The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-05

the agitation of the Women's Trade
Union League, which is fighting
the bill as a reactionary meas
ure because it would take away the
protective legislation for women in
industry. Altho this bill of the Wo-
mans Party was viciously reaction
airy, she imagined it contained a
threat of Bolshevism.
Anti-religious posters next melted
her fury. There were a group of
posters from the Communist Party Of
Russia depicting the tributes paid by
the peasantry to the priests on the
occasions Of birth, baptism, marriage,
and death. On another poster which
she exhibited and which was mem
toned in the Transcript the day be-
fore was a cartoon depicting a
workman with large hammer climb
ing up the stairs of heaven menacing
row of grotesque figures with flow
ing boards that could be seen shrink
ing back from the top of the ladder.
The figures were labelled God, St.
Peter, Gabriel, etc. The lady fairly
gasped and for time it seemed she
would collapse of apoplexy trying to
describe her fear of such propaganda.
Promised Expose a Fraud
The article in the Transcript the
evening before conveyed the notion
that proof of Secretary of State
Hughes charges against Soviet Rus
STA, could be obtained at this EEK
hibit," but when we asked to see them
we were told they were not there, but
that they had evidence that they ex-
listed in Washington, d. C. Of course
we considered it useless to tell the
lady that her wonderful exhibit" was
merely a collection of well known
publications, issued openly and that
they could be obtained anywhere. A
few foreign language pamphlets had
been contributed by Boris Brasol
and by the pen prostitute r.
M. Whitney, who recently peddled
some stale documents to the Tran
script for pelf.
Our guide told us that another wo-
man, Mrs. rockingham, one of the
Back Bay residents who moves in the
most ancient circles in Boston, really
knew all about this thing and that
she was sorry she was absent. as we
could get a great real of startling in
formation from her.
II Mrs. rockingham is more naive
than our guide, she must be totally
bereft of what passes for human in
telligence. The husbands of such
women must find it very easy to con-
coct fairy tales that are acceptable
when they decide to enjoy some of
their nights away from home.
Such people are hang-overs from
the old days Of Boston, when the de-
tsstible textile bourgeois originated
their culture" based upon the un-
requitsd slavery of men, women and
children in the mills of New England.
They still strive to preserve the she'll
of their former cultural surroundings
and resent alike the intrusion Of
heavy industry and the revolt Of the
proletsriat that accompanies It.
Hence they direct their attacks upon
both. Tho today most Of the hus-
bands Of such women have abandoned
the control Of textile mills and devote
tner time TO Chipping coupons, the
women cling to the old textile
psychology.
When not engaged in conducting
rummage sales and other charitable"
work they have heretofore spent their
time gossiping about their married
companions who have been seduced
by the husbands of their set. The
Red expose has given them a new
thrill and now these elegant Bos-
tonians spend their time repeating
every idle tale, every libel concocted
by the swinish inebriates serving as
foreign correspondents in the coun-
ter-revolutionary cess-pools Of Old
Europe and charging upon the plagi-
arisms Of Walling, Wright and Spar
90. creatures who are incapable Of