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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

those inadequate funds will go.
Since very little can be collected
from the workers because they do
not have anything, and since the
rich refuse to have much collected
from them, the funds upon which
the actuarial figures are based must
of necessity be totally inadequate.
The result is that all these schemes
provide help only to some workers
in some distant future, and then
only for a miserably few weeks. The
rest Of the workers, or all of the
workers the rest OF the time, are
doomed to misery and starvation.
Such insurance is no help at all
When in this connection you con-
slider that the establishment of such
a measure of insurance" will seri-
ously cut down and even eliminate
entirely other forms of public and
private relief, you can readily imag
inc that this kind Of social in
surance will make matters worse for
the workers instead of better.
The problem of unemployment
old age and disability of the work
er must be approached like the gov
eminent approached the problem OF
the war. The question then was
not how many cannons can we buy
for the money we have. The ques-
ticn was. how many cannons do we
need. Then the necessary money
was gotten by any and all means.
For War or Peace?
Are the needs of the working
masses and their dependents less
important than the needs of wars
Evidently the prevailing opinion Of
the circles Of capitalists and war
prof1teers considers these needs less
important. Well, the masses do not
They say When it was question
of providing billions to kill and tc
destroy, these billions were provided
No one called in an actuary to prove
that the expenditures for war ma
teria1 have to be cut down because
of lack of funds. At this moment
1t is not QUESTION to kill people
and to destroy property as it waS
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Mexicans Show
The Way
By a Worker Correspondent

DENVER, Colo.-A young Ameri-
can worker, unemployed and on re-
lief, has been getting two quarts
Of milk each day for his children
Recently the milkman quit leaving
milk so the worker asked the milk
man why he didn't leave any milk
The milkman said he had been de-
livering relief milk to about forty
families, but, recently about one
half of the families we're cut off
and when he looked over the list, to
his establishment he found only
Mexican families left while all the
Americans had been cut of. When
this American worker protested at
the relief station he was told in
directly that if the American work
ers had half as much (gutS as the
Mexicans have they would get bet
ter treatment.
Another American worker, unem-
ployed and in urgent need of food,
etc, was denied relief He left the
relief station grumbling. His neigh
Dor, a Mexican, who is also mem-
ployed and who went to get relief
also was told they could not do any
thing for him, so he said to the
relief worker, well, I get it myself,
tonight" He was called back i'm
mediately and given a regular
weekly amount of relief.
When the American worker heard
about this he almost became fran
tic with rage. He told it to so many
people that the Globeville Unem-
ployment Council got wind of it and
they asked him to join the council,
which he did. A committee from
the council composed Of quite a lot
Of Mexicans got relief for this
American and it has opened his
eyes to the fact that the Mexicans
have been showing more CUTS than
the Americans and that is the rea-
son the relief workers fear the Mex
leans more than the Americans.
Moral: American workers join an
council If you don't
want to starve.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

solve the problem. In the first place
all help supplied by the fraternal
organizations is limited by the lin
tied ability of the workers to pay
dues. The lower the workers in
come, the less able he is to pay
dues, but the more frequent and
the more intense is his need for
help. In the second place, fraternal
and mutual help can be organized
by the workers only for limited
number Of categories Of emergencies
for sickness, accident, etc. 1t
cannot be organized for old age
and for unemployment.
The workers never clearly saw
these limitations until the present
crisis arose. Up to 1929 they thought
it within their power to provide
against all their economic emergen-
cies. They believed it when they
we're told that it was up to them
to put aside reserves during the
days of prosperity and to prepare
for the rainy days of depression.
They did prepare for this rainy
day. They put money in the banks.
They bought homes. But when the
rainy day did come the workers
found to their establishment that
the carefully provided for umbrella
had mysteriously disappeared. The
banks had closed their doors. Their
own homes were turned from places
OF shelter into unbearable and fore
closed mortgage burdens. 1t was
then that the workers found that
they we're facing a social problem.
Theirs was not problem faced only
by individual workers, to be solved
by those workers individually. 1t
was social problem that the work
ers depend on wages for living.
1t was social problem that the
workers do not have control over
their jobs and over their wages. 1t
was social problem that the work
ers do not control the economic
sources Of their lives.
Limitations of FraternaI Help.
We who are working in the fra
ternal organizations are daily faced
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

