The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 5

IN TWO SECTIONS (SECTION TWO) Dail Central Orga (Section of the Communist International) orker DEFEND THE SOVIET UNION NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1931 — Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8 Over a Million New Jobs for USSR Women And Starvation, Mass Unemployment Here MOSCOW.—Soviet industry will call for many more workers during the coming year. A conference re- cently held here took up the ques- tion of drawing 1,600,000 more women workers into industry. Contrary to the situation in all capitalist countries where millions are unemployed and women work- ers are hired to displace men at lower wages, the employment of women workers in the Soviet Union is the result of the abolition of unemployment. Women workers are hired on the basis of strict equality with men and equal pay for equal work is a reality, The People’s Commissariat of Labor announces that provision will be made to train 150,000 wom~- en workers and to tec h 330,000 girls in the apprentices’ schools during this year alone. At the same time the govern- ment and the trade unions are making plans to relieve women of the drudgery of housework and providing adequate and _ expert care for the children. The most important measures to be taken towards this end are the opening of new nurseries, extension of the network of dining rooms and the (Continued on Page 2). | Gress Strike Aims to End Neither police brutality or com- pany thugs have been able to halt | the militancy of the New York and | Philadelphia dressmakers, on strike under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union since Tuesday, February 17. The dress strike marked the be- | ginning of an offensive of the 'needle trades workers against the ;merciless wage cuts, inhuman speed-up, discrimination and slay- ery forced upon the workers by the bosses and their agents of the A. F. of L. company union. The response to the strike came not only. from the workers of the | union -ahd open shops, : but. from janany of the comany union shops. | Despite all the threats, despite the terrorism of the bosses, and the agents. of the A. F. of L. company union, the dressmakers realized that they must jnot ‘any lenger sub- mit to these disgracéful éonditions, that they cannot hope for any im- provements of their standards by depending on the mercy of the bosses or the company union, which |the workers have come to know as an instrument brazenly serving the interests of the bosses. The. militant traditions of the dressmakers in the early struggles cf 1909,; when the greatest num- ber of workers were Jewish, are continued by the new-workers em- ployed in the idustry today. The American, the Jewish, the Spanish, Italian and Negro workers are fighting side by side on the picket |line, against the thugs, and the | police in the same militant manner | (Continued on Page 2) | Int?] Women’s Day Meetings, Mar. 8 NEW YORK CITY Manhattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St. Speakers: Fanny Jacobs, Rose Wortis, I. Amter. Program: Red Dancers, Ukrainian Trio, Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra. Greek Workers Club, 801 West 29th St. Speakers: Martha Stone, Rose Nelson, Carl Winter. Pro- gram: Movie, Frafment of an Em- pire; Musical program. Finnish Hall, 15 West 26th St. Speakers: VBera Saunders, Richard B. Moore, Charlotte Todes, Maud White. Program: Workers Labor- atory Theatre (play on unemploy- ment); Ray Life, soloist, W.I.R. Brass Band. Ambassador Hall, 8857 Third Avenue, Bronx. Spaekers: Mania Reiss, Ruth Yukelson, man speak- er. Program: Bronx Freiheit Cho- rus; Workers Laboratory Theatre play ou unemployment). Grand Manor, 827 Grand Street, Brooklyn. Speakers: S. Van Veen, Gussie Gordon; Lithuanian speak- Sweatshop | | | Waewaava Aas Va ee Fee eae 8, ths a ee uee Airave Tete International Women’s Day T is upon the shoulders of the working women thruout the world that the burdens and the hardships of toil and poverty fall the hardest. The ery of the children for bread, is heard in anguish by millions of women work- ers in factories and mills thruout the world. Unem- ployment, eviction notices, the cutting off of light and heat; these are some of the terrors faced by the women of the working class. International Women’s Day March 8th is a call to the struggling heroic working women of the world to organize and to unite together with the men for better conditions for the entire working class. The working women of the United States are work- ing for wages that cannot buy the mere necessities of life for themselves or for their children. The Hoover fake conference on child health, held in Washin recently, pointed out that millions of children are poy ly starving in this country. Not only ‘the. childtett are starving but tens of thousands*of men and Women are dying of pellagra and consumption caused by, fhe lack : oo EPR eeR RS ¢ Working WwW epueereeee” am ites e omen in the (Continued on Page 8) ¢* Chi. Mayoralty Elections By ANN CLARK. Today, more than ever before, the capitalist politicians are working hard-to win the support and vote