The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 29, 1930, Page 1

ELECT REDS TO CONGRESS TO FIGHT HOOVER FOR JOBLESS INSURANCE; VOTE COMMUNIST! Rally in the streets on September First! Carry forward the struggle against the bosses’ government and its hirelings for unemployment insurance! Or- ganize and strike against wage Vote Communist November! cuts! in Orga Katered a. second-c at New York. \ VIL, No. 208 (Sectton.o} the Communist Interna JOBLESS, EMPLOYED WORKERS, D The Workers Must Have Unemployment Insurance! HE present. economic crisis has aggravated the misery among the | masses of workers. Millions are out of a have nothing to live on but their jobs. they are without income, When unemployment hits them their only income, their wages, stops and starvation stares them in the face. When an accident disables them their wages stop and they face want. When sickness incapacitates them their wages stop and they and their families confront starvation. When the workers are refused jobs because of old age only misery can be their lot. When an expectant working mother works to the last minute be- fore confinement she endangers her own health and that of her child. But to stop work for her means to stop her income just when she needs it most. job. But workers When they are out of a job The workers who have given their health and their limbs on the battlefields of capitalist war and as a result are wholly or in part in- capacitated for work, also face misery and starvation. Their lack of income turns these heroes of yesterday into the beggars of today. A universal ary for such Society owes these categories of workers a livin; unemployment insurance must supply it. The funds ne insurance can be easily provided. They can be provided by 1, Stopping armaments and other war preparations and assigning the funds hitherto spent for these purposes to a social insurance fund. 2. By collecting a capital levy. By levying a tax for social insurance purposes on all incomes exceeding $5,000 a year. The present mass unemployment has aggravated the misery of the masses of the workers to a degree that immediate help is impera- tive. To supply this help the Communist Party proposes the enactment of the accompanying “Unemployment Insurance Bill.” All workers and workers’ organizations must endorse this proposal and must unite in a movement to fight for the enactment of ‘this bill. Only the united political power of the workers will succeed in achieving this aim. The Communist Party, therefore, in its present election campaign is making | the struggle for unemployment insurance as proposed in this bill its major task, A vote for the candidate of the Communist Party is a vote for the enactment of the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Vote Communist! YOUNG WORKERS ARMED CLASH FIGHT AGAINST 1S IMPENDING BOSSES’ WAR IN ARGENTINA To Demonstrate on Int.| Crisis Grows Worse; Youth Day | 6,000 On Strike Only recently fifty-nine real) That an armed clash is impend- bosses of the United States have ing in Buenos Aires, eapitol of Ar- had their servants push through a/|gentina, is contained in an asso- one billion dollar bill for navy ap- | ciated press dispatch from that city. propriation. At the same time in| The report states that the palace of the city of New York, the unem-| President Irigoyen, friend of Bri- ployed, part of the army of eight|tish imperialism, bristles with ma- million, who come to the fake free | chine guns, and that “the provincial employment agency, established by} railway management has received the corrupt Tammany machine, are | orders to hold a train ready to con- being approached to join the army | vey troops to Buenos Aires at a and navy and “see the world.” The! moment’s notice.” young workers in the National ‘The chief of the provincial police Guard and C. M. T. C. are also being has held conferences with Irigoyen, prepared for the coming war, espe- | the minister of war, and many other cially against the Soviet Union. —__ government officials. The entire The Young Communist League | neighborhood surrounding Irigoyen’s nationally has set aside the week of | house is surrounded by troops. September 5th to September 12th} While the capitalist press does as International Youth Week. In| not give any information about the New York City, the Young Commu- jfactors behind this preparation for nist League will hold open air dem- | an armed clash, there is little doubt onstrations, Monday, September 8th that the growing economic crisis, at Battery Park, Borough Hall,/which has impoverished the great 120th and Lenox Ave., and 138th! mass of people, as well as the de- and Southern Boulevard. mand of the big bourgeoisie in Ar- All young workers and adult’) gentina, which is alligned with Bri- workers are called upon to demon tab imperialism, is behind this re- | strate on September 8th against the | cent maneuver, The hand of Amer- imperialist wars, by participating in| ican imperialism, which has been these demonstrations. \sharply battling the British for the SDM a ‘control of the Argentine markets