The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-25
Fraudulent "Social
Insurance" Bills

ATTEMPTING to still the wave of protest and resent
"A ment Of the masses against the terminating by
Roosevelt of the CWA. jobs politicians and social
fascists alike coming forward with a deluge of
fraudulent social insurance bills
The masses demand security What are the pro-
poSaS of the politicians and socafascsS now flooding
the newspapers? Frances Perkins again speaks Of
state insurance. She wants to dodge the respon-
sbity Of the federal government and unburden that
responsibility the states This would save the Roose-
welt government the embarrassment Of taxing its mas
ters-the Wall Street bankers It would save Roose-
welt from cutting down on his immense war appro-
priations.
Governor Lehman comes out with his scheme of
unemployment reserves" This scheme has in COM
mon with the scheme of Perkins the disbarment of
all those seventeen million now totally unemployed
from any benefits. 1t would merely take those now at
work in industry, and give them small maximum
when temporarily laid Off It would not affect the
millions now totally out of work
Governor Lehman is studying" the scheme of the
New York State Federation of Labor and comforting
with the A. F. of L. officials regarding it. This scheme
in with the Others calls for individual reserves
in each factory instead Of common insurance fund
1t definitely is antabor in character 1t bars those
now jobleSS from benefits and is savings plan.
In fact the Social Security Bill, which other A.
F. of L. officials advocating in New York State
contains open ati-strke clause which bars all those
striking or even locked out from obtaining benefits.
These schemes propose to begin payments in 1885, pro-
posing that until that time the unemployed live on
air. These schemes are not and have nothing to do
with unemployment insurance Both Lehman's plan
and the Social Security Bill and the other schemes
are merely savings plans, of them calling for the
workers to contribute, others calling for the employers
to give small sums but all aimed to keep the workers
lined up seryile slaves of the employer. These
schemes propose that the funds be either administered
by the employers Qehmans scheme) or by board set
I'M y Tho cFaf al DIN
THE Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill, proposed
by the Communist Party and Endorsed by the IN
employed Councils is being approved by ever wider
masses of the workers. by local unions individual work
ers, mass meetings, and also by city councils
The Workers Bill is the only one which calls for
the workers themselves to administer the funds II
is the only bill which provides for ALL unemployed to
secure full benefits equal to the average wage prevail
ing in the industry and a minimum of ten dollars a
week and three dollars additional for each dependent
1t the only bill which provides for the funds to come
not from the workers but from tax on the bankers
and employers and from the billions in war funds of
the government.
The Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill will be
the central demand of the National Convention Against
Unemployment, which will take place in Washington
D. c.. on Feb to 5.
The masses OF workers are aroused over the fact
that Roosevelts empty promises have boiled down to
complete and open dropping OF any pretense of giving
unemployment relief, jobs insurance. They demand
real security They demand that the Federal Govern
ment shall take responsibility for the millions of
starving unemployed.
The mass resentment against RooSeyelt's bankers
program must be organized. The fake schemes of in-
suance reserves must be exposed as antiabor schemes
of the employers The Federal Government must be
forced to enact the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
Demonstrate Feb. for Jobs relief and enactment
of the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill from
the Federal Government
Elect delegates to the National Convention Against
Unemployment Feb. 3 in Washington!
Organize the united fight of the employed and un-
employed against wage cuts and for the unemployed
workers demands!
Form United Front Committees in all trade union
locals to act with the unemployed for jobs relief and
unemployment insurance from the Federal Government