workers cannot be the source Of
funds for such insurance. The ma
tional wealth must provide this
source. The workers with their la
Dor produced this national wealth.
Those who control that national
wealth must be made to contribute
the necessary share to the main
tenance OF the workers. The rich,
the capitalists, must pay for this
social insurance.
We in the fraternal movement are
particularly anxious to get an un-
employment and social insurance
bill that will really insure the
worker and his dependents against
his economic insecurity. We know
how inadequate and how pitifully
insufficient an insurance must of
needs be t>>at bases itself upon
funds accumulated out of workers
contributions. We want no such
social insurance. Such social insur-
ance would make matters worse for
the workers. While it would elimi-
nate public and private relief, it
would hardly improve the actual in
surance that the worker does get
today from his fraternal organiza-
ton. Besides, it would deprive him
of the right of management and
administration of his own insurance
funds.
In this respect none of the exist
ing proposals aside from House Bill
1927 contribute one iota to the i'm
provement of the workers position.
A much better result could be OBJ
tanned by government subsidies to
the fraternal organizations. Such
subsidies would eat less money than
all these insurance proposals and
would supply much more adequate
insurance provision for the workers.
But neither such a measure, nor
all other existing unemployment
insurance, old age pension, etc.,
schemes, solve the problem. House
Bill 1927 will.
That is why We support it. That
is why We ask this committee to
report it out favorably. That is why
we demand Of Congress to pass it.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Small Family Men
Off Relief
By a Worker Correspondent

MADISON, Me.-"And 50 If you
men with small families don't get
any work you will know It's because
some one with a larger family is
getting the work" With these words
Trainor, the district ERA. admin
iStrator, dismissed a group Of work
ers who had been working outside,
laying a water piper, in sub-zero
weather.
If you single men and workers with
small families are suffering from
unemployment and hunger, just
console yourselves with the thought
that some one with a larger family
is getting half enough to live on,
Mix that consolation with one can
of beef and one can of fish per
week and see if it makes you feel
happy and well-fed.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Relief Refuses Coal
For Sick Child
BY a Worker Correspondent

MASON CITY, Iowa.-About five
and a half weeks ago I received a
check of three dollars from the
Iowa Emergency Relief Admins
tration. That check was supposed
to last me a week and a half. Ever
since then the relief has been
steadily cut.
I have a baby that has suffered
from two severe attacks Of pneu-
monia this winter All have been
able to get out of the relief for her
care was one milk order and some
cod liver oil. For several days, dur
ing the bitter cold we had no coal
in the house while the baby was
sick. The nurse told them that I
had to have coal, but they said I
would have to wait till certain
day.
I couldn't get any clothes for my
children so I kept them out Of
school and notified the school sup
intendent why they were being kept
out.
A committee of sympathizers and
members of the A. F. Of L. went
with me to see the relief admin
istrator, A. G. Peters. Peters said
that he had heard that I was keep
ing my children out of school be-
cause they had insufficient clothing
and that the teachers told him they
had fine clothes. This was lie.
I asked the school principal whether
this was so and she said that it
wasn't
Five minutes after 1 had gotten
home, the truant officer was there
and said that if I continued keep
ing the children out Of school he
would have to serve me with papers.
I still refuse to send my children
to school and the unemployment
council is taking UP my case.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Hold Relief Farley
in Colorado
BY a Worker Correspondent

