The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 3, 1928, Page 6

Page Six THE DAILY WOR KER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928 Women Worker Correspondents Tell of Foul Conditions, First Walk-Out DRESSING ROOM I$ NEVER SWEPT: SINK 1S FILTHY Demand Sanitation in Shop (By 2 Woman Wo : Before t furriers w they wor' urdays only. Th member when ing a union At tha ona Tue a day off. the we objected earlier workers “What can we do? in That day we worked the press end the ganized.” About a year later, all the workers to a of the victims of thi - The boss said it was too busy to let as take the afternoon off. We all went out for lunch and decided not | to return to the shop but to go to| the funeral. The next morning when we came} to work, the boss told us that he did not like the idea of our staying out the day before. Our answer was: “The only thing you can do is either take off the half day’s pay or dis- charge us.” Because of the fact that he saw we were united, he did not dare to discharge LE. A GREENBERG, A Woman Worker. SOVIET WOMEN Y SEND GREETINGS Urge Struggle Agains ". U.S. Capitalism (From *he Working Women of the Sasnensky Textile Factory.) ar Comra women workers of the Sosnen- tile Factory send you greetin and w you nm your struggle with capita Do not stop before any diffi jes that may come in your wa; -ember, only through class strug- @7’+ will the working cl free itself or i In the past days when we were Struggling with the blackest of re- actions that ever existed, we did not stop before hunger, poverty and per- Secution il we finally came out the victo to Help the most imperial- In: your le against feactionary and ists of the world, we are ready to help you, not only morally but even materially, if need be, as we helped eur fellow workers Germany in the miners’ strike. Comrades, only ten years ago we jwere under the yoke of moral and ‘material inequality as you are now. but the October Revolution has freed vs, and now we are in every respect on the same level with.men. To- gether with men we are building new homes, new factories, new mills and @ new life. Our children are grov ing in a new sosiety and this will} make of them healthy, strong and free men and women, fit to build a Communist Society. Working women of America, we| must remind you that the imperial- ists of your country, together with the imperialists, of other countries “re preparing fo attack and destroy the only Workers’ Republic of the World. The existence of the Soviet Union interferes with the murderous factions of imperialists of the world. Pledged to Defend The representatives of the work- 's of the world, gathered in Mos- ow, have pledged themselves to de- fend to the very last drop of blood ‘the only Workers’ Republic of the World. }) We want you, the American ‘women, to join in this pledge and prevent your husbands and sons from attacking the only Workers’ Republic cf the World. + Corrade Kate Gitlow has en our vow life and will no doubt tell you) nt it. ear Comrades, accept the hearti- reetings of the Novo Vornisensky oletarian Wonien, Tong live the, solidarity scorkers of the Avorld! Long live the world revolution! of the Signed: Lushkova, Vivernikova, Wopugova, Lavrentiva, Borodulina, Yaroshina, Illinena, Baranova, Ego- ¥ina, Shikinia, Stepanova, McKishova. } SUES MAYOR THOMPSON. _ CHICAGO, March 2.—William Mc- Andrew, ousted Superintendent of Schools, today filed suit in the Su- perior Court here for damages of $250,000 against Mayor Hale Thomp- son, who charged McAndrew with fostering pro-British litegature in schools. + We are not or-| our | American Working Women’s Leaders in East and West Left to right: Anna David, known Workers Party speaker in women’s leader. prominent leader of Pennsylvania mine fields; Ray Chicago industrial workers; Ragozin, WOMEN FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE IN LABOR STRUGGLE Women Emerging From Backwardness (Continued from Page One) of the working class are beginning to understand that the struggle of the men workers is their struggle as swell. There has hardly been a single workers’ struggle in which the women have not taken part. Tha class-conscious working wo- men, together with the most advanced section of the working men, under great difficulties, have organized working women into labor unions These militant working women have |proven that the working woman can Rebecca Grecht, well- active New York working (Continued from Page One) Socialist Soviet Republics. Led by the Communist Party, the proletarian state power pursues the aim of tho- rough economic reorganization, as well as gradual development of all social forms of life and institu- tions towards Socialism. The Soviet] Union is the only country where the full social and political emanci- pation of working women is an