
file are demanding unemployment
insurance for ALL unemployed-not
on the basis of starvation ration
as is proposed in the "Ohio plan,"
but on the basis of the equivalent of
living wage during the entire per-
iod Of unemployment---52 weeks in
the year and not Is as is favorably
mentioned in the Green resolution.
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