The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-09
Workers Bill Oh. R. $685.
tA|dorsed By 43 AL
Locals in Past Month

relief. Thus did Roosevelt break his
campaign pledges.
President Roosevelt has made one
attack after another on the unem-
ployed. He liquidated the C.W.A., he
cut down on direct relief appropr1-
ations. He opposes and refuses to
grant unemployment insurance.
The Fraudulent Wagner Bill
But now President Roosevelt is
afraid of the demand Of the masses
for security against starvation. He
is afraid of the demand Of the hun
dreds Of thousands and millions Of
workers for the enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill. So Roosevelt is trying to side
track this bill by backing a fraudu-
lent insurance" bill, the Wagner
Bill. Mrs. Roosevelt, Federal Relief
Director Hopkins, Mrs. Perkins and
all of RooseVelt's official family, are
boosting the Wagner Bill. They do
this in order to hoodwink the work.
ers into believing that they are do
ing something for the unemployed.
They call this bill an "unemploy-
ment insurance" bill, hoping the
workers won't study it and find out
what it really is.
The Wagner Bill is not an unem-
| ploynent insurance bill at all. It
provides that the federal govern
ment shall not give a cent for I'M
employment insurance. What the
| Wagner Bill does is merely exempt
employers from a federal tax, pro-
vided that they have contributed to
any sort Of state reserves" fund.
The Wagner Bill merely transfers
the unemployment insurance prob
/ lem to the states. But it provides
that the state shall pass, not un-
employment insurance bills, but
reserve" bills. These bills, such as
the Wisconsin Law, the Steingut
Bill in New York State, ETC., do not
apply to any workers who are to-
tally unemployed. They contain
anti-strike and misconduct" clauses
which bar any striker OF anyone &C
tive in the workers organizations,
from benefits and get him fired.
They are harmful to the employed
because they hold the club of firing
and loss of insurance over the
workers now In industry, if they
fight against wage cuts or for bet
ter conditions. They do not apply
at all to those already unemployed.
They leave the fund in the hands Of
the employer, giving him added
power over the worker. They do
not go into effect for months after
passage. They limit the ''insur-
ance" even to those in industry to
form 10 to 16 weeks, after which
the worker gets nothing.
The National Campaign
The Workers Unemployment IN
surance Bill is the only bill before
Congress beneficial to the unem-
ployed and part time workers. 1t
was introduced by Ernest Lundeen
because the rank and file Of his own
party, the Farmer-Labor Party, and
the unemployed workers OF his city,
Minneapolis, led by the Unemploy-
ment Councils, forced him to act.
But Lundeen himself has not put
up any fight for the papssage of the
Workers Bill CHR. 1899 which he
introduced. The bill is now before
the Labor Committee of the House,
of which Congressman Connery is
chairman. Only the intensified mass
campaign of the workers will force
Congress to act favorably on the
Unemployment Insurance Bill. The
National Unemployment Councils
have launched national campaign
for the enactment of H.R. 1898. All
workers and all working class or
CARNATIONS are urged to act at once
to force Congress to pass the Work
ers Bill.
Demand Of the Roosevelt govern
ment that the campaign pledges be
carried out. Demand security for all
unemployed workersl
Expose the fraudulent Wagner
Bill!
Demand that your local Congress
man act in support of HR. 1898!
Demand the immediate enactment
by Congress of the Workers Unem-
pioyment and Social Insurance Bill