The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-31

Many women comrades do not take
part in this special work, because they
fear that they will be considered fem
inists. Comrades would not take this
attitude, if they really did understand
what this kind of work means for the
party 1t is true that our knowledge
and experience in Communist work
among women here in America is very
limited and we must look for guild
ance to our comrades abroad with
their mature knowledge in this kind
of work.
The reasons which compelled the
Communist international to give spe-
cial attention to work among women
are easy to find. The contrasted ex-
perience of the two revolutions in
Russia and Hungary OF themselves
give reasons. In Russia the active
support of the women helped to save
the revolution, in Hungary their pass
i've resistance helped to destroy the
revolution. Capitalism has perfected
it's machinery so, as to make women
in the mass a bulwark of conserva-
IlSm ana TSdCllDu.
Situation Among Women.
First, the women are mentally and
emotionally separated from the men;
then their isolation is used to intensi
fly the economic subsection which they
share with the men; their inferior Pc
sition is used as a means of setting
them into antagonism against the
men; finally their separation as a sex
is used to make them active for re-
action against the workingmen active
in the class struggle.
The weakness Of the mass of wo-
men from the point of organization
makes them a serious menace in al
most every fight. as the capitalist ide-
ology impaired to them from the
school, pulpit and press fosters para
sitical outlook which leads to the ac-
ceptanee of low wages. The woman
tramping in search of work is threat
ened with danger from which men
are free and more easily submit to
exploitation. The thought of her chill
dren going hungry also compells the
mother to accept low wages. Add to
this the jealousies and disikes aris-
ing from their sex competition with
each other for marriage mates-itself
by product Of their economic condi-
tons, the comparative inactivity Of
women in the. trade unions and their
easy delusion by bourgeois agencies
is all too terribly explained. The ma
ternal functions of women place then
in a position of utter dependence and
very often into humiliation unspeak-
able.
Women are very susceptible to in
fiuence by the bourgeois feminist or
CARNATIONS. These feminist organiza-
tions are a machine for manufacturing
counterreyolutionary psychology
which the women in turn impose upon
their children and men folks. The
bourgeoisie see the Importance of spe-
cial work among women. The bour-
geoisie are exerting much effort to di-
vert the proletarian women from their
class interests thru these feminist or
CARNATIONS. We, the Workers (Com-
munist) Party are only now waking
up to the realization of this important
work. The workingclass possesses in
it's women powerful forces which are
not yet modified. These forces if
systematically employed, would be
capable of exercising a decisive infiu-
ence on the issue of the class strug-
gle. It is the duty of our party to
start this work.
Destroy Feminist Ideas.
The constant worsening Of the posi-
ton Of the working women creates
favorable conditions for work among
them. The task OF the party is to
give Communist direction to the dis
content among women il the work
ingclass study the prejudices and ira
ditions that still shackle her, bring
home to her the lesson that she is
one with the worlds workers. We
must raise slogans that viii appeal to
the working women. We must de