DURANGO, Colo.-For the first
time in the history of the labor
movement of Durango, a definite
program was outlined for the pur-
pose of assisting the unemployed
workers, the aged, the destitute and
the unemployed intelligentsia in
their struggle for the necessities of
life.
At meeting called by the South
western Colorado Conference for
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance, Allen o. Herring, elected dele
gate to the National Congress for
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance held in Washington, D. c.,
Jan. 5, 6, 7 contrasted the two
Congresses, which occurred sinful
taneously in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Clamp Down on
Home Loans
By a Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK.-The government
Home Loan Corporation is begin
ming to quietly put the screws down
upon small home-owners who re-
/ ceived loans.
without the blare or publicity
which began its campaign to pay
/ private mortgage companies mil
lions of dollars on frozen mort
cages it is threatening foreclosures
| if interest and principal payments
are not met.
A letter signed by J. D. Menkes,
assistant service manager of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation, 500
Fifth Avenue. received by a home
owner in Long Island last week,
threatens that unless arrears is
paid up at this office within the
next few days it will be necessary
to start legal proceedings to pro-
tect the collateral afforded the cor
poration for its investment"
when the Home Owners Loan
Corporation was created" stated
the home owner, lit was supposed
to be for the purpose Of saving the
homes of people, who through no
fault OF their own could not meet
the payment on their mortgages.
The law was an emergency meas
ure to overcome a disastrous stu
alton and you might say to save
the last worthy possession in the
world we had remaining.
Nov the emergency has not
past" he went on, many people
who have received loans are on
home or work relief or not working
at all, Many peoplpe working are
not earning enough to meet the
monthly payments"
The Threatened home owner, a
Democrat has sent letters to Sena-
tor Wagner. and Senator Copeland,
and received empty form acknowl-
edgements. He now sees that I'VE
must band together and protest our
interests similar to the farmers in
the West when they were being
foreclosed!"
When told about the Small Home
Owners Protective Association in
Cleveland he was enthusiastic about
building a Small Home Owners
Protective Association in Long
Island as the only immediate means
to safeguard his home, together
with thousands of others, once well
fixed people, who face eviction.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Legislator Evades
Insurance Issue
By a Worker Correspondent

By Worker Correspondent
McMECHEN, W. Val wired the
Hon. Jennings Randolph, Congress
man from the second district Of
West Virginia, requesting quick ac-
ton on H. r. 1927, 74th Congress,
also endorsement by all members
Of the committee and recommended
ton to Congress approving this bill.
I received a letter from Mr.. Ran
dolph thanking lis for our views on
HR. 2327 (W. Va. Peoples Welfare
Assn. McNechen Local.) and as
sured us he was in favor of old
age pension and is hopeful that
some kind of old age pension legis-
lation will be passed this session.
I hope, Mr.. Editor, that you can
see how he evaded our issue and
is trying to sidetrack us to favor
his plan instead Of doing as re-
quested by his constituency.
This is just a mere example Of
how cur representatives represent
Us in Washington.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

I am representing the Interna-
tional Workers Order. The Inter
national Workers Order is a mutual
benefit society, a fraternal order
with over $1,000 members. I am
speaking in their name. Both in
convention assembled and in refer
endum vote they have unanimously
endorsed the social and unemploy-
ment insurance measure as now en-
bodied in House Bill 1927. In their
name I submit to this committee an
urgent request for the reporting out
of this bill. In their name I give
you reasons for this request.
The masses of members Of our
organization are workers. These
workers seek in the fraternal Or
CARNATIONS measure of economic
security. They know from expert
ence that their only income is the
wages they can earn. If they are
unemployed and cannot find jobs,
they cannot earn wages. If they
get sick and cannot work, they can
not earn wages. When they get
old and are refused Jobs because Of
age, they cannot earn wages. When
they stop earning wages their eco
nomic source of life stops flowing.
Seek Security
The workers join frsternal organi-
cations as an effort at establishing
a continuous flow of their economic
source of life. Through sick bene-
fits and similar mutual aid features
they want to tide themselves over
interruptions in the flow of their
But such efforts can at best only |
serve emergencies. They cannot
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
A RESOLUTION

