The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-26

/ during the campaign, and wait in
vain for any word about it.
President Roosevelt sought to
! handle the bothersome business by
/ establishing a so-called Committee
on Economic Security to study it,
and report by Dec. 1, well after the
election is over. To keep up the
illusion that this Committee is
working toward something subStan-
tial, the members regularly visit the
White House. Just today they filed
in again-Secretary of Labor Per-
kins and Federal Relief Administra-
torHopkins accompanied by Indus
trial Emergency Committee Di-
rector ichberg-looking knowingly
but saying nothing. The only word
available as to the outlook for the
Committees recommendations came
from the President, and it was sig
nificant. Pressed with queries about
the Committees deliberations, he
said they are considering several
plans. Then he volunteered that
one of these plans would provide
that the federal government pay
the overhead expenses of admin
istering social insurance - which
would be no federal insurance at
alll-and this was as far as the
President went. Within day or
so. however, Secretary Of Commerce
Roper, who also has special Com
mittee on Unemployment Insurance,
composed of avowed Big Business
representatives announced that
this group was in complete agree
ment with the Presidents Com
mittee. Now it is reported that the
Roper Committees plan is-lo! the
same zone" Rooseelt mentioned. 1
dropped in to see DR., Edwin E.
witte the chief expert OF the
Presidents Committee. He said ne
couldn't talk.
Not for Pensions
DIR. White did authorize me to say
two things which he expressed with
all the emphasis his professional
didacticism could command: con-
trary to reports, he has not said he
favors contributory old-age pen
sions (under which the worker con-
tributes to himself and he con-
siders the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insuranc Bill mo bill
at adjust a speech, without any
provision for administrative ma
chinery or for an appropriation.
Which reminded me that the no
torious CASTOR Means once favored
me with the confidence" that he
was innocent" of charge OF
swindling rich woman. DR.. WHITE
couldn't say the Committee was-ol
that it wasn't-for any of the fun
damental principles expressed ir
the Workers Bill.
Nobody in Washington can talk
these days, about anything Of any
Importance. The regular press con-
ferences Of leading officials are
buds. Clay Williams, tobacco mil
lionaire head of the new Nationa
Industrial Recovery Board, has an.
nounced that the gold fish bowl
| PO4ICI ID uO44C 1O1s Az 1OOhS Wei
much as though orders have gon'
forth to lie low until the election il
/ over.
1 Barrages Melt Down
i Far be it from the Republican
to complain. Their paper barrage
o are all minnie balls that melt dow
!, to charges of corruption" in tn
: administration of what little relic
is given. Their fundamental slogan
are Balance the Budget" ant
Protect the Constitution with
vagueness which opens the wa
It for Democratic spokesman to coun
: ter with their meaningful theme
Save the New Deal" Notably, n
Republican is fighting for the Con
stitutional rights of free speecl
L and assembly. Some New Dea
: demogogues have taken advantag
S of this: Secretary of Interior Icke
recently declared that rugged in
dividualists who rush to the defens
n of the American Constitution" ar
n silent as the grave when the right
and liberties of the great mass @
the people are really in jeopardy.
n Ickes, however, failed to point GU
:, that it is the Roosevelt Democrati
9 Administration, which Ickes serve
: as one of the Liberal fronts, whicl
has restricted these rights eve,
more than did the rugged individ
ualists of the Hoover era.
Months ago, some of the rar,
realistic Liberal observers her
shuddered at a rumor that the Ad
ministration has decided to wee
/ more openly to the right on tn
I, theory that, Labor has nowher
else to go in the election and there
fore will have to vote Democratic
T. what we have to worry about r1oy
! is business support That is OBJ
a viously the guiding philosoph
: which the Democrats are following
What they blink is the full and con
) crete program of the Communis
l. Party, to which labor can go. Blu
for this, Clifford Pinchot woul
have been hone15 when he endorse,
y the candidacy of David A. Reed
=, 4 Pennsylvania leading reactionary
n. upon the following thesis: Reed
Melons man openly and abov
board, Fuffey is Melons man Sc
A. cretly and below board. Reed
al under obligation to Mellon an,
re makes no effort to hide it. CUTIE,
4 is under obligation to Mellon AM
makes eynru effort tn hidn itp