The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10
What Kind of Social
Insurance!

THE fight for the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill must tie up all of the local struggles of the
unemployed for relief, against evictions etc. into
national struggle aimed to win social insurance and
adequate unemployment relief from the federal gov
eminent But this is not sufficient.
The campaign for unemployment insurance has
not been sufficiently linked UP with the strike
wave in which the left unions, in many cases. have
played influential decisive role. Comrade Gusey,
in his article in the Communist International pointed
out the major Importance Of the exposure of the role
of the American Federation of Labor the Musteites
the Socialist Party and other socia-fascist elements
in their demagogic slogan Of the "30-hour week" This
slogan presented by the social-tascsts without in
ssting guarantees Of reduction in wages, is
form Of the stagger system Of Roosevelt and Hoover,
which places upon those still employed the burden of
unemployment through reducing their wages. In the
STEEL coal, silk and other strikes the demand for the
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill and for federal
relief was kept in the background. Nor have the
directves given in Comrade Gusev's article for day
to day exposure Of the socialfascSt proposals for
social insurance" which give the workers nothing,
been sufficiently carried out Comrade Gusey wrote,
THE Communist Party is faced with the most urgent
taskto concretely expose the lying deagogic nature
Of these projects, and carry the widest campaign
for social insurance converting 1t into a systematic
daily campaign without losing its leading role in the
struggle for social insurance making it the main axis
OF all the Party work"
These soca1-fascst bills, the A. r. of L. proposal
Cater this bill repudiated by Green) the
Wisconsin law, the Music and Socialist Party BILL etc.
have, in common restrictions and qualifications which
make them worthless. They give relief to only few
unemployed and these obIess are bound over to forced
labor at the wage and kind Of work dictated by the
government. The advocacy by Mrs. Perkins social
insurance in her recent New York speech falls in the
category. She advocated along with the Others
"state" unemployment insurance, measure aimed to
his
srange and split up the workers national struggle
for relief and unemployment insurance from the
federal government.
THE Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill put for
ward by the Communist Party and the Unemployed
Councils, is the only which benefits the
poyed workers. The bill provides relief for all I'M
employed and has restrictions do the social fas-
cis bills which bar those already unemployed from in
surance. The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
is the only bill which guarantees all unemployed
minimum amount of Insurance. the amount being $40
minimum for all unemployed, with SO additional for
each dependent
The Workers Bill Is the only bill which secures the
social insurance funds not from the already impoyer-
shed part-tme workers, but from the RICH the funds
to come from the funds of the government and
from taxation incomes of corporations and indi-
viduals which are over five thousand dollars.
The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill is the
only bill which calls for administration Of the funds by
the workers organizations themselves all other bills
setting UP government commissions which put the un-
employed at the mercy Of the employers.
At the national unemployed convention In Wash
ngton on January 10, called by the Unemployed Coun-
cis not only must national campaign for the federal
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill be started but
campaign of exposure must be launched against the
social fascist bills which Of no value to tbs unen-
ployed vorkss"