The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-13
Says Only Workers Bill
Meets Immediate
Need Of Masses
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bursau)


WASHINGTON. Feb. y. - Earn
Browder. official spokesman and
general secretary Of the Communist
Party, declared to the House Labor
subcommittee today that the Work.
ers Unemployment, Old Age and
Social Insurance Bill, H. r. 2827,
has the unqualified support of the
Communist Party" This bill. he
stated, "enbodies the principles
which alone can provide any measure
Of social security for the workers
and thereby also alleviate the con-
dition Of impoverished farmers, pro-
fessional, and middle class people"
The leader Of the Communist
Party appeared among a group Of
representatives Of industrial work.
erS, youth, and fraternaI and for
eign language organizations, who
appeared for the Workers Bill.
Today's hearings marked the
seventh day Of testimony by spokes-
men for millions of workers. farm
ers, and professionals who have en-
dorsed H r. 1927.
Conspiracy of Silence
Enemies Of the Workers Bill"
said Browder. have failed to pre-
sent their arguments against it, re-
lying rather upon an attempt to
smother it with silence"
Speaking with that precise calm
ness, simplicity and warm brilliance
familiary to many thousands of
workers and farmers all over the
country, BroWder pointed out, early
in his testimony, 1T is noteworthy
that among all political parties the
Communist Party alone has a clear,
definite, unequivocal position on this
question social security.
Matthew A. Dunn, chairman Of
the subcommittee, denounced the
Dickstein-M Mccormack committee on
"un-American," after Browder had
rumored to have drawn up a rec
ommendation for the outlawry of
the Communist Party, as itself
n-American' after BroWder had
informed the Labor subcommittee
that the Dickstein- Mccormack
Committee had refused to permit an
official spokesman for the Com
munist Party to testify publicly in
hearings supposedly on the ACTIVE
ties of the Communist Party. Dunn
/ asked for all the material on the
/ Dickstein- Mccormack exclusion of
the Communist Party represents
tive and said he would profess
Questioned on Communism
Dunn also announced that he saw
President Roosevelt recently on the
Workers Bill. He told the President,
he said, that "the Workers Bill is
a practical bill" and that sit takes
care of the farmers, something the
Administration Bill (Wagner-Lewis)
doesn't do"
The chairman of the House Labor
subcommittee began his question:
/ ing Of Browder with, You are fam-
liar with the teachings Of Com
munism?"
Yes BroWder replied, good
naturedly and tri7e amused.
The committee stenographer's
/ record narrates the following COLI
+ lcquy between Dunn and Browder.
Dunn: Does the Communist Party
+ believe in d diotatorial form of gov
ernment9
Dictatorship
BroWder: The Communist Party
believes that all forms of govern
ment are relationships as against
some classes, and democracies for
others. We believe the present form
I Of government in the United States
IS IN substance a dictatorship Of the
big property owners, a democracy
for these who have property, BE-
cause the effective use of this
+ democracy depends upon the pos
+ session of property. AS against this
form we stand for rule Of Che
/ masses OF the people, directed
/ against those who own property. tc
take this property away FROM them
and make it the common property
+ all property in the means of pro.
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