es- tablished fact. But most important is—not legal recognition of women’s |complete equality with men, but rather abolition of all exploitation and enslavement of man by man. Entirely opposed to the theory and practice of the workers’ state is the \leading motive of State power in bourgeois countries where exploita- tion of the working majority of the} | population by the propertied minority | guaranteed. In these countries the te of the working women masses— xploitation and oppression—remains | junchanged even if their equality} | with men has been jrecognized by |law, for it is the equality of a woman |slave. with a man slave, over whom \the capitalist master swings his | whip. More terrible still is the fate of} e working women masses in col-} al and semi-colonial countries. There, imperialist capitalism is mak- | ing full use of obsolete and_ social | domination | |forms, unlimited brutal of man over woman, prejudices, tra- |titions and religious rules, which en- |slave women, to submit its women| wage slaves to inhuman exploitation. | | One cannot think without a shudder} |heroie revolutionary action. Clara Zetkin Outlines Tasks of | Working Class Women of World olutionists work for a better social) world will always be a glorious page) in the history of mankind. Heroic,! self-sacrificing women stood on the} barricades in the Red October days and worked and struggled also for the revolution behind the barricades, doing thereby their bit for the glor- ious victory. Their participation in the development of the Soviet Union towards Socialism exacts the same self-sacrifice and steady courage un- der the existing difficulties and per- ils. In this sphere too, they show every | day that they know what revolution-j} ary duty means. They receive equal- ity of rights not as a generous gift, they win it through their efforts to achieve the Communist social ideal as the creative power of new social forms of life. The passionate endeavor of women Communists to awaken women in the Eastern Republics to a realization of their human dignity and rights is| These Eastern women, living-as-they do un- der backward economic and social con- ditions, under the yoke of the Eastern conception of women as men’s prop- erty, and tied by ancient traditions and religious rules, are the most dis- possessed among all the dispossessed, the most enslaved among all enslaved. But low and behold, they too have been set in motion by the thunder and lightning of the proletarian re- volution. Women Communists have brought them the evangel of their equality in the Soviet state. Through in England and lof the conditions in. which women stubborn struggle between the old and and their children—little mites 5-6|the new, an ideological revolution is years old—have to fend for them-|taking place concerning world con- \selves in the factories of China. Not|cePtion and forms of life. The legis- | much better is the position of women) lative and leading Soviet organs en- lin India who have to work in fac-|Courage this revolution by effective | tories, mines and plantations under| economic and social measures through the rule of Christian Great Britain.|which man’s predominating position Wherever working women are look-|is abolished and women become men’s jing, on their great day of reckoning,| equals in every walk of life. In the} hey cannot help realizing that world|eastern republics of the Soviet Union be organized into laber unions. The capitalists, in their renewed at- tack upon organized labor, look to- ward the women workers as a great help in their campaign of smashing the labor unions. The officials of the American Federation of Labor do not care to organize the working women. If this indifference will continue, proletarian and petty-bourgeois then, of course, the tremendous sup- housewives’ organizations for sex- ply of women’s cheap labor will break equality. |the labor unions. The Communists the world over are ning of working women’s defensive helping the working class and peas- against the unbearable misery result- ant women to lift themselves out of ing from capitalist exploitation and the morass of ignorance, persecution oppression. On thé International 2d prejudices in which they have Communist Women’s Day, the big been sunk for centuries. reckoning with the social world and The greatest accomplishment of the with women’s own actions in the Communist work can be seen in Soviet struggle against the present misery Russia where the workers have over- and destitution must take the form thrown the czar’s government and of more energetic struggle in this their own capitalists and established direction. More must be done: On the workers’ dictatorship. The Com- this day women’s will to defend them- munists in Soviet Russia have proven, selves must be transformed into wom-| by their living