The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-21
Seven Reasons Why
Wagner Bill Does
Not Benefit Jobless

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then would receive only 81 a week
/ for 10 weeks, or $40. If he should
be an older worker-that is, if he
/ has been working for the company
/ up to five years, then he would be
entitled to Is weeks Of insurance.
In short, the purpose Of this bill
is to make willing wage slaves Of
the workers, to keep them from
striking-in a word, a strikebreak-
ing bill.
4. The bill provides compensa-
ton only for unemployment not
/ for sickness, accident, old age or
maternity. Increasing industrial and
occupational diseases. discarding of
elderly workers are the rule today.
/ The Wagner-Lewis bill provides no
| protection.
Burden on Workers
5. The fund would be raised BY
a tax Of 5 per cent on the en-
| ployer's payroll. But this would not
cost the employer a penny, for the
amount would be deducted from his
tax bill This would necessitate
/ higher taxes on the workers and
poor farmers. Thus, the whole
burden Of the insurance would be
shifted to the shoulders Of the toll
ing population.
6. The bill, if enacted, would not
/ go into effect until July 1885. and
into operation in July 1885. Being
a bill for adoption by the states. it
would require many years in the
states, since it is not mandatory. In
Pennsylvania, for instance, this bill
would require five years for adop-
ton.
7. The bill is not a continuous
mechanism. The employer might
according to the bill, pay into a
separate fund. If he should 20 out
Of business, his employees would get
compensation only as long as the
fund lasted If the future unem-
ployment Of those now EMPLOYED
should be Of long duration. the
amount of compensation would be
determined by the amount paid into
the fund by the employer. After
that, unless the worker obtained
Work-and also after the ten weeks
to which the worker would be en-
titled to insurance-tre worker
would be thrown into the streets to
starve
This is the bill which Miss Perkins.
ladylike secretary Of labor. supports
and speaks for over the radio. This
Is the bill which it is reported
Roosevelt, who is an ardent "advo-
cate" of unemployment insurance.
also endorses. One can understand
why they are trying to put over this
insurance" fraud on the workers.
VINO in millions are throwing their
/ support to the Workers Unemplov-
ment and Social Insurance Bill II
R. 1898 In this, as in the effort to
put across the whole N. R. a.. the
bosses of this country led BY their
governmental agent, Roosevelt. need
the support Of their labor agents.
No wonder, therefore, that Green.
Vol, Thomas and Waldman Co,
endorse the Wagner-Lewis unem-
ployment insurance bill and do not
dare to fare the issue of the Work
ers Bill.
How much to the point is the
Workers Bill providing insurance for
all workers for all contingencies of
1dieness, no matter for what reason,
at rate that will maintain them in
decency for the full period of I'M
employment and at the expense Of
/ those responsible for unemployment.
The Workers Bill Gas introduced by
| Congressman Lundeen and some
what modified by HIM calls for I'M
employment and social insurance
compensation for idleness as a
result Of unemployment, part time,
sickness, accident, old age or mater
nifty for all workers and farmers at
the average local wages but at no
time less than $40 a week plus SO
for each dependent; for the full
period of unemployment or dis
ability. There shall be no discrini-
nation because of age, sex, race,
colcr, or religious or political af-
filiatiOn or as to whether they are
industrial, agricultural, domestic or
professional workers. In other words
the whole working class.
The fund shall be raised by
taxing inheritance and gifts and in
dividual and corporation incomes of
$4,000 per year and over. (The ORR
ginal bill as drafted by the Unem-
ployment Council provided that all
war funds should be used for un-
employment insurance. For reasons
! best known to himself, Mr.. Lundeen
eliminated this provision from the
bill he introduced.) The fund shall
be controlled, not by the state
machinery, as in the Wagner bill.
but by commissions composed Of
rank and file members Of workers
and farmers organizations.
Demand H. r. 1898
Compare the two and then YOU
/ will see why the bosses and Roose-
/ welt want the bogus Wagner Hill, if
any, to be enacted. The workers
want the Workers Bill H. r. 1898.
The struggle for the Workers Bill
must be intensified In every shop,
mine, union and other working class
organizations, the Workers Bill
should be taken up and discussed,
and compared with the bogus bills
that are being introduced every
where to stop the movement for the
Workers Bill. Pass resolutions, or
ganize meetings, demonstrations,
stoppages and strikes in support of
the Workers Bill Demand that
your congressman sign the round
robin petition now being circulated
in the House of Representative to