Insurance, Unemployment -- Law and legislation -- United States
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Report and survey from Clarence Senior to the National Executive Committee, 1931-02-28
Sifton, Paul, 1939
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.