The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17

murderous war purposes, to the con-
structive purposes of social insur-
ance. That again is the least that
the Bill can provide. If the cost
Of social insurance is not borne by
the rich, then there viii be no social
insurance; the workers wage, in
come is too miserable TO be made q
source of social insurance. Any So
cial insurance that attaches these
miserable wages will be miserable
insurance in more ways than one.
Workers Control
Finally, ths Bill provides that the
insured themselves shall administer
the Social Insurance funds. That
again is the least that can be de-
manded. Anyone knowing the least
about the history Of Tammany Hall
in New York, or any capitalist polit-
ical party with its corruption and
graft, knows that funds in the
hands Of the politicians never reach,
or at least only in part reach their
intended purpose.
The New Dealers don't have to
go through the contortionS Of think
ing up new mysterious devices for
positive solution of the problem
on hand. They need not try to be-
come inventors OF social security. y
The invention has already been
made. It was made by simple work
ers. 1t is way out Of the misery
Of the masses. Since the Brain
Trusters have uselessly racked their
brains for five years, they might
listen to the proposal of these work
ers. The workers see that the first
step on that way out of their misery
Is social insurance, as embodied In
H. r. 1898. The next step is to
take over the control OF the sources
of life Of society.
OF course the capitalists shrek at
this prospect. But they need not
be apprehensive. AL they will have
to do in order to eat, when the
workers control the sources Of life,
is to turn workers. That is much
easier than it is for a worker to
turn capitalist so that he may eat
in capitalist society.
OF course, we have no illusions.
The Brain Trusts business is not a
simple way out. The Brain Trusts
business is to keep the workers
prisoners in the labyrinth of cap
italist profits and proletarian misery
in capitalist society. Therefore we
must not expect the New Deal with
its Brain Trust and its conference
of experts and Of representatives of
industry and labor to bring us So
cial insurance and social security.
Only we, the workers, curse! IS can
conquer these things. Only our own
organization can achieve the estab-
lishment of social security. The
first step toward that social secur-
ity-the establishment of social in
surance as embodied in H. r. 1893
can only be the product of the pres
sure of the organized working
masses of the United States.
Cites Immediate Steps
Every branch of the International
Workers Order, and all fraternal
groups everywhere, should inme-
diately undertake to set up local
sponsoring committees for the Con-
gress wherever these committees do
not already exist, and to participate
in these committees.
Committees and groups from the
I. w. o. should Immediately visit
all fraternal organizations to draw
them into the local committees and
for representation at the National
Congress. The Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill and the call
to the National Congress should be
widely circulated and popularized.
Delegates should be elected from
every representative group in trade
unions, and all other organizations.
Lastly, the I. w. o. branches
should participate in the raising Of
funds for the local groups tand for
the expenses for sending delegates
and for the support Of the Congress.