The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 12, 1935, Page 5

INSURANCE PARLEY Social Insurance First URGES WIDE UNITY FOR WORKERS’ BILL. Six-Point Program Is Raised by Rank and File| As Basis for Winning Full Equality for } All Negro Workers in the Craft The Plan of Action adopted by the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance, calls upon organizations to affiliate with the National Action Committee, in order to broaden the fight for the Workers’ Unemployment Insur- ance Bill (H. R. 2827.) The Plan of Action points out that the National Action | Committee is set up for thr 1 of ciding and supporting those or-| genizations now fighting for un- employment insurance and relief, ‘nd to co-ordinate their work. A six-point program for carrying Out the campaign for the Workers’ Bill is given in thé Plan of Action. The Plan of Action follows in full: “Our Pian of Action” Recognizing that those who own the wealth and thereby éxercise great political power will continue to resist and oppose our program fer feiiuine unemployment and so- ¢ial insurance, our task is to develop & movement in support of our pro- grata whieh will be so broad, so conscious and so militant that it can overcome all opposing forces and surmount all obstacles. The movement in support of our prozrar must undertake to embrace @ll who need and all who favor the measures we sponsor as the means of affording greater protection against poverty, want and insecur- ity and for the masses whose liveli- | om hood depends upon wages, salaries, | with the support of all participating self-employment and compensation for loss of normal earning power | due to social hazards, over which the individual has no control. In order to accomplish this, we ¢all upon all organisations that have not yet done so to join those who have already endorsed our program and more particularly the Workers’ Unemployment and Social Instr- ance Bill. We do hot replace or substitute for any of the ofganiza- | tions that already direct themselves toward defense and improvement of | the conditions of the masses. On the contrary, our purpose is to support and strengthen them so that they may be more successfull in th’s @fort. At the same time, by providing the means whereby they can act unitedly on the basic ques- tions which are of general concern, by co-ordinating and guiding the work and efforts of all groups atid organizations that seek to advance cur common purpose and program, we assure a greater degree of effec- tiveness and success. National Action Committees This shall be the function of the National Action Committee for Genuine Unernployment ahd Social Insurance which is elected at the in representatives of all national or- ganizations that agree to adhere in 1 iture. Committees similarly constituted shall perform the same function in all possible localities, Congressional districts. and states. ‘The Sponsoring Committees already fozmed can provide the basis for the permanent action committee. ‘The Natione], local and other Ac- tion Committees shall encourage and assist the formation of special rep- resentative committees for the Trade Unions; fraternal, veterans, Negro, women’s, professional, farmers’, nh and other groups ahd or titizations, within theit respective Jurisdiction. AS A means of providing pertinent infomation and guidance, the Na- tional Action Committee will publish petiodically, the Unemployment In- surance Review and such special bulletins and pamphlets as may be required. Affiliated organizations will help provide the broadest pos- sible circulation for all such publi- cations. While in no ways binding ad- herent groups and individuals to support of any political party or candidates, the National and local Action Committees will undertake to secure and publish information on,the attitude of aspirants for pub- lic office towards the Workers’ Bill and other related measures. In de- termining Such attittide, Committees will be guided not only by general pronouncements but als6 by a con- sideration of actual participation in activities related to our program. |ipating organizations will | and develop and support the follows Rongress.iod asided.. £0: his aeitalna ing and such other actions as may The National and other commit- | tebs will be responsible tor state- | ments and actions of their membérs | only when these are specifically and formally approved and authorized. | Adherent organizations are ex-| | pected to provide reasonable oppor- | tunity for a hearing to official rep- | resentatives of National and other Action Committees. | The work of thé National Action | Committees is to be financed by| | Means of an annual fee in amount | not less than $10.00 and not more! |than one-half cent per member | whichever is more. Such payment to be made in quarterly installments by adhering organizations. Addi- | tional funds when required may be | raised by soliciting contributions, | by the sale of publications and from the proceeds of special campaigns. Local and other Action Committees shall finance themselves in like mannér. Immediate Steps | The National Action Committee | organizations shall immediately launch a nation-wide campaigh with the following objectives: | 1, Secure Congressional hearings on the Workefs’ Bill and related measures. 