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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
WHY THE WORKING WOMAN
NEEDS A LABOR PARTY

men workers, too, but are far more
serious for women.
The poisons in industry, and the
diseases resulting from them, are in
creasing daily. These too have more
serious effect upon women. Women
are more susceptible to poisoning than
men, they become poisoned more cas-
lily and suffer worse effects. Their
child-bearing function is affected. Wo-
men suffering from lead poisoning,
for instance, become sterile or sub
ject to miscarriages.
Middle Class VS.. Working Women.
All the conditions of working wo-
men point to their need of special
protection under the law. And yet
we have the National Women's Par
ty, that group of middle class ladies'
of leisure, propagandizing the country
to the effect that women must have
equality" they must be treated just
the same as men under the law, there
must be no restrictions placed upon
their jobs. In other words, women
should be delivered over helpless to
the employer, to be worked ten and
twelve hours day, paid half the
wages of men, speeded up so that
they drop with exhaustion.
Let these middle class ladies go to
work at the jobs they talk so much
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-24
By Fred Ellis

The traffic accidents of the city
streets, the moving down of the work.
ers' children by automobiles, are an
other painful consideration to the
working mother whose children must
run loose while she slaves at her job.
More city Fairgrounds for children,
nurseries maintained by the city gov
eminent for the young children of
working mothers, better regulation of
traffic, of these things the working
mother dreams.
What Woman Worker Must Demand.
The needs of the working woman
can find place only in the platform
of a party of the working class.
Minimum wage laws, limitation of
hours, prohibition of night work, pro-
lection against poisons, better homes
through municipal housing, city play
grounds for children and city nur-
series for the babies of working wo-
men, these demands are ALI among the
demands of the Labor Party.
The intelligent working woman who
is looking for relief from the almost
overwhelming difficulties of her life,
should earnestly support any cam
paign in her city or state to establish
labor party.
1t is at least step in the right
direction.
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The Ohio Governors Appeal

over to the bitter pangs of hunger.
But the operators must be treated
much more leniently, for they are the
owners of the mines and nobody can
bluff them.
Helps Herd Scabs.
That is not all. This same governor
Donahey has viewed the sending in
of sheriffs and U. S. marshalls with
equanimity, while they protected the
importation of scabs throughout the
Ohio coal fields. Only the other day
in Southeastern Ohio, scabs were
brought in, and sheriffs were on hand
to protect them. There was a little
skirmish; nevertheless, according to
report, the effort will be made to
open the mine non-union.
This same Governor Donahey only
few months ago was preparing to
send in national guardsmen to guard
the mines of the operators. The mine
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owners declared that the sheriffs
could not supply sufficient protection,
but the sheriffs and U. S. marshalls
declared that there was not yet any
need of the national guard. The gov
ernor was picking a select company
And in the meantime, the officials
of the American Federation of Labor,
through their great" efforts have
collected the paltry sum of about
$4,000 since Nov ID. If ever there
was disgrace lying upon the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor officials, this
is one of the most appalling. From
100000 men belonging to the A. F.
of L., such an insignificant sum has
been gathered for these 10000 miners
and their families who are fighting
for the life of the American labor
movement! This shame of the Of
ficialdom of the A. F. of L. will not
be forgotten
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Editor, The DAILY WORKER:


The Denver Post, Jan. 8, jeered at
miners march called funeral at
which guns were carried. On its face
this has no news value for many of
the readers of The DAILY WORKER.
1t is waste of words to brand all
such items as this one as lie, but
there is more to the article than the
lies it tells, and want to bring it to
the notice of the readers of The
DAILY WORKER, so they can see
some of the things the striking
miners of Colorado are up against.
True enough there was funeral
with over a thousand strikers march,
ing and about sixty cars behind them
paying respect and fraternal feelings
to their departed, young seventeen
year old striking miner.
There was one arrested with fire
arms on him. But he wasn't taken
from the line of march. If the Dem
yer Port was capable of telling the
truth they would inform their readers
chat Marvin Jarman, the arrested
man, also had police badge on him
at the time of arrest. He is a char
acter the strike committee got wise
to as a wolf in sleeps clothing by
posing as striking miner.
Pete Vaughn referred to is a COL
ored fellow worker. He was released
He was arrested Sunday morning and
taken first to the Kline Hotel there to
G. F. & l. and bullied and abused by
r. r. Maiden, assistant chief of the
the State Police.
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about, and they will sing very diff
ferent tune about the equality" of
working women.
Home Life of Women Worker.
In her life outside of the factory,
more difficulties and troubles sur
round the working woman, and here
too she suffers more keenly than the
men. 1t falls upon the woman, even
if she is a worker, to keep together
that miserable farce which the work
ing mans home usually is. In most
big cities, and in small industrial
towns too, the workers live in wretch
ed houses. Bare, uncomfortable
shacks or black dens called "apart-
ments" at high rents are the work
ers' so-called homes.
Cities Should Build Workers Homes.
In some cities, as in New York, the
housing question comes perenially be-
fore the workers, and perenially, like
the flowers of spring, bloom the rosy
promises of the old party politicians.
But is the housing improved? On
the contrary, it grows worse and
worse as time goes on. Municipal
housing, houses built by the city arr
rented at low rates. is the only solu-
ton for this evil. Certainly no re-
publican or democratic candidates
ever advocated this.
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Reader from Colorado Nails Lies of Press

