The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-07
EDITORIALS
Governor Lehman Bids
the Unemployed to
Wait and StdrVe

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Governor Lehman Of New York has sent special mes
sage the legislature urging the immediate passage of n
employment reserves legislation
What is the essential principle which Gov Lehman pre-
sents in his message. He says
alert to the fact that industry at the present
rnent reserves cost"
The supposed riend of the people" and enemy Of big
business AL Smith praises Gov Lemans unemployment In
srance program because cit will not into effect until after
business picked up o. He the capitalist class
that unemployment will not be burden upon IN
dustry now"
What then is the purpose of this zeal for unemploy
men reserves egsation Significantly the governor has
insurance.
Mr. Smith gives US the
will register being principle of
period of time
The purpose then of the whole scheme is not to give
lief the unemployed but merely o register the state as
aResture to quiet the unemployed masses.
An examination of the bills which Gov Lehman supports
fully confirms this:
Under no circumstances can proposals go into effect
before July /, 1884.
Under the most favorable circumstances worker will
ever receive more 5000 insurance for the entire
less than 81 week. In most the amount is between
500 and $780, Of this amount large percentage comes
deduction from the workers wages
No worker get insurance for more than 10 weeks
In be eligible for insurance the worker must
have worked at least months in his last place OF
poyment Under present conditions this excludes thousands
of workers from all insurance This clause also serves as
threat to keep workers from protesting striking against
unbearable conditions and grievances
After losing his job, worker must wait three weeks
before he collect penny of insurance
Not only does the plan not become effective before 1884
but applies only to those workers who working
It nothing say about the present army OF unemployed
Such is the Unemployment Insurance program Of the
Democratic Governor of New York, hailed with such
prova by AL Smith, friend of the people The plan is mis-
cradle crumb which the Governor will throw to the hungry
masses-n 1884! And he will generously distribute this
while the hungry Masses the starving and children
continue to starve They must wait until industry
can carry the burden At all COSTS the factory the
couponcppers the bankers loans, the profits of the capt.
alsts must be tendery protected.
Meanwhile the actual policy of the Democratic Party,
executed by it's arch deagogue President Roosevelt is the
establishment of mtarized labor For the forced
labor in these camps the workers are supposed receive 81
day. the newlyestablshed official wage standard of the
US Government This 81 will not go to the workers. It
is proposed send this money to the families of the work
who will be herded into the camps For the capitalist
this scheme only the advantage of cheap labor
but the added advantage that all families receiving this 81
will no longer be eligible for local relief.
The relief program of the Democratic Party therefore
program that will maintain the with the backing
of State power at permanent starvation level.
Governor Lehman promises the workers his fraudulent
unemployment scheme only condition that the
crisis will lift But the crisis getting Only 16 per
cent OF the steel industry capacity being utilized Foreign
sagnant Unemployment has reached the
total of 100000 The financial crisis and budget crisis
ntensyng The living conditions of the get
worse every day. Gov Lehmans proposals in the light of
the irresistible development of the world crisis
They have absolutely nothing to do with the present
of the starving people.
The workers will not accept Gov. Lehmans "unempoy-
ment reserves sindle They will not accept Roosevets
$1aday forced labor camps The workers demand unem-
poyment insurance for all workers. for the 1900 I'M
employed and for the millions of parttme workers They
demand unemployment insurance full wages at the ex
pense of the employers and the state!