The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 12

UNDER T ener ee 2 he ya DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION WE'RE WISE NOW The facts brought out at the trial of the traitors, lead- ers of the Industrial Party (Reactionary Anti-Soviet Or- ganization) in Moscow established definitely that all the capitalist governments of the world are preparing to launch war on the only workers’ government, the Soviet Union, during this year. The capitalist governments, including the government of the Wall St. bankers, are mobilizing for war. We can already hear the beat of the war drums. The population is being prepared for war through all channels. The press, church, movies, all institutions of the capitalists are chant- ing the CRY OF WAR. The need of preparedness, the sending of the delegation of War Mothers to Europe, and discriminating against the Negro mothers, the drive against the foreign born, attacks on revolutionary workers, in- creased lynchings are all part of U. S- bosses’ war prepara- tions. The Fish committee investigation is used to mobilize sentiment for war against the Soviet Union, to poison the minds of the American workers against the Communist International and its Amercan section the Communist Party of the United States. The aim of the Fish Com- mittee to outlaw the C.P. of U.S-A- is to make the Ameri- can workers leaderless and helpless in their daily strug- gles in the shops and factories and among the unempoyed. The Fish committee has the support and the endorse- ment of all the outstanding patriotic women’s organizations including the treacherous Women’s Trade Union League appendix of the fascist American Federation of Labor. All of the leaders in these organizations, the “gentle soul” Rose Shneiderman, are frothing at the mouth in their eager- = a ® By Walter Quirt ness to discredit the revolutionary workers and the only land where workers rule. These angels of “peace” are scheming with the government representatives of war how Millions of workers were forced to kill and maim each other in the last imperialist world war, so that the bosses could become richer. Now the bosses are preparing another world slaughter—probably an attack on the Soviet Union, where there is no unemployment. Thye plan to use the working women in this attack, Working men and women, turn the guns on the bosses in the coming war! ~~~"Rank “and file members of the Women’s Trade Union : your treacherous phbeers . who, are schemin best to hide the real facts of war preparations from the masses of women: Toward this end all sorts of fake “Peace” conferences are held, seeming differences among the groups of reac- tionary and so-called “progressive” women’s organizations - are staged in order to fool the women in the U. S. that peace is possible under capitalism and to hide the feverish war preparations of the U. S. Government. Negro and white working women, wives of workers! The story thus far: The Negro working woman who writes this story was born in Pendergrass, Jackson County, Georgia. She had six brothers and sisters, and her father was a poor Negro Era 1 ; : % Sei --,, |worker. When she was ten _ League, Young Women’s Chrigtian Associat women's | years old her father became 2 izations! Repudiate the stand of y: ersyour ja share cropper and they "1°: betrayers and mhisleaders. T Aa ee : nore to a eons ati a oe ela. = £5. ‘ : NG S. Fight e children were put to wor entatives of your class; the WORKIN Bg. 2 ¢ |— missing most. of their 1¢ schoo]. In the fall they: stood knee ‘deep in. water for four weeks, cutting willows in the — Now continue read- ng: - Kick thidm put Ors: fend Ratti hire the only Souatiy that has really freed the women from the bosses and the super- stition of the church—a free and equal worker in building socialism in the Soviet Union. Rally to the support and join the Communist Party; demand all war funds for the unemployed. * * * Mother always used to say that we girls ought not to have to stand in water like that, for some day it would be injurious to us. But the boss said it had to be'doné-.and we Had to do it. Myzsister died very young and I am>f very pooré health now, and not an old woman. When the crop was mate we had to stay out of school at least two weeks and help mother in her work to get us some second-hand clothes be- fore we could enter school again. That same year I tried to steal, but I was caught, and it had a big effect on me at the age of eleven years. My mother put me out to helping a white lady, cleaning up and sweeping yards, so I could help get myself some clothes. International Women’s Day (Continued from Page 1) of food. Millions of women in industry in the United States are working for four, five and eight dollars per week. They are working at tasks that sap their strength; break down the delicate inner organs, and make them old before they are forty. Millions of women are working in factories, in un- sanitary conditions, without light or air and inhaling all sorts of poisonous fumes from dyes, chemicals and raw materials, lint, ete. The women workers are unorganized and therefore help- less. They are driven to accept th worst conditions and the lowest