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pose is a dictatorship as against
those who now rule; a democracy,
the only real broad democracy, for
the masses.
Dunn: You believe that at the
present time there is now existing
in the United States a dictatorial
form Of government and this dicta-
torial form Of government is for the
benefit Of the privileged few, where
as a Communistic dictatorial form
Of government would be for the
masses?
Browder: Yes. I should qualify
that slightly by saying there are
various forms of relationships by
the propertied classes. At the pres
ent time the form of this Dictator
ship in the United States is the
form of a democracy but such a
form Of democracy that the masses
who have no property cannot make
any effective use of it to defend
their own interests. 1t serves the
interests Of those with property.
Socialist Backing
J. J. Vanecek, a member of the
County Executive Committee of the
Socialist Party of Cleveland and the
| representative Of 1856 Czecho-Slovak
organizations, told the sub-commit-
tee that these 155 bodies voted to
/ endorse the Lundeen III. R. 282D"
bill after much discussion of all
the various employment insurance
measures"
Waldo McNutt, the representative
Of last summers American Youth
Congress and the head of the Rocky
Mountain Y. M. G. A., quoted the
decision Of this congress in endors-
ing the Workers Bill This Con-
gress goes on record as fayoring re-
placement of all existing civilian
conservation and transient camps
with jobs at regular wages and with
a system of unemployment or so
cial insurance such as is contained
in the Lundeen Bill" he stated.
Shoe Brotherhood for Bill
Mrs. Theresa E. Gold, the repre-
sentative of the Brotherhood of
Shoe and Allied Craftsmen, of
Brockton, Mass, told the committee
that the Workers Bill must receive
your support and must be passed at
this session of Congress" She de-
clared that she had been delegated
to appear lin behalf of the brother
hood, a rank and file organization
truly representing approximately
1900 shoe and allied workers"
Theodore Mischief, executive sec
rotary of the National Fraternal
Advisory Committee for Unemploy-
ment and Social Insurance and or
| ganizer of the Fraternal Federation
for Social Insurance, endorsed
H. R. 1927 "as against the measure
put forth by the Federal Admins
tration, the Wagner-Lewis Bill" He
declared that he appeared as the
representative of "over million
/ workers organized in fraternal or
ders and mutual aid societies"
Y. C. L. Representative Speaks
Roy Mizara, of the Association Of
Lithuanian Workers, an organiza-
ton with about ITO branches anc
membership of over 5000 declared
to the Committee that I'VE believe
that H. R. 1927, if adopted by the
U. S. Congress, would bring abou
necessary relief for the masses o,
the unemployed workers, as well as
those who are unable to work or
account Of old age
James Ashford, of the Young
Communist League of New Yorl
City. said that latter a thorough
study" of the administration anc
the Lundeen Bills "the Y. G. L. j
/ convinced that the bill which bes
protects and serves the needs of thu
100000 jobless youth is the Work
ers Bill, H. R. 1927"
The text of PROVIDERS statement
follows:
THE Bill under consideration
H. R. 2827, has the unqualified sup
port of the Communist Party. This
bill embodies the principles which
alone can provide any measure Of
social insurance for the workers
and, thereby, also ALLEVIATE the con
dition of impoverished farmers, pro-
fessional and middle class people.
ct is noteworthy that among al
political parties, the Communists
Party alone has a clear, definite
unequivocal position on this ques
ton.
Enemies of the Workers Bill
have failed to present their argu-
ments against it, relying rather
upon an attempt to smother it with
silence. To make this more plaus
ible, there has been trotted out, a!
the main alternative to the Admin
istration program, the Utopiar
Townsend Plan which provides ar
ideal straw-man for administration
supporters to knock down. But, as
many workers have told this COM
mittee, the only real alternative t.
the administrations Wagner-LewiS
Bill is H. R. 2827, the Workers Bill
Enemies Of Bill
"The enemies of real unemploy-
ment insurance have, however, pre-
pared carefully to attack the bill
should it come up for vote in the
Congress. They would be acting
more in good faith if they presented
their arguments to this Committee
Their absence thus far, makes ii
necessary to answer them without
having in hand the definitive text
of their arguments.
1T is known that the main argu-
ment against the Workers Bill is
that it costs too much, that the
country cannot afford to pay such
a tremendous sum as would be
called for. This argument ignores
the fact that the country must pay
the full costs of unemployment,