example, that the en’s will to take up the offensive | Working and peasant women can be against bourgeois profiteering and made to understand and to take re- class domination. | sponsibility as class-conscious work- On March 8th, working women’s | °TS- i will to defend themselves must be| The Workers (Communist) Party linked up with their will to take up | of America stands ready to assist the theoffensive, and this must find ex-| working class women in their en- pression in mighty demonstrations. |deavor to carry through the task of At the present juncture it is the fore- | most duty of proletarian women, of all women crushed and exploited by capitalism, to establish a Red united front against the imperialist war- mongers. “Hands Off the Revolu- tionary Workers and Peasants of China!” must be the slogan thrown into the face of the imperialists by working women’s united forces thru- out the world. No political and econ- | omic encirclement, no blockade of the | Soviet Union, no armed attack on it! | The words of protest must be backed by will to act, by preparation of deeds capable of securing peace. Working women must help the present mass movements and mass rebellions to} tear power out of the hands of the imperialists. The imperialists and | their satellites have issued the libel-/ ous and threatening slogan: “Against | Bolshevik barbarism.” This slogan must be eclipsed by the fighting slo- | gan of the workers: “Overthrow of bourgeois class domination, seizure of | power by the proletariat for the es- | Of course, all this is only the begin- jeapitalism is endeavoring to get a) {new lease of life, to escape the his-| toric judgment of the proletarian! world revolution by increased exploi-| tation and enslavement of all workers | and particularly of working women. New Wars Threaten. As if this were not enough, rivalry and competition among the imperial-| ts of the various bourgeois states |for raw materials, export markets | and spheres for the investment of] jeapital, are accumulating inflam-| mable material bound to kindle new} world wars which, owing to the pro-| gress of science and technique being applied to the improvement of instru-| ments of destruction—what a triumph | for bourgeois culture!—will exceed all the horrors and atrocities of the recent world slaughter. The Soviet Union, watched and| badgered on all sides by the wild} beasts of capitalism, is the only country which can look without, shame into the faces of working women on this day of reckoning. Here the economic and cultural posi- tion of workers is not desperate, thei: position is steadily improving. Only inethe state of proletarian dictator- ship can the masses look hopefull: |‘o the future. In spite of hard work and privations they say proudly: the revolution has already given us much, our brave deeds have had their re Aiore than that, the progress Socialism—also our work—will} sie us what we are still lacking. On vith the work, let us create the new social order! The Soviet Union is; the only state where, thanks to the overthrow of bourgeois class rule, women’s dream of full social emanci- pation and equality is coming true. New Interest in Life. The prole‘arian revolution has given working women in the Soviet Union a new interest and a new aim in life; Socialist construction brings out all that is good, creative and energetic in women. That this is so, is borne out by women’s great reck- oning with the social world on Inter- national Women’s Day. Let us now consider what working women them- selves have done towards this in) the Soviet Union, Russian women jrev- tablishment of its own dictatorship.” | tens of thousands of veiled women This fighting slogan must be on the} have discarded their veils and are lips of millions of women. | struggling for their full emancipa- Must Find Way Out. | tion by working loyally for the con-| Proletarian women! When will you! struction of socialism. “/find your*way out of the blind alley | of democracy and reformism, when | will you enter upon the rough and They are preparing for ambulance | Stony path of the proletarian class and other auxiliary work at the front.