The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29

State Temporary Relief Administra-
ton, had rendered duplicated bills
to the local relief bureau We also
found strong evidence that COLLISION
existed between local merchants and
people within the local relief or
ganizGtion.
A terra. auditor, Karl Hitler, 10
Oswald Court, Oceanside, Long Is
land, who discovered the evidences
Of fraud and brought it to the at
tention of his superiors was prompt
ly discharged. Despite a fight for
reinstatement that has gone all the
way to the White House, Hitler has
never been put back on the terra.
payroll.
Food spoilage, discovered on a
huge scale in New York City, was
also revealed on a proportionate
scale in Cohoes.
Labor's Attitude Toward Relief
Graft
What shall be the attitude of la
Dor and all other fighters for gem
uine unemployment insurance to-
wards this type of disclosures? Shall
they merely "deplore" the revela-
tons of graft, wait for the usual
type of investigation and then pray
that good" men will be placed in
charge of relief administration?
The answer to this question is put
very clearly and precisely in the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, the measure introduced by
Representative Lundeen (Farmer-
Labor, MIMI in the last session of
Congress and known there as HR.
1898 This bill, originally drafted
by the Communist Party, and en-
, dorsed by over 1000 American Fed
Grafton of Labor organizations, will
be a central point in the discussion
at the forthcoming National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance,
January 5, 6 and at Washington.
The bill, as is fairly we'll known,
calls for unemployment insurance
to be paid to every person out of a
job now or losing his job in the
future.
AS a guarantee that unemploy-
ment insurance will be adninis~
tered democratically, the bill calls
for control of unemployment insur-
snce by committees of workers.
This will make it virtually impos-
sible for capitalist politicians to
build up political machines on the
basis of the administration of the
insurance funds.
For Workers Control of Relief
The Communist Party has con-
SiStsntly fought for the application
of the same principle in the admin
istration OF relief. Ever since the
historic demonstrations on March 6,
| 1880, when the Unemployment
Councils, actively supported by the
Communist Party, unfurled the
banner of unemployment insurance
and immediate relief, it simultane-
ously called for workers control Of
relief administration.
Capitalist politicians, of course, do
not want hide nor hair of this.
They want set-up which they can
control. They want an administra-
! ton into which they can place
their" people. (The Republicans
are just as guilty of this sort of
thing as the DemocratsD They
want-and have set up-a bureau
cracy, the inner workings of which
are we'll hidden from the masses of
the people, the unemployed above
all, as well as the rest of the tax
paying population.
Forced by the struggles of the
unemployed to give some minimum
of relief, they have built in New
York State a bureaucracy controlled
from the top down by Alfred H.
Schoellkopf. the great utilities mag
nate. Graft, corruption and in
timidation are inevitable in such
set-up.
| The struggle against graft in the
relief administration cannot be
separated from the struggle for
workers control OF relief. In every
city, in every town and village
where there is relief organization,
workers, farmers ard small tax
/ payers should organize to demand
control of the administration of re-
/ lief By elected representatives of all
these groups.
/ =, To-
ment of workers within the relief
administration at present employed.
Tt implies above all supervision,
control by the masses of the relief
/ dispensed in each locality.
This would mean a more
/ equitable distribution of relief, and
would largely do away with dis
| elimination. 1t would prevent
coercion Of families on relief rolls
who 90 not "votc right" 1t would,
to a great extent, do away with
graft and corruption and make i'm
possible such situation as we have
in New York State, where utilities
baron like Schosllkopf can actually
traffic in the misery of the unem-
ployed.
This is problem which will be
elaborated ON by the Washington
Congress for Unemployment In
I surSnce. 1t is an issue around
which mccsss Of vo--..77er3 and farm
ers throughout the country can
unite in common struggle. 1t is part
! and parcel Of the growing fight Of