The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
March 9Th What?
BY ROSE PASTOR STOKES.

ANOPA2
TN 1910, the first Socialist Women's Conference was
held in Copenhagen, Denmark. At this conference
Clara Zetkn, the grand old of the Communist
international, proposed special commission for work
among women. The proposal adopted by the con-
ference and the body of socialist women delegates
again at Clara Zetkins Observation-Disclosures March 9Th
international Women's Day.
March sth is the birthday of Rosa Luxemberg--the
valiant spirits Whose life and martyred death will in
spire heroic effort millions upon millions of the
proletarian the world over.
International Womens Day with us is not an
sion for "glorifying" woman as woman Nor is it a
separatist expression that either deplores womens Sin
ferior" positionor asserts her superiority No, we
celebrate in the Communist spirit-the spirit that
recognizes 'front.' the proetaran front That calls
upon the proletarian in home and in factory to
organize to join with the men, the YOUTH the children
of their class to fight against every danger that
threatens them all together.
In this spirit March 9Th is being celebrated in every
part of the world. Even the most remote countries
show the stir of life in the masses of working class
women
In China for instance, the work of centralizing the
activities of prolearan womens organizations has been
going forward for years. There is the "Loka Kai"
(party of the 9Th of March, which already in 1923
published newspaper Of its In China the women
are today not among vital factors in that heroic
struggle against imperialism.
They began with slogans such as down with the
traditions and customs that enslave women"
Equal and similar education for men and women"
Equality of marriage and divorce laws between the
sexes"
"Protecton of motherhood assistance to working
women"
But today the cries of down with Militarism!"
"Down with Imperialism" are the cries of the
well the of the Chinese masses.
And in the final conflict against exploitation great
masses of Chnas will have been trained in the
struggle for new life for themselves and their class
and will fight the Russian working and peasant
fought-side by side with the men, for Soviet China
In Germany in England France in the recent great
struggles of the workers, the of the working
class proved their fighting powers.
Here in America there have been a few isolated but
thrilling examples in recent history of the participation
of women in the struggles Of workers
When the miners of Kansas were in danger of being
shot down by the armed troops sent against them by
the strike-brealSng government it the women-the
wives mothers sisters and sweethearts of the miners
who organized and marched right into the muzzles of
the guns!
They cried: eff you fire you will have to shoot US
down! but you shall not shoot down menyou shall
not break the strike!"
The troops were withdrawn The women in the end
the victory for the miners.
And what of Passaic?
Some day. when the complete story is told of the
heroic part played by the in the Passac Strike
only the picket line in street demonstrations but
also in the solid work of organizing and administering
relief to the strikers families and their children it will
prove inspiration and spur to the work Of organic
ing the working class woman for the struggle and
of the future. The housewife and the miwoman
equally united in the closest possible manner, and
both closely unised with all the actions taken by the
strikers whole-as day they will participate
in wider struggles-of the working class as whole
March Still
Let celebrate the work of drawing the of
class into every struggle great SMALL that
Germs OR class-there is no other wayne short way
of preparing them Zone half of the working classy for
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