Evening star., 1948-12-26
Clio Launches Drive
For Vastly Expanded
Social Security Setup
by shs Assoeiotsd Press

The CIo yesterday launched
drive for a much larger social Sc
curity system.
The labor organization called for
vast expansion of the present Fed
eral old-age and jobless insurance
plans plus Inauguration of new pay
while medical care programs.
Besides this, to come from the
Government, the CIO said it wants
somewhat similar, supplementary in
surance paid for by employers in
collective bargaining agreements.
John L. Lewis 100000, ,000-a-year
health and welfare plan for coal
miners Is an example Of this.
Won't Relax Efforts.
The CIO unfolded its elaborate
social security plans in its publi-
cation, Economic Outlook, saying:
"CIO support of improved Fed-
eral social security laws does not
mean that our unions will relax
their efforts to secure through
collective bargaining employer
financed plans which provide pro-
lection against the economic haz-
ards Of old age. premature death,
sickness and unemployment.
The CIO has always maintained
that such plans supplement laws
and that our collective bargaining
and legislative efforts support each
. other.
BY keeping up the drive on both
fronts we are more apt to get
action.
Collective bargaining can obtain
benefits which meet the special
needs of the workers and union in
volved over and above the basic
level enacted for everyone.
Would Cost 10 Of Payrolls.
I'm connection with our guaran-
teed annual wage demands, we can
increase the effort of individual en-
ployers to stabilize their own opera
tions and can force them into
greater understanding of the need
for national action to promote full
employment"
The C1O figures that part of the
plan 1t wants the Federal Govern
ment to undertake would cost
seven or eight per cent of pay
rolls for the next few years"
But I'VE are reluctant" the CLOS
pamphlet said, to have workers pay
more than two or two and one half
per cent and employers four per
cent on payrolls.
Cost above a total of six or six
and one half per cent payroll tax
should be met out of general rev.
enues through progressive forms of
taxation such as the income or
excess profits tax, it said.
This would put a larger proper
ton of the cost on the well-to-do,
as is proper"
Workers and employers each pay
one per cent of pay toward the
present old age and survivors in
surance program. Also. employers
pay an additional one and one half
per cent of payrolls for unemploy-
ment insurance.
Federal Basis Urged.
All existing social security pro-
grams should be taken away from
the States and, together with the
proposed new types, be administered
on a uniform basis by the Federal
Government, the CIO said.
Congress is more subject to pop
ular control than many of the State
governments" it said. 1T Is the
reactionaries, not wanting effective
national action to end poverty, who
have fought for States rights
knowing that they could control
what the State legislatures or
agencies did.
ION November 2, the American
people voted for the whole program
of the New Deal as against the older
PHILOSOPHERS of "the devil take the
hindmost.'
Among the CLOS proposals for
Federal legislation: Old age benefits
1.-TWO or three times" the present $39
q month for q retired couple, unem-
ployment benefits Of "at least IS per
cent of regular earnings" cash pay
ments in lieu of wages during sick
ness or accident disability, Fed
orally directed job finding service
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