of;*the women. ‘In! the past cam- paigning among women during elec- tions was seldom done and then merely among the women of the upper classes. It is not a coinci- dent that with the drawing into in- dustries permanently of more and more women the capitalist class be- gan to interest itself in the question of winning the women ideologically. Women’s magazines, newspaper pages for women, women’s jour- nals, etc., which were written for the women of the working class used to deal almost entirely with the domestic problems, child rais- ing, love inquiries and recipes. In the last few years, however, these magazines and newspapers began to propagandize the women, to develop bourgeois political ideol- ogy among the women, Even the sensational confessional magazines (True Story, etc.) began to have editorials as well as story plots that spread bourgeois ideology, dealt with political questions from a bourgeois approach, attacked the working-class movement and par- ticularly the Communists. They particularly carry on an ideological fight against the Soviet Union by the most blood curdling tales of horrors committed there, In the elections today there is an intensified and distinctly political appeal to the women. In the last gubernatorial elections women were put up for office. There are mass meetings of women called during (Continued on Page 2) * - |the campaign, street meetings are ‘ i ieee e “ 4 ~ i ef, 8 frequently held, litérature © circu- lated for women, special ;publicity in the press, etc. so" In the mayoralty’ campaign in Chicago the democratic party is carrying on a very extensive cam- paign among the women, the heading, “Feminine Voices Are Heard Above the Din of the City Campaign,” states !m its opening paragraph: “The women folk are taking their place alongside of the men in the mayoralty campaign. ... These divisions (women) are not used for social purposes. They are not filled with soft flutter- ing feminine conversation.- They are humming with purposeful plans to help their candidates.” 300,000 in US Demonstrated On Feb. 25th 300,000 wc-kers, men and wo- men, old and young, employed and unemployed, all over the world, rallied in mass demonstration on Feb. 25th International Unemploy- ment Day at the call of the Com- munist Party, Unemployed Coun- cils and ‘Trade Union Unity League, all over th United States raised their voices for the Unem- {ployment Insurance Bill, which their delegation presented on February 10th, and endorsed the hunger ahaych: delegations headed toward the! various’ state capitals to bring thése demands) before the legislative bodies. 3* In New York City forty thous- =e Ss The Chi- | cago Tribune, in an article under ; jand meri and women, Negro and | white, turned out oh Union Square, In Philadelphia thirty-five thous- apd demonstrated, jn Boston thirty i éysand “battled ;with) the police, and eight workers: were arrested, three of them were women. In Lawrence where ten thousands textile workers are on strike, six thousand voted for the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill. In every ‘large and small, city and town workers by the thousands came out and voicéd their-protest against hunger, misery, ana- unemployment {to which thejcapitalist system sen- tences them: . Workers of Germany Clash With Police In Germany, in spite of the fact that the workers were forbidden to demonstrate by their Social Demo- ;eratic Government which is fast turning to open fascism, thousands turned out on the streets. In Leip- sig three workers were shot. Clashes occurred in many other cities. Many German working men. and ‘women were arrested. In Czecho-Slovakia, France, Eng- land, ete. millions of workers turned out in spite of the white terror, police interference, and boss class ordinances; formed hunger As part of the Thompson cam- | marches and protested against the paign to win the Negro vote in the}mass unemployment which they city, the Thompson’s women’s divi- | are suffering today. sion addressed a group of Negro women in the Hotel Sherman. The approach to the Negro women was by appealing to the dramatic in the Working Women Side By Side. With Men In all demonstrations the work- Negro women. “Mrs. Smith, Com-|ing women stood side by side with missioner of Public Welfare ap-|the men workers and told the cap- pointed by Thompson, said that |jitalist class that they would not Mayor Thompson stood for love—|starve quiely but fight. that his every heartbeat understood On Inernational Women’s Day— humanity. She recited poetry such | March 8th, the working women to- gether with the men workers will “For Christ again has preached |0"¢e more rally for the special de- to thee The blessings of humanity.” And so on for each capitalist politician there are women who de- vote their time and energy to win- ning the vote of the women for the mands of the women workers who are doubly exploited under capi- talism. wd ~~ KILL 48-HOUR BILL CONCORD, N. H. — The textile capitalist parties, these women con- | bosses killed the bill for a 48 hour stituting so-called “Women’s Divi- | week for women workers in this Stons”; of this or that given party. state. He .