2. Secure discharge of the Work- | ers’ Bill from Committee and its | formal consideration in the U. 8.| Senate afd House of Representa- tives. . Mobilization of the maximum possible opposition to the spurious Plans ang proposals offered as sub- stitutes for genuine unemployment: and social insurance. 4. Secure introduction of the Wotkets’ Bill in the Legislatures of at least twenty states during the Present legislative session. 5. Launch a referendum on the Workers’ Bill in as many states where the initiative-referendum is provided for, as possible. 6. Secure endorsement and mem- orialization of Congress by the legis- lative bodies of every possible state, | county, city and town. As the means of achieving thesé objectives the National Action Com- mittee with the support of partic- initiate be found ‘necessary and practicable. Mass Campaign Broad mass-meetings and demon- sbtrations; mass marches and mass | delegations to legisiative bodies; col- | lective resolutions to tegislative bodies and their members as well as federal, state and other executives; individual resolutions (in the form of t-cards, letters, petition lists, étc.), AS a further means of exett- ing pressure and reégistering the mass demand for genuine unemploy- mént and social insurance, the Na- tional and Local Action Committees in consultation with the respective trade union organizations may call Short strikes and stoppages. In the course of all thes activities and campaigns we must be mindful of the direct bearing that the mass/ struggle for immediate partial de= mands has upon our ultimate suc- cess. It shall be our task and pur- pose to stimulate and support in every possible way, every struggle for more adequate wages, and work- | ing conditions, for higher amounts | and standards of relief and every struggle against thé intolerable suf- feting, deprivatién and abuse to which the masses are now subject. By this means we will cement the unity which is required for effective action in support of ever phase of ouf program. Thus we will together advance towards gut basi¢ ¢ommon objective — the greater economic séeurity. of fhe great masses of workers in industry, 6n land and in the professions. Walter White Admits NRA Jim-Crowism Admission of “widespread color discrimination under the New Deal,” was made by Walter White, national sectetaty of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N. A. A. C. P.) at its annual business meeting, Mon- day at 69 Fifth Avenue. White also reported of “the wide- spread deprivation of crop reduc- tion bonuses under the A. A. A. due to Negro ‘tenants and share-crop- pers. but appropriated by white landlords.” The A. A. A. administra- tion delibsratély sends all payments due Negro tenants and share-crop- pers to théit landlords, who are thus given the opportunity to appropri- ate thése payments. A’ néw board of ditectors was elected, with Dr. Louis T. Wright of New York, as chairman. J. E. Spin- gatn, white liberal, who defended the jiti-crowing of Negro soldiers during the World War, recently re- signéd as chaitman of the board, but coAtinues as president of the N. A. A. GO. P. Rey Wilkins, assistant secretary, will take the place of Dr. W, E. B. Du Bois, who tesigned th the recent split of the top leadership as editor of the asscsiation’s official publica- tion, The Orisis. Greet the Daily Worker in the name of your family, It has spent. dts eleven years fighting for you, Send your greeting before Jan 12 Recount Made Prohibitive In Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Jan, 11.—Taking | one more step toward inaking it im- possible for workers to protect their own interésts in élections, the City Council has passed an ordinance making it prohibitive to challenge | election frauds. Where a candidate suspects op- ponents of ballot stuffing, mis- cotints or throwing otit of votes, he can now demand a recount, although even now this is difficult to obtain, However, the city ordinancé makes the difficulty a financial impossibility in the future for candidates not backed by money interests. The ordinance requires heavy bonds b3 ~osted and that from thé posted bonds the city shall be paid 2.50 per cent in thé event a recount makes no change in thé election results, For a général city-wide ballot re- count, a $10,000 bond would be ra- quired, while a councilmanic dis- et récount would require a $1,000 id. Bring up the question of greet- ing the Daily Worker on its Eleventh Anniversary at the next meeting of your organization. Ses that your organization gets on the Honor Roll by sending the greeting as quickly as possible! DAILY WORKER. