The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-05
More Steam Behind
H. r, 1898

no COUNTER the growing mass demand
for adequate social and unemployment
insurance as embodied in the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill CHR. 1899,
Roosevelt is reported to be considering
another fake unemployment scheme
The mass demand for real unemploy-
ment insurance has led to the introduction
Of 1877 fake unemployment and social insurance
measures into Congress and into the legislatures of
the fifteen states which have been in session this
year.
In Iowa. an old age pension" law. the 28th such
fake law on the statute books Of that state, has
been passed. BY this bill s25 month is payable
to workers beyond the age Of S. provided however,
that they have lived in the state continuously for
10 years, and in the country for is years, and
have paid 50 yearly head tax relgiousy.
Obviously, since a 50 head tax will be levied on
all workers above the age of 81 this is just another
scheme by which the workers are made to bear
the full brunt of the effects Of unemployment.
The Wagner-Lewis Reserves" Bill, the fake
unemployment insurance bill which has the en-
dorsement of the A. F. of L. officialdom and the
Roosevelt administration would provide insur-
ance to the present $4,000 900 unemployed, nor to
agricultural domestic, and transportation workers,
doctors, nurses and internes in hospitals govern
ment employees, and workers in shops employing
less than ten persons. In other words it means
absolutely unemployment insurance to more than
half of the working class
Those who would receive benefits under the
Wagner-Lewis Bill, which, if passed, would not go
into effect before July 1886 would receive a mere
81 a week for ten weeks. Those who had worked
for the same employer for more than five years
will be eligible" to receive this amount for fifteen
weeks.
Again, in all the hundreds Of fake "unem-
pIoyment insurance" schemes advanced the entire
burden Is thrust on the shoulders of the workers.
In the Wagner-Lewis Bill it is proposed to tax
payrols. This would not cost the employers a
penny, for the amount would be deducted from
his tax bill, that in turn, the whole buulen
Of the scheme would be thrust upon the workers
and poor farmers.
The latest of the fake schemes to come out
Of Washington, the tentative schemes which
Roosevelt is forming for a proposed plan whereby
everyone would pay two cents week as "insur-
ance" against accident or old age. Again no men
ton is made Of the present army of unemployed
Again. the money is to come out of the pockets of
the workers.
Designed to counter the growing mass support
to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill CHR.
759S the workers everywhere must defeat this
latest Roosevelt scheme and double their efforts
to secure the enactment of the Workers Bill. All
unions veterans home owners, fraternsl organiza-
lions, farmers organizations, unemployed groups
and mass meetings should intensity the drive for
the enactment of the Workers Bill Congressmen
must be deluged with demands to sign the round
robin petition to bring the Workers Bill out of
the House Committee Labor and onto the floor
of Congress for vote. Now, more than ever before
is 1t necessary to bring every force to bear for the
enactment Of the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill CHR. 1899.