The following resolution should
De sent to:
Dist. Attorney N. McAllister,
Att. General U. S. Webb,
Governor Frank E. Merriam,
Superior Judge Dial Lennon
All at Sacramento, Calf.
I (we), the undersigned, pro-
test against the frame-up of IS
workers in Sacramento, Califor-
mia, under the vicious anti-labor
Criminal Syndicalist Law.
l (we), demand their immedi-
ate, unconditional release; and
further demand that the Grim
inal Syndicalism Law be wiped
off the statute books Of the State
of California.
This law denies workers their
fundamental rights to organize
strike, and picket, and the right
Of free speech, press, and as
semblage.
Individual or Organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

with the limitations of our fraternal
help. On the one hand we see the
needs of workers who are victims of
incurable diseases and we hear their
pitiful demands for help. Their
need for help goes far beyond the
reserves established by collective eff
forts of the workers in the fraternal
organizations. On the other hand
we see in our ranks the workers
who thought they had established
for themselves a certain measure of
security by membership in the fra
ternal organization. They become
unemployed for months at stretch
and can no longer maintain their
membership. They ask help so they
may maintain at least the limited
aid which membership in the fra
ternal order does secure for them.
But no matter what we do. and we
do great deal, we cannot come
within any reasonable distance Of
solution of the problem.
That is why we in the Interna-
tional Workers Order come to the
conclusion that only measure Of
adequate social insurance can help.
Only a united social effort can hope
to solve the problem.
We are of the conviction that
House Bill 1927 is the only measure
yet proposed that attacks this prob
lem. This Bill puts no limitation
to the period in which help or in
surance is supplied. This is funda-
mnetal. Without such provision in
a social insurance bill, all talk of
social security is a cruel deception
of the workers.
Compared to Other Bills
All other proposals submitted to
Congress heretofore, like the Wag-
ner-Lewis Bill, insofar as they pro-
vide any kind of insurance at all.
provide for serious limitations in
the periods for which insurance is
supplied They all start with an
/ n a d equate and fundamentally
wrong method Of raising funds for
the insurance. Then they make &C
tuarial deductions as to how far
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Presents Plan To Lessen
Unemployment
Bv n Worker CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK. Mayor LaGuardia
wants TO give the city to the bank
ers and let the people pay sales
taxes.
Stop this one-man system on
buses, trolley cars and Subways and
you will put twenty thousand men
to work in the city, and each man
can support two more people, and
that means sixty thousand people
off relief.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
III d M Z
T. ! z Z
BY
Ann BaEtoR

