The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Masses Demand Security
Rs Roosevelt Boosts
Wagner Bill
PROMISES BROKEN
National Campaign for
Iobless Insurance
By CARL REEVE

against Unemployment in Washing
lon, D. c., on Feb. 4, approximately
3 American Federation OF Labor
goal unions, five Progressive Min
hrs Locals and half-dozen city
councils have Endorsed the Workers
unemployment and Social Insur-
nce Bin (H.R. 1899. The city coun-
bills Of Canton, o.; Rockford, H.;
Siindale. o.; Clifton, N. j.; Casey
bile, IL: jamestown, N. 2; Mime
kpolis, Mimi; Milwaukee, Wis; Ia
bona, Wash; Bedford, O., Buffalo,
N. Y, and Virden, ILL.,, with others,
have indorsed the Workers Bill.
Included in the A. F. Of L. local
lnions indorsing the bills in the
oast month are locals OF coal
miners, steel work ers, painters,
carpenters, mechanics, auto workers,
Electrical workers, stone-cutters,
plumbers and stcamftters, boiler
makers, bakers, jewelry workers,
landowners, leather workers, needle
workers, machinists, etc. L &c /
unions of shoe workers, tool ana
Sie makers. needle trades, FOOD
workers, laborers, textile workers
and manv other trades from the In
dependent ana class struggle unions
I5ave demanded the enactment OF
H.R. 1895,
In all. over 1000 A. F. Of L. local
onions have Endorsed the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill HIP. 1898. A number of Cen
sraI Labor Unions Of the A. F. Of L.,
including Spokane, Wash; Lincoln,
Neb.; Minneapolis, Mimi; Sioux
City, Iowa; Albuquerque, N. NJ;
Schenectady, N. Y; Reading, Pa;
have demanded the passage Of the
bill. State A. F. of L. organizations
which have Endorsed the Workers
Bill include the Montana, Nebraska,
Colorado and Iowa State Fedora
tons of Labor.
Hundreds of thousands Of workers
IN the Unemployment Councils and
other unemployed organizations, in
the r.W.A. workers Leagues In block
and neighborhood committees, in
frat nal organizations and mass
NEE ngs have demanded the pas
sage of the Workers Unemplpoy-
ment Insurance Bill.
-. The masses Of unemployed work
rs arp demanding in increasing
nunbers, that the present session Of
Congress must act to grant secur-
4ey 10 the 100000 workers and
s1eir families who are at present to-
tally unemployed in the United
states. Every day additional work
ing class organizations and hun
I6u 4 | and thousands Of individuals
Isrtsl briting and telegraphing their
4 CH lessnen, demanding action on
The Workers Bill.
Provisions Of Workers Bill
The Workers Unemployment In
grrance Bill CHR. 1899 is the only
lbill now before Congress which APP
plies TO the 100000 workers now
lsotally unemployed. The Workers
bin Is the only bill which calls for
NE payment to all those totally un-
Issnployed, through no fault Of their
Iown, of unemployment insurance Gas
well as sickness. accident and old
age insurance) equal to the average
wage of the worker in the industry
when working.
The benefits are to be paid as long
as the worker Is unemployed. The
Workers Bill declares that these
benefits must be at least $40 a week,
With an additional SO for every de-
pendent. The Workers Bill contains
b clause that no strike or union &C
hvity can be used as an excuse to
deny benefits to the unemployed
workers.
The Workers Unemployment In
gsrance Bill is the only bill now be-
lore Congress which calls for un-
employment insurance funds to be
Obtained from taxes upon the rich,
upon corporations and individuals
with incomes over 5000 year, and
b no case any tax on the workers.
the Workers Bill specifically states
that there must be no discrimination
against any unemployed worker In
giving out Of benefits, whether Ne
gro, youth, women or foreign born.
The Workers Bill Is the only bill
which calls for the billions of dol
lars now appropriated for war prep
arations, to be at once diverted for
this unemployment insurance fund.
These insurance funds are to be ad-
nair, tered not by the employer, who
wolG use the funds as a club
sgx.4st working class ACTIVITY, but by
the workers organizations them
selves.
Roosevelt Breaks Promises
The Roosevelt government is
kaving no stone unturned to deny
he unemployed masses any unem-
ployment insurance. Roosevelt said
on Oct. s, 1882. when he was cam
paigning for election, I'VE need for
ghe unemployed greater assurance
II SECURITY. Old age, sickness and
anS1 ployment insurance are the
mipilhunl requirements In these
days" But Roosevelt, in the first
rear OF the New DEAL has acted
kist the opposite. He said in his
speech Of Feb. 28, direct relief is
not an adequate way of meeting the
Deeds Of able-bodied workers"
Roosevelt, in this speech calling for
aquidation Of the C.w.A., came out
against cash relief, against any un-
employment insurance, and in IA
Vor only of work relief" or in plain