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 Re sponsibility TURN WAR FUNDS Of Government, Miss Van Kleeck Declares Noted Social Worker Hails Workers’ Bill As Vital Need In @ brilliant address to the Na- tional Congress For Unemployment Insurancé, which met in Washing- ton January 5-7, Mary Van Kle analyzed and answered the prin- “objections” which “econom- opposed to real unemployment insurance, make to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill (H. R. 2827). Miss Van Kleeck is National Chairman of the Interprofessional Association for Social Insurance, and is director of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Miss Van Kleeck was & member of the president’s confer- ence on unemployment in 1921; a member of Hoover's Committee on Unemployment ahd Business Cycles; a former Trustee of Smith College, and is Fellow of the American Ass0- ciation of Advancement of S¢iénce, Economic Section. She was chairman of the Pro- gram Committee of the World So- cial Economic Congress in Amster- dam Holland in 1931, and president of the International Conference on Social, Economic Planning of the International Industrial Relations Institute held at the Russell Sage Foundation Building, in Dec. 1934. Miss Van Kileek’s speech said in part: Security of livelihood must be made the leading aim and obiigation of the American nation. Govern~ ment and the economic system must assume this responsibility as the test and objective of all policies. The basis of economic security for the American péople is to be fouhd in security of livelihood for ali workers and their families, who constitute the great majority of fhe Amétican people and whote ¢ollec- tive working efficiency is the source of wéalth. By workers, we méan all who function in any part of the | productive system; and in the cui-| tural, professional, technical and} scientific services of sociéty. | ‘The demand for Social Beonomic | Security for the American People, based upon security of livelihood | for all the workets of the United | States, is the significance of this | National Congress for Unemploy- | metit afd Social Insurance. While putting forward a program and Principles of an unemployment and | of workers must nevertheless con- cern itself with the wider program implicit in these principles. This wider ptogfam Will evolve not | mefely out of the thought which | may be given to it in these séssions, | but out of the experience which day by day develops in these beginnings | of a people’s movement for security. Tt is in the Might of such an inter- pretation of this cofigtess—as the fist natiohal expression of 4 peo- plé's movement—that all detailed items of an immediate program | should bé understood. ‘The Workers Movement for Secirity Such & movéimént, after five long years of continued unemployment and increasing pressute to lower standards of living, has a twofold cornerstoné. First, widespread dis- tress necessitates ofgahized action by the group upon Whom the bur- den has fal most heavily—that is, thé workers, including farmers and those in the professions. Second, thé workers America, including the technicians and scien- tists, are convinced that the produc- tive capacity of the United States is sufficient to insure a cotifortable living standard for this country and to contribute our share toward meeting the economic needs of the @ sound scientific analysis of our prodtictive resources atid inspited by @ social objective in harmony with the original dreams of the American democracy, is destined to be the center of the present historical pe- riod in this country, with wide im- Plications for the rest of the world. From 86 latge 4 concept of the movement which may grow out 5f this National Congréss for Unem- ployitient and Social Insurance, it is neéassary t6 tu:n our attention to the first practical steps. These have already been taken in the in- troduction of thé Workers’ Uném- ployment and Social Insurance Bill in the Seventy-Thitd Congress, and its endorsement by large fiumbers of ofganigations, of which only a sample, 80 to speak, i8 répresetited here, While the number is large, even the most ardent advocates of social insurance would say that the movement is still small and weak in comparison with the task to be undertaken, The Worker’s Bill on Unemploy- ment and Social Insurance ‘The Workers’ Bill puts forward a few coficept of social instirance, nathely, that cotitinuity of average inéome, With ah establishéd mini- miim equal to a living