The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-11

doubt, even among the econo-
mists who serve the rulers of
this country, that there is no
chance under the present So
cial system of cutting down the
number of unemployed to any APP
probable extent.
This means that for ten to fifteen
million American workers in town
and country, industrial workers,
white collar men and women, pro-
fesSional people, intellectuals and
civil service workers, THERE IS
NO CHANCE OF GETTING
WORK.
A great part of the American
toilers are growing up without the
chance of ever obtaining regular
work, deprived of the opportunity of
earning even miserable wage in a
factory, store or office. They will
not be able to settle down and
establish a family.
American capitalism is unable to
provide work for great masses of
producers any longerl
is 1T NOT clear that under such
circumstances every jobless worker
is intensely interested in having
the misery of unemployment miti-
gated by fixed permanent relief,
as is provided for in the bill pro-
posed by the Communist Party, the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill?
Is it not clear that under such
circumstances every working man
and working woman is interested i'll
having the Communist proposal on
unemployment insurance made law?
What worker knows whether he is
not the next recruit in the army of
the permanently unemployed? What
worker has not before him the sight
OF children or relatives growing up
without chance to work?
Women, Home Owners Want Bill
Is it not clear under such circum-
stances that every working class
woman, faced with the spectacle of
unemployment for her husband,
her sons and daughters, is highly
interested in the passage of the
Communist proposal for immediate
unemployment insurance? Every
farmer who will be chased from his
land tomorrow-if he has not al
ready been driven off-will he not
be interested in unemployment in
y .su7ance? Every small home owner
whose little house has been taken
away by the mortgage company
sharks-is he not interested?
And is not every trade union
member highly interested in a sys-
tenn of unemployment insurance?
Would not the right of the worker
to organize in a union of his own
choice, the right to strike, the bar
gaining power of the unionist. be
tremendously stronger if the worker
and his wife knew that he could at
least count on unemployment in
Surance in case of a strike or loss
of his job? Would not the trade
unions be relieved of their diff
culties in paying out strike and I'M
employment relief if unemployment
insurance were law? Would that
not help to lower union dues?
Only he who is an agent of the
bosses can deny that the introduce
ton of unemployment insurance,
as we Communists propose, would
create q great rise in the trade
union movement.
IT is NO exagge.'ation to say that
at least seventy per cent of the
American population is directly or
indirectly interested in the imme-
date introduction of unemployment
insurance. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that at least seventy to eighty
million American men and women.
young and old, are interested in the
passage of the Communist bill
1t is clear that even the immediate
introduction of unemployment in
surance cannot remedy all the
misery, the anarchy, the contradic-
tons OF the present insane system.
This can only be cured by a radical
change of the whole social order
and the establishment of a real
true democracy of the workers and
farmers. But unemployment in
surance can protect the jobless from
deepest abyss of want. 1t is an aid
against the Generalization of which
1asclSm makes use in order to
establish its bloody dictatorship.
The principle of unemployment
insurance such as the Communists
propose Is, that every man, woman
and young worker over sixteen.
shall receive from the day of the
loss of his job and for the whole
duration of his unemployment. i
minimum of ten dollars (SIO) per
week as relief, without the de-
grading examination and red tame
OF local politicians, and that the
cost of this insurance shall he
borne by the government and the
employers.
Capitalists and their government
exclaim: We cannot do that! We
can't afford it! To this we Com
munists answer: You call yourselves
the captains of industry and finance.
You fight with all means at your
disposal to preserve this situation
where you are the captains. You
indulge in feasts while the crew goes
hungry. We Communists think you
should go to hell, and that the crew
should take care of the ship. But
so long as you keep it by force
and take all the benefits, you have
to give the crew at least the mini
mum in order to protect them from