The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-22

IS.
ton By Rhea Chde Dorr Frederick A Stokes Co.. New York
(Reviewed by IDA DALEs0
THE life of Susan Anthony the omens rights of
which she the outstanding leader bound with of the
1920 Adams Mass young brought
TO the pre War period and her struggle continued to her death
these rapidly changing times capitalism
rom freeing itself letters feudalisc the
isis for becoming the dominating perst nation of the world The
ped the outwo udasm of the South but also by the
hangover of the frontier and the effort aside these obstacles
vegetarianis spiruam and like
direct reexes of expanding capitalism; abolition of cha slavery
Negroes to make way for wage slavery wcmens rights as reflection
pressing the need for stable army of workers to replace the FOSTERING
bad b g life of M sTs @ diet sh nhn fn
does not these phenomena reflections of the deep economic
changes 5s n that were taxing place in the mic life of the United States
Miss Anthony entered the for women rights by of
the temperance The first organized expression of the at
tempt of themselves social in this
Cady
Mott both women of wealth The convention protested against such
conditions No right to VOTE property rights rights their
civil rights rights their children
divorced representation
education and skilled work double code of morals The demands
s @ to ns.e sn 9I n %R INDUSTRY r. d s p
affairs and the right The participating in this
ton branded by and pulpit atheists and
The of abuse hurled this convention brought to Susan
Anthony attention but she at that time considered and
then She organized women societies whose aid the Mems
State Society willing accept but who would not
had public affairs Such actions finally propelled
her into the women's movement.
agitation, petonng and
working thru legal and legislative
1t is interesting to note that Susan Anthony. though herself
of the middle believed that the working
that her propaganda must be directed She said
like particular effort the teachers,
the seamstresses and wage earning women generally is for
Them rather than for the wives and daughters the rh that
labor"
But the Civil War drawing the conflict of North and
South overshaowg all other matters the and who
abolish slavery ideas
sentimental side the a
of
the establishment democracy in the United States their
when after the Negro slaves had been freed and the Fourteenth
Amendment establishing in the constitution their right VOTE to find
that still occupied inferior status that of
fifty after the close of the Civil War the
continued its struggle for the VOTE which time
the demand with other demands recedg the back
until May 199 after the World War that
action 81 1919 the 10Th extending
right of suffrage the House The
directly responsible for its the Congressional Committee
under the leadership Alice Paul and Lucy Burns Their methods
cuded little pckng lot of lobbying and playing politics by
aempng throw the votes those states where had
suffrage the direction of candidates of the Party which would help
4 them achieve suffrage.
But this victory" was achieved when it had lost good deal of
the significance it had time
the economic life of the
rapid development of capitalism had driven them of the any
the home into the workshops after they
increasing numbers been forced take the double burden work
in the homes and work in the factories and offices.
Today the fight of the working the workers the
bulk of the of the United States the that of
working fight
main unions working
CARNATIONS the political of the workers. the Communist Party
The little it is used effectto send the
assembly halls of will
break the existing speak
ters' puppets to the workers thruout the country.
The biography of B. Anthony book we'll
spite of the facility with which the author the radicam
of and condemns the radical fighters
yainy the
of moSti mpor in