TURN about is fair play. How about
l letting our readers write the
column today?
FROM ID. NJ" New York. ION
4 March 9th last year, I attended
a meeting in the Bronx sponsored
by the Working Women's Councils
Of this borough to celebrate Inter
national Women's Day. I did not
know that this holiday was or mean
but an enthusiastic friend insisted
that I come to the meeting. When
we ente-S d the hall I was sstonished
at the sight. For over one hour
group after group Of women
marched in with red banners which
they held high and proudly. The
faces Of these women were the most
inspiring thing that I had ever
seen in the working class movement.
"AS 7 listened to the various speak
"A ers, L began to feel like hui
man being for the first time since
I had become class conscious. I
had been afraid to fight for fear
7 was alone. Here I knew that I
was not alone. I walked out Of
that hall determined that no mat
ter what the course of the next
year would mean, would join the
ranks of the rest Of the organized
workers to fight for the liberation
Of all workers in every country Of
the world. Now it is one month
before another International Wo-
mems Day. I plan to go, not alone,
but with g many other women as
possible Don't you think it would
be a good idea to start asking other
women what they think about this
rallying day Of all toiling women?"
eve do ask
FROM Stamford, Conn. Enclosed
4 is a contribution for the Daily
Worker from the United Councils
Of Workingclass Women Of SIAM
ford. We, who receive the Daily
Worker are sure to turn to the
Home Life column. We realize how
important it is to have this column
and extend our revolutionary greet
ings."
FROM the Anthracite, Pennsyl-
4 vania, from Stella" Il have
been very busy. 1t is not like a
year ago. Then I didn't know how
muchI could do Now we have or
ganized nine Unemployed Councils
and the comrades send me here and
there, for I speak Polish and Eng
fish. 7 like to do this kind of work
better than to wash and scrub the
floors"
FROM Elk New York, It think
4 in your column you should men
ton that the women should read
Lenin on the Women Question, by
Clara zetkin. When I opened it, the
words almost spoke out loud to me.
Why don't you ask the readers to
tell US how to shorten our home
work so we can have more time for
talks with our children, organiza-
ton activities, etc"
FROM "A. s. MY mother makes
the dish of stuffed cabbage, Cthe
recipe for which you printed Mon
day, Feb. a sweet and sour by add
ing about two tablespoons sugar
and the juice Of two lemons to each
head of cabbage"
The Working Woman because Of
the flood Of work with the prepara-
ton Of International Womens Day,
needs volunteer clerical workers and
typists to give them a hand. Any
one who can volunteer some time
see Margaret Cowl, ninth floor, so
East 18th Street, mornings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Can You Make EN- Yourself?

Pattern 2f39 is available in sizes
IA, IS, IS, 20, 80, "a, SO, SO and 40.
Size is takes 41s yards 80 inch
fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sew
ing instructions included.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

1t pays to save--15 coupons and
81 will get You a copy Of Burck's
Hunger and Revolt"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18
Operation or Pessary

Operation or Pessary
n. S., New York: Your mother Is
evidently suffering from a par
tial prolapse or descent Of the
uterus womb. II nothing is done
about it, it will gradually descend
further. The only way to cure this
condition is by operation. Prolapse
can be temporarily relieved, but not
cured by holding the uterus up with
properly fitted pessary.
If, however, the prolapse is at
all severe, even partial relief cam
not be well obtained with a pessary,
and operation becomes essential.
Operation at either of the hospitals
you mentioned should be salts
factory. A three weeks stay in the
hospital will be necessary.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

On Tuesday, Feb. IL, the General
Secretary Of the International
Workers Order appeared before the
subcommittee of the Committee on
Labor of the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, D. c., to argue
in favor of the passage Of the IN
employment and Social Insurance
Bill 1927. The text of his argument
follows:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

The Working Woman because Of
the flood Of work with the prepara-
ton Of International Women's Day,
needs volunteer clerical workers and
typists to give them a hand. Any
one who can volunteer some time
see Margaret Cowl, ninth floor, so
East 18th Street, mornings.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

FROM "A. s. MY mother makes
the dish Of stuffed cabbage, (the
recipe for which you printed Mon
day, Feb. a sweet and sour by add
ing about two tablespoons sugar
and the juice Of two lemons to each
head Of cabbage"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-18

's''sss ssssssss
Individual or Organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-14

TONIGHT is an important one in
l. the life Of Bomar Cramer, fa-
nous indianapolis concert piariSt
and teacher.
One of the most brilliant diplo-
matte and social audiences Of the
season will gather tonight in the
great state music hall in Mexico
City to hear Mr.. Cramer in recital
So great has been the demand to
hear Mr.. Cramer that he will ap-
pear there in recital again next
Wednesday night.
In tonight's audience will be high
Mexican officials and United States
Ambassador Josephus Daniels and
his wife.
Mr.. Cramer last season found
time to give several recitals in IN
dianapolis and he was soloist with
indianapolis Symphony orchestra at
the Murat. In the last few years,
Mr.. Cramer has established himself
as one of the five outstanding
American concert pianists.