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Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- United States

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Government Unemployment Insurance leaflet.
Government Unemployment Insurance leaflet.

Government Unemployment Insurance, 1930

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.1.46
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"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....

Dates: Publication: 1930

Minutes of the National Executive Committee meeting, 1931

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.51
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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.

Dates: Issued: 1931

Proposed constitutional amendment to legalize federal social legislation, 1931-04-09

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.52
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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.

Dates: Issued: 1931-04-09

Report and survey from Clarence Senior to the National Executive Committee, 1931-02-28

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.2.50
Scope and Contents Cover letter for an extensive report of the Executive Secretary, composed of the following: General survey; Milwaukee Conference; organization of the Italian Socilaists; peace propaganda; tour of speakers, Child Labor Day; women's work; delegates to the Vienna Congress; Berger Memorial Foundfation; N.E.C. meeting in the South; presidential campaign; literature; Mooney-Billings action; Russian resolution; Danville Strike aid; unemployment insurance action; Jimmie Higgins contest; Socialism...
Dates: 1931-02-28

Sifton, Paul, 1939

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Identifier: 2006.003.1.OVRSZ 1.6
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Headlines and What's Behind Them Bulletin, No. 6, New Haven, Connecticut. The headline in this issue begins: "Tell Them (You and You and You) to Go to Hell said Paul Sifton, Deputy Wages and Hours Administrator, writing for the Communist magazine, "Fight", in its first issue....tell them we've got another war on, a war to establish a workers' government...." This issue of the bulletin focuses on Paul Sifton and his activites in theatre and government.

Dates: Publication: 1939