The Connecticut labor news., 1921-10-21
WORKING WOMEN MUST MAKE WAR
 AGAINST ALL FUTURE WARS, HEAD OF
 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS DECLARES
ARE URGED TO USE THEIR NEW POLITICAL POWER TO FORCE WORLD PEACE, STOP FUTURE UNEMPLOYME AND PRIVATION.

U LUKE UNE MPLO f MI FIN
 AND PRIVATION.
 Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 2O.-The Second International Congress of Work ing Women was opened here this week by Mrs, Robins, its president, with an ap- peal to the women of all nations to use their new political power to make war against war, against unemployment and privation.
 We face the chaos and suffering made by mans governments on the earth" said Mrs. Robins. Everywhere except in the remains of the Central Empires, there IS the menace of in- creasing armaments. Everywhere the springs of fellowship and good will are polsloned by propagandas of hate and ecoEomiC imperialism. Everywhere u1- employment and consequent hunger arid suffering threaten the homes of the work ing world. We have been patient in tri- bulation. We have been silent, but the hour to scpeak Is at hand, for this hour of universal sorrow and need Is also the hour of supreme opportunity. The time for action IS here.
 Unemployed able and willing work CTS in land rich in raw materials and olN q AiIOAC uCSlI u(lltC SI1tl- cisn of our officials and society than all the writings and speeches of the revo- lutionary agitators of all time. Govern ments that. can spend billions in de structive war must learn how to spend some millions for constructive peace. Not doles for debasing idleness, but living wages. in productive work. Let us say to the governors, masters and rulers of all nations, We are weary of your hagglings and debates and theories The earth Is rich with the means of life. Eager brains and strong hands there are in plenty in all lands. We demand such use of the land and labor of the world as will insure us bread and warmth and education and peace. When we are hungry and homeless and idle, or slaueh- tcring our brothers or killing our sons let us vote against the government with out regard to party. Let us refuse to be beguiled by party shibboleths or hyno- tized by party leaders. Together let us demand bread and security for our hcmcs."
 Our first task as working women of the world, to which we here stand dedi- cated, IS to make war against war The first battle in that war is to stop increasing armamentS. Armaments breed war. Armaments breed arrogance and fear and feed the propagandas of hatred between the people of the earth ArmamentS tax the workers engage IT productive toll to make the engines and machinery for slaughter of our brothers and ruin of our homes. The cry of sui fering humanity against this monstrous wrong has resulted in the Call for an International Conference on the Limita- of A flof E, Washington on Armistice Day.
 We can, If we will, make Arnistice Day this year in every land day of re- solution and prayer to the end that this Conference shall not adjourn until some vital step Is taken toward the disarma- ment of the nations. If the women of all lands will use Armistice Day for kind ling the fires of sentiment and action against this crime of increasing arma- ments, the Eleventh of November, 1921 will mark the beginning of the peace of the world.
 And at home, each one in her own land-at home our first domestic task is to win the right to our daily bread Everywhere the curse of unemployment shadows the workers homes"
 Urging the women to political action she called upon them to face the facts Ot human history and at elections test the party i'll power by the facts of our human welfare"
 Under all forms of governments and systems of social order humanity has known war and peace, hunger and plenty comfort and suffering. Women are not theorists. We cannot feed and clothe and house the children, we cannot keep warm and clean the house on theories We are realists. The earth Is rich with the means of life. We are eager to work, but we intend to enjoy the fruit of our toil We refuse to be fed any longer on the east wind of partisan doc trines. Either we are employed and fed and housed, or we are idle and hungry and cold Either we are at peace or we are at war. At each election we intend to test the party i'll power by the facts of our human welfare. When we have simple understandable benefits, we SUD- port the government when we are de- privcd of them we sweep the govern ment out of office.
 Tt can be done! It can be done The power of a great faith can recre- ate the mind and will of the people oi the earth paralyzed by theaftermath ol the war and set free the spirit ot man. kind. A great faith held fast by hand ful of poor folks carpenters, and fsh- .r1nan. menders of nets, and working women, two thousand years ago, changed the flce of the earth i'll spite ot empires an:i Caesars! A great faith held tas1