The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
Drive to Pass
Workers Bill
Urged by C.P'
Text of Measure Is Re-
printed to Spur Its
Enactment

NEW YORK.-While relief Is be-
ing slashed throughout the country,
the Communist Party calls upon all
workers to intensity the struggle for
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill as the chief immediate
need of the entire working popu-
lation. The Workers Bill, reprinted
in full, is the only unemployment
insurance bill that provides bene-
fit payments to the present unem-
ployed workers and farmers.
In support Of the Workers Bill,
arrangements are being made for
a National Congress on Social Sc
curly, to be held in Washington at
the time that the 73rd session of
the United States Congress con-
venes.
The Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill as it was in
troduced into Congress on Feb. Q,
1884, under House Resolution 1898,
differs from the original bill as
sponsored by numerous workers or
CARNATIONS in the following re-
spects:
1. 1t does not provide for the
use. of war funds for unemployment
and social insurance.
2, 1t does not specifically state
that workers shall be entitled to
benefits irrespective of citizenship.
Aside from these very important
omissions, the bill, as presented, en-
bodies all the essentials Of genuine
social insurance.
The following text of the Work
ers' Bill follows:
A Bill
To provide for the establishment
of unemployment and social insur-
ance and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
the House of Representatives of the
United States Of America in Con-
gress Assembled, that this Act shall
be known by the title THE Work.
ers' Unemployment and Social In
SUI dllCe ACG.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of Labor is
hereby authorized and directed to
provide for the immediate establish
ment OF system Of unemployment
and social insurance for the pur-
pose of providing insurance for all
workers and farmers unemployed
through no fault of their own in
amounts equal to average local
wages. Such insurance shall be
administered by workers and farm
erS and controlled by them under
rules and regulations prescribed by
the Secretary of Labor in confor-
nifty with the purposes and provi-
Sions Of this Act, through unem-
ployment insurance commissions
composed of the rank and file mem
bers of workers and farmers or
CARNATIONS. Funds for such insur-
ance shall hereafter be provided at
the expense of the Government and
of employers, and it is the sense of
Congress that funds to be raised
by the Government shall be secured
by taxing inheritance and gifts, and
by taxing individual and corpora
ton incomes of $1,000 per year and
over. No tax or contribution in any
form shall be levied on workers for
the purposes of this Act. In no
case shall the unemployment in
surance be less than $40 per week
plus So for each dependent.
Scr Thn IS
is further authorized and directed
to provide for the establishment of
other forms of social insurance in
like amounts and governed by the
conditions set forth in section one
of this Act for the purpose Of pay
ing workers and farmers insurance
for loss of wages because of part
time work, sickness, accident, old
age, or maternity.
Sec. 4. The benefits of this Act
shall be extended to workers and
farmers without discrimination be-
cause of age, sex, race, or color,
religion or political opinion, or af-
filiation, whether they be industrial,
agricultural, domestic, or profess
sional workers, for all time lost. No
worker shall be disqualified for the
benefits of this Act because of re-
fusal to work in place of strikers,
at less than normal or trade-union
rates, under unsafe or unsanitary
conditions, or where hours are
longer than the prevailing union
standards at the particular trade
and locality, or at any unreasonable
distance from home.