The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-28
|, ", o. Executive Committee Calls
For Third National Convention

year 1885 to at least 100000 mem
bers.
The Convention must also discuss
and provide plans for the solution
of the problem of the inner life and
the activities of our various
branches. To fulfill its avewed
purpose of developing closer unity
and workers solidarity among its
members, our Order must increase
and improve its educational and
cultural activities.
To devise methods of doing this
will be the major problem of the
Convention.
This Convention must orientate
our Order consciously toward the
increase of the membership in the
existing branches. 1t must find
ways to establish closer organiza-
tional ties between the language
groups on a national and especially
on local basis. More collective
efforts must be developed between
all sections of the Order in every
locality. The City Central Commit
tees in composition and in function
must be made real leading bodies
of the local organizations of our
Order.
The Convention must define con-
cretely the tasks of our Order in
the class struggle, so that it may
most effectively fulfill its role as
a proletarian fraternal benefit Or
ganization. A minimum accom-
plishment of these tasks must be
fixed by the Convention for the
sections and the city organizations
of the Order.
Another important problem be-
fore the Convention is the estab-
lishment of clearer understanding
on the part of all sections and of
the membership Of the Order of the
Importance and the needs of our
youth section; We must crystalline
out of such a clearer understand
ing a definite plan and material
help for the establishment of youth
centers and for the development OF
leadership for the youth section in
the fields of education, sports and
other endeaVors.
The Convention must also dis
euss further plans for the struggle
for social and unemployment insur-
ance, and for the support of Social
and Unemployment Insurance Bill
H.R. 1927.
The actual growth of formidable
fraternal united front in most OF
the important eenters of the ceun-
try and the development of ma
tionaI united front of fraternal or
CARNATIONS for the support of this
Bill put before the International
Workers Order special duty; it
must become the cost active part OF
this united front and thus make it.
self the driving and leading force
within 1t. To accomplish this duty
the Convention must work cut care
full plans and must mobilize the sec
tiens and branches through the
Convention delegates for intensive
action.
Representation to the Convention
Is based ON the numerical strength
of the branches. Every branch with
rs members or major fraction
thereof is entitled to delegate.
Branches must have at least 50
members by January to be en-
titled to one delegate. In accord
anee with Constitutional provisions,
branches up to 35 members have no
delegate. Branches from IS to 112
m m bers have one delegate,
Branches from 113 to 1877 have two
delegates, Branches from 1873 to 262
have three delegates. Branches from
1853 to 337 have four delegates, and
so on in the same ratio.
BY provision of the Constitution,
new branches organized after Jan
uary l will be entitled to full
fiedged delegate if they reach IS
members or more by April 1.
Comrades: To make this anniver-
sary Convention of our Order a sue
cess we must assure the fullest rep
resentation of the membership. The
Convention must become the ref1ee-
ton of the will and spirit of the
membership. The delegations to the
Convention, in turn, must bring
back to their branches reflection
of the will and spirit of the Con-
vention. Therefore the National Elk
ecutiye Committee decided that any
Branch that did not have 35 mem
bers on January 1st and would or
dinarily not be entitled to dele
gate, will be allowed full-dedged