standard, must bé assuréd through govéth- mental A¢tion as & first charge upon thé economic system. This cof- trasts sharply with past procedyres in AméricAn indtistry, which have provided no governmental insurances, but, on thé contrary, left the whole burden upon thé workers, who até paid only during periods of produc- tion. Thus they are foreéd to main- tain themselvés in idléness, awaiting the timé when the industrial system will neéd them for renewéd produc- tion. Insured Continuity of Workers’ Income Out of this same principle, which has never beén consistently applied in the Workmen's cémpénsation movemétit. émezgés a ilk principle for all ferms of unemployment arisirig frofi ¢auses over which the wo:ker has ho control. This feats virtually all unemployment. It Should be noted that the exvression “unemployéd through no fault of his owh” is ih & sénse a révival of thé 6ld obstaclé to séturing ¢oin- péfisAtion under thé eitployers’ liability laa, when it was néces- | Social insu*anee system as its cen- | onstrate not only that he had not; may point the way tral purpose, this national congress been to blame, but also that his fel-| intensive work on thesé questions. |! payroll. | low workers had not been to blame. | This idea was overcore by the put- | ting forward of the principle that | industry should cate for all haza:ds | to safety; and the same principle of | | collective responsibility for hazards | to eeonomic security is logically | consistent and economically neces- | sary. Likewise emerges the idea that so- of income dué to sickness, to old | age and to maternity can action of the whole society. The | Workers’ Bill provides only in part | for this type Of sécurity; it aims | merely t6 insure continuous income |—that is, to compensate for in- security. Thus it raises but does not answer the larger problem of refoving thé caiisés of insecurity, | needs arising out of mass uneinploy- | ment. j at @ sufficiently high rate to bring | income during periods of mass un- | employment, thus diverting funds from investment to | purchasing power in the hands of wo:kers for the necessities of life. A third new principle introduced into thé movement for a social in- Suranée by the workérs’ Bill is the idea of administration under thé control of commissions directly lected by the workers in their various occupations. This is of far- reaching importance. ft is in line with the obvious need to apply the principlés of democracy to e¢ondimic life. It must bé clearly recognized that the aims @fiviseged in the poli- tical demdctacy of the United States have not been fulfilled under the conditions of highly centralized economic development conttolled by corpofations which are representa- tive of owhership and not of work- ers. This long struggle, as yet tar from victory, to secute the right of collective bargaining for the trade | unions of the Utiited States, shows how far We ate from democracy in economic life. The claim that workers should control the adminis- tration of social insu:ance is a réin- forcement of this struggle for a voice for the workers in economic policies and industrial management. The idea of a commission is not a neW principle in admifistration of laws in América. A recent example of délégation of power to admiinis- ter is the National Industrial Re- covery Aét, which has délégated to trade association’ répréséntative of industrial ownership thé authority vested iff the Président to enforce the codss drawn by these same trade Associations under the provisions of the act. Bxactly analogous would be the delegation of authority to administet sOcial insurance to chosen répréséntativés of workers. Objections to the Workers’ Bill Objections to the Workers’ Bill come hot only from those who op- sé all social insurance, but also rom advocates of more limited measurés and to some éxtent from workers who are impressed by argu- Meats Which undertake to show that it is not “practisal” t6 irhpose taxés high enough to insure con- tinuliy of income during mass un- employment. The whole :ange of objection thus brought forward be- longs to the ptobléms which wil! arisé and must be solvéd As this Movemsht for sécurity gains strénesh and impetus. But certain safy thai af éniployé should deni- stateniénts Gan now bé made which v ROOSEVELT’S NEW DE ‘The Workers’ Bill introduces an- | | about redistribution of the national | world. A thovement based thus on | L IN OPERATION Me 06, In sharp contrast to the White House (above) can be seen one of the mahy hovels in Wall Street’s National Capital, where workers are ¢ ‘ forded to “live.