The Washington socialist. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1914-1915, 1914-11-12
OUR WOMEN COMRADES

"Afen are patural-born disorganizers
Most iomen, on the other hand, are
ORDERLY and delight in having things
we'll arranged. clean and inviting
We lust came into the business of
flee of the Washington Socialist in
time to catch this very suggestive
observation of one of our women COM
rades. Her statement is undoubtedly
true The exceptions prove the rule.
So do our clean and well-equipped
headquarters, or beautiful white kit
chen, and everything else under the
care of our women comrades, includ'
ing the business office of this paper.
overhearing this remark, made by
one woman comrade to little group
who were informally discussing ways
and means" for the further up-build-
ing of the Socialist organization in
Everett. and throughout the state and
nation, reminded us of what trem-
endous undeveloped power for good
lies in the mostly unorgani2ed FEM
mime portion of our great movement.
Coming from a local in California
in which the wives and daughters of
the Red Card men take little or no
active part in the routine work of the
organization, it was both a surprise
and a revelation to us to see in the
oa.;,-f.inn ,>s ooaI M boW vary i'm
portant and efficient is the organiza-
ton work of the women comrades.
Encouraged and organized for active
service in the Cause by the Woman's
Committee. it is astonishing how
much has been accomplished here in
Everett by the women comrades
even women outside the organization
being impressed into the service of
the movement.
By far the greater part of the sery-
ice rendered the cause in Everett, and,
by means of the Washington Social
ist, throughout the entire state, is due
to the fact cited at the head of this
article: most women are organizers,
are constructive in tendency, are per-
sistent and patient, often where men
are destructive, disorderly, impatient,
and prone to be cutters. Witness the
100000 organized Socialists and the
100000 Socialist voters. When we
shall have made conditions in our
existing locals inviting and encourag-
ing for women, they will get together
and devise ways and means of accom-
plishing something worth while They
will, plan, organize, persist, and sue
ceedi
The wives and daughters and
friends of the male comrades in the
Socialist movement constitute the
greatest unused constructive force in
the world today. And the fault lies
mostly with the men. They haven't
studied this phase of the problem of
organization and party progress. The
husbands and brothers of the Red
Card army have either been asleep
at the switch or too prone to quit
at the first rebuff, or lack Of imme-
diate outburst Of enthusiasm on the
part of the women.
The splendid achievements of the
women comrades of Everett, without
whose pertinacious cooperation we
would not now have either headquart-
ers or Washington Socialist, is an in
spring example, a much-needed les
son to Socialists throughout the
United States, Of what can be accom-
plished when "the female of the
species" is given encouragement and
opportunity to organize, build, achieve,
what to the male gutter would seem
to be the impracticable, if not the
impossible.
Think this over, take the lesson to
heart; then take your tobacco and
spit out on the lot, and give the WON
en- chance to clean up, build up, and
achieve.