Il. K. Maiden, assistant chief of the
cossacks, told Vaughn that what he
needed and deserved was a real old
southern K. X. X. beating that would
leave scars that he would carry to the
grave. Maiden also said that he in
tended to close the hall in Walsen-
burg even if he had to shed plenty of
blood to accomplish it.
"All those striking miners are
Ignorant foreigners, very few of them
are American citizens" AS a matter
of record, many of these miners of
Spanish blood fought in France. Ac-
cording to Maiden all committee men
and speakers are ex-convicts. He and
his subordinates don't deserve to be
classed as eX-convicts for ex-convicts
have atoned for their crimes. If the
cossacks got their just deserts they
would long since have had their
necks stretched in a moose. Murder
has been an every day crime.
The striking miners are still hold
ing firm. They are more determined
to win now than they ever were.
The odds against them are terrible.
but they are surmounting them.
Persecution is increasing which is
sure sign that they have the opera
tors worried.
Help the worry along by aiding and
encouraging the miners and their
forty thousand dependents.
Food, Clothing, Shoes, Groceries.
Medicine and Money. A quick re-
spouse means an early victory.
Yours for the Workers,
HARRY CLAYTON.
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Health of Woman Worker.

We must keep in mind, too, that
women are mothers or potential moth
ers, and that anything which Injuries
their health is threatening the health
Of their children also. Long hours,
speed-up- conditions Cypress
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FEEDING THE STARVING RUSSIANS.

war the relief money that was left
over had to be protected and used. It
was impossible to give it back to its
original donors. So, with the help of
important men and women, from Vari-
Gus States and representing all race
and political faiths, Mr.. Hoover per-
suaded them to set apart that money
and incorporate it into what should be
known as the Children's Foundation.
The interest has been spent for child
relief in this country and abroad The
capital can be drawn on in time of
emergency such as war or flood or
famine.
This was fitting and natural de-
cision for Herbert Hoover to reach. So
also was another important step he
took in 1922. Sitting at a dinner in
New York one night, he heard that
eminent child specialist, the late DR..
l.. Emmett Holt, say: Every seventh
baby born in the United States dies
before 1t is year old" The social
side of the dinner ended at that point
for Herbert Hoover. Before the eve
ming was over he knew these facts:
l. There was among the child spe-
cialists of America sufficient knowledge
to reduce that mortality materially if
the education could be got to the
IIlUVileTS VI LIE NdLlOn.
2. There were a number of organiza-
tons working on this vital problem.
They needed money, consolidation and
trained workers.
THE money can be got" Mr.. Hoover
promised DR.. Holt And before a month
was up a number of the leading child
specialists, public health experts and
educators--50 in all-met In Mr.. Hoov-
er'S house to discuss the amalgama-
ton of several of these organizations
into one group, with definite plan
to make drive to save the children of
,, the Nation.
To many men who supported the
work this seemed an intelligent, eff
Gent move to make. To the women
of the country 1t meant a great human
personal service.
It took time to do this new job for
America in the right way, but Herbert
Hoover is patient man. He realized
the restlessness, even applauded the
virtue Of the Impotence of the workers
to set about Immediately shouting
"help!" from the housetops. Some of
this was done, but the major interests
of the experts who were brought to-
gether we're concentrated on thorough,
scientific study of the health of chill
dren in typical American cities. In do
ing this 1t was discovered that there
were So typical American cities and
that it would be impossible to deter
| mire policies which would reach the
entire Nation until the needs of all of
the people were understood. At that
point the engineer in Mr.. Herbert
Hoover was functioning.
| But once having a picture of the
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CARING FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES.

