The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-05-18

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article was sent out from Senator
Murray's office in Washington,
which it is assumed was written by
the Senator's publicity man, con-
tdemning James D. Graham, presi-
dent of the Montana State Fedora
ton Of Labor, for his opposition to
the Wagner Murray Dingell bill and
also stating that Graham was in
attendance at the A. F. Of L. con-
vention in Boston, which endorsed
the said bill and that Graham calls
the bill a totalitarian measure"
While the writer was a delegate,
he left the convention and Boston
before the resolution on the Wag-
ner-Murray- Dingell bill was con-
sidered, although he went to the
convention amply prepared to OPP
pose the bill.
Surprising that the charges of
Senator Murray or l11s pubAnity
man is correct that Graham has
stated the Wagner Murray Dingell
bill is a totalitarian measure, is
Senator Murray ready and able to
prove that the bill is not totali-
tartan?
There is nothing new about the
Wagner Murray -Dingell bill. It was
first proposed in Germany in the
year 1879 by Prince Bismark the
Iron Chancellor, as part of his
progress OF State Socialism in OPP
position to the program of the Ger
man Social Democrats. State Social
ism is called by Hitler, National So
cialism and Mussolini calls it
Fascism. That part Of Bismark's
program of State Socialism, nation
al insurance, was adopted by nearly
all the countries of western and
central Europe before the first
World War.
The Italian Charter of Labor OF
the year 1926, which was drafted
by the Italian Minister of Labor
(who was a member of Mussolini's
eabinet), is similar to the Social
Security Act passed by Congress in
December 1935-and the Wagner
Murray Dingell bill. Any person
reading the Italian Charter of La
Dor and the Social Security Act
with its Amendments, proposed in
Senate Bill 1851, will reach the
conclusion that both are very much
in common, and will be inclined to
believe that whoever wrote the
Wagner Murray Dingell bill is
plagiarist
Where is Social Security in Italy
now? Gone as it is in the rest of
continental Europe, excepting Swe-
den.
The criticism that the writer has
made against the present Unem-
ployment Compensation law enact
ed December, 1885, is that it is
actuarially and economically un-
sound-that the fund will become
insolvent when an acute period OF
unemployment takes place.
Amendments to the present law
proposed by the Wagner Murray
Dingell bill will not strengthen the
law from an actuary stand point,
but weaken it. Neither will the pro-
posed amendments, if enacted,
make the present law economically
stronger.
AT present, there is approximate
~ little over i've billion dollars
in the Unemployment Compensa-
ton fund for the entire country.
During the last fiscal year ending
June 80, 1943, there were approx
mately one billion six hundred and
fifty-five million dollars paid into
the fund from the 2.7 per cent tax
levied on the employers pay roll.
Unemployment will be fact at
ter the present war is over. How
acute it will be nobody knows, but
it will be big enough.
Fifteen million workers unem-
ployed drawig an average of
$l40O week benefits from the
Compensation Fund, will amount to
210 million dollars per week and in
eight weeks there will be paid from
the fund 1880 million dollars, which
is more than was paid into the
fund from the tax on the employ
ers' payroll during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1913. In less than
eight months Of Unemployment,
Congress will have to vote money