The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-31
There Is Only One REAL
JobleSS Insurance Bill

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION Against Unemploy-
ment opens next Saturday morning in Washington,
AZ time when the demand Of the unemployed work
ers for unemployment insurance is growing from day
30 day.
The city councils Of Minneapolis Buffalo NIIwau-
zee Tacoma Wash, Eveleth, MINI, and three Cook
County (Chicago) towns and others have Endorsed
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. Hundreds
Of thousands Of workers In local unions unemployed
organizations. and meetings. have Endorsed the bill.
The pressure of the 100000 unemployed workers
Of the country being brought to bear on the govern
ment for security in the form Of unemployment in
laws which the workers demand be enacted
by the government.
The convention viii serve to unity this demand
on national scale. to organize the workers for
powerful united campaign throughout the coun-
Try FOR the immediate enactment Of the Workers Bill
But the Roosevelt government is acutely aware Of
the growing demand Of the masses for the passage
Of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill The
national government In order to thwart this demand
Tor security is calling conferences and spreading much
propaganda in the capitalist press for the Wagner Bill
which provides that the Federal Government shall
give no unemployment insurance funds to the jobless
workers
The most recent baIyhoo Of the Roosevelt govern
eut the conference unemployment In the Hotel
Commodore Monday night at which Roosevelt's secre-
tary Of Labor Mrs. Perkins the principal speaker
This conference, attended by many Chamber Of Com
cans, and A. F. Of l. officials broadcast great deal
q talk 'for unemployment insurance"
st the same time the conference aimed TO
mobilize sentiment 10 favor Of the Wagner Bill which
AIRS Perkins has embraced as her own This bill
provides that employers shall be taxed for reserves
except where employers contributing to state re-
serve insurance" funds Mrs. Perkins and Senator
frankly admit that the bill is aimed to shift
the states all responsibility for unemployment in
aance, and provides funds from the Federal Gov
eminent.
The fraud now being perpetrated by the Roosevelt
government, backed by the A. r. of L. officials is seen
in the maneuyers Of Perkins in New York. Perkins
c57ernor Lehman, the New York State Federation of
Labor officials are combining to push the Mastck-
.cagu Bill in the present session of the legislature
in albany This is termed unemployment insurance"
The bill is being widely advertised to show how the
Roosevelt governments state program Of state reserves
embodied in the Wagner Bill would work out
ulHAT IS Inc bill now before the New York legis-
" latWe termed in all the headlines as an ''rn-
employment insurance bill"
It provides that employers set aside a small per-
centage Of their payrolls for fund to be put in the
hands Of the state treasury The maximum amount
of insurance called for is SIS week for sixteen weeks
The bill states that Unemployment insurance" can
not be paid for longer than sixteen weeks to worker
It does not apply to those now totally unemployed
It applies only to those in industry who become
'nvoluntary unemployed, 1t is the old strike
breaking proposal to give the millions of jobless moth
ing and to force those now in industry to be good
boys" and not strike organize union for better
conditions for fear of losing their Insurance"
Mrs. Perkins, in her speech at the Commodore
showed that she does not care whether the I'M
employed get security not long as the Federal
Government is exempt from payment of the funds
She says, The states under the plan that Senator
Wagner, Congressman Lewis and have been working
out decide for themselves whether to have State
wide funds industrial pooled funds or individual re-
serves. They also decide whether to have Joint
contributions contributions only by employers what
employers shall contribute what employments shall be
covered, who is eligible for benefits what the waiting
period shall be, and what above an absolute minimum
the benefit rates shall be- and who and how long they
shall be paid"
In other words, Perkins, the representative of
Roosevelt, does not who gets unemployment in
surance or how much they get long as the Federal
Government does not have the responsibility for the
insurance. Mrs Perkins knows that the states will
pass such laws Off they pass any laws as are now pro-
posed for New York which provide no unemployment
insurance at all and do not concern themselves with
those millions jobless.
Unemployed workers! Do not let the campaign
u lie Roosevelt government to sdetrack Federal I'm
employment Insurance succeed!
Expose the fraudulent strkebreaking bills now mas
auerading Unemployment Insurance bills!
Fight for the enactment OF the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill
Demonstrate Feb. for the Workers Unempioy-
nsent Insurance Bill