The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 30, 1931, Page 3

& DAILY ¥ WORKER, NEW ieee SATURDAY, MAY 3U, 1931 a . Page Turse RESPONSE IMPROVES, BUT STILL BELOW NEEDED SUM Contributions Wednesday showed an improvement, with $767.26—more | than twice as much as the day before—received in the $35,000 campaign to | save the Daily Worker. But a much better response, especially outside the New York District, will be necessary if the $1,000 (and more) a day is to be raised. In the list of contributions printed in Wednesday's issue, two dona- tions were inadvertently omitted: $5 from A. Lewis, Beacon, N. ¥., andj $150 from the Chicago district. ‘| Wednesday’s contributions follow: OVER 45 [Block Committees Lay Firm Base for Southern Scottsboro Conference By MICHAEL « O'REILLY He was resting on a park bench, He knew he was growing old, Because when he asked for work “We want young men”, he was told. Ha was in the bread line And dodged traffic on the wide Cold street to get there on time. The west wind from the Hudson Chilled the tired wotker. Much depressed and so benign, At last he reached the kitchen 0) Michigan mines. | Dist 1 - Johnson, ‘Webster, Ma: $1.00 | gee g Unit 2 30,00 | And grasped a bowl of soup ist 2 é, Mining. Pioneer Group leaving Kotler Bee 5, Beg 5, unit § 2.58 | With trembling hand. 1 { USSR on SS Deutschland 11.00 | S209," unit is30| ae } George, Backlund, NY 3:00 eee Unit 38 ayer | hy bedy ‘weeken | John F Murtha, NY C 5.00 | 6510, Elizabeth, N'J, Unit 6.90 | Ami tet vein he tried. to stand. | eeeeeee gen'e eit's0 canta aly cade” AO ee ae eae. ee ee aaeene. COW. ; “50 | Sec 2, Unit C i urs Fos A Shavie, Newatl, NJ 200 fee Bont is it jinplanrycel ala New York G Warren Newark, N J 1.00 | Seo 2° Unit 22 178 | That black N her da: 1, Sandes, Jersey (Clty, NI 2-00 | Sec 8, Unit 5. 715 | The fbi. és e| t, N . e I 8 Hangn, Hicksville, Lr 2.00 | Bart, Sec 1, Unit 6 pre Buick Firi M Were: Pin. 8 »{puick Firing Many 7 09 | M_Fralick, Philadelphia, Pa = 1. 5 Sun REe esa, wx 1393] Exonenbere: Allentown, ee” kt] In Flint; Wage Cuts , -60 | Morrisa, Bethlehem, Pa ; * plex Sens ceceytown, NS 200 | Lu Ingber, Baltimore, Ma 1.00| FLINT, Mich, May 29—All the F Hnukowski, Tarrytown, NY 2.00 ae ouee Bill Rotary, Tarrytown, N.Y. 2.50 Dist 4 factories here are running part itme. pone Ne 14:90 | Rochester Sec Chae 20,00|'The workers are being speeded up. 150 a Those who can’t keep up are fired. Anna Baye, W. Cahleston, W Ba 1.00 5.00 | A Worker, Columbus, 0 ho, hdd | The Bulck plant is laying off thou- “49 | Diana Ginsburg Toledo, Ohto 500 | Br 608, LWO, Rock Island, 11 sends, Mysry” day “crowds, can he , £00 | _ affair ‘ 30.00 | Seen at the gates begging for jobs. 2.50 Erick Krone, Moline, ill 1.00 18.00 John Evans, ‘Moline, fil 1.00 "29 | Ee Bemar Moline, ‘1 I, soctety, 120 | UD, Womens Federation, 25 | Br 37, Slovak Workers’ Society, 5. sa Ae eee 1 19:00 | Cleveland, Ohio 5.00 | Nucleus 504, Farewell Party, F Sec enn eva aes 8.50 Te nae © bond ROE e ino 5. e 7 Sec 1, Unit 4 13.25 ‘ Zeliman, Dintown Workers Club 50.00 | Steve Colteren Detrott, Mich 26.00) + WO John Eeed Branch 10 AV CHIRE AE SHE OL ND ay NG We: 5 15 | Casil wike, Ohickgo x SI) 1.00] J Beeson, Chicago 2.00 See 10, Umit ad 11°75 | Miles F Ostren, W Franktort, | Wayne Beck, Salem, Ohto 1.00 Hill, Seo Workete: Youth. Club. wo Total 31:00 | Oscar Summ, Danville, 111 1.00 DoeEioh; at panty ee eb Dist 10 A Spaulding, Cleveland, Ohio 10.00 | secs, Unit 3, Hompstend, LX inso | Kansas City PE ae aon Keates Citra oe OSs asthe i off, a x Seas "Seo 1, Unit 6 iio SAR lias St Tage eee ted heres id BY p; y nan. | o Teo stele Sor Brookten ET pate Dist 19 J Marthalr, Cleveland, O 3.00 L Deturth. N YC “39 | A. Gratms, Denvér, Colo 2.00] Jane Tyler, Cleveland, 'o 13.75 PP 1428 Total,’ all districts | § 167.36 Krilloft Cleveland, 9 5.00 petite ¥ jously receive: 166.1 ‘on, eve | Bee ae ia pianreed A Carr, Cleveland, 0 1.50 Sec 8, Unit 3 Pa Total, to date $2,084.12 R aR ch, Cleveland, O 20.00 League, Cleveland 8.00 Again a little spurt on Thursday brought the figures for the day in Ty © Branch 124, Cleveland ante ako, Cleveland ‘| the campaign to save the Daily Worker to $800.99—the best so far, but Freineit Gehatee Verein, still far below the $1,200 a day that is needed from now on. For the first} Cleveland 16.50 time District 2 (New York) must yield first place for the day to District 6| ¥ {Cleveland | ac | (Cleveland), which contributed $369. And for the first time District 12: Riser Nase be aaa 50 rajan, evelan 50 | (Seattle) breaks its