The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05
Draft Program Cites
Mass Misery, Urges
Broad Unity
By Carl Reeve
cp.IIy worker star cerr.spona.nt,

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. -
As the delegates began arriving for
the opening tomorrow morning Of
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance. the improved
Workers Unemployment Insurance
bill III. r. 1898 in the last Congress)
was recorded in the present. Seven-
/ ty-fourth Congress as H. r. 1927.
The Workers Bill, now H. r.
1897, was improved by the National
Sponsoring Committee of the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance and formally presented
to Congressman Ernest Lundeen by
Herbert Benjamin, on behalf Of the
Sponsoring Committee. Lundeen
then introduced the improved
Workers Bill in the House of Rep
resentatives.
Lundeen, against the desires Of
the Sponsoring Committee, made a
few changes in the bill. In one
place where the Workers Bill calls
for no discrimination because Of
past or present strikes. ETC., Lun-
deem eliminated the word pres
emit" He ESQ eliminated the word
citizenship" at the point where the
WORKERS Bill calls for no discrirai-
nation because of race, sex, belief,
citizenship, etc.
Bill Improved
However, the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance bill as drafted by
the Sponsoring Committee. and
with the few changes made by
Lundeen. is an improvement over
the Workers Bill as presented by
Lundeen at the last session of Con-
gress.
The Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill Oh. r. 2S2D
will be presented to the delegates to
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance tomorrow.
Delegates arrived last night and
this morning from Texas, Wyoming,
Colorado, California, New York,
Michigan. Indiana, etc. The first
delegate came in from California
last night after making his way
with ten dollars total expenses. A
house on wheels arrived from
Colorado with twelve delegates. in-
Guiding a Socialist sent by both the
Denver Socialist Party local and
the Boiler Makers Union. DELEGATES
already here include representatives
of Farm Holiday, U. M. w. A.,
metal miners, womens organiza-
tons, etc. showing the broad char
acter of the Congress.
Wires were received that ninety
delegates will arrive this afternoon
in buses from the Chicago District
and forty in buses from the Iowa
and fifteen women are due from
the Minnesota regions. Eighty men
and fifteen women are due from
the Cleveland District in buses at
8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Draft Program
The draft program which the Ma
tional Sponsoring Committee will
present to the delegates to the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance tomorrow, after analyzing
the misery brought about by six
years of crisis, whose causes are
dealt with, declares, The very ma
ture of the problem calls for united
mass effort. The social forces that
make for mass restitution are not
subject to individual control. The
measures necessary must provide a
greater degree of social security.
Such security cannot be achieved by
the individual or by an isolated
group acting independently and
without the support of all others
VINO are concerned. Our first pur-
pose and task is therefore TO bring
about the greatest possible unity
Of action of all who need and all
who seek to achieve an adequate
system Of social insurance.
The draft program declares. Our
aim is to secure compensation from
the Federal government for all who
are willing but unable to work be-
cause of unemployment. old age, in
dustrial accident or sickness, and
during period of maternity"
Bill Center of Program
After giving the provisions Of the
Workers bill, the draft program
states. I'm this manner we under
take to prevent the deoassment Of
living standards as we'll as the in
terruption of necessary income for
the great masses.
Our central program and demand
is therefore the immediate enact
ment by the Congress of the United
States of the Workers Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance bill"
The draft program fully analyzes
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