The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
Success Rests on Local,
County, State Groups,
Anter Declares

SbeVeS btldV alDlOugl some kind o.
unemployment insurance Is inevi.
table, receiving cash benefits oveI
a long period of time is not tn,
answer in America" This is q
promise of forced labor for the so.
called elders"
While in Europe, however, Hop,
kins stated frankly his position. The
New York Times of Aug. nth re-
ports him as declaring that:
''The United States must work
out system of its own in accord
ance with American conditions Of
life. There is enough work avail
able to keep every American busy
for twenty-five years. Americans
Will not stand for a dole and we
are going to put them to work on
great public projects and pay
them decent wages. There Is no
loss of a PERSONS seIf-respect or
morale under such a system"
That we heard from Hoover-and
it was repeated by William Green.
Then we heard it from Roose-
veh-but unemployment insurance
had to be held forth at least as a
promise" William Green, who ac-
cepted Hoover's position on unen-
ployment insurance, altered it to
suit the Roosevelt course. Ell did
not know Of Hopkins veering again
towards the Hoover position, for on
July 18th New York Tines, he
declared that the A. F. of L. execu-
tive Is preparing to fight off the
efforts to Scuttle R0OseveIt's social
insurance plans" These efforts are
being made by big industrial and
financial institutions and associa-
lions Of the country. Now with the
new course in operation. Green will
have TO reverse himself once more
as he already has done in his de-
mands for q new C.WA. program.
Thus social insurance,-tfe dole"
is scuttied and we are promised
great public projects at decent
wages enough work for every
American for twenty-five years .
This program IL sheerest poppy
cock--pure demagogy-and will not
and cannot be achieved under cap
tahsm. The erection of new fac
tories meets with the opposition of
present factory owners, who, owing
to overproduction, need no new
ones and no new equipment. New
railroads are not needed. The
erection of private buildings and
homes meets with the united op-
position of real estate owners, and
n not intended to be rented at
cost, and to the unemployed free.
will be OF no avail, and therefore
Will not be undertaken. The whole
program is being announced as part
Of the election cannDaisn.-some
more promises" like in 1892.
Workers Demand Enactment of
Workers Btu
For four years, through the Com
munist Party, the National Unem-
ployment Council and other mill
tant organizations, the workers oil
this country have been demanding
work at decent wages or unemploy-
ment and social insurance. Work
at decent wages will not be granted
by the capitalists and the govern
ment. The workers cannot ane
refuse to continue to suffer ant
starve, and now demand in ar
increasingly determined manner
the enactment of social insurance
and specifically the Workers IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill as the only bin of service tt
the working class.
Around this bill in the struggle
for social security, the Nationa
Unemployment Council is calling
for broad united front action IL
Washington In January, 1888. Ilpor
the opening Of the next session o,
the U. s. Congress. Acting on the
basis that thousands Of locals of the
A. F. of L. independent and T.UUL
Unions have endorsed the bill: thai
the convention of four internationa
unions Of the A. F. Of L. state fed
erations and central labor bodies
the first national Youth Congress
veterans, farmers, fraternal, Negro
and other organizations, municipa
councils representing more thar
100000 of the population of thu
country, support the Workers Bill
the National Unemployment Coun
Gil believes that the time IS auspi
ciouS to draw these organization
into the planning and organization
or a mass congress for social Sc
curfy in Washington to voice il
firm. determined manner the de
mand for the enactment of tn
Workers Bill. A National Arrange
ments Committee for the Congress
is being formed. 1t will hold
preliminary meeting on Aug. 30, il
New York, and it's first constituent
meeting IN Chicago on October
Mass Congress for Social Securit
Local, State Conferences
1t is obvious that much wor
must be done. The success Of tn
mass congress depends on Ioca,
county and State activity. TIL
experiences of the National Unem
ployment Council is that the activ
ity of the unemployed, like that G
the employed workers has rise,
during the past months. Dissatis
faction with the MIRA, the clear
ing up Of illusions about the "nev
DEAL" have led the workers t
struggles unequalled in the past fiji
teen years. The coming winter Wi
be one OF intense struggle for tn
right to live. What therefore hav
we to do?
In every locality and county
broad Local Arrangements Com
mittee should be set up, consistin
of representatives of the Unem
ployment Council and such othe
UNEMPLOYED organizations as exis-