long silence with a contribution of $48.17. But that, Dotlich, Glevetann 30 | still leaves three districts to be heard from—not a red cent since the drive i Akmes, aaee eland +50 . t er, levelan: -25, | started from District 5 (Pittsburgh), 13 (California) and 18 (Butte)! ‘A Drane, Canton, Ohio “oR The contributions follow: Z, Balurice, iyeiand +25 Dist utlesa, levelan 25. . Prajeac, Cleveland 250 lr J Ponels Newtown, Mass 2.00 | Remert, ote 100 | Madeedic Cleveiona ae jPeter Dimetrin, N'Y C §.00| Leeds, eo 1, Unit 9 $00 Biase Workers Society, ‘Alkron, bake 5.00] H Casten, Brooklyn . is Mankin, NYC 2:00 | John J. Keen, Sec 22, Unit 2 1,00 | B Gerjoy, Cleveland 20. i hoon tae S00t B00 Unit 2.00 | gent, Separian, Metin, X00 Seter Sane: Poughkeepsie, NY 2 00 Roumanian Workers Club,, NYC 7.75 tick Loukatos, N ¥ C 1.00 | Helfgot, Sec 2) 30.90 ee ee, 1, N Y¥ 1.00 | K Luizker, Sec 9, Un! 3.00" erry Destounis, N ¥ C ‘50 | F Lyons, Brooklyn, N ¥ i ‘i 20.00 eee, $0 | Sec Unit 10 12.6) | Peter Makidon, Coll at wedding G Paleotogis, N YC ‘50 | Seo 8) Unit 3 S80 ee eee nee G Gatiimoudu NYC 125 John’ Juna, ure a8? Foreign Born, Kenosha, ire flawes, N ¥_C 125 | Ryba, Sec i, Uni : : Irving Surman, Brooklyn 2.00] Seo 1, Unit’ 3 16.00 Aver Brooklyn 2.00 | Seo 1, Unit 12 £00 pit Total 81.15 fancy prankel, Scarsdale, NY 5,00 ‘unterman, 5 \Dr M Mislig, NYC 3!00 | Workers of James S Duncan CW ater ga Maukenae. Monroe Phitfips, “Brong, NY 400] Millinery Shop 7.00 1.00 Golos, Sec 1, Unit 2 5,00 NORE ur Pe Kanfer Sec 7, ‘Unit 2 13,00 Total 322.42 | Abe Oxeransky, Portiand, Ore 4:17 bake 5 pen dir maces meeting ir Pavia NY C eS ahaa Seattle District 30.00 Htarmers'see ®,Conite 1 a 2 1298 | ECharson, Baltimore, sa 1.00| A comrade, Juneau, Alaska 10.00 Halpern, Sec'5, Unit 13 13.50] Geo Chaiki, Trenton, N J 1.00 1 Greco, See 4, Unit 5 280 Pa Dist sissonepitae |Mavin, Sec 5, Unit 18 1.50. |W Wnite, Ny c 5.00 Dist pete Tom anaes $500.88 [Alott, See aunts : $.50 | Lithuanian Fraction, © P, Cht~ Previously received 2,934.12 10.00 Gomberg, Sec 5, Unit 20 | | } cago 100.00 Polasek, Chicago 6.60 Total, to date 3,738%1 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) and have started agitation in those organizations for support of the con- ference. Comrade Amis, president of the League of Struggle for Negro Rights, arrived here a few days ago to rep- resent the national committee of the L. S. N. R. at Sunday’s conference. He spoke last night in the New Bap- tist Church, and was given a tre- mendous ovation by the membership. He completely won the membership of the church to support the confer- ence and they expressed the inten- tion to abandon the usual Sunday services to attend the conference. They elected two delegates as well. At a packed meeting of a local L. S. N. R. group, the fight to save the boys was heartily endorsed, the local group pledging itself to support the program of the L. S. N. R. Mrs. Barnett, a young woman worker was elected secretary of the local L. S. N. R. group. Mrs. Barnett is very energetic and shows a keen under- standing of the Scottsboro campaign. Many open air meetings are being held in Scottsboro today and Satur- day in final preparation for the con- ference. The established block com- mittees are actively participating in the ofrmation of extensive new neighborhood groups, thus creating a broad mass movement of rank and file workers. All of the parents and relatives of the nine Scottsboro defendants will be present at the conference in the building of which they have given the greatest support. Four thousand fund appeals have been signed by the parents and near- est relatives of the boys and are be- ing sent throughout the south by the Southern headquarters of the inter- national Labor Defense. Government Admits Wage Cuts Grow; Strike Against Them (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) you have to buy a Ford car, and pay for it week by week out of your wages, Pe ae Mining Co. Cuts, Calumet & Hecla main office has announced cuts for all workers in its This company is the operator in the copper mining fields there. On June 15 there is a ten per cent cut for all miners get- ting $3.25 a day or over. The three shafts of the Oceola Lode branch are to be shut down altogether. Strike Against Cut. BAYONNE, N. J., May 29.