The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-09
Win The Women for Communism

| housewife can be made an aide in the
class struggle on the side of the work
ers
The forms of work are the house
wives circles organized in the neigh
borhood on some specific issue as high
rents, poor housing, schools, high
prices, etc Or an issue evolving from
a strike like helping to combat scab-
berry, relief work, against injunctions
to picket, etc. 1t is surprising what
success is achieved in organizing the
housewife on these issues. The more
difficult task is to keep the housewife
organized. This success will depend
largely on the capability of the Dis
trict Women's Committee to map out
the necessary plans of work for these
organizations.
Womens Auxliaries,
| A MOTHER important question In
"a regard to the housewife that will
have to come up in the near future
Is the organization and work Of wo-
mems auxiliaries in the trade unions
and the organization of wives and re-
latives Of workers around the fac
tories and shops where these workers
are employed.
1t is our experience that proletarian
housewives detest the word house
wife" This is a reaction to the in
toierable drudgery conditions of the
proletarian housewife. We should
consider the question of whether It
would he better to find new termino-
logy for this work.
The housewife circles that have
been organized send delegates to a
district periodical meeting which
elects an executive committee to con-
duct the work in the district. The
housewives subcommittee of the
party district women's committee
directs this work.
Mobilize Into United Front.
MANY comrades seek for some spe-
AfA cial issues to start women's work.
The work can very well be started
by linking 1t up with the general
campaigns put forth by the party.
One of the immediate tasks is to
acquaint ourselves with the psychol-
ogy Of American working women; we
must know the role played by Amer
lean working women in the American
class struggle; We must know what
industries the women work in and
their needs and demands. Some of
this information we will get thru our
work among the women, but the re-
search department of the party must
help in getting this data.
The Final Result.
| COMMUNIST work among the wo-
" men must finally result in organ
izing the women into the organiza-
lions of the working class and espe-
cially into the trade unions and the
more conscious of them into the party
The special forms Of organization set
up for women's work must be con-
sidered only as a special means to
approach the masses of women, TO in
clude them into large sections of the
united front Of the working class and
the struggle against capitalism.
Party National Conference.
| COMMUNIST work among women
~ is a new field of work. Comrades
should be encouraged to write up their
experiences in this work and publish
same in the party press so that other
sections of the party may profit from
these experiences.
There are not as yet specialists"
lon women's work in the party. One
of the best ways to work out policies
and plans for this work is the con-
vocation of a national conference Of
heads for work among women. 1t is
the important task of the party to call
such conference.