The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
L.W. o. Stresses Need
for Social Insurance

The international Workers Order with its more than
10000 members joins the militant workers of the United
States the militant workers of the world in celebration
of International May Day. For us May Day day of re-
view Of strength is day of pledge to continue
keep order in the ranks of workers organizations that
struggle for the solution of the problems of the workers
To carry out this pledge we must first of all keep in
mind the need for social insurance The workers joining
ranks looking for solution of the problems
aed by their economic insecurity We do best to help
the workers to solve this problem by mutual in
At the time must and do show the work
that the problem which capitalism creates for Them
the problem which exploitation creates for them is much
greater than their ability of solving by mutual aid
After ALL all mutual aid is limited 1t is limited by
the meager income of the workers If the income of the
worker when he works big enough to take care of him
in the periods of unemployment sickness or old age the
worker would not need mutual benefit society Since
is not big enough he only contribute small amount
week to mutual aid purposes That why even the mutual
benefit society cannot completely solve the problem for
him. It requires political effort to solve it,
First of ALL it requires an understanding that the prob
lem is to all workers. irrespective of the place
of their BIRTH the color of their skim their religious or DO
the workers have in because they are workers.
because they depend wages for living because these
and this living controlled by the bosses who
grant the not because of the needs of the workers
for Them but because of their profit interests When their
profit interests do not warrant the employment of workers.
they stop it, whether that condemns the workers sarva
ton not
Thus see this problem as a problem of all of the
workers, and thus this problem first of all as one
of united action of the workers for system of social nsur
ance That why the Two endeavors to be leading fac
tor in the struggle for social insurance.
May Day, 1884 shall receive our pledge that we will
multiply effort in the direction of struggle for social
insurance We shall try to penetrate the millions of work
ers organized in fraternal organizations in America We
shall try to throw the issue of social insurance into these
organizations and thereby raise for the first time proe
tartan issue IN the bourgeosnfcted atmosphere of these
organizations. We shall make organization and the
united fronts able to establish the center of most
intense propaganda and agitation among the for
social insurance We shall raise the issue of social insur
ance to most important political issue for the next Con-
gressonal election campaign We shall demand in this
campaign that the candidates our members support will be
candidates who in turn stand foursquare behind the only
effective social insurance proposal now before u.s. HR
Bill 1898.
Thus we hope to make May Day day of review of our
forces day in which in this review we will see our weak
nesses and unite in the determination wipe them out
and to improve fighting strength
Hail May Day, 1884,
Hail the international solidarity of the working classl
Forward in the struggle for social insurance!