The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-29
By OLGA GOLD.

The conception that women are in
ferior to men, naturally weaker ply
sically and mentally, is one of the
prize illusions with which the master
class of the world have drugged the
workers, and which they have used as
tool for oppression.
Consciously or unconsciously, will
ingly or unwillingly, woman herself
has swallowed this theory"
For ages women bore the burden
of double exploitation. The best refu-
tation of this theory" lies in history
itself.
In the barbaric stone age primitive
Communism when exploiters and ex
plotted were not yet known, when
people lived in communal-groups, the
women of that stage of development
were on an equal plane with the men,
they had the same duties, and respon-
sibilities as the men. Let it be noted
that, according to the Investigations
of anthropologists,a at the lowest stage
of the development of humanity, wom-
en- did not differ much from men even
physically in appearance, form and
strength.
Early History.
There were certain periods, when
women were recognized as superior
in intelligence. AS matter of fact
she was the first to develop intellec-
tually. This intellectual superiority
caused her to take the lead in the
primitive religions of Egypt, Asia and
Greece as exemplified by the fact that
the first inventions of the arts and
trades were attributed to goddesses
and not to gods.
The subdivision of labor in latter
history led to sharper demarkation
of classes and resulted in greater and
more intense exploitation, the in
creased merciless oppression of one
class by another, and unlimited mis-
cry and sufferings for the working
class as a whole. The most unbear-
able part of the exploitation rested
upon the shoulders of the working
class women.
The domestic duties were the OUT
come of more or less fixed settlement
in communities. The functioning of
the kitchen and making ends meet
marked her most essential functions.
When money value determines the
value of respect and consideration of
one human being for another, wom-
ans toll, which does not produce COM
modities for further profits, becomes
practical slavery. Altho the function
ing of the kitchen formerly before the
simplification of the technique of pro-
-tion was q fundamental necessity
the women became dependent, op-
pressed and helpless. Special laws
were made for women, special litera-
ture was written with the intention
to seek in various ways to ignore
women more and more. All forn
or excuse of education was denied to
women. The richer strata of the ex-
plotting class bought and sold hun
dreds of women and they were faced
not only with impossible exploitation
but also were compelled to serve as a
reserve for constant change for salts
faction of sexual life.
Women In Industry.
The bosses, always vicious and in
terested in more profits, hunted for
cheaper labor, and thus forced wom-
ems and children's entry int indus
try. In England, the first country to
develop industrially the parasite
classes, in the many cases where par
ents would not permit six and seven
year-old children to go to factory
prisons where they would become
stunted and crippled before maturity,
these bosses who always have the