The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-01
!. ". @. EXECUTIVE
REPORT MEMBERS
NOW TOTAL $4,000
Prepare Amalgamate
With Other Workers
Beneficial Societies


Square Garden the opening night
and brought together 2s9 delegates
representing 24I branches and a
membership of 1900 workers scat
tered through 81 states, at its ses-
sions at the Irving Plaza yesterday,
decided on q far-reaching plan of
amalgamation with other organiza-
tionS on 2 common program. The
plan aims to unite the Hungarian
Sick Benefit Fund with a member
ship close to $500. the Slovak Work
ers' Order and the Russian Mutual
Aid Society. The last two are ex-
pected to hold a convention in Sep
TENDER, at which the question is to
be decided. The proposed plan
would be to amalgamate into one
organization a total membership of
$4,000 and lay the base for building
powerful working-clas fraternal
mass organization, with branches in
every section of the United States
The plan laid down would draw in
Negro workers, build the italian
branches. of which there are 10 al
ready, reach the native born Eng
disappearing wirkers, of which there
are nine branches; win members
among the textile workers, in the
mining towns and in every important
industrial center of the country
Twenty youth branches have already
been organized and a drive is on to
reach women workers also, four
branches of which have already been
started.
The report of r. Saltzman, general
secretary, unanimously adopted,
points with justified pride to the
financial soundness OF the Interna-
tional Workers Order. For the ten
months previous to May l, 1881, the
/ w. o. paid out in sick benefits the
amount of S22,74700O Death bene-
fits for the same period amounted to
s3,250. On May 1, 1881, the sick
benefit fund showed a surplus of
S10,12790. The death benefit fund
on the same date showed a total of
s29,41995. The total reserve funds
of the TWO in May, 1881, amounted
to s5l,57l.43."
The activities of the Two. indi-
cate its broad working -class char
scter and its achievements include
the publication of journal the
Spark, the carrying out Of cultural
program, "to educate its members in
a proletarian way" the organizations
Of e6 children's. schools comprising
about 1000 children" publishing
text books for the schools and print
ing numerous leaflets as well as out
lines for discussion on working-class
issues which were sent to the
branches
Fight White ChsuyiniSm.
The I. w. o. also conducted cam
paign to root out white chauyinism,
combat ting the attitude of petit
bourgeois elements, particularly those
who have brought over with them
from the social-fascist Worhnen's
Circle some of the worst tendencies,
and carried on a steady theological
campaign to overcome this. In this
connection the anti-zionist campaign
conducted by the l. w. O., which
was clearly formulated at the Oc-
tober Conference, was a revolution
airy achievement although the secre-
tary's report points out that the I.
w. o. failed to utilize the develop
ments of the past year, ito start an
offensive against the united front of
the zionists, socialists and labor bu-
reaucrats." In the struggle against
the persecution of the foreign born,
in the fight against the A. F. of L.
takers, against the Fish Committee,
IN the May First demonstrations, the
struggle for Unemployment Insurance
and the anti-war demonstration of
August and for defense of the
Soviet Union, the I. w. Q. rallied the
membership to the issues.
AS a result of this convention the
I. w. o. will conduct with greater
energy than before the campaigns Of
the revolutionary unions, under the
leadership of the Trare Union Unity
League. 1t is now supporting the
joine defense campaign of the In
ternational Labor Defense and the
League of Struggle for Negro Rights
TO save the nine Scottsboro Negro
boys from legal lynching and sent
wire yesterday to the All-Southern
Scottsboro Conference, meeting at
the Masonic Temple, Chattanooga,
Tenn, "pledging support of the en-
tire Membership of the I. w. o. for
the campaign. A resolution was also
adopted pledging support for the
fight to free the five Paterson tex
tile workers who have been framed
for murder.
The generous support of the TWO.
to the revolutionary press and to the
dressmakers' strike deserves special
mention The I. w. o. contributed
$1,000 to the last strike Of the Needle
Trades Industrial Union. It raised
$4,000 for the Daily Worker during
the ten months and $4,000 for the
Jewish Morning Freiheit
The final session of the conven-
ton, which will elect officers and
adopt resolutions governing the Or
ganization during the coming months,
is under way as this goes to press
and will be reported tomorrow.