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Show SOCIAL SECURITY ACT IN OPERATION (Continued from last week) The following U a continuation continua-tion of the pm.h given on Social So-cial Security and its Operation by She man jRuesch, Rw4xtnt manager of the Halt Lake City division before the Business Association As-sociation recently. Thus pie employer, in a sense, is an agent for the Federtal Govern- . ment In collecting the tax from his employees and in maintaining maintain-ing a record for the employee, in order that he will receive full credit for wages earned during his lifetime. I believe that the problems encountered by the members of this group in connection with the tax and information returns and the maintenance of records can best be answered by questions from the Individual members, and I will attempt to answer any questions concerning those matter in the discussion period to follow. It Is to be understood that the Social Security Act is not a panacea pan-acea for all the evils to be encountered en-countered by periods of depression, depress-ion, by that part of our population popula-tion too old to be engaged In pr-ductlve pr-ductlve employment and those unable to work because of physical phy-sical and mental disabilities. This Act of Congress is only part of the complete program to maintain main-tain a fairly level economic prosperity pros-perity in the nation. It is supplemented sup-plemented by, or supplements, other programs, such as emergency emer-gency relief, federal housing, the AAA and other similar programs. However, it does appear evident j that the Social Security Act docs in a large measure, care for many of thes ills of our nation in a the entire nation and opportunity permanent flashion and will continue con-tinue to do so over a long range of years. There are a number of oecu- jj patlons which are not included j under the provisions of the law for a variety of reasons. Farm a 3 workers and domestic servants j in private homes are not included ? under the provisions of the law because of the difficulty of cal- "w culating the amounts of wages f ( Continued from Fax O f E. W. Gleason ThanTf ' Miss Alida Thomas a?daf' -1 Wallace NeUreturDea;t nt, j A- C. at Logan after ! M' the holidays at tJf .' I their parents. of I one type of employment to another anoth-er several times during their years of productive employment. In order that the social Security Secur-ity Board may maintain records of the wages earned by employees employ-ees covered by the law, a system of account numbers has been devised, de-vised, whereby individuals are 1-dentifled 1-dentifled by number rather than name. The necessity of this system sys-tem may be seen when we realize real-ize that there are several hun-drd hun-drd thousand people In the country coun-try with the surname of Smith, and likewise with Jones, Johnson, John-son, Jonsen and other common names. Cnsequently, a name a-lone a-lone 1 not sufficient to identify n Individual, and the Social ! stble for them to move westward to frontier settlements to follow their occupations or to take up new occupations in rabidly developing de-veloping parts of the country. Today the same alternatives are not open to people who become be-come unemployed as the result of a serious depression They are no longer able to secure employment employ-ment merely by moving westward toward new frontiers, since unemployment, un-employment, when it is caused by a depression, is spread over for employment is not better in one state than In another. As a result, wo find that varying numbers num-bers of employable people are unemployed during periods of depression. de-pression. s '. Securty Board uses the account number system. In the case of Unemployment Compensator we may refer a-gain a-gain to the example of Paul Re-ver Re-ver and his printing and engraving engra-ving establishment. In the early days of the establishment, where the business was affected by a serious depression, the problem of uneniploywment was not one to concern greatly those who were laid off the pob. They had numerous num-erous alternatives which they were able to utilize. It was pos- SOCIAL SECURITY ACT IN OPERATION paid and in maintaining records. As you well know, very few farmers far-mers and fewer housewives maintain main-tain records of the' wages In cash and in board and lodging which they pay to people they employ Railroad workers are excluded from the law because they are already co'vered by the provisions of the Railroad Retirement Act. People who work for federal, state and local branches of the governmsnt are excluded, because be-cause the greater number of federal fed-eral employees are included under the Civil Service Retirement Act, and the Federal Government Is unable to tax the wages of sitate and local employees. Also exclu-ed exclu-ed are the employees of nonprofit nonpro-fit educational, charitable, scientific scien-tific and religious institutions Generally, all other workers than those specifically mentioned are Included under the provisions of th law. j We are not to assume that because be-cause farmers are excluded from the law that they may not benefit bene-fit from the provisions of it Many farm workers, as in this valley, work part of the year in the sugar factory, in the mines, the smelters, or in canning factories. fac-tories. Their work In these included inclu-ded occupations will entitle them to benefits. The same is true of other workers who change from |