The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-12
Slipping 1t to a Sob Sister

The sob sisterSof the capitalist press, the female
Dr. Cranes who advises women on the thousand
and one ills that the fair sex is heir to under cap
italism, devoting much attention to Soviet
Russia of late. indicative of their neurotic tenn
permanent, their themes are woven mostly around
the subjects of love and religion.
1t is hardly necessary to say that their articles
religion and marriage in Soviet Russia are just
rs venomous those of their male colleagues. One
Edna X. Wooley, who writes for the Cleveland
News, and whose dissertations on Soviet Russia
display unbelievable ignorance of the subject and
is therefore entirely qualified to write about Rus
sia recently into snag in the shape of letter
from steel worker in Steubenvile, Ohio
This steel worker took Edna to task in a manner
which brings three loud cheers from us and which
succeeded in getting under the hide of the sob
sister
The steel worker enthusiastically endorses the
separation of church and state in Soviet Russia
and then announces cheerfully that he himself no
longer believes in god. Then he asks the following
pertinent question:
coal miners, steel workers and railroad workers
in good old U. S. A?"
When Edna tries to answer this simple question
she drops the mask of humanitarianism and snarls
like she-wolf and descends to the mental plane
where she belongs. "God" says Edna, 'is in
Spiriting to plan better in all lines of bust
nessso there may be steadier employment for every
worker.o-~-
1t is the ingratitude of the workingman which
makes all these inspired plans come to naught.
Says this sob sister:
The truth is that here everybody has become 40
customed good scale Of living that to do with
out certain comforts necessities that
considered Iuxures, raises growI Of Starvation"
Indeed, matters have about in the good
old U. s. A. that practically wants to take
small temporary job that Isn't bringing the pay
he thinks he should have He'd rather loaf and live
his relatives charity "skIp" and let
charity take Of his family. He prefers hang
around in city rather than 90 out in the country
and do real work a farm. He demands beefsteak
and fresh white bread for his daily meals. And in
nine out of ten he to this country from
land where he lucky If he got so cents for
long days work, and hard, black bread the chief
part Of his daily diet.
1t is not hard to understand the hatred gener-
ated for the workers and peasants government of
Russia and for the revolutionary and labor move
ment everywhere by this type of mind. 1t feels
instinctivey that something very unpleasant is
going to happen to its physical envelope when the
workers take power.
There is a blood relationship between the Ednas
Of America and the eounterrevolutionary intel
gentsia of Russia. They united in their hatred
of the working class Both blame the foreigner,
for the revolution the other for the prerevolu
tionary discomfort that exists in the United States
The hangerson of the Russian ruling class hated
the Jews, the same type here hates "the Dago the
Dutchman, the Swede and the Coon, the Chink and
the Jap, and the man in the moon"
Why do we devote much space to the Ednas?
Because working class women read their illusions
and in the United States much of their stuff is
looked upon a dspassonate effort to reach the
truth