The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10

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of working men. Women of the1
proletariat still have the outlook
upon their work as one of tenn
porary duration, and it takes
some time before they realize
| the benefits in unionism.
Organize Housekeepers.
We meet these same women later,
after marriage, in the homes, and it is
important to organize them as house
keepers and mothers, altho this occu
patton has not generally been recog-
nized as a trade. Such an organiza-
ton of housewives and mothers is in
deed directed not against the so-called
"boss" of the home, the husband, but
against the exploiting system. For
women realize that husband and wife
are both exploited by the capitalist
system.
The housewife and mother must or
ganize in order to learn how to fight
her class battle shoulder to shoulder
with her husband. The organization
of women collectively, as a class unit,
is of utmost Importance. Backward
women are always the element sup
porting all reactionary movements,
capitalistic, monarchistic, even fantas-
tic. and their influence should not be
underestimate The question there
fore arises how to approach the
mother and housekeeper. Clearly,
by finding out what particular prob
lens interest them and confront
them.
Mothers League.
The Mothers league Of Massachu-
sets, which has been in existence for
many years, has had quite little ex-
perience in this line, and, as a result,
has a fine membership of class con-
scious women. 1t has organized wom-
en- housekeepers to fight against the
exploitation Of landlords by means of
tenement leagues; against high prices
of foodstufts by organising meat
strikes and parades of protest.
The prices of food, bread and meat
and high rents were life problems
which actually confronted them, and
women were deeply interested in
them, and rallied around their moro
energetic sisters. AS result of meat
strikes and bread strikes, cooperative
movements were started. Women
gave their full support to cooperative
bakeries, like the one at Brockton; to
cooperative meat markets, like the
one existing for a time in Maiden.
The Mothers league Of Massachusetts
also enlisted the support of women
for strikers in distress. The Maiden
branch arranged for daily lunch for
strikers of a shoe factory near NAL
den, and kept it up during the many
weeks Of this strike. The Brockton
branch did its utmost to help the
striking shoe workers in their long
and desperate struggle.
Communist Program.
The Mothers league of Massachu-
sets has branches in Roxbury, West
End, Dorchester, Chelsea, Maiden,
Lynn, Brockton and in Springfield.
It's platform is straight Communist,
anu Tic MCluOOAO OllCh thCAA-
selves in conflict with other women's
organizations whose conception of the
class struggle, if not nil, is somewhat
hazy.
Women are only too easily carried
away by Offices of charity, and the
Mothers league has done especially
good work in exposing the basic in
efficiency of charity as a means Of
solving workers problems. The
movement which began among rich
ladies to Americanize the foreigners
has met at its hands with the con-
tempt it justly deserves. 1t does ones
heart good to listen to Mrs. Eva Hon.
man, the organizer OF the league, ex-
posing these grand ladies come to
teach the poor foreigners how to
make a relishing meal out of 2-cent
bone, or cake without eggs-ladies
who condescend actually to play the
piano for these poor, ignorant women
and to dance with them. Surely these
working women can have no reason
to complain of hardships. IL they re-
ceive so much attention at the hands
OF their rich sisters, who give them
free tea, cakes and fine music.
How happy must these charitable
ladies' feel when they return in their
limousines to their rich homes. where
the bones they advise for use in the
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