Workers Rally for Real Jobless Insurance
Workers Rally for Real Jobless Insurance Marcy Committee Would Ditch All Bills Until Times Gtl Better, if Ever—Employers Would Victimize Jobless If Bilk Are Passed. tjQW Is the time to enact...
...Xttit »» the determination of the Socialists, the toiling masses ajl the unemployed, in the face of news from Albany that all ^employment insurance legislation is likely to be dropped—or •tastponed"—m tms ye*1"'8 legislative session...
...Long before the depression, Socialists urged that the state compel industry to pay 8% of its payroll into a state fund and that the state match this contribution by taxes upon the wealthy...
...Efforts of Workers' Organizations and Socialists for Jobleei Insurance Are Redoubled...
...The Party organization, as well ss the trades organisations, have fought a strenuous battle to pre-tant that which has taken place In Germany today...
...Consequently the employer will save money by laying off part-time workers...
...The reason assigned for deferring action is not a sound ground for refusing to enact an unemployment insurance law in 1938...
...There is public sentiment and imperative need for this legislation now...
...We urge instead a system of unemployment insurance which does not encourage this policy...
...Speakers representing American, German, Jewish and Italian Socialists will speak, explaining the danger to Germany, to democracy and to ths peace of the world involved in ths rule of the megalo-maniacal anti-Semite...
...Don't Walt...
...In rallying the workers to support the enactment of unemployment insurance, the Socialist Party in a statement pointed out that if legislation proposed by the Party years ago had been enacted then there would now be a State Fund of 11,000,000,000, as compared to ths 1150,000,000 that has been ¦pent on relief...
...It is proposed to arrange for the running of a number of extra trains from all over Western Germany for those tJting part in the demonstration on the opening day...
...If an employer is compelled to pay 8% of his total payroll into a pooled state fund indefinitely out legislation...
...which It creates as an -argument for rejecting the principle of unemployment insurance now...
...Although ws are ef ths opinion »«t the next battle for Democracy P!I the Republic nay not be watht in Parliament, ths Prols-r"*1...
...or the sixth time In one year •n flection has to take place...
...Ths statement of the Socialist Party, signed by Morris Hillquit, Norman Thomas and Louis Wald-man, follows: "The recommendation of the Marcy Legislative Committee on Unemployment that unemployment insurance legislation be deferred comes as a shocking blow to Socialists organized labor and particularly the hundreds of thousands of unemployed...
...The plain fact is that ths employers of the state have declared in unmistakable language that they don't want to be saddled with the burden of any type of unemployment insurance...
...The report is termed "shocking" by the Socialist Party...
...On ¦•rch 6, 1988, our Comrades will J» to the polls, when It will be weiaVd who will guide ths welfare or the German people...
...Please send all money to the Kent Volksxeitung, 227 Fast 84th St., New York City...
...Bills Alike "Both the Mastick and Byrne Insurance Bills before the Legislature are alike in that each employer is required to pay into a fund a fixed percentage of bis payroll until a maximum reserve of of which all benefits will be paid, there is nothing gained by laying off part-time workers...
...The Joint Legjs-|,tive Committee on Unemployment, headed by Assemblyman W-1«B> L. Marcy, Jr., of Buffalo, announces that after a two-year study of the subject they believe such insurance will add to unemployment, as thousands of part-time workers would be thrown out of jobs...
...Greetings: Our Comrades in Germany are In the midst 6f an election campaign, a life and death struggle of the Proletarian movement against the Fascists...
...It will be silenced during better times...
...Workers Rally The.Marcy report has served to rally the Socialist Party workers who sponsored trie Labor and Socialist Conference for Unemployment Insurance and the Shorter Work Week to greater efforts, and to stimulate them to a terrific battle at Albany when hearings are held by various legislative committees...
...The German Socialists, through a committee consisting of Kurt Kupzok, P. H. Scbinitt, H. Wolter and Joseph Mueller, are seeking funds to send to their comrades in Germany as sinews of war in what the madman Hitler hopes and arrogantly proclaims will be the last election in Germany...
...Get your petitions for Unemployment Insurance...
...The demonstration will begin March 12 with a monster procession through the streets of Frankfort...
...Rather it is a criticism of the lulls recommended by the Marfy Committee which are bad and furnish a financial incentive to employers for dismissing part-time workers...
...The discussions of the Party Conference proper will be opened by an address by Rudolf Hilfer-ding on "Marx and the ''resent Day...
...Employers Dictate "Mr...
...Mueller, Treas...
...THE MARX FESTIVAL T^K Socialist Parties in all countries are making preparations for great commemorative ceremonies on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Karl Mark, which falls on March 14...
...These speeches will be transmitted by loud speakers from the Festival Hall to two other great halls accommodating together another 20,000 people...
