The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-18
Roosevelt Plan
Offers No Relief
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studying the matter and are work.
ing on various plans. One of these
plans he added, calls for the gov
eminent paying the overhead ex-r
penses rather than making even
partial contributions.
No Concrete Proposals Yet
AS to specific recommendations,
he declared that he didn't know
what they will be.
Secretary Of Commerce. Roper, at
his press conference today, made
it. clear that his business executive
group, headed by Walter c.. Teagle,
of the Standard OIL Co. of New
Jersey, fully agrees with the Presi-
dents committee, Roper declared;
1T believe that the conclusions
of both will be about IDENTICAL
The business council represents a =
large section Of business and has
manifested a sympathetic attitude 4
and willingness to work out Of
the present disturbed conditions
with the Government. The whole
point of the Governments pro-
gram is to transfer back to legi-s >.
innate business as soon as pos
sible all duties of supervising its
own affairs with the Government
acting in the position Of an adj.
visor. M #o 40
The Presidents indication Of what
is in the wind on unemployment in,
surance, recalls Federal Relief ADJ
ministrator Harry L. Hopkins. (also
member of Committee on Econo-
mic Security refusal to- discuss in
dustrial unemployment insurance.
Hopkins made it clear that the. adj
ministration hopes to go through
another Winter without granting
real unemployment insurance. Are
insurance plans get
ting into shape?" A reporter asked:
him. mo" he shot back, "Our main
Job is to get the unemployed off
the relief rolls in the cities" He e
intimated that some sort of work
relief" is expected to do the trick.
Whatever plan for unemployment
insurance" is recommended by the
Roosevelt group. there is not the
slightest doubt that some sort of
unemployment reserves" under
which the workers will be asked. to
contribute and under which present
will be left out in the
cold and the new unemployed given.
consideration in the vague future,
will be decided upon. Hopkins and,
other administration leaders have
made no secret of the fact that the
Roosevelt government is firmly ,op-
posed to the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill H, r. 1893, the
only genuine unemployment insur-
ance measure that was introduced
before the last Congress, which has
been enthusiastically endorsed by
nearly 5000 A., F. of L. locals and
by four A.. F. of L. international
union conventions.
No C. W. A., Either
Asked whether ne has worked
out any method such as reviving
the c. w. A., of meeting the con-
coded and generally expected peak
Winter relief load. Roosevelt re-
piled, Not yet" However, he in
scathed talk of another C.
w. A. by announcing that he will g
ask Congress to provide the means
for financing the administration
subsistence housing program, the
cost of which, he said, will be
from 81 400 to $1,000 year. Under
this program the recipient pays
500 year for Ia or Is years. The
Henry Ford garden idea and small
industry" is expected to keep the r
grantees alive. Aside from provid-
ing something to talk about, and
hence to divert attention from the
main problem of unemployment in
surance for the is or II millions
now unemployed, the Ford-Roose-
welt plan offers nothing to the
overwhelming majority of the
present unemployed: ~ .r;,s n
While big business i is being re-
assured before the elections, the
workers and farmers are asked to
wait hopefully not only until after
the election, but until some period
in the unnamed future when, the
committee announced recently, "a
unified plan for economic security
will be ready. In other words, the
Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.
program for no unemployment, in
surance is the Roosevelt program.
The committee declared:
Following the approach, OUT
lined by the President, the Com
mittee is trying to draw up a
comprehensive program which
will give protection to the. in
dividual from all the vissitudes
and hazards Of modern life-un-
employment, accident, sickness,
invalidity, old age, and prema-
ture death.
"It is, of course, not contem-
plated that this program shall go
into effect in its entirety inn
mediately, but 1t is planned to
give Congress and the country
a look ahead as we'll as some
recommendation for irnmediate
action, to the end that there may
be developed, from the outset, a
unified plan for economic :
security"
The big talk of social security"
heard of late around Washington
is calculated to give the impress
sion that the administration In
tends to furnish some sort of per-
manent social insurance, an inn
preston studiedly cultivated In
order to offset the tremendous de-
sire for genuine unemployment in
surance already manifest in great