The Daily Worker Newspaper, June 12, 1926, Page 12

tae ttesf By FLORENCE PARKER. RS. JACK SMITH was one of the women who can truthfully be de- scribed as splendid in the general strike. From the very first minute she came out four square behind her man and behind her class. It was not Mrs. Jack Smith of whom the capitalist papers wrote so gleefully that the women were urging their men to stay at work. No, she remembered early, on May Day even, the advice of Mar- garet Bondfield and Lord Nelson and determined that chief duty during the strike, if it came, was not at the cooking stove. And it didn’t end at tying red rib- bons on the children, either. ’ Mrs. Jack Smith turned up every morning early at the rooms of the strike committee; she attended strike meetings, where she sold copies of the strike bulletins; she sang fervently at concerts and she lectured all and sun- dry on the justness of the strikers’ cause. She became more and more rabid as the days went by. Her hus- band was amazed and rather proud. Her children sat thru the long hours at school and listened to the shameful anti-strike propaganda of their “im- partial” teacher, secure in the know!l- edge that tonight, long after they ought to have been in bed, they would be taking part in a concert round at Trying to Win the Women r thas become a commonplace to say that the working class women are a tremendous factor in modern social, economic and political life. They are playing a large part in in- dustry. They are slowly entering the trade unions. And they are also be coming an influence in politics. As usual yin’ country, the first to realize and to utilize this factor in their interets were the capitalists. They spared neither money nor effort to win the women for capitalism. In this they were ably assisted by the church, the newspapers, the schools, etc, Society Women Patronizing Their “Poor Sisters. We you see the rich, so-called society women taking pains to help the women of the “lower” classes you mast understand the reason. These rich matrons are just as fully class conscious as their men. They understand how vitally important it is for the maintenance of capitalist rule to secure the allegiance and support of the working girl and working wo- man for the capitalist parties and leadership. The working girl and working wo- Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the president, laying the cornerstone of new Y. W. C. A. building in Washington, D, C. ~ Mrs. Smith Helps Out! By Rose Pastor Stokes the strike committee’s room. * * * * . Bread and dripping sandwiches served up to the strains of the Red Flag were the staple diet of the Smith family during the strike. A revolution also took place—a nice, peaceful one with no bloodshed or fir- ing of guns—when Mrs. Jack Smith announced that for the duration of the strike, and possibly after the armis- tice, each member of the family was expected to share in the household duties. “I have something more important to do,” she said, thus showing how man can vote. They know how to fight as is being splendidly demon- strated in the textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey. They are intelligent, en- ergetic and therefore of incalculable value to the struggles of their sweet- hearts, husbands, fathers and broth- ers, Mrs, Coolidge Helptvig the Cause. M*: Coolidge is helping her huband who is helping the capitalists against the workers. That’s why you see Mrs. Coolidge on this picture lay- ing the cornerstone of a new building for the Young Women’s Christian As- sociation in Washington, D. C. Why is she doing it? Because the Y. W. C. A. has become the center of capitalist education and training for large numbers of working girls. Be- cause there a whole system is being applied to corrupt the minds and hearts of these young girls with re- spect and devotion to the existing capitalist order. In short, it is because the Y. W. C. A. and similar institutions are try- ing to win the working girls away from their class, that Mrs. Coolidge and other capitalist women are “exert- ing” themselves in favor of these in- stitutions. completely the “red terrox” had got her In its clutches, The height of Mra, Jack Smith's trlumph—or shame, as it might be called by some!—came on the evening of the strike concert, She had for some time past been sure that the vicar was “mot sound about the strike.’ Then he had lent the recreation room to the strike com- mittee and she felt a little mean about her former suspicions, till at the end of the concert he announced that he could not allow the Red Flag to be sung. The chairman looked nervous, the audience was flabbergasted, and the vicar was revealed as decidedly un- sound about the strike. But nothing could hold Mrs. Jack Smith back in these days. The strike was, to some extent, the personal possession of the Smiths and their mates. Its progress must be ensured at all costs and nothing must be done to detract from its fair name. And why shouldn’t the Red Mag be sung? Mrs. Smith was, it must be admitted, rather an extremist about the sort of song she sung at the end of meetings, At the same time she had a lady-like sense that the vicar was the “host” since it was, presumably, his room. Up she sprang, rather pink and nervous, but quite determined. Her shrill voice carried quite well and she was heartily cheered when she said: “All right, we won’t sing the Red Flag, but what’s wrong with the al ternationale?” > * os * ‘Smith and the strike concert. powers that be. STOCKINGS $322 A PAIR Ps 7 WORK HARD Smite — CONTINUALLY AND ~~ ———o THE TINY That is the true story about Mrs. You see what had happened to her. She had simply lost all respect for the She was part of the What One Woman Did in the Great British Strike simply cannot say how far a the family bible and. a general strike woman Not she! She was always bothering people. abort their trade union membership. Her shopping, suchas it was, she took to the Co-op. even tho there was other stores nearer at hand. Stupidity. By JOHN B. CHAPPLE. Legs, legs, legs, A city of silken legs, And a city of windows of food, And a city of human bugs That think that the only good Is in legs, legs, legs, And in food, food, food. While the masters chuckle in glee At what the bugs fail to see. SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT SHOES ES SSA PAR - WORKER. A Weekly Edited by Jonny Red Vol. I. 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