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wfte 90 3fm mt cobb 105 7fm scranton the progressive voice of northeast pennsylvania secondary menu skip to primary content skip to secondary content home about wfte our mission contact us join wfte donate underwriting our shows volunteer progress in action programs locally produced nationally available schedule store wfte 90 3fm mt cobb 105 7fm scranton the progressive voice of northeast pennsylvania search upcoming to hear wfte everywhere using your iphone or android phone download our free app search for wfte fm wherever you get your apps to be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic it is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion sacrifice courage kindness what we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives if we see only the worst it destroys our capacity to do something if we remember those times and places and there are so many where people have behaved magnificently this gives us the energy to act and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction and if we do act in however small a way we don t have to wait for some grand utopian future the future is an infinite succession of presents and to live now as we think human beings should live in defiance of all that is bad around us is itself a marvelous victory howard zinn communists rally in union square new york city may 1 1933 if biden wants to be like fdr he needs the left jamelle bouie the new york times not long before election day joe biden traveled to warm springs georgia to deliver a speech on the healing of america this place warm springs is a reminder that though broken each of us can be healed that as a people and a country we can overcome a devastating virus that we can heal a suffering world that yes we can restore our soul and save our country the location was intentional warm springs is where franklin delano roosevelt went to rest and recover beginning in 1924 after his polio diagnosis and subsequent paralysis in 1921 as president he made it along with his home in hyde park new york a kind of winter white house he died there in 1945 just a few months after taking the oath of office for a fourth time the town remains a shrine to the 32nd president an ideal stop for someone who hopes to channel roosevelt s ambition and also saw electoral opportunity in the state we now know that biden will be president but he won t have the votes for fdr size legislation this doesn t mean he s dead in the water but it does mean that biden will have to marshal every resource and rely on every possible ally to win whatever victories he can and he should know as roosevelt did that this means grappling with the left all of the left including its most radical edges the social security act of 1935 which established the nation s old age and unemployment insurance programs as well as its first stab at maternal assistance represents traditional democratic party liberalism at its best simple broad based and pragmatic the basis for the american welfare state and derided by opponents at the time as an example of creeping socialism it remains a potent example of the power of government to help ordinary people what the public knows is that it was the product of roosevelt and the new deal missing from this story is how much the law owes to the activism and agitation of the american left on feb 10 1931 four years before sen robert wagner of new york and rep david lewis of maryland introduced president roosevelt s social security legislation to congress tens of thousands of americans nationwide took to the streets at the height of the great depression to march for unemployment assistance and food aid organized by a then burgeoning communist party demonstrations ranged from peaceful protests to tense confrontations with law enforcement in boston noted the new york times in a contemporaneous report two hundred communists and sympathizers and about as many police staged a series of fights and scuffles along the boston common in st paul minnesota communist led demonstrators jammed their way into the house chamber of the minnesota legislature and held possession for more than two hours while they demanded relief for the unemployed in new york city similarly nearly 4 000 men women and children heard half a dozen speakers call upon the government to grant unemployment insurance stop evictions and to furnish free food heat and light to the unemployed these demonstrations weren t just for the idea of unemployment insurance the communists had a particular bill in mind the workers unemployment insurance bill which the party had drafted the previous year the workers bill as it was called promised generous assistance for the unemployed for the sick and the old and for new mothers all financed by taxes on corporate income and inheritances with ongoing activism and agitation came greater support rank and file pressure from within the american federation of labor for example led to the creation of the afl trade union committee for unemployment insurance and relief headed by louis weinstock of the new york painters union himself a communist the committee endorsed the bill which was later introduced to congress by the minnesota farmer labor congressman ernest lundeen on the urging of herbert benjamin of cpusa who led the party s effort to organize the unemployed lundeen s version of the worker s bill quickly became a rallying point for unions and associations of the unemployed across the country here is the historian james j lorence in organizing the unemployed community and union activists in the industrial heartland although the lundeen bill drew only lukewarm congressional backing its strong rank and file support helped shape the debate that ended in the creation of the american unemployment insurance system over the course of 1934 grassroots organizers arranged marches letter writing campaigns and conferences in support of the bill the popular pressure crested in january 1935 with a major national demonstration to support the lundeen bill lorence writes among the groups endorsing the legislation were mesa mechanics educational society of america awu auto workers union railway carmen machinists mine mill and smelter workers the rebel afl unions and a large number of ethnic and fraternal organizations concurrent with the demonstration was a communist organized national congress for unemployment and social insurance there thousands of delegates from dozens of states agitated for its passage proponents of the lundeen bill like thomas arnold hill of the national urban league urged its passage there must come before the congress of the united states legislation that will guarantee for all workers regardless of age occupation color sex or political belief full compensation for all loss of time occasioned by involuntary unemployment industrial accident and sickness minimum standards must be set below which this compensation must not fall costs must be placed not upon workers but upon government and capital and workers must not be excluded from administering the benefits of such a plan aware of the roosevelt proposal which had been percolating within the administration for most of the previous year proponents held out the workers bill as the only viable solution to the unemployment crisis it is the position of the communist party that it is the responsibility of the national government to provide against all those vicissitudes of life which are beyond individual or group control a guarantee of a minimum standard of decent livelihood equal to the average of the individual or group when normally employed declared earl browder the leader of cpusa in a statement made at senate finance committee hearings on the wagner lewis bill the communist party opposes the administration bill because it violates each and every one of these conditions for real social insurance on march 9 1935 the house committee on labor following hours of testimony from a cross section of americans voted to send the lundeen bill to the house floor where it was promptly defeated by an overwhelming majority of democrats and republicans in death however the lundeen bill as well as the activism that brought it to congress helped clear the way for wagner lewis a proposal which even in its modesty redefined the relationship between state and citizen paul h douglas a university of chicago economist and future senator from illinois made this clear in his 1936 book on the social security act as quoted in the essay a decade of dissent the new deal and popular movements by gertrude schaffner goldberg the radical and sweeping nature of its proposals enabled the administration forces to say to the indifferent and to the conservative that unless the latter accepted the moderate program put forward by the administration they might later be forced to accept the radical and far reaching provisions of the lundeen bill from roughly 1930 to 1935 an amalgamation of leftists and laborers employed or otherwise made social insurance an urgent priority for the federal government it is possible that something like the social security act would have passed without this agitation but knowing how difficult it is to move the u s government in any direction without the pressure of organized public opinion i doubt it let s return to the present the conditions of january 2021 will be very different from those of january 1935 the situation isn t as dire and the left isn t as strong neither is the democratic party what then can democrats take from this story simply put an ambitious active left is one that widens the scope of reform it s a left that even if you disagree with it helps clear the pathways for action it brings energy and urgency to liberal politics and if nothing else it s a foil against which moderates can triangulate and make the case for more than marginal change should they want it roosevelt was often frustrated with the left but recognized its power and the importance of its vitality to his own cause there was no building the american welfare state without the left and if it s to be rebuilt the left will have to be part of it democrats especially would be heirs to fdr should take care to remember that fact jamelle bouie writes for the new york times blog this bookmark on delicious digg this post recommend on facebook share on linkedin share via myspace share via reddit share with stumblers tweet about it buzz it up print for later bookmark in browser tell a friend check out the donate page to support this station fun informative wfte fm admired theme