The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
Membership Driye

ACAADCASnAH OAAfC
The fourteenth week of the men,
bership campaign Of the International
7 Workers Order added BOA new mem
bers and 157 children to our organi-
cation. Thus the fourteenth week be-
asame the third best week of the
e{Irive. The best was the thirteenth
atgeek with 1919 new members. The
t'econd best was the tenth week with
8e6 new members.
BY request Of our districts, the cam
paign will continue two
more weeks. .<aAAkan
The fourteenth week &SSSNS
found all sections &C s9sSc1It-sS g1S
tive nd productive. AyS&--4fAA1Jse
Only the Youth Section s.sfSss s7S
fell down again and the Ffs
Roumanian Section was
very weak.
To overcome those weaknesses OF
the Order which the campaign
brought to light the National Ex-
ecutive Committee decided upon a
plan Of work for the coming six
months. In two parts, today and
next Monday, we will herewith pub
lish this plan.
Plan Of Work for the First Six
Months of 1884
].
The possibilities for the growth OF
our Order at this moment are ire
mendous. In the proletarian sections
of the bourgeois fraternal movement
a definite disintegration is evident
A mass flight of workers from these
organizations is taking place. This
fight is not merely caused by the
progressive inability of the workers ia
pay their dues, but also by their loss
OF confidence in these organization
The workers sense the class issues
involved in their need for benefits.
They begin to penetrate the deceptive
ritualism of bourgeois fraternalism
They learn to recognize it as an
empty substitute for a needed work
erS policy
This manifestation Of increasing
rehabilitation of the masses of work
ers in the American bourgeois fra
ternal movement presents the Order
with rapidly growing opportunities as
WILL &c HAblA Aul4CDs lllC AJLOCI IldG
the opportunity to build itself into
broad mass organization with hun
dreos of thousands Of members. The
Order has the duty TO avail itself OF
this opportunity to make efforts to
organize these thousands and to draw
them into a practice of proletarian
fraternalism through this practice
working class interests are fixed in
their minds and thus their RADICAL
zation gradually and progressively
takes the form of proletarian con-
sciousness.
II our International Workers Order
wants to meet this situation and ac-
cohplish its tasks, it must systematic
and plan the life and activities in the
branches and in the leading COM
qSeStees Of the Order This planning
tAssiat-s consider the immediate possibi-
lities and must aim at eliminating
the weaknesses which hinder us in
the utilization Of the possibilities.
The first of these weaknesses is lack
Of political life in the Order This
weakness grows out of the failure OF
the Order TO this date to find its
place in the class struggle. It's poll
teal life and activity are not rooted
in its own purpose; they are not
planned; they are only the Orders
reactions to the echo of the struggles
and activities Of other organizations
This unsystematic and painless class
struggle activity must be replaced by
purposeful planning and organizing
its political life This life must be
organized in the form of sustained
propaganda agitation and action on
the following fundamental class
struggle tasks of the Order.
I'd To teach its members that pro-
letarian frate-nahsm is an effort to
solve one Of those immediate prob
lens Of the workers which inevitably
arise from capitalist exploitation.
% To demonstrate to its men,
hers that the most important pre-
condition to the solution of this r(,ob-
lem is proletarian solidarity against
the capitalist class.
90 To show it's members and the
workers in general that the economic
Insecurity Of the workers, the base
Of their need for mutual benefits, is
a social problem requiring a social
remedy, and that the most immediate