wages, out of the fear of unemployment and the hun- ger of their children. Today ten millions are out of work in the U. S. A. and those men and women who still are on the job, are forced to accept one wage cut after the other. The speed-up gets ever worse. Those that can’t keep up with the mad pace, are thrown out to face the misery of unemployment and flop- houses and bread lines. The business men of the country have only one method of increasing their profits and that is, by throwing workers out on the street and by speeding up and cutting the wages of those that remain. The Negro workers, men and women, are exploited to an even greater My Life jy I never had any shoes in the summer and only one pair in the winter which they called brogues. So I was helping the lady work. She had a piece of goods changing on the bush. It was faded out i-spots and it was almost rotten, put-+did not ask the lady for it. I took‘it and hid it in the grass until I got ready to go home. When she gave me the oll shoes and clothes for working two days s-they were so rotten ‘they|: almést fell off m@ — I went out and got the piece of goods and put it with the rest. I did not know the lady saw me until my mother had made me a little shabby dress out of it. One day after I had gone to school, as mother passed this lady’s house she called to mother and told her about what.I did::Mother told her that she =had made a > a0 hr Domestic Workers: By a Negro orking Woman dress out of the goods. The lady said that I would have to ecme back and work another day and pay for it, or she would have me arrested. That night my mother gave me a whipping. I never had one like it before, and I can never forget it. The next day I had - oat Fe to stay out: of schoo x nad to work for-that lady. She :workedme very hard, so much harder than she had : before. — I The; next :day: I: went’ back to school Saying in my heart: that if I got naked and hun- gry I would never steal any more. Since then I have been hungry many times. But so well was I taught the lesson of respect for the bosses’ } property by a boss when [* * was still a child, that I could - never make up my mind_to 2 stealagain.; « 3.5 5 3 Too Must Organize and Fight (By a Worker Correspondent) The domestic workers’ conditions in New York are very bad. There will be more unemployed domestic workers tramping the streets this. winter than ever before. Employ- ment. agencies are packed with workers looking for jobs but with- out success. If you ask for work, they answer, “you just wait till we get you a job,” so they keep —— eee thousands of brave strikers in class solidarity on March 8, and pledge to support them in their struggles. On International Women’s Day, we call upon the working women of the United States to unite their forces and to fight against the speed-up, against the reduction of wages and for better conditions in the shops. We call upon the working degree. On March 8, International Women’s Day, we greet the militant striking dressmakers of New York City and Phila- delphia. These strikers, men and women are putting up an heroic struggle against outrageous conditions, speed-up and low wages. In Lawrence, ten thousand textile workers , =the majority, women—are out on strike axainst the same terrible conditions of work; the new efficiency methods of speed-up, long hours, and starvation wages. «, «The working women of the country should stand by’ these ai Pontos a we pert > & State pacman ne enna women to support the tens of thousands of militant strikers; to fight together with the unemployed, for the Workers Un- employment Insurance Bill. We call upon the women work- ers to fight against child labor. Fight against imperialist war; defend the Soviet Union where unemployment has been abolished, where there is special protection for women. Working women of the United States—Negro, white and foreign born, join the demonstration in your city, come to the halls where meetings are being held March 8, and show your solidarity with the working class of the United States and of the whole:world,. =. © ‘ Te 8 pow 0, » : irr you waiting with empty promises day after day, and weeks after week, If you stop a minute for rest tie madam calls you, and be speedy - —otherwise you get hell. The’ wages ior domestic workers are - cheap. Houseworkers get $50 to” $80 per month; couples get $125 = to $170; chambermaids and waite. resses get $50 to $75 a month. The ' families who four girls before ~ now take couples who must do four peoples’ work, and show some huse * tle. Employment agencies and the bosses are now cutting the wages. ; Soon we workers will have to live on air, ; Comrades! We must join tos gether with the other workers. Let us show the capitalists that we are not any more “know nothings” for we are beginning to learn a whole lot. We will use our knowl-« edge in our own interest, Let us build the Trade Union Unity Lea« gue and join the Communist Party, _ The workers must understand © that only by organizing will we be * able to fight against the rotten capitalist system, Let us build a Boe union of domestic workers to de- fend our interests, — M “pon ter eee enemennenationemenemnanmamnniate cenit Yi eau.