Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-01
By c e. MALONE


Bill, H. r. 1898 is tagging far behind
in the Northwest. The Bill is still in
the committee on labor and can
only be brought out if we react to it
and force them to bring 1t out. At
the present time there Is a petition
being circulated by Congressman
Lundeen among the Congressman
to take it out of the Committee on
Labor. One hundred and forty-five
signatures are needed. Pressure
must be put on the congressman
from the Northwest to sign the pc
tition If we are to succeed in having
the bill on the floor of Congress.
The following steps should be
taken at once:
1. All locals of the Unemployed
Citizens League, Unions, Fraternal,
Veterans, Farmers and all workers
organizations must pass resolutions
and forward them to our Congress
men demanding that they support
and vote for the Bill and that they
sign the petition to bring the Bill
on the floor of the House.
2. The same organizations should
pass like resolutions demanding that
the City Councils, City Commission
ers, etc, endorse the Bill and for
ward their endorsement to Wash
ington.
8. All members should send post
cards to their Congressman and city
council demanding like action.
4. Support the May Day DEM
onstration with Unemployment In
surance as one of the main issues.
The fight for this bill will not be
successful on basis Of resolutions
and signatures alone. With unem-
ployment increasing, with thousands
of CWA workers laid off and the
stalling, with the cuts of wages on
relief projects, with the steady in
crease of food prices, it is clearly
shown that the unemployment
problem is worsening under the
Roosevelt program.
The condition in the shops is lit
tie better. Cuts in wages are taking
place, reductions in working hours
are being made, which means re-
duction in wages and greater speed
up and staggering of work. There
fore, the fight for the Workers IN
employment Insurance Bill must be
connected up with the fight for jobs, |
for adequate cash relief.
Change in Membership Cards
At the last Central Federation
meeting it was passed that the IN
employed Citizens League use the
membership cards ISSUED by the
National Unemployment Council. At
the present time the UCL has is
sued somewhere in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 membership cards. |
This means that many who have
cards are not active members, but
are merely members at large who
do not pay dues. We feel that at
this time a drive for membership
should take place, to build the or
ganization and to draw in workers
as functioning, active members, in
stalling this new system of MEM
bership cards and dues payments.
Regular dues payment of &c per
month should be made (2k cents to
theCentral and 2k cents to the To-
call. Thus the Central Federation
would have a regular income with
which to function.
Therefore the Executive Commit
tee recommends the following two
proposals: Q) That each local Sc
cure a charter from the National
Unemployment Council. Charter
cost to be SOC. (2) That every To-
cal call upon it's members to take
out new membership cards which
will cost five cents, and to regularly
pay their dues.
This does not mean that we
change the name of the UCL. The
cards will read for example: Men,
Der Green Lake Local, Unemployed
Citizens League, affiliated with the
Unemployment Council. To achieve
this, a small fund will be necessary
at first, but as soon as the cards
are sold, and dues come in regu-