* Both drawings were made by Del during the recent | /"5Utance, there would remain addi-| of yoiir fellow Workefs in other sessions of the Unemployment Insurance Congress. | We may perhaps reverse the ord of statement of the principles of the Workers’ Bill in dealing With ob- Jections. As to the objections to adiminis- | tration by elected representatives of the workers, on the gtound that it . | Asserts That Wealthy Must Bear Costs of | Jobless Benefits income from taxation. Moreover, | cettain provisions of the income tax | laws which pétmit deductions of | losses from total income have been cleariy shoWn in recent investiga- tions to have exempted some of the largest receivers of income from | payment of any income tax at all. It seems obvious that proper revi- of them, already put forward | vocates of the Workers’ BI | not included in the bill itself, is to | curtail expenditures for war. Those who complain of high taxes would do well t6 note thé high proportion of those taxes which go for w past and future. For examplé, in the book entitled “Recent Social Trends,” giving the repoft of the | President's Research Committée on Social Trends appointed by Presi- | dent Hoover, it is estimated (Table | 6, page 1346) that of total tax col- lections, federal, state and local, in 1930, 25.8 pet ceiit was expended for war, as compared With 21.1 per cent |for education. This in a very direct | Sense thé struggle against war is a Struggle for e@conotiic sécurity by Saving thé nation’s income for ex- péenditures in the public by ad- though fects of war upon the productive forces of the nation and hence the undermining of standards of living and of economic séctirity, resulting from the economic cheractéristic of wars. Postponing for a momenfit this dis- cussion of how to inttéase produc- tivity, Dr. Rubinow's contention that the other stéps proposed, namely, a revised And inéreased income tax and inheritance tax, the usé of wat funds and works and housing program to re+ duce unemployment should prove insuffleient, and if initial exbendi+ tures should not result in much re- employment and consequent reduc- tion of the cost of unemployment | tional t2xes upon industry, such, for example, as have béen proposed in That is, it would be an addition to payrolls for the purpose of continuity of income for the un- employed. This is not advocated | in the Workers’ Bill, and the objec- tion to it is that it is a charge upon production which is readily trans- | ferable to the workers in increased interest, | not to mention the devastating ef- | dislocations | it may be said in answer to} if} throughgding public | OVER TO Page 5 JOBLESS, DR. WARD DEMANDS Chairman of League Against War and Fasciam Denounces Huge Military Budget in Speech at Unemployment Insurance Congress Dr Harry F. Ward, National Chairman of the Amerte can League Against War and Fascism, denounced the huga |appropriation of funds for military purposes by the Wall Street Congress in a speech at the National Congress for Unemployment Insurance at Washington. The speech, in full, I bring you greetings from another section of the united sion of the income tax law wouid| goligwa: 3 LOLIOWS? produce increased revenue, which | should be used to increase pur- chasing power through unemploy-| front. We are fighting in a common ment. insurance. But there are | cause, against a common enemy other sources to be examined. One | The particular ccnerete voint at which our objectives come together, jis that point in the program of the American League Against War and Fastism, which demands that all funds now being spent by the Amer- i¢en govefnment for war prepara- tions be turtied over to the uném- ployed, to the distréssed farmers, to those people who are without means of é@dtication atid social services. The present administration up to |}date has spént a little more than two billion dollars for war prepara- tions. That is one treason why it is cutting relief ih the absurd en- deavor io balance the btidget. That is why it cah produce ho program foncerning unemployment insur- ance, that is why it can make no adequate provision for health and education of millions of children Huge War Sums So far even thé Piiblic Works monty appropriated to put people to Work is bein ig uséd to build 14 | destroyers and 6 submarir of this fund. The atmy has been motorized and its equipment Brought up to date, also large sums have been spent for equipment for the National Guard. In this ‘present Congress still larger sums até being asked for war Preperations. So that if some of you people here have to take the jobs at a subsistence wase now be- ing planned in the new Public Works prozram, you will find that the jobs are neither productive nor constructive, but are part of thé war preparations of this govern- ment, and you will bé ptit to work | to provide the means of déstriiction countries and in this, | When you take two sets of facts, ~ | the Wagner-Lewia Bill. This would | that is those that have to do with toward further | be a tax based upon the size of the| war preparations and those which |you face coneerning provision for | unemployment, ahd put alongside of them a third set of facts, namely that while wages are falling and lcost of living rising, monopoly cor= porations have been putting away \the largest amount of profits yet recordéd ifi history, you then ufider- | is not cleat what 8 méant by rank- | Prices for consumers’ goods, while at! stand the significance of these wat | and-file control or how it could be developed, it hardly needs to be | cial economic security against loss | pointed out to this group that the | organization of workers in the i be | United States is growing daily more | established only by the collective effective and more articulate as the | | Strikes of the past year have shown | despite thé huge obstacles agaifist it ih the company union movement, in the opposition to strikes and in | the organized opposition by Ameti- can industry, It is indeed easy to envisage the organisation of local commissions fot décéntralizéd ad- But in the faising of the problem it | ministration of funds during periods ployment and social su undertakes to meet the pressing! of tnemployment, these commis. | Must also require such policies on | sioris being linked together in geo- | | graphical regions and by industry, | occupation of pfoféssion, With ¢o- United States. How Miich Wotild It Cost A single answer can of course be given to this: The Workers’ Bill would cost exactly what is now paid by the whole working class under mass unémployment. Government has been paying in thé relief pro- gram @ small and uncertain portion of this bill for lost income by in- dustrial workérs, farmers, profes- sional workers and all others. But the question need? ah answer in greatér detail. It has beeh thé experiencé in other countriés—in Great Britain, for example—that initial estimates of the number un- employed before the enactment of unemployment insurance bills were too low. And there is every reason to believe that only with the social insuraneé system in operation would the full extent of the workers’ losses through economic insecurity become known. There should be no ten- dency to belittle the number nor to make the Workers’ Bill seem moré “practical.” It is important, on the contrary, at the ve:y outset to recognize that the American peoplé face here a problem and a task of Staggering proportions. But Ameri- can Civilization depends upon facing the task and solving the problem, Sontees of Finds The prithaty source of funds has béeh put forward id thé principles of the Workers’ Bill, calling for taxes on inhefitatices and gifts and on highér incomes. Here is a big suibjéct. Thé movement for econom- je! sécurity should compel a fresh éxamination of it in thé light of the démand foz social éconstiie sétutity for the American people, and the nécessaty révisioh of fhe whole améthod afd progiam of taxation in the light of that objective of gov- ernment. Here only a brief outline can be given of thé platés where legislators might well look for funds to insure continuity of workers’ in- comé, First of all is the possibility of improving the federal income tax law. Iticidentally in any conside:a- tion of thé constitubionality of the Workers’ Bill it should be recalled that the income tax which is ptt forward as the primary souree of funds is Cleary constitution@l, as a Constitution itself provides for “In connection with the income tax, attention éhould Be given to tax Sxeruptions of governmental AAeii- rities, thus résuiting in withholding | the same time it sérves as a down | drag typon the wage scale, since this | kind of tax is couhted in the labor costs of & corporation. Névertheless it has been put forward as thé sole Source of funds for unemployment | ihstirance of a limited kind. And aS A last resort it is reasonable to |, expect that it would make tip the | deficit remaining after other sources thight Rave proved insufficient. But the déiiand for economic | security, which puts forward as its first point thé necessity for unem- insurance, thé part of government as shall in- créasé productivity as the only sound basis for increased § em- othe: new principle, namely, that | ordination resting in a national cem- | Plovment. Many of the policies of | the prithary source of funds shall) mission for social insurance would |tHe present administration are in | be the higher incomes of individuals | constitute the fitst genuinely demo. | tHe opposite direction, tending to- and of corporation and inheritances | cratic machinery for thé economic | Ward restricted production, destruc- | And gifts, Which are to be taxed | functions of government in the | ‘ion of crops, and the like, with | the immediate purpose of maintain- ing profits by raising prices and by