The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02

demands are: u Complete repeal of Rooseyelt's
Economy Bill, which robbed the veterans Of even
more than has now been voted back to them.
p Immediate cash payment of the veterans back
wages or adjusted compensation certificates (the
cash bonus. 81 Immediate enactment of the
Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill
III R. 1888 which grants security for veterans and
for all the other unemployed,
The senatorial leaders brought the leaders of the
American Legion into Congress during the vote 1t
was these American Legion leaders who have been
the biggest obstacles in the way Of the winning of
their demands by the rank and file. They sabotaged
the fight for the bonus and are now before, try
ing to protect the Roosevelt government from the
mass pressure of the rank and file veterans. They
fought against and sabotaged the last bonus march,
and they are even now trying to prevent another
march on Washington for cash payment Of the
bonus.
It is clearly the task of not only the veterans,
a large proportion of whom jobless, but of the
entire working class, to carry on nationwide
mass movement for the immediate enactment by
Congress of the Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill Oh. r. 1899 The partial concessions
gained by the veterans shows the method of secur-
ing the enactment by Congress Of real unemploy-
ment insurance. The mobilization of additional
hundreds of thousands of workers and farmers be-
hind the Workers Bill will force Congress to enact
the bill
Mass pressure has won restoration of the pay
cuts of the federal employees, whom Roosevelt with
Congressional approval gave a wage slash of fif-
teen per cent in his Economy Act The Chicago
convention of the postal substitutes, the marches
protests and demonstrations of the postal employees
against the drastic wage cuts, the protest of the
workers, has forced Congress to restore this pay
cut. The fifteen per cent wage slash put over by
Roosevelt on the government employees at the time
Twin Of
created a storm of protest among the masses and
forced Congress, which represents the bankers and
the bankers Economy Program" to yield and
rescind its previous wage slash.
The Congressional elections are approaching
The politicians of the employers are attempting to
evade the demands of the masses for security by
increased demagogy. Thus the Wagner Bill Which
under the guise of unemployment insurance" actu-
ally prevents any benefits to the iobless, has been
put forward by the Roosevelt administration. The
N. r. A, the Wagner Co. Union Bill, are put for
ward of benefit" to the workers at the same
time that they aimed at smashing the workers
organizations and lowering their living standards
All kinds of friends of the people will spout hot
air and make eXtravagant promises in these cleo
lions. The politicians will talk radical" in order
to be in a position to put over Roosevelts Hunger
Deal on the workers.
In the coming Congressional elections the masses
of workers and farmers should participate to the
fullest extent. The only party in the election cam
paign which supports the above demands of the
rank and file Of the veterans and of all the unem-
ployed-the only party which supports and fights
for all of the demands and needs of the working
class is the Communist Party. In the coming
Congressional elections the strengthening and build
ing Of the Communist Party, the only party of the
workers and farmers, will advance the cause of the
rank and file veterans, the unemployed and the
entire working class.