The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
The Fighting
Vets
By H. E. BRIGGS
FACING THE FACTS

l ing World War adjusted service
certificates, commonly called the
Bonus. They represent approx
mately 100000 consumers. If the
amount, $2.4OO,O 100000, were placed
in the hands Of these poor consum-
ers; the capitalist wolves of hunger
and poverty could be kept away
from the door a little longer. This
money which Congress admits is
due the ex-servicemen is to be paid
in 1915. However, there is little
joker as always, in capitalist trans
actions, known in this case as COM
pound interest. 1t is admitted by
authorities that 100000 ex-service-
men have already been forced to
borrow half their bonus.
This generous" loan was made by
Uncle Shylock with the proviso that
if this was not paid back by 1915
the balance due CD would be wiped
out by the interest charges. The
average Bonus amounts to $500.
Those who have borrowed $7O0 will
receive in 1945 approximately $50.
In the meantime if you are guilt
Bile enough to believe the misleaders
of the American Legion, V. F. w.
and D. A. V. you will be left hold
ing the bag. It is the duty of these
leaders to pretend that they are
working for the interests of the
vets. However, the past and pres
ent commanders of these organiza-
tons have in every way spiked the
rank and file demand for the Bonus,
They have sabotaged mass marches,
discouraged demonstrations and
supported the Economy Act.
The results of this have been no
bonus, loss of disqualification and
compensation and increasing misery
for the ex-servicemen. The time
has come when the rank and file
are convinced that only through
their own organized mass action will
they get what is coming to them.
The veterans are uniting as never
before with the only rank and file
veterans organization, the Workers
Ex-Servicemen's League. This or
ganization always alert and in the
forefront of the struggle for the
veterans demands was the first to
endorse the call of the Veterans
National Rank and File Committee
in Washington.
The W.ES.L. is modifying on
national scale for the coming Bonus
Compensation March. 1t supports
the three point program laid down
in Washington last summer at the
rank and file convention. The last
point in this program is of special
Importance to the veterans. That
point is the passage of the Workers
Unemployment ms ance Bill
known as H. r. 1898. This bill in
Sures all workers against unem-
ployment.
We veterans know that the many
bills We have to pay will not be
taken care of by the bonus only.
Therefore when the measly sum due
us is spent we shall still be without
work and face to face with the bill
collector. This is reason enough
for any veteran to fight for its
passage. On to Washington-Fight
for the 3-Point Program!
Send Copy At Once!
Today we are in the fifth year
of the crisis. Millions of workers
have become impoverished. Hun
dreds of thousands of small home
owners and farmers have lost their
small homes and farms. Hundreds
of thousand of small shop keepers
have become bankrupt. Mass misery
exists among the professional class.
The Economy Bill took the pen
sions and small allowances from
hundreds Of thousands of ex-serv-
icenen of the military forces of the
United States Army and Navy. 3d.
900 veterans were forced into the
streets of the nation due to this
act in order to economic by the
closing down of Veteran Hospitals.
Veterans have been shunted to mu-
nicapl lodging houses and other in
situations of such sort.
The Federal Government has re-
fused consistently to pay the Adj
justed Service Certificates Bonus :.
With all this misery facing the
population of the United States, the
Federal Government has refused to
enact the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill (H. R.
1899.