The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-27
JObLeSS Convention TO Launch
Nation Wide Fight for the
Workers Social Insurance Biz
Demand All War Funds
Go to JObIess; Tax
On the Rich

into the unemployment benefit pools
(Wagner bilD. In the Wisconsin bill.
if the employers set up their own in-
surance schemes, they are freed from
state control, If they should go bank
rupt or hquidate their business, the
worker would be in bad luck In tha
other bills the funds are controlled
and administered either by the State
directly or by a commission set up BY :
the state. These bills are nothing but
unemployment reserves bills. Can
mons bill if adopted would not go into
operation until 1895.
The liberals" have their own bill
This bill sponsored by the American
Association for Social Security is an
other model" state bill and prodiYes
that the worker shall receive only 40
per cent Of his average wage, but at
no time more than $40 week, for no
longer than 26 weeks in a year. This
bill, like all the other bills, provides
for no insurance in case worker is
discharged for misconduct" which
means for agitating or for organizing
a union; for refusing to break
strikes: for going on strike. All the
bills in this respect, therefore, are
strikebreaking bills.
Swope Plan Swindle
Then there is the Swope plan.
which was applied in the General
Electric plants. According to this
plan, the workers and employers pay
into a fund. through which the
worker is supposed to be guaranteed
SIS week for the full time of I'M
employment or part-time. This plan
did not meet its promises however, for
with the discharge of tens Of thou
sands Of workers in 1901, the COM
pany soon cut the amount Of in
surance to as low as 50 a week and
finally discontinued it. Some of the
workers had paid into the fund for
years, and thus we're duped.
A. F. of L., s. P. Split Workers Forces
Governor Lehman Of New York now
proposes a bill of similar character.
except that it will be financed only by
the individual employers, without the
state participating. This puts the
workers completely at the mercy of
their employers, and represents a
strike breaking wage-cutting instru-
nent of tremendous power. Governor
Lehman is studying" the bill with
leaders Of the State Federation of
Labor and doubtless will get their ap-
prevail
The Socialist party, which had It's
own own bill, has forsaken it and gives
support to the bills introduced in the
state legislatures by the Republicans
and Democrats. The A. F. of l. lead
ers oppose federal unemployment in
surance on the ground that federal
bill would be declared "lnconstitu-
tional" by the United States supreme
COURT The purpose Of their stand Is
to split the forces of the workers In
the 48 states and make the fight 4B
times as hard. The Unemployed
Councils are carrying on the cam
paign for the enactment of the
Workers Bill by the federal govern
ment, pending which they direct the
struggle also against the state gov
ernment&
There will be . food Of bills in the
various state and federal legislative
bodies this year. These bills are along
the lines of the Roosevelt new deal''
and in keeping with his promise Of
unemployment insurance" They
mean to bring about no change In the
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