—The workers of the American Radiator Co., who walked out on strike Tues- day against a wage cut, have re- fused at their last meeting to accept the company’s offer of a combined piece work and hourly pay basis by which htey would get less. Before they were employed by the hour. The Trade Union Unity League has circularized the plant with leaf- lets urging a strike against all wage cuts. This is the policy of the T. U. U. L. everywhere. .Elizabeth Workers Smash Pastor’s Attack:. Aid Scottsboro Case Elizabeth, N. J. Daily Worker, I was in the Baptist Church of Elizabeth where I asked permission to speak on the Scottsboro Oase. The pastor refused me the floor but after most of the church members de- ‘1 | manded that I be given the floor, he conceded. I spoke on the Scottsboro Case and succeeded in winning over the workers to send a telegram to the Governor:of Alabama. After the meeting I decided to have a personal talk with the Pastor, Reverent Colbress is his name. While speaking to him about his attitude towardes the nine negro boys, three women came over and offered to pay for the telegram. But the pastor still refused to take a united front attitude. A Negro Worker. Oakiand Barber College Use Jim Crow Methods OAKLAND, Cal.—Negro worker re- fused service of Mater Barber Col- lege (students college). Color line is drawn on patrons of shop because of race prejudice of the supervising barber on duty. Students are also cheated in marks grading their work. ‘They are using every technical means to keep them from passing the bar- bers examination, especially the Fi- lipino and Negro students of the shop. One Negro was held for more than a year and then failed to pass examination, after this long period of practical experience on the job in the schook. Such institutions drawing color lines should be exposed and workers of all races should fight race pre- judice. Worker. 1000 CLERKS LOSE INCREASE WASHINGTON, D. C. May 29.— A thousand post-office clerks have been denied their regular seniority salary increase, by president Hoover. All that the tame “National Feder- ation of Post Office Clerks” does is to write a mild protest to Hoover. PROTEST MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS To Hit Scottsboro and Local Terror INDIANAPOLIS, May 29.—The vi- cious sentence given Theodore Lu- esee, secretary of the State Unem- ployment Insurance Commtitee, has roused hundreds of workers in the city against this capitalist outrage. Everywhere the workers are talk- ing about their leader, Luesse, and one hears the talk that the workers will not rest, but will carry on the fight as Luesse has started. The sentence was given by Judge Baker, who it is well known is after a job in the Supreme Court, and who finds the best way to serve his masters is by sentencing the brave leader of the workers to one year and $500 fine. The sentence was given because Luesse fough tagainst the eviction of a Negro worker and the bosses are scared not only of the growing struggles of the work- ers but especially of the growing unity of Negro and white workers. A mass protest meeting 1s called for Thursday night, June 4 at the huge Workers Center at 932% S. Meridian. At this meeting Richard B. Moore will speak and the work- ers present will protest in one voice the attempt to legally lynch the Scottsboro boys and the savage sen- tence of Luesse. On Friday, June 5, at Odd Fellows Hall, 53614 Indiana, the United Front Conference will be held. On Sat- urday, June 6, a demonstration and parade will start at 3 o’clock at 13th and Senate against the Scottsboro frame-up and the attack on Luesse, leader of the unemployed of Indiana. PROTEST ARRESTS IN MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 26.— Mass protest meeting was held in Ely, Minn., last Sunday May 24th to pro- test against the Steel Trust police terror. Five workers were arrested at the meeting last Friday night. Over 1000 workers gathered at the same street corner where Comrades Morris Karson, Section Organizer of the Communist Party, A. Hallberg Sec- tion Organizer Y. C. L. and three others were arrested. Steel Trust po- lice butted in and asked the workers to move to the workers hall, outside of the hall workers held a meeting in spite of the fact the police tried to force the crowd to go into the hall. After this outdoor mass meeting the organizational meeting was held in the workers hall. International Labor Defense Dis- trict Organization sent protest tele- gram to Mayor Trezona of Ely de- manding immediate and uncondi- tional relase of the workers arrested. Workers organizations in Mesaba Range and other parts of the Dis- trict are responding to the call of the I. L. Every District Behind in the ‘Daily’ Drive; 4 Send Nothing The figures for all the districts up to Wednesday night show not a single one has