|struggle? Working women of all Thousands of women are learning to |C@Pitalist countries, come out in ser- handle weapons including guns and | Tied ranks onto this path! March 8th air-craft, to guard the rear of the |Teminds you of your duty to bethink Red Army against thrusts in the back, YOUTSelves as class conscious human to participate themselves in the fight- beings. Join your xovoldummary class ing at the front. In their defence oe ueaeere! poy Sia reer vercs the achievements of the proletarian ee en eye ee tee revolution, the women of the Soviet |4"4 oppregsion: 7Gb tam by man Union will show themselves worthy of dee shorn eee by me their heroic past and their present IBA mGDe (Gt Deol aeeaen aie socialist constructive work. A strike-wave is convulsing Ger- many, France, Italy, Poland, Czecho- Slovakia, America, and other capital- ist countries. In these strikes wom- en workers and working men’s wives frequently show a greater fighting spirit, more courage and perserver- ance than men. In Germany, women | ‘ employed in the textile, tobacco, boot, meta] and china industries put up a Women Use Weapons. which is the realization of socialism. |The purposeful activity and the hero- jism of your brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union show you how to do it. March 8th belongs to the prole- 14-Karat Geld Emblem longer end more successful fight for | er higher wages and against a longer || aN working day than men. The bravery | ‘i! (Actual Size and Design) and indefatigable vity of women H | workers and workingmen nt SCRE re | a determining factor in I $1.25 | duration, and trend of the | Sent by Insured Mail for | | big in the i $1.50 Ht State which took On Receipt of Money by | there in the mining districts last year, ' and are taking place now, were and are the and courageous all rc against the financial power of the coal magnates. In Italy there have when women work- ers threw s into strike struggles scist wage reduc- | tions, although they knew that im- prisonment and Fascist persecutions might be their lot. In country dis- tricts women workers endeavored t stave off reduction of their starva | tion pay by passive resistance. In China peasant women are joining | peasant organizations, and workin | women trade unions established by Jimmie Higgins Book Shop University Place \ New York City t or more $1.25 each, Charge for Poetage. wor n 1G if in Lots of § No Ixcessive y Painful RINATION ‘the Aged Eased by santal Midy Sold by All Druggists i FREIHEIT 30 UNION TICKETS ——~ JIMMIE HIGGINS Labor eons esa Relief Worker Mar.on cmerson, secretary, Work- ers International Relief, New York Workers’ Int’l Relief Aids in Class Fight Women and children are the ones who suffer most when natural catas- trophe, strike, lockout or other econ- omic condition affects their lives. At such a time the first thought is “bread” and the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief answers that thought. This organization fives relief in the spirit of working class solidarity to workers engaged in the struggle with the bosses in strike or lockout or other labor conflict. Every working woman should be- come a member of the Workers. In- ternational Relief, thereby helping to build a powerful organization ready at all times to function in the inter- ests of the workers. organizing and educating the work- ing women and workers’ wives for the carrying on of the class struggle, for the overthrow of capitalism in the United States. The pledge to be taken on this In- ternational Women’s Day of 1928 is that every class-conscious working man and woman and worker’s wife shall do all in his or her power to reach the great masses of working women in the factories and mills, to © ‘ORDERED NOT TO ATTEND FUNERAL, FURRIERS WENT Learned Unity Lesson at That Time (By a Woman Worker Correspondent.) We are fifteen girls employed in the shop. We have to dress and un- dress ourselves in that little room— the so-called dressing room. It is so small that when two girls are in it, the third has to stay out. There is a small bed supposed to serve emergency cases. But it is so old. that by the first effort you make to sit down, it immediately falls apart. Ever since I have been working there, our dressing room has never been swept. The sink, where you have to wash,your hands and have a drink sometimes, is so black that you can’t tell whether it was ever white or not. As. to.our coats, they also have their place in the dressing room. Whenever you come in, you always find a coat or two on the floor. Two or three coats are supposed to hang on one hook because of lack of space. However the problem of dressing ourselves in the morning is solved quite easily because we do’ not all come into the shop at the same time. But what is taking place at noon, when we all stop from work at once, is indescribable. Every one of us has to fight till we get our coats out. Discontentment is seen.on every face as we go out for our lunch. It is about time that we come out openly and demand sanitary condi- tions, just the same as we demand higher wages. —L., A WOMAN WORKER. spare no energy in the work of or- ganizing the unorganized women in industry, and to educate the working women and workers’ wives to under- stand the class struggle. The slogan for the coming year shall be: Organize the Unorganizec Women in Industry. ENTERTAINMENT NEW YORK EVER WITNESSED hi SQUARE lob unwveRsiTY place & Park Ave. DAILY WORKER 108 €.14® STREET 3 107th St. es GEWNEFIT THE DANY WORKER | ‘