The daily worker., 1933-01-07
GREEN SIDETRACK
OF INSURANCE
Now Out for the Boss
Black Bill
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Congress that greater effort is ne
cessary to divert the fight for un-
employment insurance into Harmless,
chcanf1elS.
This is the real motive behind, the
Black 30-hour bill which, without
prohibiting further wage scales re-
ductions and further decreases In
TOTAL income Of workers, would dc
nothing but 1egalize the present star
vation level of living prevailing even
among workers still employed.
The fight for the shorter work day
is an integral part of the fight
against wage cuts and for higher
wages and living standards to which
the A. F. of L. leadership gives liz
service but even if the Black bill
were enacted and enforced It would
make no substantial reduction in un-
employment for the 100000 nov
joblesS.
Its pretenses In this respect Is
what Green is endorsing. 1t is a
handy device to distract the atten-
ton OF workers-especiaily members
OF A. F. Of l.. unions - from the
struggle for compulsory federal un-
employment insurance.
1t Is a handy device for checkina
the struggle for immediate relief a
the expense of the government anc
employers and creating the illusion
that by such proposals the crisis car
be solved and measure of pros.
perity restored.
TUUL to Give Facts
Facts which will be placed before
the Senate Committee by the Trad,
Union Unity League delegation and
the Unemployed Councils early next
week show that part-time work is
almost universal throughout the
country today. The average working
week at the present time, it will be
shown, Is much less than so hours
that there are whole industries like
steel where employees getting any
where from one to ten days work
per month are rated as employed
IczgleS ADMISSION.
Writing in the Sunday Magazine
section Of the New York Herald Trib-
une for Jan. /, Walter C. Teagle
head OF the Standard Oil of New
Jersey, whose share -the-work" plar
Green endorsed, stated that "about
81 percent of the manufacturing in
dustries In the United States already
have some form Of job sharing"
But unemployment continues tc
increase. Green stated in endorsing
the Teagle "share-the work plar
of spreading hunger, that IF em.
ployers Of labor throughout the ma
tion will give the share the work
movement their full and complete
support, increasing employment will
be noticeable within very shOri
time in the industrial and econorni,
situation"
Green Had to Back 1t Up.
This statement aroused such great
Indignation among members Of A
F. of L. unions that Green wa;
forced to repudiate it. But he nov
appears in support Of the Black bill
which Is intended to Iegalize the
whole system Of work-sharing on a
poverty basis. Green, according tc
dispatches, said nothing about the
need for higher wages and the pro-
hibition of wage cuts. He appear.
in response to and in support of an
other demagosic adventure by the
leaders Of the Democratic Party.
viii Expose Green.
The Trade Union Unity League
delegation will expose both the Black
bill and its false pretenses of solv-
ing the question Of mass unemploy.
ment, and the attempt of Green and
the whole A. F. OF L. leadership tc
divert the mass fight against star.
yation into support of the maneuver'
Of capitalist party politicians.
1t will also expose Green's state
ments about universal strike action
for the shorter work week and his
attempt to divide and draw line
between organized workers" and the
millions of unorganized in the basic
industries upon whom the misery Of
mass unemployment, wage cuts and
starvation standard of living rests
even heavier than upon the organ
ized.
The hearing of such a measure as
the Black Bill shows that the gov
ernment servants of Wall Street are
compelled by the growing depth oi
the crisis and the mass struggles OF
the working class against the hunger
offensive to adopt new tactics; that
still stronger struggle can and will
bring victories in checking the hun
ger offensive which Green aids.