fulfilled the percentage of its quota that should have been raised by that time in the $35,000 campaign to save the Daily Worker, District 2 (New York) has the best showing, District 8 (Chicago) comes next. Four districts, 5 (Pittsburgh), 12 (Seattle), 13 (California) and 1% (Butte), had contributed nothing by Wednesday, while District 9 (Minne- sota) had sent in only $1. And where is District 7 (Detroit), which hast the third largest quota—only $29 sent in by Wednesday? Comrades, we'll never raise the $35,000 that way. Get on the job at once! (As of May 27, 1931) % of Amt. sub. Amt. that should to what should Amount have been sub- have been sub- Dist. Quotas Subscribed scribed to date scribed to date 1 $1,000 $ 18.62 $ 200 10% 2 10,000 1,716.51 2,000 85% 3 2,500 118.00 500 20% 4 1,000 21.00 200 10% 5 1,000 200 0% 6 2,250 « 90.59 450 20% 7 3,500 29.00 700 4% 8 4,200 379.00 840 40% 9 1,500 1,00 300 0% 10 7150 10.00 150 1% iL 100 5.00 20 20% 12 1,000 0.00 200 0% 13 2,000 0.00 400 0% 15 1,000 39.40 200 20% 16 100 1,00 20 5% it 150 3.00 30 10% 18 300 0.00 60 0% 19 1,000 2.00 200 2% $2,484.12 37,000 30% gemeeneraetermne re eernenan att meninennren ner ane eas nen nS Cut ont and mail at once to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St, New York SAVE THE DAILY $35,000 Save-The-Daily Worker Fund . Enclosed find .......... Dale ewadion ened dollars We pledge to do all in our power to save our Daily ‘by raising $35,000 by July 1. WORKMEN’S SICK AND DEATH BENEFIT FUN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ORGANIZED 1881—INCORPORATED 1899 Main Office: 714-716 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood Sta., Brooklyn, N. Y Over 61,000 Members in 348 Branches Reserves on December 31, 1929: $3,158,239.43 Benefits paid since its existence: Death Benefit: $4,399,910.97 Sic’ Benefit: $10,776,519.01 Total: $15,176,529.98 Workers! Protect Your Families! In Case of Sickness, Accident or Death! Death Benefit according to the age at the time of initiation 1n one or both classes: CLASS A: 40 cents per month—Death Benefit $355 at the age of 16 to $175 at the age of 44. CLASS B: 50 cents per month—Death Benefit $550 to $230. Parents may insure their children in case of death up to the age ef 18 Death Benefit according to age $20 to $200. Sick Beneft paid from the first day of filing the doctor's certificate, $9 and $15, respectively, per week, for the first forty weeks, half of the amount for another forty weks. Sick Benfits for women: for another forty weeks. For further information apply at the Main Office, William Spohr, Nattonal Secretary, or to the Financial Secretaries of the Branches. $9 per week for the first forty weeks: $4.50 each By R. SALTZMAN. International Workers Order was official- ly established March 31, 1931, but the Order was first organized and began to function the first of July. The first three months, April, “May and June were given towards the organ- izing of the central and local apparatus and ‘to examining thousands of members. We had to prepare the legal side of the Order, so that in the beginning of June, the National Office ; was first ready to send the bills to the branches a on the first of July we began to function and pay sick and death benefits. We are therefore justified in reckoning that at the time of the convention the Order will be }only 11 months old. What did we accomplish ‘in these 11 months? | We have in that short time organized 225 ‘branches which are found in 31 states and 80 cities with a membership nearing 12,000. This is a colossal achievement. We must not ‘forget that the International Workers’ Order was organized at a time of large unemployment, in the year of the economic crisis which has had no equal in the history of the United States. The depressing economic conditions in many cases prevented thousands of workers from joining our Order due to the fact that they did not have the dollar which is the re-' quired fee for a doctor’s examination. The extent to which the depression has af- fected the workers is shown by the fact that over 1,000 members of our Order have let them- selves be dropped from the membership be- cause they could not pay their bills and the Order did not have the chance to organize such apparatus in the branches which would be able ‘to lend the sum of the bill to those members. | Certain causes and mistakes that the National itive will reveal are the reasons for the not having reached the full quota of THE FIRST CONVENTION OF THE INCORPORATED however, in any way, minimize the importance of our accomplished