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Government Unemployment Insurance
Government Unemployment Insurance, 1930
"7,000,000 Men Out of Work. Action is Necessary!" Brochure promoting the Socialist's proposal of an unemployment insurance law which would impose on each employer who hires five or more men in the same line of work the duty to pay a man whom he lays off a definite percentage of his wages and not less than $2.00 for each day he is unemployed....
Minutes of the National Executive Committee meeting, 1931
Meeting minutes, included topics: unemployment action, the N.E.C. meeting in Atlanta, the presidential campaign,socialist literature to be printed, the agricultural program, Mooney-Billings action, the Socialist Forward Drive, etc.
Proposed constitutional amendment to legalize federal social legislation, 1931-04-09
Cover letter and attached draft of a constitutional amendment, submitted for the N.E.C. members' approval. Title of the amendment, as suggested by Norman Thomas, is The Workers Rights Amendment.