...Sec'y Jos...
...The Socialist Party will use all of its resources to get the principle of unemployment insurance written into the law of the state without any delay and calls upon all progressive elements to support It In this fight...
...The Neue Volksxeitung has offered its services to accept all donations for the S. P. D. fund...
...Our advice was ignored...
...Their battle is our battle, their defeat is our defeat, their victory is our victory...
...Meraat ef the Ire previous elections in this year, the treasury of our German Party organization is depleted...
...tjQW Is the time to enact compulsory, non-contributory unem-N ployment insurance...
...As a prelude to the opening speeches the Workers' Choir will sing a "Cantata to Freedom" specially written and composed for this festival...
...The opening session of the Conference itself will then take place in the Festival Hall, which holds 20,000 people...
...If we wait until conditions improve, the same argument will be advanced...
...must be larger than •** before in Germany's history...
...Now is the time to enact compulsory unemployment insurance $50 in one case and |25 in the other at the end of two years has been set up for each worker on his payroll...
...Marcy and his colleagues know this...
...The next depression, assuming that this is not the last before the final collapse of capital* ism, will again find us unprepared...
...German Br...
...Hundreds of thousands of people in distress would not have been buffeted back and forth unable to receive help because of inadequate funds...
...ft takes to win ens election, totslsas six of them...
...Then it uses this state of affairs Help the German Comrades A COMMITTEE of the German branch of the Socialist Party Party in Yorkville has issued an appeal to American Socialists and trade uriioirrsts ot throw their support back of the German Socialists in their life-and-dcath struggle with Facism...
...Bruno Wsgnsr, trade unionist and President of ths Friends of the German Republic, will speak as a German Socialist who has kept up his membership in the German party despite more than a quarter of a century of residence hers, and Vincenso Vacircs, Socialist member of the Italian Parliament (In axils) will tell the audience what Fascism in action under a ruthless dictator moans...
...An enormous volume of misery which defies human computation might have been averted...
...P. O. Box 60, Sta...
...H. Schmitt, Sec'y H. Wolter, Fin...
...Obviously reducing the number of part time workers and shifting their duties to full time employees will cut down the number of individual reserves to be set up...
...Ths initial payments will be the same bat the maximum reserve will be reached much sooner...
...26, at 2 P. m., at Town Hall, to arouse public sentiment against Hitlerism...
...If our recommendation had been enacted into law in 1925, a fund of 11,000,000,000 to meet the crisis would have been built up...
...Abraham Cahan, editor of ths Jewish Daily Forward, intimate of ths leaders of German Social Democracy and for half a century student of the movement there, will head the list of spsaksrs, Jacob Pankee, e frequent visitor to Germany and likewise a close associate of the German Socialist leaders, and Algernon Lee, one of the best informed on foreign affairs of all American Socialists, will likewise add their voices...
...It will be linked up with the Party Conference in Frankfort-on-the-Main from March 12 to 18...
...Yorkville, S. P. Hitler Protest Meeting {SOCIALISTS and other lovers of liberty will unite in a stirring protest Sunday afternoon against the strangling of liberty in Germany involved in the rule of that country by Adolf Hitler and his reactionary allies...
...Assemblyman Marcy says the time to enact legislation protecting ths unemployed is when unemployment lifts...
...Ths meeting is to be held st Town Hsll, 118 West 43rd Street, at 2 p. m. on Sunday...
...Compare this with the $150,000,000 that has been spent on relief in the state since the depression began...
...At the.same time the Germanf Socialist branches, Local New York and the Neue Volksxeitung am cooperating in a mass meeting to be held Sunday, Feb...
...A legislature, subservient to business and not responsive to the needs of the workers, has seized upon the spurious excuse that more unemployment will be created under unemployment insurance...
...Then, contributions are scaled down...
...New York, N. Y. With fraternal greetings, Kurt Krupzog, Organizer Ph...
...Ths appeal to the American people follows: A call for financial' aid, by ths German Comrades of America— for the campaign fund of our Ger-sum Comrades...
...His total cost will be permanently Axed by his total payroll, not by ths number of employees...
...The ceremony organized by the German Social Democrats will be on a particularly magnificent scale...
...Write at once to Room 607, 7 East 15th Street...
...wen know the amount of...
...Thn will follow speeches by representatives of the Executive of the German Social Democratic Party, of the Labor and Socialist International and of the Parties in other countries...
...Because of in-tornal strife In the political movement It has been possible for an Adolf Hitler, under the false flag J* "National Socialism" to reach Pg P«ak of his ambitions and to ••worn Chancellor of Germany...
...The Marcy Committee, in short, recommends a system ef unemployment insurance which will furnish financial incentive for firing part-time employees...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 8
