The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-04
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UlSllb anu SOCldl u1SuIdIiCC. IL Is sig =
nif1cant that the American Liberty
League, united front employer
organizations formed within the last
few months to fight the militant
working class struggle for better
conditions and civil liberties, issued
a pamphlet tonight praising the
Wagner-LeWis bill.
THE Communist Party is OPP
posed in toto to the economic Sc
curity program as introduced by the
Wagner-Lewis Bill and to its under
lying principle" Clarence A. Hath
away, editor of the Daily Worker
declared yesterday before the House
Ways and Means Committee. Hath
away appeared before the Roosevelt
Administration Committee as the
official representative Of the Com
munist Party.
'This bill will not serve to give
to the workers real unemployment
insurance" Hathaway pointed out
to the Committee. I'VE support the
Workers Unemployment, Old Age
and Social Insurance Bill, H. r
2827,' he added.
Hoan Against Workers Bill
Other witnesses included Sher-
wood L. Reeder, the spokesman for
the Executive Committee of the
United States Conference of Mayors
consisting of Mayors Hoan of Mil
waukee, LaGuardia Of New York
City, Rossi Of San Francisco, Mans
field of Boston, Jackson of Balti-
more, Holcombe of Houston and
Overton of Memphis. Reeder, who
announced that he wished to speak
briefly and solely with reference tc
one minor matter" asked to insert
word in the old age section to i'm
prove the drafting technique. He
made it clear, however, that the
Conference Of Mayors is back Of the
Administration Bill, measure thai
rejected genuine unemployment in
surance. This is significant in light
of the fact that the Mayors Execu-
tive Committee is headed by DAME
Hoan, the Socialist Party Mayor o.
Milwaukee. Hoan's position on I'm.
employment insurance conflicts with
the action of the City Council Of
Milwaukee which has endorsed The
Workers Bill and with the demand!
of many Socialist workers who have
joined the movement in support o
II. r. 1927.
Hathaway informed the Way.
and Means Committee that thu
Wagner-Lewis Bill "is not designed
to provide social security for thu
poor but rather for the rich" HI
charged that the sponsors of tht
administration measure hope Il
"quiet the masses" with a shan
measure and to reduce the presen
low cost Of caring for the unem
ployed. The administration bill, h
added, will lower the living stand
ards in the interest of higher stand
ards for the rich.
"Negation of Real Aid"
That each State should enac
| it's own laws, as is provided for il
the Wagner Lewis Bill, is mega
ton of effective social INSURANCE
legislation, while the "unemploy
ment reserves" theory embodied Il
administration proposals is I'm
sound, Hathaway said.
In discussing, the old age provi
sions of the administration bill
Hathaway demonstrated that tn
| old age pension provision, whicl
! starts at IS and is limited to abou
! ST a week, "is a sad joke" in view o
the fact that workers in mass pro
duction industries are laid off a
fifty. The graduated tax theory
not only an evasion, Hathawa
stated, but is also too small an
conditional
The Workers Bill, said Hathawa.
provides for payments to the un
employed without a waiting period
| benefits at the expense of thos
who can affort to pay paymer
based on average wages but nc
lower than $40 week and SO fc
each dependent; and administre
ton by the workers.
The Committee adjourned unit
Monday morning.