The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
BENJAMIN EXPLAINS
NEED TO PREPARE
FOR THE CONGRESS
Success of Sessions for Unemployment Insurance
To Be Determined by Actions to Involve the
Broad Masses of Workers

will serve to bring the Congress to
the attention of all possible organi.
cations, 1t is necessary to organize
action in support of the demand for
genuine unemployment and social
insurance.
Mass delegations should be sent
to the homes and offices Of u s,
Senators and Congressman to de-
mand that they pledge themselves
to support the program of the Ma
tional Congress as outlined in the
Call. Similar demands should be
made of state and local govern
mental officials. Municipal legisla-
tive bodies Getty Council, Board of
Aldermen, etc. should be forced to
memorabilia Congress for enactment
of the Workers Bill.
The National Arrangements Conn
mittee has issued post card which
carries quotation from recent
speech of President Roosevelt in
which he asked, "Are you better off
than you were last year are your
working conditions better Is
your faith in your own individual
future more firmly groundedP" The
postcard not only gives every
worker the opportunity to answer
NO! to these hypocritical questions;
1t also makes demand for immedi-
ate enactment of the Workers Bill.
Hundreds of thousands, millions of
these cards should be sent to Roose-
velt and to the U. 8. Senators and
Congressman from the various
states and districts. In this wsy
the government will be informed of
the mass support behind the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance and its pro-
gram.
Mass meetings, lectures, debates
and Symposiums should be arranged
by the sponsoring committees and
the supporting organizations in or
der to explain the proposals for
genuine unemployment insurance
and to expose the many fake plans
which are being brought forward
in order to deceive, mislead and
divide the masses. BY this means
and by means of leaflets and res
olutions, we should expose and de-
nounce those officials of unions
and other workers organizations
who pretend to favor unemploy-
ment and social insurance but
oppose the effort to build the nec-
essary united front movement foS
struggle around this vital issue.
We must make clear that those who
merely give lip service, are no less
enemies of unemployment and So
cial insurance than are those who
openly oppose it.
Financing the Campaign and
Congress
All of these activities and thu
sending of thousands of delegates
to Washington will require immense
funds. II, however, large masses are
reached as they must be if this ac-
ton is to be successful, the neces-
sary funds will be raised by the
very process of these activities.
Sympathetic organizations ana
individuals are urged to make i'm
mediate contributions or loans to
the National and local sponsoring
committees in order to provide the
funds necessary to starting the
work. Supporting stamps in five
and ten cent denominations have
been issued for sale in the shops,
organizations and neighborhoods.
If the millions of workers who need
and have expressed their approval
of genuine social insurance such as
We propose are reached, they will
buy these stamps and in all other
ways make possible the struggle to
win such social insurance.
Those who themselves lack the
will and the courage to engage in
the necessary struggle against the
hunger program of the American
ruling class, charge the workers
with being "planiess and supine."
Opportunists and reformists who
want an alibi for their failure to
fight against the capitalist policy
which seeks to force upon the
masses the entire burden of the
crisis, ridicule and belittle the
struggle for unemployment and So
cial insurance. But, the heroic
workers who have fought against
wage-cuts, starvation relief doles,
forced-labor, abuse, discrimination
and restitution, know that they can
safeguard themselves against these
and other results of mass unem-
ployment only by forcing the ruling
class to establish and provide a sys-
tenn of social insurance These
masses will support, participate in
and assure the success of the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment