The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-15
WOMEN ORGANIZE
MAY II MARCH ON
N. Y. CITY HALL
Workingclass Women
Want Better Homes


To the DAILY WORKER We
have been asked why we call our or
ganization "the United Council of
Working Glass Women"-why not
just plain working women? The
argument is made that the latter is
simpler and more commonly in use.
Yes, it is simpler in that one word
less is used. But, the fact is, the
two terms are not the same; don't
mean the same thing.
The working woman" is the wo-
man who works in industry. If she is
organizable she soon finds herself in
the union of her trade. If her indus
try is not organized and she is inter
ested in organization, she is in the
shop, the store or the factory where
she can talk to her fellow workers.
Her economic problems are direct in
dustrial problems. She comes in di-
rect conflict with the boss and all
the conditions of either large or small
scale production. Her problems as a
woman of her class, by very nature
of the fact that she is working wo-
man" are centered in industry where
she works in conjunction with other
workers. Her interest in organization
as a member of the working class, is
outside the four walls she happens
to call "home."
The working class woman" on the
other hand, has been left behind in
the development of capitalist produc-
ton. She is the woman in the
home" the woman in the kitchen;
buried away from social labor with
a thousand individual tasks to per-
form daily for husband, sons and
daughters, or little children in the iso-
lation Of loneliness and futility. Here
then is no strong urge to organiza-
ton, no easy road to an understand
ing of what the working class struggle
is all about. Yet it is she, the work
ing class woman, who feels most the
pressure of the pay envelope that
does not cover the needs of her
family.
While the male member of the fami-
ly has his struggle in the shop against
the boss, it is she who must gather
enough, at the end of a months tussle
with the cost of food and clothing, to
meet the impossible rents for a miser-
able shelter 1t is she who must face
the landlord when the money is not
all there, to ask for an extension of
time; it is she who bears the brunt
in strike-time, when the children tug
at her skirts begging for bread she
cannot give them. And the less she
is enlightenef :, the problems of the
strikers, the rise for her and her
husband, the rise for her family, the
worse for the working class!
Yes, it is the working class woman
who is now beginning to awakenl Yes,
husbands and brothers and sons! Yes,
working womenl 1t is we-the women
who have hitherto been poked away
in the kitchen spiritually as well as
physically who are arousing ourselves
and each other to the necessity of get
ting together, to take our part in the
struggle that our class is waging
against the unbearable conditions that
Cypress usi We are learning that our
problems and the problems of our men
in the shops are but one problem,
that our common problem is but the
problem Of the entire working class.
We are building powerful organiza-
tion-the United Council of Work
ing class woman, join us. If you know
ready at all times to protect the
workers interests. If you are work
ing class woman join us. If you know
a working class woman, urge her to
join us.
Yours Fraternally
The United Council Of Working
Glass Women.
EDITORS NOTE: On May 18th,
the United Council Of Working Glass
Women of Greater New York Will go
out In demonstration to demand of
the city that it build houses AMI rent
them to the workers at cost. All
women should join this demonstration
and take their children with them if
they CAM
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE United
Council Of Working Class Women. or
ganized for the protection of workers
interests. boasts the Invest bunch Of
women in Greater New York. These
women realize the necessity first Of
building a powerful organization, and
have taken as their immediate task
that of drawing as many conscious
working class women as they can
reach into the existing Local Councils,
and organizing new councils where
none exist.
They work thru outdoor rallies, in
door meetings and by house-to-house
visits in which they interest the
women by personal talks and by dis
fribution Of literature setting forth the