The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

door by iotting them down an al
blank form prepared for us by theI
unit buro. On most occasions Il
was invited in to sit down and fur
ther discuss the matters Of the bill
and the problems in general. NV
approach was as follows. Ringing
the bell. If someone asked, Who
is it?" I answered, ~ L." That
was the fact. And the door opened,
I want to speak to you about
the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill now in Congress. If this
bill is passed, it means that every
member of Your family will receivd
insurance, the means Of living dur.
ing the period he is out of work.
1t means $40 for each working
member Of your family and So in
addition for each dependent, child
or invalid. The Bill is now in Con-
gress because of the efforts of the
workers throughout the country
through their workers organizations,
the Unemployment Councils. They
forced one Congressman, Mr.. Lun~
deem Of Minnesota, to introduce the
Bill in Congress. And there it is
now, pigeonholed away, possibly to
die. But you and I can wake up
all these congressman by sending
to them hundreds of thousands of
these postal cards calling upon them
to pass this bill. We want YOU
and every member of the family to
cn11d ri =
print of the bill as it is now in
Congress. 1t has been reprinted so
as t breach you, who are really in
terested in workers unemployment
insurance. We urge you to take a
copy of the bill and several post
cards. For this we ask you, as a
worker, to make possible the reprint
Of thousands of more. This by pay
ing the cost of the material which
is two cents"
No one refused this appeal.
Now the press and literature. To
understand better about the H. R.
1898 Bill, we have a pamphlet, writ
ten by the leader of the Unem-
ployed Councils, I. Amter, which exc
plains Why Unemployment Insur-
ance' and how to obtain it. 1t sells
for the cost Of printing, two cents.
The struggle for the bill is a day
to-day struggle which is carried on
in every neighborhood by all work
erS' organizations and the local
organizations and the local house,
block and Unemployment Councils.
Here is what the workers press, the
Daily Worker, tells us of how the
fight is going on. Here is an article
that tells us that because of these
struggles, 40 congressman were
forced to give their support to the
bill to bring on the floor of Con-
gress. I've marked the article. r
suggest you take copy of the paper.
It is the only working class paper
published in English and is full of
news of direct interest to all work.
ers, especially those who are feeling
deeply the conditions of today"
The whole approach is coherent,
flowing logically ana naturally from
one item to the other and the re-
suit is that the worker does respond,
by purchasing some of the material,
if not all. And the door is then
wide open for a return visit. The
method therefore consists of choos-
ing a proper matter for the first
approach land the H. R. 1898 Bill is
such), tieing up the literature and
the articles in the press with this
Door Opener" This in contrast
to the haphazard assortment of
material that is usually taken out
on a canvass. This method most
probably will be welcomed by many
members of the units, especially to
those who have justified dislike
toward the usual cold canvass"
Put some political sense into the
thing and it becomes a task easily
accepted and carried out. To make
this possible it is urged that the
unit buros and sections present this
method at all unit meetings at the
time of assignments and also at the
mobilization points on the Red
Sundays.
]. L., Unit IL. Section 5,
Bronx, N. Y.