The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-19
5000 CHICAGO WORKERS j.
HAIL L.W. @. CONVENTION;
CHEER BROWDER, FORD
Organization Grew From 5000 to 35,000 in
Three Years Because of Activity ~
in Revolutionary Movement -

/ for the bankers and manufacture
and not one cent for genuine unen
ployment relief
| This emphasizes" BroWdeT d
clared, "the importance Of the Inter
national Workers Order as a ffateE
nal organization and as a factor 70
! struggle for social insurance at tkF
expense Of the bosses"
The I. W. o." Browder said, -
an effective and powerful Organise
ton, because it is a good mutual or
ganization, because it is q revolu
tionary mutual organization
The vicious prosperity" propa.
sands of President Roosevelt BToWdea
pointed out, resembles the Hooves
propaganda and attempts to cover VI
the program Of infistion and va,
preparations. This must be comhstset
by creating stronger revolutionary
mass organizations.
Applaud Ford, lyman
James W. Ford, Negro worker, and
candidate for Vice President in the
last election on the Communist
Party ticket, greeted the convention
in the name Of the Trade Union
Unity League. The T. U. U. L."
he said, recognizes the l. ". o.
as an important weapon IN the sSrug-
gle for social insurance"
Ford was enthusiastically received
by the huge audience, which later
showed its solidarity with the T. o.
U. L., the Red trade union center,
by warmly applauding Louis LYMAN,
president Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union.
Scfiffel Of the Slovak section.
Feher of the Hungarian section and
Malenki Of the Russian Mutual Aid
Society spoke in their respective Ian
guages. The delegates cheered Feher' 5
announcement of a conference Of
various Hungarian fraterhal oFgani-
cations this coming Friday for the
purpose of creating a united front.
SaIxnan Reports.
+, Speaking in Yiddish, r. Sslzman,
general secretary of the I. w. o.,
called forth enthusiastic applause
when he showed the rapid growth Of
the organization. He referred to the
Chicago convention of the indie
pendent Workmen's Circle, which re-
Gently merged with another organ
ization, but had very few members
to bring to the merger, however"
The I. w. o., he said, which now
has more than $4,000 members, in
/ GnaioSu &c
templating establishing new, sddi-
tionsl benefits for its worker-mem-
berS.
The phenomenal growth of the
L. w. O. was also portrayed in fig
ures presented by Blechman, who
opened the meeting on behalf of the
Chicago branches, who recruited TS0
new members in the pre-convention
drive, including rs new Negro mem
bers.
Bedacht, Olgin Cheered.
In a vigorous speech, Max Be-
dacht made an incisive analysis of the
whole fraternal movement Of the
United States, which, he pointed out,
has membership of about 25.00o, :
600, including 100000 workers.
The I. w. O., Bedacht declared,
was the first to turn this movement
into an instrument in the interests
of the workers, uniting them into q
powerful organization, irrespective Of
nationality, race or color.
Moissaye j. Olgin, editor Of the
Morning Freiheit," greeted the con-
vention on behalf OF the revolution
AIRY press Cheer after cheer went
up from the delegates for the Daily
Worker, Morning Freiheit, vi Elore,
Novy Mir, Ukrainian Daily News and
other Communist publications which,
Olgin pointed out, were the ONES in
strumental in building the I. w. o.
The speaker reminded the Coliseum
audience of the Toronto convention of
the Workmen's Circle, where the Of
fetal leadership made sharp turn
toward an open counter-revolution-
airy program.