The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-29


IN the steel industry.
Despite the presence of reaction
airy Illinois Federation Of Labor
leaders, the bill received the sup
port of every delegate Rank and
file pressure, which showed itself in
the bills endorsement by number
Of locals throughout the country,
forced support of the bill by the
Molders' Union officials.
A resolution to aid in the defense
OF Tom Mooney, heroic class war
prisoner, was also unanimously
passed by the convention. Five hun
dred dollars was contributed to the
Tom Mooney Molders' Defense
Committee, and a committee of
three was delegated to call upon
President Roosevelt and Governor
Merriam of California to demand
the freedom of Mooney.
A demand for the passage of the
same resolution by the coming
American Federation of Labor con-
vention in San Francisco was also
supported by the delegates.
With union locals from st. Louis,
Philadelphia, Buffalo, San Fran
cisco and Chicago backing the bill,
endorsement of the workers bill for
Unemployment Insurance wa s
passed without opposition. The
resolution condemned the N. r. A.
and all present relief schemes as
unable to aid the millions of unem-
ployed workers in the country.
1t read, in part: Cali scientific
studies of unemployment in the U.
S. shows conclusively that the army
of permanently unemployed is grow
ing and will remain for an indef-
mite period-crisis or no crisis.
THE best supporters of the N. R.
A. are now compelled to admit that
the N. R. A. cannot at best elm
mate unemployment. The most ac-
curate figures show 100000 totally
unemployed in the U. S.
"All relief schemes have proven
inadequate and failure, and only
a system of social unemployment
insurance can alleviate to a great
extent the sufferings of the millions
of workers and their families in the
United States"
The Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill, H. R. 1898,
which has been introduced in the
U. S. Congress, specifies clearly: To
provide insurance for all workers
and farmers unemployed, for the
full period of unemployment, with
out discrimination: such insurance
to be administered by the workers
themselves. This bill also specifies
that money for unemployment and
social insurance be obtained from
taxations of all yearly incomes of
$1,000 and up.
'All other so-called unemploy-
ment insurance schemes, such as
the Wagner Bill, are in reality
merely an unemployment reserve,
and exclude many categories of
workers; do not protect the unem-
ployed; force the unemployed to do
strike breaking work; and at best
provide for unemployment insur-
ance of approximately $40 a year
and only for those workers who
have been recently employed"
Letter From Mooney
The Mooney resolution was passed
following the reading of letter
from the veteran working class
leader now in Folsom prison. He
said in the letter that his frame-up
was entirely a result of the "active,
aggressive, militant part" he took
in labor struggles in the San Fran
cisco Bay region.
In discussing the situation of the
working class today, he declared:
1.-THE only solution, which ultimately
will have to be taken, is the COM
plete Specialization of all the means
of production and destruction-for
use-instead of the present mad
house of rugged individualism for
private profit and the enrichment
of the few and the terrible poverty
of the great masses"
Mooney has been a member of the
Molders' Union for 80 years and
elected a delegate to every conven-
ton since 1912, despite his contin-
ued imprisonment by the ruling |
class of California. The San Fran
cisco Local 1874, of which he is a
member, elected him delegate |
again this year.