STARVING TOILER | and oil resources can be seen in the |on the Irigoyen, pro-British gov- , ernment. p E Y A strike of 3,000 workers has been | announced in the American owned | NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 193 Must Have Unemployed Insurance’ |Millions of Such Jobless Workers | wy ¥, a a ar Fight for Social Insurance! Demand All War Funds tor lobless! | A BILL |\Proposed to be enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives | ‘of the United States of America to provide for payment of insurance | ,to all workers unemployed or unable to work because of sickness, in-| | jury, maternity or old age. | Section 1—Title. This act shall be known as the Unemploy- | ment Insurance Act. | Section 2—Purpose. | | The purpose of this bill shall be to provide |payment of social insurance to all wage work- | ers unemployed or unable to work because of | sickness, injury or old age, and to all persons ‘now receiving war pensions. | | Section 3—Persons Entitled to Social In- | surance. | j (a) All persons mentioned in Section 2, regardless of e, sex, color, nationality or} ereed, are entitled to payment of social insur- nce as hereinafter set forth; (b) Workers, unemployéd or incapacitated | |for work by sickness, shall receive social in-| | surance immediately upon their absence from | employment. | (c) Workers incapacitated by accident or occupational disease shall receive full so jinsurance plus special compensation for th | disabilities, the amount to be determined by| | the Insurance Commissioner as hereinafter set | | forth, (d) Workers reaching the age of 55 years shall be entitled to retire at full social in- surance rates. (e) Ex-Service men wholly or in part in- \capacitated as a result of their service in the | military or naval forces, and the dependents | of deceased ex-service men, shall be entitled to insurance payments as provided by this act, in place of war pensions. (f) Women workers, for four weeks prior | to and four weeks after child-birth, shall be} given leaves of absence and shall receive full) social insurance. (g) Young workers, upon reaching the age of 14, shall come under the provisions of | this act. (h) In case of part-time workers, the so- | cial insurance provisions shall be used to make up the full wage of the worker. Section 4—Amount To Be Paid. All persons entitled to social insurance as set forth in preceding sections shall, until jrecent developing military attack) regular employment is provided or secured, re-| ceive the regular average wages eatned by| | them while employed, but in no case less than twenty-five dollars per week plus five dollars the end of the County Conference sessions. (d) State delegates shall be elected on the basis of one to € fifty county delegates. (e) Said County Conferences shall elect | County and State Social Insurance Commis-| sioners, the number of members to be deter-} mined in each instance. | Section 7—State Conferences. (a) State Conferences shall be convened | and held in the capital of the state and shall} elect delegates to a National Conference, which | shall meet in Washington, D. C., not later than | three months after the enactment of this bill. (b) National delegates shall be elected on} the basis of one for every fifty state delegates Said State Conferences shall elect a! State Social Insurance Commission not to ex- ceed 15 members. | Section 8—WNational Conference. At the National Conference a committee of 35 persons shall be elected as the Workers So- |cial Insurance Commission and this Commis- sion shall have full power and authority | register persons entitled to social in: payments and to distribute unemployment and social insurance payments in accordance with such rules, regulations, by-laws and provisions a3 may be adopted by such National Conference | | as applying thereto. Section 9—Duties of the Social Insurance | Commissioners. The said County and State Social Insur- ance Commissioners shall set up employment! agencies, register the unemployed and dispense | the social insurance in their respective locali- ties. | Section 10—Funds. (a) For the purpose of carrying out the | provisions of this act, there is hereby author. ized to be appropriated the sum of five billion dollars, and in order to provide this sum all) appropriations heretofore made or now in ef- fect for military, naval or other war purposes are hereby repealed and all such sums hereto- fore appropriated for naval, military or other war purposes, including war pension funds shall be deemed appropriated for the purposes of this Act and shall immediately be turned over by the Treasurer of the United States of | America to the Workers Sogal Insurance Com- | before provided, to be used by said Commission | pression” was t | which were | mission when the latter is elected as herein-} - Safunit Party U.S.A. tional) EMONSTRATE SEPT. 1! FINAL CITY EDITION WORKERS OF THE WORLD, U NITE! Price 3 Cents Wage-Cuts in Rubber, “a Textile, Food Plants; Hit Roosevelt Trickery en Betrayer G1 LAY OFF 2,000 AT es Lie to Green’s Juggled Figures | g ALBA) announced