making governitent funds avail- {ablé to sustain interest on bonds and property tetutns. Of course a | program of ecohomic security de- thands the setting free of the pro- ductive capacity of the nation, and thetefore the first steps in advo- caty of thé Workers’ Bill must be followed through oné by one to the solving of problems which emérge as & movement of this Kind ad- vances. The Need for Co-aperative Action Tt is beli¢ved that no valid oppo- sition can exist #6 the main put- poses representéd in this National Congress for Unettiployment and Social Insufance, namely, the de- |mahd for social economic security for all workers as the foundation for social éconorfic security for the | livelihood of the American peopie, | But this 1s no paper program to be | worked out atid presented to the) | Congress of the United States as children must write letters to Santa Claus. The American people, and especially the workers, have been drawing together during these years of insécurity and distress, and the basis is thereby laid for united ac- tion in which workets of the pro- fessions shall contribute out of theif technical knowledge to make | this movement sound for the de- velopment of the Unitéd States, and Workers in all indtistriés and farm- érg should test in their own expéti- ence the conclusions of technicians | and scientists. This is a task not jfor one group, but for the nation as A whole, led by organizéd work- érs, industrial, agricultural and pro- fessional. The Place of Professional Workers, Techhiciatis and Scientists in a Program of Security It is on béHalf of the Intetpro- fessional Association for Social tn- surance that the present speaker has a place on the program. Ahd in thet connection this addré: thust closé with an aésurance tothe Workérs of Amefica that an in- jereasing number of professional | WotKer's atid techfliclans aré rofdy tO place at thé disposal of thé or- Sanizéd labor movément not only the techtiieal, professiohal ahd iscientifié knowledge which is | Needed for thé solution of the ne- tiOfi's probléttis, but Also the devo- tion Ahad l6yalty of a group to a Movenéht, WHICH in all history is | aidhé thé source of progressive so- ieial change. preparations. | A social system which cannot give relief to thé péople, which can only increasé profits at the cost of push- {ing down the standard of living of the masses l6Wer thai éver before | has no altefiiative but to strengthen war preparations. Wage Cuts Planned When yoti look still further into | these questions vou will discover that the preparations for war in- | volve certain definite plans regard- ing the place of labor if that war. Wheh that var cothes there aré to be no high wages for labor as there | were in the last war. | The significtincé of the so-called plan to take profit out of war is that thera is to be an attempt to equalize the wages of the men in | the trenchés and thé men ih war | preperations at home, and you know |that the equalization is hot to be [up but down while the corpotations under the proposed plan are to be allowed to take ah average of the |proft which they have made for | three years before the war begins, that means if the war comes in | the next three years, the big mo- fopoly groups take a rate of profit | above the 1929 level. While you who | are in the war preparations at home |are to take a wage equalized to the | wagé paid to the men in trénches And what is mofé, when the rep- resentativé of the army fame be- Breach Widens In Epie Party On the Coast LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.—Widen- ling of the breach contifiues be- | tween the End Poverty League and |the Democtatic fortes in Los An- | geles coiiity. Charges and cctnter- charges are hurled back and forth | daily. | On one hand, Richard 8. Otto, | president of thé End Poverty | League, leads thé Sinclair forcds, and on thé other hand, Culbert L. Olson, chaifinan of the State Dem- ocratic Gé@nttal committees, leads the Sinclair opposition. Olson, Staté ' Senatot=éléct, who feccived the élec- tion with “Epic éfdorsement and Support, Was also elected to thé chairmanship of the State Dem- | ocratie central comiittee with Epic support. Originally, many of these péti- tions were placed with Epic groups for ciréulation. However, they failed | to get enough signatures, according | to Olson, because the Bpic cltibs did | not turn them back again. Meantime, however, the Epi¢ forees are badly split, some of them following Sinclair, others following | Olson and the Democratic central committee that was Epic-elected. That, Sinclair's politicians aré cut from the same cloth as other poll- | ticians is indicated by the present | split ovér the question of political maneuvers, Already, Sinclair in- dicatés that Olson cannot be trust- ed, that he is not one