The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-19
HOLD WORLD WOMENS CONGRESS

Tenant Leagues and Co-operatlVes.
Communist women must also form
fractions in such proletarian organ
izations as tenant leagues and coop
eratives and work actively within
them, in the struggle; at the same
time showing the workers the neces-
sity for even greater and greater eff
forts toward organization.
The conference discussed and
adopted the women's delegates meet
ings as one of the best means for
reaching the masses in the factories,
awakening their self interest and
pointing out to them the need for or
ganization and class consciousness.
How Meetings Are Conducted.
The following method is used in the
delegates meetings: The Communist
nucleus in a shop after a certain
amount of canvassing and personal
contact with the women workers calls
meeting for discussion. Out Of this
meeting should be elected a commit
tee built around the Communist nu-
cleus to whom all shop grievances
should be taken. The committee
should arrange, thereafter, regular
meetings and get into contact with
other shop committees for joint meet
ings of delegates elected at their shop
meetings. The delegates should hold
Office for several months. Thru the
delegates elected in each shop contact
is established with all the women
workers in a factory district, thus
reaching the masses of women in in
dustry
At the conference all the difficulties
of this procedure in capitalist coun-
tries were pointed out, but since the
move for the seizure of power will
come out of the factories. The dan
gers involved must not deter us from
organizing the millions of women in
industry in the best way we know.
Comrade John Pepper, c. |. repre-
sentative, must be given credit for
! his clear arguments for the delegate
system, about which there was con
siderable misunderstanding. The Rus
sian delegates were at first inclined
to believe, that, while the women's
delegate system has worked splen-
didly and with flaming spontaniety
among Russian women, since the
Seizure of power, that the plan would
be difficult or impossible in capitalist
countries. The delegate system won
out and is incorporated in the organ
national thesis.
Factory Workers Greet Conference.
Women delegates from number
Of Russian factories greeted the con
ference. With great enthusiasm they
told the foreign delegates of women's
work in Russia, what the revolution
had brought to them and their in
terest in revolutionary work abroad
It is nothing short of miraculous to
hear these women of factory, shop
and field speak with knowledge and
confidence at large meetings Of for
eign delegates. They were answered
with storms of applause and pledge
of the conference to take up more
keenly than ever, the work or organ
izing the world proletarian women
for the proletarian revolution.
Lenin's Widow Attends Conference.
At the conference appeared little
woman with great calm eyes and gray
hair. Her black cotton dress was al
ways the same. To hear her speak is
delight and to see her once is never
to forget her. She is Krupskayia
(wife of Lenin) and her big heart and
fine mind fit her ideally for the place
she holds-organizing homes fol
homeless children.
Krupskayia spoke of Lenin's great
faith in the masses and the proletar
ian instinct. Lenin said that future
society will be built out of the col
lective will and the collective life o.
the masses who free to think ant
act will by their own creativeness or
ganize the new world.
ITO the masses"-that is the slo
gan Of the congress Of the Communis
International-that is the slogan o.
the women's Conference; that is th'
slogan of the Youth International
Reach the masses of the workers
Awaken their understanding of th'
class struggle. Show them the hope
lessness of capitalism. Teach then
the spirit Of solidarity. Teach then
that in organization lies strength
The victory OF the entire working
class is approaching, but we mus
prepare for It; we must be read,
to take power and to hold powe
when that time comes. Three grea
tasks lie before us. l"organize, OIL
ganize and organize"