CIO-PAC for Partisanship vs Progress
CIO-PAC for Partisanship vs Progress California Legislature Passes Unemployment Disability Bill By David Jordan HlfMlaCT , Th« New Leadess r«* C«uf Correspondent, a Leader of the West Coast Trade...
...Under the provi-aions of the law, an individual may collect both unemployment insurance and rdisability insurance for a maximum of M weeks...
...The report further indicates the number of registered votora in every one of the 14 Soviet Republica...
...Vigorous opposition faced the bill...
...Finally, the CIO openly requested Governor Warren to veto the bill...
...Since at least 1941, organised labor in California has sought t» remedy this situation and has urged the necessary amendments to the unemployment compensation laws...
...Instead, he has fought the reactionary members of his party and has urged a mild but sincerely progressive program...
...The passage of this law has aroused the interest of Organized labor throughout the country, and the office of the California State Federation of Labor, which was very active in support of its enactment, has | haan flooded with requests for infor-I antion from labor organizations in 46 - states...
...Their weak and transparent criticism may be summarized by saying that the CIO objected to the bill because it did not provide sufficient compensation of lengthy enough duration and that, if enacted, it would hinder any further action for a real health insurance plan...
...These proposals, if adopted, would have led to the defeat of the bill, as the proponents doubtless knew...
...Consequently, the number of votora In the "special districts," that ia of Soviet occupation forces, on the election date totaled 2,765.153...
...The law provides that "An individual shall be deemed disabled in any week in Which, because of his physical or mental condition, he is unable to perform his regular or customary work...
...By its provisions, a worker unemployed because af sickness or injury could continue to collect his unemployment insurance...
...The report contains some revealing Agaves...
...4 The principle involved in this bill has been urged by organized labor in the state for a number of years...
...The law provided for the eras tie* of "apodal election districts" for these Vetera, with each 10,000 Vetera constituting one district...
...L*8t December the Governor issued a call for a special session of the legis-lature and included this labor-sponsored legislation as one of the "musts...
...A series of amendments sponsored by the CIO were then offered...
...Borne of the opposition is easily understood, but the basis for part of the oppo- -•Itjon is beclouded...
...He was elected as a reaction to the so-called' liberal Olsen, and the stereotyped mind expected a period of black reaction to set in...
...Une of the flaws in the unemployment insurance laws which has caused great hardship it that an unemployed worker, incapable of accepting employment because of ill-y neat, could not receive unemployment compensation...
...Representatives of the Associated Farmers were united in %b opposition te the bill, as they al-wi have been agains^ any progreative 'jjpf legislation...
...The total number of registered voters throughout the Soviet Union, including the "special districta," amounted to 101.717.686...
...Only one other state in the Union, Rhode Island, has such progressive legislation upon its books...
...On Feb, 14 "Izveetia" pabiiahed the ofiteial report of the Central Election Casamisstoa summarizing the elections to the Supreme Soviet, which hsd been hold on Fob...
...JP year thit association had the scare *Mts life when Governor Warren ipon-JMM a mild health inaurance bill...
...The addition of those fig* area shows that there wore 9M52.5S3 voters within the Soviet Union...
...Crippling amendments ware proposed...
...The sol* exception is illness caused by or arising through pregnancy...
...CIO State Director of Research, Paul Pinski, appeared before the committee to argue agalnat its paaaage...
...As bitter opponents of Governor Warren, however, I hey proved themselves to be more interested in depriving the Governor as well as the State Federation of Labor •f credit far a piece of far-reaching social legislation than In securing enactment of a bill beneficial to California's workers...
...The Medical Association failed to realize that, the net affect of the present legislation is to provide workers with money to pay medical bills...
...New Leader readers who have bean following Oliver Carlson's penetrating analyses of California politics are familiar with California political align-menu and of the local CIO opposition to Governor Warren...
...The Governor, however, has refused to follow the role assigned to him...
...TrlE active opposition from elements in the CIO throws little credit upon the ' political acumen of its local leaderthip...
...Warren's record in the past four years haa presented a problem to hia opponents and a conundrum to certain liberal elements...
...Except for Morris Susnm.an, its president, the State CIO organisation is under left-wing leadership...
...SOVIET OCCUPATION ARMY 2.7*0.000 Ok October 14, 1»45, a special decree was enacted in the Soviet Union regulating the electoral tights to the Supreme Soviet of members of the armed forces ¦totionod abroad...
...The State Federation of Labor, in its Legislative Report, openly accused the CIO of sabotaging the bill...
...An active opponent the California Medical Association...
...A bill 'Was introduced by Senator Shelly, presi-i dent of the San Francisco Labor Council, and with the aid and support of 'warren, obstacles were overcome and the bill was enacted into law...
...Such excuses for the CIO opposition were designed to obscure their real reasons, but no one has been fooled...
...It appesrs from the report that there'were 24 "special districts...
...CIO-PAC for Partisanship vs Progress California Legislature Passes Unemployment Disability Bill By David Jordan HlfMlaCT , Th« New Leadess r«* C«uf Correspondent, a Leader of the West Coast Trade Union Movement < *' ,,-bt-kOLlTICS makes strange bad fel-I-*lows" ii an old bromide, but Cali-¦*¦ fornia has just seen its embodiment in a strange alliance of the CIO-PAC, the Associated Farmers, and the California Medical Association...
...Thla unholy combine waa brought about by a united opposition to the Unemployment Disability Bill which haa just been passed by the California State Legislature, in special session, and aigned by Oovemor Warren...
...It Nt°*ed that bill last year and opposed the disability bill presumably because it **w this bill as an opening wedge in ¦* fight fer health insurance...
...It is unfortunate that the CIO leader, ship in California cannot eee beyond itereotyped patterns of action...
...It is unfortunate for organized labor that a so-called political arm of labor, because-of partisan political blindness, is willing to sacrifice labor gains for political controversy...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 13
