The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-19
BY MAX BEDACHT

Ou6 Phase OF the WOrk OF U1e In
ternational Workers Order in the
coming months is to win trade and
industrial unions to affiliate their
membership with our Order. This Is
not only an effort to build the Order,
it is also method of class education
of our membership.
In the course of this work we must
first OF all discuss in our branches the
Importance Of trade union organiza-
ton and struggle for our workers
fraternal organizations. The task OF
our Order is not only to aid the work.
ers in case Of sickness, disability or
death: we must also help them to
maintain their health, their limbs and
their lives. The struggle for indus
trial and social hygiene is therefore
an important task of our Interna
tional Workers Order.
1t is impossible to accomplish this
task without strong, fighting union
movement. Only fighting unions can
achieve and maintain wage scale
which guarantees q healthy living
standard. Only fighting unions can
force the installing OF health and
safety devices in the shops, mines and
factories. Only with the help Of
fighting unions can we achieve i'm
proYements in Industrial and social
hygiene.
These facts must be understood by
our members We must make them
understood by means of an intensive
2ganda campaign. When our
members do understand them, they
will become active trade union It's;
our I. w. o. branches will then be-
come a force in the building of
fighting trade unions.
1. w. o. Must Cooperate with Unions
The fighting trade unions, in turn,
must be made to see a valuable ally
in our workers frate-n9l Order. The
mutual aid service of our Order can
be made an element of stability for
the unions. A trade union which
offers its membership a measure of
insurance is an attraction even to
more unde7eloped workers. It is an
attraction, not bait. A measure of
mutual aid Is contribution to the
solution Of one Of these problems
which make the workers organize ard
fight. A mutual aid feature of e
union makes the workers see in it an
organ cation which really tries to
solve the problems of the workers.
The institution of mutual aid fea-
lures in union requires the coopera-
ton of the union and the workers
mutual aid organization The union
can not organize mutual aid features
itself, without endangering its own
fighting quality; but it can agree to
get mutual aid services from our
International Workers Order,
Our Options tai and TAI sup
ply the base for such mutual CO.
operation of fighting unions with our
proleterian fraternal Order. To
establish this cooperation is our I'M
mediate task.
/ In this work We must approach all
unions. This effort raises very i'm
| pcrtant class struggle issues. We
must try to raise them in all unions
Thus we viii build our Order, we will
/ bN1AA bAiC ullOl1 anu NC Will OSNC1OE
better understanding among our
members of the meaning OF proIe-
tartan fraternalism.
Furniture Workers Industrial Union
Acts
On February 9-10-11-12, delegates
of local unions Of the Furniture
Workers Industrial Union met In
convention in New York City.
This convention took up the problem
Of mutual aid to the members of the
union. It found that the provisions
Of cur ia Options present welcome
base for mutual aid features of their
union.
The convention decided:
/. To recommend to all it's 1ocal
unions to affiliate their eligible mem
bers to the l. w. o. on one or the
other Of the proposed options.
2. To instruct the National Execu-
tive Committee Of tie Union tc
establish mutual committee with
representatives from the I. w. O., fol
the carrying through of an effective
propaganda and organization cam
paign for this affiliation.
Now it Is up to our branches and
City Central Committees in IL cities
where locals of the F. w. I. U. exist
to organize an intensive campaign fol
the afaliation Of every possible mem
Der Of that union with the !. w. o.