The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-05
BY HARRISON GEORGE.

oy TIAnntoON OEOhGEs
III is well that all who claim the
l honor Of being Communist should
mot foget, and it would be better
If they would engrave upon their
consciousness, the observation OF
Lenin, 1.-THE proletarian revolution
can be victorious only if millions
upon millions of the toiling women
participate in the struggle"
Particularly is this factor Of high
est Importance in the developed
machine industry of the United
States. Here, the relation Of wom-
an to production is steadily increas-
ing In Importance. While Stats
tics concerning woman's part as a
wage Garner are very unreliable
and incomplete with some excep-
lions; firstly, owing to the vague
method Of census computation and,
secondly, the obvious desire OF the
capitalist government to cover up
the increasing exploitation OF wom-
en- wage workers, still the amazing
fact stands forth that there are
shown to be S,549,511 women gam
fully employed in the United States,
representing 21.2 per cent Of the
employed population.
No Revolution Without Women
Workers.
The proletarian revolution, It Is
clear, will never succeed II this
great army of women and girl
workers are ignored. Hence the ex-
IRENE Importance of carrying on a
continuous and intensive work 20
bring this force which may be used
against the workers struggle, into
the battle ON the side OF It's class
liberator, the Workers (Commun-
ist) Party.
The problem of the woman work
er, while like the youth worker, the
Negro worker, and the immigrant
worker, in that is has its own pecul-
lar aspects which cause It 10 de-
mand special treatment, is, none
the less, essentially a part Of the
class struggle waged between cap
italist exploiters as a class and the
exploited working classes.
1t is well to remember, in the
presence of various movements
which aim to liberate woman as a
sex, that it is precisely and only
in the land where the prolerarfat
has, by armed revolution, conquer
ed state power, that woman has at
tanned the full dignity of an equal
in the social scheme, from top 10
bottom, in politics, industry, dipIo-
macy. warfare, athletics, literature
and all forms of culture. Only IN
Soviet Russia is woman made en-
tirely independent Of man econom-
ically, and, therefore, only in So
Wet Russia has woman become
mans equal and, after ages of
shameful subsection, his comrade
in the fullest sense OF the word.
Six Million Wage Workers Are
..+. Women.
That the problem OF the liberia
ton of women must be involved m
the larger problem Of the liberation
of the working class is seen from
the fact that no less than 70 per
cent OF the s,500,O00 women report
ed gainfully employed by the 1920
census. are women who work for
wages. This army of women wage
earners Is 6,047.922, and these rep
resent, moreover. large percent
OF the lowest paid section of the
working class. The supervisory
and professional salaried class. are
only 100000, while the women VINO
are employers or are self-employed,
such as milliners. tailoresses, ETC.,
constitute 1,7g0,000.
The duty, therefore, OF the lead
ing organ of proletarian emancrpa-
ton, the Communist movement, Is
to strive to destroy the Illusion,
consciously or unconsciously fos-
tered by bourgeois feminist Rrouun.