the ployment as “Unemployment tions called Unity Leagu ers in the Ne road shops, at West Alb: fired. The men had just r to w after a two-week’s forced” vacation, when the let out. “A general busir While G against the | | n Demonstra- the Trade Union 00 railroad work- Rail- were cuse given | the workers for a lay-off. This and a thousand other inci dents like it blast the Green prop ganda about employment “improv- | ing.” It completely shows up the real purpose of Green’s figures so widely published in | the capitalist pr Knowing that the T.U.U.L. had made nation-wide lans for demons’ s on “Labor Day” Green steps in to fool the workers into the belief that condi- tions were bettering. NEEDLE WORKERS BACK F.S, MEET Hold Conference On Tammany Graft Head and Green Fight | Jobless Demand “Study” Insurance leas AFL Endorses Bosses’ | As the fight s! pens for “unem-| nt insurance,” the bosses are easing their wage-cutting cam- gn, showing the necessity of em- oyed and unemployed uniting on opt. Ist to demand the passage of the Unemployment Insurance Bill and to “organize and strike against} wage-cuts.” | Not only have all the workers in} the Goodyear Rubber Co. received a 10 per cent wage-cut, but President P. W. Litchfield of that company announced yesterday that all office} orkers would have their wages lashed 10 per cent. | An 11 per cent wage-cut has been! ed against 3,000 textile work-| in the Lakeville, S. C., plant) operated by Marshall Field & Co.,| to take effect on “Unemployment | Sept. 1st. A severe wage- has been» given 5,009: unskilled | and semi-skilled workers in the Campbell Soup Co. plant at Cam-| den, N. J. Green, Roosevelt Attack Jobless. On the eve of the mass unemploy- ment demonstrations, “Unemploy- ment Day,” Sept. 1st, to demand| the passage of the Unemployment | Insurance Bill, advocated. by the| Cemmunist Party, the Tammany governor of New York, Franklin D.| Roosevelt, comes out with a fake) pousal of “unemployment insur- cu It is significant that Roosevelt, who is neck-deep in the slimy graft- (Continued on Page Five) Fight For S MUST GET MORE VOTE SIGNATURES Point Out Danger in) Election Campaign | NEW YORK.—There is a danger that in some of the congressional and assembly districts of New York | City, as well as in the various dis-| tricts of New York State, the Com- munist candidates will not be able| to appear on the election ballot due | to insufficient number of signatures | collected by the comrades. Should | the comrades fail to obtain the nec- sary amount of signatures during this and next, last, week, the Com-| munist Party in these districts will| be deprived of one of its oppor- tunities to put forward its slogans before the working masses as best as possible, These last twd weeks must wit- ness the most energetic activity on the part of all Party comrades and sympathizers so that in all work- Insurance! } Tammany Graft Head When millions of unemployed begin clamoring and fighting for unemployment insurance, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt suddenly develops a penchant to “study” unemployment The workers don’t want studies. They want bread. Fight for real un- employment insurance at the Z.UULn demonstrations Sept. 1. PROOF THAT A FEW RIGH MEN RULE AMERICA Make Them Pay to Aid the Unemployed! NEW YOR! hat Ex-Ambassa- dor Gerard was quite correct in say- ing that “59 men rule America,” is proven by data furnished by the Labor Research Bureau of the as- tounding concentration of wealth in the hands of a few. Nearly 80 per cent of all anthra- cite coal is in Pennsylvania, and is controlled by eight companies, linked up with the railroads, and Andy Mellon, one of “the 59” is the chief despot. Even a few years ago before the recent mergers, one-fifth of all bituminous coal reserves was owned by only four companies, The U. S. Steel Corporation holds about three-fourths of all iron de- posits. Four companies controlled over one-half of all copper reserves even before recent mergers. How the production of lead has been nar- rowing down to a few is seen in the following: In 1899 there were 39 companies; in 1919, 25 companies; in 1925 only 17 companies. John D. Morgan, Insull, The monopolization of oil by the Standard Oil Company of Rocke- feller, in spite of all the hokum about “busting the trust,” is for years an_ international scandal. insurance, | Rockefeller is one of “the 59.” Recent mergers and combines are bringing electric power and gas into ever fewer hands. Before these mergers took place, there were only i ae 7 7 is ‘ ‘i ri 4 17 great power groups, controlling Union Telefonica, a subsidiary of Ot eer aa waarmee member of the | for the Purposes: of this Act. ; Thur opt. jing class districts, Communist can-| over 70 per cent of gas production NEW YORKWhen the Neato ihe, Morgan & Co, International ploy 8 family. (b) Additional funds shall be raised by meee Staats sppess ty ee ee qrext) and 86 per cent of all electric pow- -—When the Needle | Telephone & Telegraph Co. The * x . (1) a graduated capital levy on all capi-| NEW YORK.