TELLS WORKINGS
OF THE FEDERAL
SECURITY LAW
(Continued from last week)
QUESTION: To what extent does
a state or territorial unemployment
compensation law give the worker
security?
ANSWER: It gives him security
in the sense that he can faoe the
loss of a job without fear of total
loss of income. The dismissal slip
does not cast him adrift in the sea
of economic uncertainty. He knows
that under a system of unemploy
ment compensation he- will be able
to bridge the period of unemploy
ment with the small weekly income
that will be paid to him as his right,
not as relief or charity.
QUESTION: What is this weekly
income’ How long does it last?
ANSWER: That depends upon
the particular state or territorial law.
which in each instance must be ap
proved by the Social Security Board.
GeHreally speaking, laws enacted to
date provide that an unemployed
worker, after a specified waiting
period, trill receive 50 per cent ^ of
his weekly wage, with about $15 as
ft maximum for about 16 weeks a
year. Paying benefits is only one
side of the picture of the unemploy
ment compensation system. The
other side lies in the function of
finding jobB for every man who reg
isters as being unemployed. The
most efficient system of unemploy
ment compensation is not the one
that pay* the most benefits, but the
one'which finds the most jobs for the
unemployed. Most people
rather have a job than oe idle, ever:1
if they draw money during the in
ter ire. .
QUESTION: What does unem
ployment compensation cost the
woiker?
ANSWER: • That is dependent
upon the particular state or terrrt oa
rs! .egisiation. Some state plans al
ready approved '--provide for- -joint
contributions by the employer and
employee and others provide for con
tributions by tbe< employer alone. - In
this conecticn it, may be said that an
unemployment compensation bfli' in
troduced in'the regular session- of
the Alaskt iegwlkt*’-* provided the
tax would be assessed -“against the
employer only.
QUESTION: How dbe* * typical
state plan “work*?
ANSWER: Let us take New
Hampshire? for am example. Unem
olotment benefits there are payable
beginning January 1, 1938 Every
pian has a provision •wbereby -time is
rivfcn for reserves*!* accumulate be
fore benefits become payable. Let’s
say a New Hampshire worker who
has been earning $24 a week during
1935 and 1937 -lost-.-’ a* jnb.vimFehHt*
ary- 1938.' After wailing a period of
three weeks* will be entitled to
$12' a week for. the maximum dura
tion of .16 weeks. His contribution
to the employment fund was one
half of one per cent of his weekly
wage for 1936. and one per. cent of
his weekly .wage for 1937 and for
that part of 19S8- during ’which be
was employed.'
QUESTION: What doe?.- that
mean in dollars and casts?
ANSWER: It means the' worker
paid 12 cents a week oot «f his wag
es is 1937 and in the four weeks of
employment in 1938. If he was reg
ularly employed through this entire
period, he contributed a total- -of
$19.68. The total amount «f -benefits
he -may draw during 1938 is $192.
or nearly ten times the amount of
his- contributicm.
QUESTION: What about the farm
laborer and the domestic servant ?
They are excluded under the provi
sion? af the Social Security Act and
the State laws.
ANSWER: Yes, certain forms of
labor are excluded, among "them ag
ricultural labor, domestic servants
in a private home, certain maritime
employment, Government service, and
a few others involving relatively
small groups. The Social Security
Acs, however, through its unemploy
ment compensation provisions, bene
fits all classes of society—labor, cap
ital, agriculture, and the public in
general.
QUESTION: How is that?
ANSWER: In receiving unemploy
ment compensation the unemployed
worker helps the ranks of employed
labor by continuing to be a consum
er. His income is decreased, but it
j, not eliminated, and his credit is
not destroyed. Not the least cause
of the last depression was the al
most simultaneous stoppage of all
the wheels of industry. By maintain
ing consumption, the payment of un
employment compensation retards
that stoppage and makes it possible
■for' production to- continue, even
though at a slower pace.
What is true of industry is true
of agricultural labor and agricultur
al capital. Prosperity of farms and
employment of farm hands depends
an a good city market. The city
market is made up of purchaser*
aha* in tb* main, are wives of in
j ALASKA NOTES I
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I Gathered From ^Territorial j
Exchanges.
Copper Drops Cent—
I he price of domestic copper -was
reduced one cent on April 6 in New
York, to 16 cents a pound, the first
recession since the price raise start
ed last summer when it was steady
at nine cents.
Strike Threats Delays Sailing—
The recent sailing of the Alaska
Line steamer Mount McKinley \va
almost cancelled due to threats cf!
new strikes, the traffic- department
announced last week. Labor trouble
existing between cannery operators
and fishermen and cannery workers,
lid to the postponement in loading
and finally the cancellation of S50
tons of cargo booked for the McKin
ley. She sailed 15 hours after her
scheduled time.
Book Tells How To Farm—
Land hungry persons from far
away Iceland will be able to pet des
criptive material of the Alaskan ag
ricultural possibilities now that the
University of Alaska has just com
pleted the printing, of several thous
and illustrated folders under the di
rection of. George .W. Gasser, direc
tor of the university's agriculture
department. Applications have been
received from practicality all the
states and from many foreign coun
tries.
Alleged KiHer Bound Over—
'•Russian Jack" Marchin, who fac
es the first degree murder charge
as a result of the-killmg of Milton
Hamilton early cn the. morning of
March" 22. at Anchorage was bound
over *t» the grand jury: at a prelim
inary bearing in the U. S. Commis
sioner’s office last -week and will be
taken to Valdez seen. The defend
ant was present at the hearing, but
waived his privilege of making a
statement and gave no - testimony. -
Mrs. Doris Simmons, in whose house
on East Fifth Street the shooting
took place, was present at the hear
ing, but did not ’> testify. Raymond
and Stanley Mahle. Mrs. Simmons’
brothers, told of events preceding:
and following the shooting. They
claimed Jack made remarks earlier
in the evening that he resented
Hamilton’s- presence in he house.
Testimony of the prosecution -wit
nesses brought out that Hamilton
struck Jack earlier in the eveuing.,
The defendant appeared at the hear
ing with a piece of adhesive tape
cr-er his nose and forehead.
Platinum has been -found in me
teorites out only in very small quan
tities.
- All churches in Peru have been-or
dered to display the national * -flag,
"to create a spirit of love, for the
fatherland.*'
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da stria! and commercial workers; It
is obvidus,” therefore, that weekly -
benefits of the unemployed factory
and office worker will contribute to
the stabilization of farm production
and farm income.
(To be continued next week).
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Z.T. - -hut is what counts.
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