The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-06

ers must bear-the burden Of factory
and home. In true fashion Of serving
the interests of the workers, the So
Wet government of Russia has con-
sidered it Of primary Importance to
pass laws limiting the hours Of labor
for women, abolishing child labor,
establishing chiidren's homes, educa-
tional centers, granting leave of alb
sence with full pay for two months
before and after child birth, passing
housing laws, school laws, and en-
forcing the rule of equal pay for
equal work.
These measures have removed the
handicaps which prevent the devel-
opments of the individuality of women,
and the growth of women into con-
sciously active members of society.
Women Doubly Exploited.
We, in America, must be inspired
by these achievements and must
strive in every way to overthrow the
prejudices of bourgeois society. We
must combat the double exploitation
Of the women workers by the capital
list class in America.
We find upon examination that
there are very few privileges that an
American woman enjoys. In 1908,
it was decided that it is the consti-
tutional right of every state to gov
ern the hours of work for women,
and to this day we have great
number of. states were women are
permitted to work seventy hours a
week.
Recently the minimum wage law
for women was declared unconstltu-
tional on the grounds that this a
''free country" which gives every
citizen the right to work for as low
a wage as he or she desires.
The bourgeois feminist has fought
heroically on the side of the employ
err to see that this constitutional
Fright" is not taken away from the
'free" citizens in America.
The bourgeois feminist is not a
working woman, and does not repre-
sent the working class. She NEEDLES
in politics often to pass the time
away and represents definitely the in
terests of the employers. She is not
concerned with improving the miser-
able conditions of the working class
mother and her children through all
possible measures, but desires a
theoretical equality"
The bourgeois feminist fails to
recognize the class struggle, the abso-
lutte need Of wrenching from the en-
ploying and governing class better
conditions for working women and
children, thrus every channel.
The feminist is menace to the
workers, for she parades under the
banner of equality, and in time of
strikes she definitely takes the side
of the employing class, as manifested
in the General Strike in Great Britain,
when the Faminists heroically proved
their equality with the capitalist
strike breakers in taking the jobs of
the strikers.
The working women therefore must
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women, who have a different class in
terest, cannot represent them, ire
spective of their desire for equality.
Labor Party Imperative.
In times of strikes, it has been
clearly demonstrated that the very
judges, congressman, senators, COVER
nors, mayors and other politicians,
who have been elected by the workers
as friends of labor" on their pledge
Of supporting workers in their strug-
giles, have in all instances gone to the
rescue Of the employers.
We need only look at the recent
strikes. the wholesale handing down
of injunctions, against the miners, in
Passaic, in the needle trades, against
the traction workers and against
other workers, to realize that the
judges enforce these injunctions ever
against nursing mothers and tuber-