The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-23

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the Workers Unemployment,
2Old Age and Social Insurance Bill,
H.R 1897
Senator Daniel o. Hastings Of
Delaware questioned Senator Rob-
ert Wagner, co author Of the
Roosevelt bill, on the inadequacy
Of the measure and obtained the
admission and agreement that more
funds would be necessary to care for
the aged adequately.
Hastings estimated that it would
require $675 100000. a figure FIVE
times greater than the bill provides.
to take care of the nations 3.75O.0O0
destitute aged workers Of s. years
and more He said that the Sl25.-
100000 provided by the Wagner
Lewis Bill in actual practice would
provide only s278 a month for each
aged person, rather than the SIS
specified as the governments beg
carly share.
Workers Must Pay
Meanwhile, in the House WAYS
and Means Committee hearings on
the Wagner-Lewis bill Edwin z.
Witte, executive secretary of the
Roosevelt Committee on Economic
Security, who yesterday attacked the
Workers Bill, admitted that the 3
per cent payroll tax which the Wag-
ner measure carries would be passed
on to the workers in the form Of
increased prices.
When the public hearings on the
Wagner-Lewis bill are started next
week, Israel Amter, secretary of the
National Unemployment Councils,
and Herbert Benjamin, executive
secretary of the National Joint Ac-
ton Committee for Unemployment
Insurance, which was set up by the
recent unemployment insurance con-
gress, will present the demands Of
the mighty national congress to the
committee.
Machine Well Oiled
Meanwhile, the Roosevelt machine
moved with the well-oiled precision
of an automston to stife all oppo-
sition in the House of Representa-
tives on the administration relief
plans. Roosevelt told Democratic
leaders in the House that he wanted
the relief program under which the
legislative machinery will be created
to abandon the "unemployabIes" and
strap a nationwide forced labor re-
life system upon the unemployed,
passed with no strings attached"
This measure calls for the imme-
date appropriation Of s4,880, 600 900.
1t provides for the establishment of
work relief projects under the pro-
posed plan of Harry L. Hopkins,
where relief wages at a subsistence
level will be paid.
/ In order to push through the
measure without opposition from
/ the floor, a. Democratic caucus will
be held tonight. The gag-rule. I'M
dertsken to stife any attempt to
restrict the powers which the relief
bill carries, will be pressed into use
tomorrow, committee leaders said
today.
On the hearings before the Senate
Finance Committee today on the
official administration social Sc
curity" measure, the Wagner-Lewis
Bill. Senator Wagner, who fathered
the bill in the Senate. revealed the
total inadequacy of the measure.
/ Whereas the bill carries appropria-
tons for Se8 100000 on all of its
seven points, Wagner admitted that
Sl,680,000000 would be needed to
care for the nations dependent
aged on the basis of $40 a month as
an old age pension. The Wagner
Lewis Bill provides only fifty mil
lion dollars for this.
Benjamin Urges Protest
Herbert Benjamin, executive Sec
rotary Of the National Joint Action
Committee for Unemployment In
surance, again today JAILED for the
most broad and vigorous protest
movement against the totally made
/ quate Wagner-Lewis Bill with its
complete denial of all benefits to
the fifteen million now unemployed.
Benjamin urged that all trade
unions, unemployed, fraternal and
mass organizations, and most espe-
cially those which were represented
at the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance, Immediately
flood the House Ways and Means
Committee and the Congressman
and Senators with kilograms and
resolutions demanding the enact
ment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment, Old Age and Social Insure
ance Act, H. R. 1927
kilograms and resolutions, Ben
janin urged, should demand that
congressman and Senators refuse to
vote for the Wagner-Lewis bill and
actively support the Workers Bill.
A months vacation or $50 in
raSb-eecood r,rsza II, the nails,