The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-05
TWO Fall Membership Driue
Gets off to Fair Start
$500 Recruits in First Month of Drive; Time
OppOrtune to Build the Organization

During the month of October our
International Workers Order mas
achieved and surpassed member
ship of $4,000 adult and youth; in
addition the Order has 5000 child
rem organized in it's branches. 1t
is the purpose of our Fall campaign
to increase this membership toward
$1,000. We can reach this aim by
the time of our convention in May,
1885.
Our Fall campaign proper opened
on October LIST. Since that date
$500 applications for new members
reached our Office. In addition about
900 children we're added to our rolls.
Last weeks harvest Of new mem
bers was COL adult and 200 children.
This is formidable growth, but
it is totally inadequate. These are
not campaign figures. Even a
healthy regular growth of our Order
should add per week 500 new mem
berS to our rolls. In periods of
campaigns we must at least treble
these figures and recruit 1900 mem
bers per week.
There has never been more OBJ
perfume time for getting several
thousand new members per week
into our Order. The leadership of
the bourgeois fraternal movement
has dropped its pretense of brotherly
interest for their worker members.
1t openly advocates struggle against
workers interests. just when the
miserable conditions of the workers
makes them turn toward their or
CARNATIONS for help and for guild
ance, the bourgeois leadership in the
conventional fraternal movement re-
veals its anti-working class pur-
pose.
AS result, hundreds of thou
sands of workers turn their backs to
the bourgeois fraternal organiza-
tions. They look for a fraternal
movement of their own. They want
a workers fraternal organization.
L.W.O. Is Workers Organizati ton
The International Workers Order
supplies this need 1t offers the
workers maximum of protection
for minimum of cost. 1t also is q
workers organization. It's help to
its proletarian members does not
stop with the payment of insurance
In addition, the Order is the FRIEND
the comrade and the leader of its
members in their efforts to meet
the eyryday problems of their ex-
iStence.
The workers join a fraternal or.
ganization to give little greater
security to their existence. They
want to guarantee for themselve.
and their families continuity o.
their income in case of sickness, O.
disability, or death. But unempIoy.
ment stops their ability to pay t!leil
dues. What then? The workers tr,
to solve this problem. They demand
relief. They clamor for unempIoy
ment insurance. They turn to thei
organizations for aid, for advice
and guidance.
When the bourgeois leaders OF tn,
conventional fraternal organization
hear workers demand relief anC
clamor for social insurance, the,
begin to cry: Reds: on the eros
with these Bolsheviks" Of course
when our International Worker
Order hears the workers demand
relief and clamor for social insur
ance, the Order considers it its dut,
to help its members to get relief anC
to get social insurance. 1t consider
1t its duty to use its influence anC
to the strength of the workers il
its organizational machinery to adj
their demand for relief and for so
c1al insurance. In short, it hasen
to fulfill its duty as workers u.
ganization, composed of workers
fighting with and for the workers
serving the working class.
Masses Can Be Reached
By the /. w. o.
This FACT becomes more and more
evident in the eyes of the workers
That is why masses of workers TURF
their backs to the bourgeois farter-
nal movement. That is why they
begin to look more and more eagerl,
for a workers fraternal organiza-
ton; they begin to see that the In
ternational Workers Order is the or
ganization they need.
Under these conditions recruiting
for our Order is no problem at all
1t is merely the problem of the or