work and our first suc- cesses, We have paid out in the period of 10 months, beginning with July, 1930, and ending with May Ast, 1931, the sum of $22,747.00 sick benefits and we still have in our reserve fund $51,571.43 We are stressing this fact not because we ‘want to point out how wealthy we are, but be- cause we want to point out that the Interna- tional Workers’ Order is fully able to accom- Plish iis task as a fraternal organization. In the first year we organized. medical de- partments in New York and in Chicago, which became miedical centers for our members. Lately we have also organized a dental department in New York. Here, we have also a specialists department. ‘The base of the International Workers’ Order is fraternal one. It functions as a mutual aid organization, which the American working class is so much in need of, However, the order is not concerned with its fraternal func- tions only, It tried to become and is now an important part of the revolutionary working class movement. Today already the Interna- tional Workers Order plays an important role in the working class movement. How did the Order in such a short time come to occupy such an important place in the work- ers’ movement? The manifesto, which the first convention published, declared that the International Workers’ Order is an integral part of the work- ing class movement and in that year the mem- bers, the branches and the leading sections haye by their activities shown that they are that which they professed to be. The Order has actively taken part in the mass struggles. Not only has the Order endorsed the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill, but the branches and the members have collected signatures for the bill, they have participated in the unemployed dem- onstrations and in the hunger marches. A large Portion of the branches and district commit- tees have participated in the,election cam- paign, led by the Communist Party. In a cer- tain measure the branches have participated in the anti-war demonstrations. In New York and in other centers the members of the Order were quite a large part of the May Day dem- onstration, We can say that we have not suf- ficinetly participated in these activities, that we could have taken a greater part in these struggles, that we could have drawn in more members, more branches. But on a whole, the Order has taken an active part in the class The Order has become an important instru- ment for the workers’ movement also finan- cially. The branches have collected nearly $7,000 for the Dressmakers’ strike. Nearly $5,000 for the central organ of the Communist Party, the Daily Worker, nearly $25,000 for the Jewish Daily Communist paper, the “Fretheit,” which became the organ of the International Workers’ only because the first convention en- but because it was the most important the process of building the Interna- tional 's’ Order. The branches have also participated in the campaigns of the’I. L. D., W. I. R., Icor and other important organizations which serve the working class. ‘The International Workers’ Order is coming to the convention with 80 children’s schools in Order, not dorsed it, factor in we active leaders in the Schools are also active in the Order. If the International Workers’ Order has not built the schools, it has strengthened them all over the country and has given them new per- spective, new power and new contacts. ‘Thanks to the International Workers’ Order ‘. we have been able to fulfill, after the convention of the schools an important task by carrying through the school tax, which enabled us to pub- lish some readers used for the New Project Method of education and which strengthened the ideology in the schools. The schools have become an important part of the International Workers’ Order. Through thé amalgamation we do not intend to shrivel the school movement, but rather to enlarge it as an important mass organization. The International Workers Order should become the base for the widening of the school movement. One of the most important problems for our Order is the problem of rebuilding the branches. The national executive through its district com- mittees has been carrying on an extensive cam- paign against the “Fraternalism” and we can note some important accomplishments in this task. An important accomplishment in our cultural work is the publishing of our monthly magazine “The Spark.” “The Spark” has really become an important factor in our work notwithstanding its shortcomings. There must be found a way to connect our official organ more closely with our organizational life. That will undoubtedly be done at this convention. We have done little work in drawing the wo- men into our Order. Only a beginning has been made here and there and we come to our con- vention with only four women’s branches. This is not enough. The problem of drawing in the working women into our organization is a very serious one. This beginning should teach us how to come with greater accomplishments to our coming conventions. One of our positive accomplishments is the fact that we have in the first year organized 16 youth branches and 31 other language branches, among which are found Italian, Ukrainian, Greek, Portuguese, Mexxican and other language branches. While it is true that the youth branches form only a small part of the 12,000 members—not even a thousand members—but the importance lies in the orientation of the National Executive, that the Order must be built as an International Workers’ Order, not only in name but in reality. We must therefore not for- get the important task of building non-Jewish branches, sections in other languages. Of his- torical importance is the work done to amalga- mate the fraternal movement. In the United States, the classical country of the fraternal movement, there are hundreds of fraternal organizations in various languages with millions of members. At certain periods bitter struggles in the fraternal movement arose, In a large number of organizations the struggle for a class ideology ensued, perhaps without a clear and concrete conscience by their members or by their leaders. All these struggles did not bring the proper results, mostly “pecause they were always localized. One part of the fraternal or- ganization, say the Jewish one, did not know anything about the Hungarian. The Hunga- rian did not know about the Latvin, Slavic, Rus- sian, etc. Each part was for itself and the result was that they could not mean much for the revolutionary workers’ movement, and they did not and could not play an important part in the class struggle in this country. ‘ The first convention of the International Workers’ Order called for the amalgamation of the fraternal organizations and here also we have shown that slogans are not enough. We carried on extensive propaganda, brought the problem before the other fraternal organiza- tions and so we are now able to report to this present convention that the Hungarian Sick So- ciety has unanimously, at their convention, de- cided to accept our recommendation for amlga- mation with the International Workers’ Order. This problem of amalgamation is now before the Slovac Workers’ Society and the Russian Sick Society. Both organizations expect to have their International Workers Order conventions in September and it is almost cer= tain that they too will accept our recommenda- tion for amalgamation and to the coming con- vention we will have a united fraternal class or= ganization which will consist not only of these four sections, but of new sections which will be organized in the process of building the Inter- national Workers’ Order. Considering the total of our accomplished work, we must say that the International Workers Order has in the first year of its existence ac- complished positive results and has rooted itself firmly in the ground. We come with a record of work which we must not minimize. ‘This year’s work shows us that in general, the line of work of the International Workers’ Order wis correct. We have had mistakes here and there, In certain fields we have not done as much as we would have liked to. We did not develop new leaders in the branches, city and district committees, and the national organiza- tion. In this respect we are very much behind. We have not fashioned new methods of work in our organizational work. We have still not been able to combine our campaigns with the cam- paigns of the workers’ movement, although we have made much progress in this respect. When we compare the accomplished work with the unaccomplished work, we must declare that the first year of work has shown that the Interna- tional Workers’ Order is on the way to a large. mass organization. At a time when the general fraternal movement is going backwards we have favorable perspective for our Order. The first convention of the International Workers’ Order will accept the general correct line, in the light of a constructive self-criticism, abolish the drawbacks in our work, reveal the weak points and strengthen our position for a united Class Order in the fraternal movement in this country.