—Full ind November, and the platiorm of the|er, Even before the mergers, these Trades Industrial Union was hold- telephone workers’ strike was called | Section 5 — Workers Social Insurance | tal and property SCRaTHLA GIA fin manne ie of the Friends of the Soviet Union, |Communist Party be carried to/17 were in reality ruled by the two ing a street meeting for white | in protest against the “company’s) Commission. " ip iapide Vomit ‘ua every working class home. The) giant companies, one the Morgan, goods workers on the corner of 28th St. and Madison Ave. yesterday, at 5:30, many workers coming from the shops gathered around. The speaker, Caroline Drew, having finished, a woman about 40, in black dress and with starvation written on her face, started sobbing | and clutching at the speaker, said: “Girlie, what you say is right. I work, my boss pays me only 25 cents a dress, am supporting five children and we are actually starv- ing!” This precipitated a scene, because other workers, overcome by the words of this poor woman toiler, also burst into tears and ignoring the two cops who were shoving and muttering “Move on!” verified that their condition was also that of starvation, woman | etl weening, at- oppression.” The recent development in Argen- | tina follow a whole series of upris- | ings against the dictators in Bolivia, | Peru and Brazil. The main feature | behind all of these clashes is the | struggle between the two dominant imperialist powers for control of the government. The insurrections are aided by the mass discontent which (Continued on Page Five) tacked the city “employment bureau,” saying that there, “the cops and\bosses call us burns. | But we will not-care what they cal us! We want bread! We must fips or starve! We demand bre?) “Fr our children, They have ‘ ockets full of money rob! : sweat, and we must ‘us bread!” A Workers Social Insurance Commission shall be elected at a National Conference called for that purpose as hereinafter provided. Section 6—County Conferences. (a) Within thirty days after the enact- ment of this bill there shall be held within| each county of each state of the United States | of America an unemployment conference com- $25,000, and |. (2) a graduated income tax on all incomes | in excess of $5,000 per year. (c) The capital levy and income tax rates to be an amount sufficient to realize funds re- quired to properly carry out the purposes of this Act. ii Section 11—Monthly Reports. posed of delegates elected by workers, em- ployed or unemployed, said elections to take) place in shops, factories, mills, mines, offices, | trade unions, unemployment councils and} workers’ organizations generally. 3 | (b) The basis of representation shall be one delegate for each 200 workers. | (ce) Said County Conferences shall con- vene in the largest city within said county and fm give | shall elect delegates to a state convention! i! iwhich shall take place within one month after » The Workers Social Insurance Commission shall submit monthly reports to the Depart- ment of Labor, said Commission retaining full authority to administer the funds as above provided, Section 12—Time. This Act shall take effect immediately. Vote Communist ! e for de- which will be at 7:30 p.m., Lyceum, 66 East is contained in a state- \fense of the U held Thursdey, at, Manhattan Fourth St. ment issued yesterda by the! Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial | Union. Repr ntat of many | industrial and trade unions, Jabor fraternal organizations, workers | clubs, shops and Negro organiza-! tions will be in attendance at the! conference which will open a cam- paign for the recognition of the workers and peasants republic. All| militant workers are urged to elect | delegates from their shops to the! conference. “The Needie dustrial Un ment, “wholehearted]s o conference to be held Sept. 4 for} the purpose of denouncing the ate | tack launched upon the Soviet amma A a a Party functionaries must check up jon the activity of every member. The question of collecting signa- tures must be one of the most im- portant on the order of business at} every meeting of all working class organizations, All revolutionary elements must be mobilized for the last ten days of the signature cam- paign, “A Communist candidate in every working class district on the elec- tion ballot,” must be the slogan for every revolutionary worker, Union by the United States gov- ernment through the Fish Commit- ee, and pledges its fullest co-opera- oin in making this conference of he F.S.U., a mobilization point for the defense of the only workers fatherland, the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. (Continuea on Page Five) Fight For Social Insurance! ‘ATP. G SLASH IN LEAKSVILLE MILL LEAKSVILLE, N. C., Aug. 28. Notice f a wage cut of per cent ¢ <tive September 1, have al- ready been posted in the mills of the Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mfg. -Co. at’ Leaksville, Spray and Draper. This wage cut will spell actual starvation to the pellagra-ridden mill workers, who today are work- ing under an unbearable stretch-out system.