of the faith- fill Boys stion about war-time labor rege tions, he admitted that they would come before the Congréss the first few days after the declaration of war and ask Congress to write a blank check But what is that blank check in relation to control of labor? Their pla is that you will come to work in factories which have been mili- tarized from top t6 bottom, 12,000 of them signed up under the pro- gtam of the War Department, and you will go to work under employ- ers who are officers in the atmy— 14,000 cf them, already given a ree é€ army officer commission. You 1 take their orders not as bosses’ orders, but as officers in the United States Army. The workers are to be put under military disci- pline. Preparing Fascism Unless and until the workers in this country find out what their power is and use it against this program, they will find themselves in slavery within a wéek after war is declared It is frankly admitted that these plans are prepared as much for the internal situation as for any foreign wor. The army representatives speak about a “national emergency.” ‘economic chaos,” “social revolue tion.” They frankly tell us that what they are doing in this mili- tarization of the whole industrial process and in their plans for the control of the unemployed, is to provide economic storm troops. Here you have the tie-up between war and fascism. The whole mili« tary program is also strongly faste ening down fascism in this ¢otih- try. If this ptogram goes through, the money interests of this cotihtfy never need to subsidize any auxil- iary storm troops. The job is to be doné by thé mobilization of plans of the War Dabartment. That is the kind of fascist course that is to be used in this courtry when it be- comes necess: Sedition Bill Planned The first offensive before that is the drivé by the preseht session of Congress, backed by the Hearst press, by all industrial intereste, By all the sotieties and profiteers, to put a Federal Sedition Bill through, If that fails, the attempt Will Be made to smash Section Six of the Criminal Codé so that it Will not Be hecessary to prove any overt act to convict for conspiracy If éither of thesé picees of legis- 1a passes, then the govsthment le by the ordinary ss Of law nét Only to otitlaw t Com- munist Party, or the Socialist Party, but to outiaw tradé unions them- selves. Theréfore, thé drive to resist the fascist Offénsive at the present movemént is to prévent this repres- sive legislation from getting passéd in the next session of Congiéss. I want to appeal to membéis of trade ‘unions, as well as to évéfy person preésént, that when you go home you staft at once to gét your orgar jon and every organiza- tlon you can reach, to pass a resolu- tion against the passagé of any sedition or conspiracy legislation at this session of Congress, and setid them at ohte to thé Dickstein Corh- thittee, and to thé Judiciaty Com- mittee at Washington. This is a crucial moment in the fight agaifst fascism in this coun try. If we losé this battle, then the big interests have all they want to p all of US Sut Of busin Tf we win, thén we have A bréathifig Space in which to organizé for the harder fight that awaits us in the fore thé committéé on the muni-! fot too far distant future. ‘Indians Send _ Sharp Protest To Congress WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 11 The historic ctime of how the once numerous American Indian popula- | tion is steadily being decimated atid reduced to abject serfdom by a ruthless capitalist suppression of natiofial ifinorities extending to the present day was again revealed to | American workers in a memorial | presefited by the American Indian Federation to the President and to Congress today. Demanding the temoval of Join | Collier a& Commissioner of Indian | Affeirs for his buréaueracy and ig- norance, the metfioriel cites the present-day cdhdition of 50,000 Th- dians in the United States as bee ing that of virtual slavery. From |® population of 1,000,000 Indians in | 1492, all tribes had been almost ari= hihilated, until by 1863 there wete only 290,000 Indians fefiaihihg in jall Ameri¢a. The “Pilgriin Fathers,” who, whén they cartie to thé shorés khées and then fell on the abd- rigines, began the slavery of the In- dians, the Fettraticns declaref, “We charge,” the statement says, _ | “that Commissioner Oclli#t has, and | is, with deliberate intent, and cor- i trary to the desires of the Amef- | ican people, who desire justits done | to the American Indian, seeking to frustrate the opportunity of the In- ' dian . and is forcing a subdued, bureau-controlled, (a subject) linto a segregated sérfdom, con- tinued to be ruled by the dictatot- ship of a govertimént biiréau, whit fas héld thé Atteri¢ah in chains sifee 1871" |of this country, first fell on their |