Flint Spokesman [Volume: 5, Issue: 1]

- Workers,

Saturday, April-12, 1952

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Striking, out at ~a. de raved
double standard that ' considers
government assistance wise and
desirable when given to corporations but unsound and destructive when designed to relieve the
hardships and hunger of jobless
workers and their families,~ the
CIO today told the House Ways
and Means Subcommittee on Unemployment Insurance that
strengthening of unemployment
compensation laws is essential to
maintain a strong economy under
the defense production program.

Chief spokesman for the National CIO was Emil Mazey, secretary-treasurer of the United
Automobile Workers of America,
who represented Emil Rieve, chaiman of the CIO Social Security
Committee. Mrs. Katherine Pollak Ellickson, executive secretary
of. the committee and CIO associate director of reasearch, also
testified for the CIO on other unemployment. compensation,pbills
now pending before the House. -

Strong support of the MoodyDingell bill (H.R. 6174) to provide supplementargt imemploy
ment compensation paymerts to
workers Who are unemployed because of civilian cutbacks curing
the national emergency also came
in statements submitted to the
committee by the CIO Textile
Workers, represented ~by their
Washington legislative Representative, John Edelman, and by the
CIO. Furniture Workers, Clothing
Paper workers and
Playthings, Jewelry, and Novelty
Workers. ~
In addition, suporting state-ments were prepared for submission by the CIO State councils in
Massachusetts, New Jersey; New~
York, Pennsylvania. and Rhode
Island.

Mazey cefitered his chief attack on the argument advanced. by business spokesmen, when they

appeared in opposition to the
Moody-Dingell bill before the

Senate Finance Committee, that)

existing unemployment is ~normal~ and therefore there is no
need for the measure.

He charged that the present
total of about 95,000 jobless in

_ the Detrojt area ~ where the un
employment percentage is twice
that~ ailing. nationally ~
could 4~ called ~normal~ only in
terms of ~a depraved double

* standard.~ This is evident, he said,

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from the ~transformation~ in the
attitude of Willis Hall, secretary
of the Detroit Board of Commerce, about the gravity of - Detroit~s unemployment when workers~, rather than business, interests were involved.

~Last July,~ Mazel recalled,
~Hall expressed alarm-loudly and
at at length over the prospect
that unemployment might rise to
90,000 in the Detroit area. It has
now become apparent, however,
that his primary objective was
not more work and wages for the
city~s jobless but more profits for
the corporations that support his

~or 15.4%

organization through increased

allotments of materials ~for civilis

an production.~ aa
Such an~ increased material sup
ply, Mazey added, was ~necessary
and proper~ as a means to reemploy workers displaced from
civilian jobs before defense work
is ready for them. However, - it
~happens to be a form of unemployment relief in which industry

-Shares,~~.Mazey pointed out.

~Hail- was cynically and hypocritically willing to make use of
the hunger of the unemployed
workers~ children to obtain materials to maintain the profits of
his corporate constitutents,~ he
cor~inued. ~But when it was proros:d that the government meet
its responsibilities by. taking direct steps to feed these same
hungry children, Hall~s contribution was irresponsible and heartless statistical jugglery purporting to prove that the situation was
~normal,~ that nothing need be
done.~~

Mazey said that Hall, ~in support of his perverted efforts to
prevent action on behalf of his
city~s unemployment,~ had cited
figures for March 1940, when
there were 143,000 jobless in Detroit.. He recalled that Hall had

described 1940 as a ~relatively~

good year.~

~In March 1940," Mazey said,
~there were unemployed in the
United States 8,360,000 workers,
of the civilian labor
force. If we were presently enjoying the same kind of ~relatively good year,~ unemployment in the U. S. today would
total 9% million. If today we
were to have the March 1940
ratio of unemployment in Detroit,
there would be 216,000 jobless
walking the city~s streets.~

Mazey cited a report of the Michigan Employment Security
Commission after Hall~s Senate
testimony~which stated that current unemployment in Detroit is
distinguished from post-war peaks
in the area by its long and continuing duratio e number of
workers monthly exhausting their
benefit rights is more than double,

the commission said, and it added |

that not all of Detroit~s unemployed will find work even when
defense production scheduled for
the area is under way.

In support of this, Mazéy~pointed out that the new contracts
placed in Detroit in February
will. provide ~only 32,000 manmonths or less than 2,700 man
years of work.~ The overwhelming bulk of these contracts, he
said, represent extensions of present contracts which ~wi!] not add

to defense employment but will
merely ~serve to prevent layoffs
that would otherwise have accurred as past contracts ran out.~
~(We have made some progress
both in bringing new defense
work into ihe Detroit area and in
gaining increased materials to
employ on civilian jobs workers

for whom there is no defense
work available,~. Mazey said.

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

ClO Calls Strong er Unemploym't
insurance "Essen tial~ To Economy |

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~Meanwhile, close to 190,000 Detroit workers.gre still jobless and
their need for the assistance provided by H. Ré@ 6174 is immediate and urgent.~

Even if theme were no present
defense unemployment, he added,
the Moody-Dingell bill would be
needed as standby legislation to
make it possible to reduce: hardships that will flow from urther
dislocations ~inevitable under any
defense production program.~ If
a truce should come in Korea, he
pointed out, the military program
would be ~either cut back or
drastically rearranged with more
emphasis on long range defense
neédg and less on material for immediate front line use,~ and with
this and similar changes, would
come increased unemployment.

Besides urging immediats. passage of the~ Moody-Dingell bill,
the CIO urged enactment of H.R.

3391 to extend the coverage of |,

the Federal Unemployment Act to
employers having one er more

individuals, and H.R. 6954 to es-|

tablish a Federal Unemployment
Account to permit the accumulation of funds for grants to states
whose funds are insufficient to
finance benefits provided by the
State law. Both these measures
were introduced by the subcommittee chairman, Representative
Forand (D.R.I1.).

On the other hand, the CIO
opposed the Mills bill (H.R. 4133)
providing for loan finds ~advances~ to the states to meet unemployment benefits for which
they do not have sufficient funds
on hand. Such loans would have
-to be paid back on penalty of
higher taxes to be levied on all
employers in the debtor states,
Mazey said.;

While supporting the stated
purpose of H.R. 7277 in providing unemployment compensation
for former members of the Armed
Forces, Mazey criticized its proposed method for making such
payments, which he said would
treat Korean war veterans ~less
favorably~ than veterans 0 f
World War II. He urged that all
Korean veterans who become unemployed should. be treated in
like fashion regardless of the
state in.which they happened to
be located at the time of their
unemployment.

Because of differences in state
laws, he pointed out, it would be
posible under the provisions of
H.R. 7277 for two veterans ~who
shared the mud of the same rice
paddy in Korea~ to receive vary-.|ing treatment upon their return

to civilian life. In some states,.one
veteran might be: denied any compensation whatsover even though

his ease were identical th all de-|

tails with that of his buddy living
in another state; Mazey declared.

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