! To most men Mr. Hoover's relief work
| in Europe meant an economic readJuSt-
ment, a saving of life, a fine, noble
spiritual contribution. To most women
it meant new hope in a civilization that
seemed to express the relenting hand
of God in a mad world.
Looking back after the passions had
cooled we see that the SaneSt charac-
/ ter, the one unaSSailed reputation which
survived the international hatreds, was
Mr. Hoover's. For he had not mere
| ly fed the starving; he had challenged
| inhumanity, he had championed SAN
! ity and justice.
With these things as a background,
women were ready to understand the
new and practical gospel of kindness
and progress and well being which
Herbert Hoover began to preach i'm
mediately after the war.
| The statement officially put out by
| the Department of Commerce, that
American was short 100000 homes,
brought forth what seemed to, the
women of the country natural cam
paign, in which Herbert Hoover took
the leadership, for it was not only the
men of ten country but primarily the
women to whom he turned for the de-
| velopment of his educational move
ment.
Understands Desire for Home.
One of the first things Herbert Hoo
yer did when the war was over and a
! little freedom came to him was to go
back to California and build a home
| for himself and his wife and two chill
dren. In the process of realizing that
dream he came to understand not only
the natural desire of all Americans to
own home, but the vital need of teach
ing the new home builder, for his pro-
| lection, the essentials of good building,
, the importance of beauty, the necessity
for sanitation.
! One step further he went. In his de-
partment he created bureau to solve
the coming problems of cities of varying
sizes so that the owners Of homes might
be protected. The Importance of the
coming laws was easily understood, per-
| haps, by great number of men and
women, but the value Of a rat-proof
basement, of steps safe for children to
climb, of ventilation that increased
health, of those simple. inexpensive
things that make the difference between
ugliness and beauty, of the thousand
and one things that were taught by the
five thousand committees working for
better homes-these things were A B c
to the women of the Nation.
Every public work, every movement
Mr.. Hoover fostered seemed in some
way to be tied to a definite plan for
making life safer. Sweeter, better in
every way for the average American
! home.
There was, for instance, the Chill
| dren's Foundation. At the end Of the
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self a very considerable concession, but
they regard it as a dangerous re-enter-
ing wedge, and there appears to be
some justification for this position. AS
Poincare would not delete the article,
they demanded the designations.
No, all that Herriot's eloquence &C
complished was a respite OF one day
for the government of National Union.
On the evening of the 5th the Congress
was about to adjourn, nearly half the
delegates having left, including the four
cabinet members, when resolution OF
non confidence in the government was
proposed and carried. Getting news
thereof, the four ministers submitted
their designations to Poincare, who
called cabinet meeting, as result of
which the resignation Of the entire
cabinet was submitted to President
Doumergue.
This on the very day of the reaS-
sembling OF Parliament. 1t Is whispered
that M. CaillauX is responsible for the
Congress resolution, which was car
ried under circumstances smacking of
trickery. It Is to be hoped that the
development Is not precursive to an
other phase of vicious and selfish
politics such as that which preceded
the return of M. Poincare to power
and the formation of the government
of National Union in 1926.
Poincare was invited to form new
cabinet. Without any support from the
pose of small majority in the Cham
Der, but it is to be presumed that, the
Radicals as a party holding aloof many
right wing Radicals would rally to his
support.
x X X
Italy.-Mount Etna has been erupt-
ing again 1t had been rumbling a
good deal of late and on November 3
mouth opened some 5000 feet above
sea level amid snow and a river Of
white-hot lava poured down the noun
tain side at about 700 feet per hour
The inhabitants of small village ir
its immediate path fed pell-mell to
1 the plain, and on rolled the hideous
torrent, setting the woods afirc. The
summit of the mountain is described
as shrouded in thick pail of smoke
| and ashes. glowing luridly. the earth
shaking, tncandeScent fragments sky
| rocketing while the lava river was a
| Scintillating streak.
On November another mouth
| opened with similar phenomena, and on
the 7th and 9Th one of the streams
wiped out a town evacuated of
Its 10000 inhabitants, and a smaller
one smashed communications, power
lines and an aqueduct and was making
for town of $4,000 On the 9th
other mouths opened and fresh erup-
tons are momentarily feared. Indeed
some respectable volcanologists predict
that before Etna is through she will
have given one of the most devastating
performances of her career.
! 1t is pleasant to mote that the au-
thorities are handling the situation
with admirable efficiency, causing
threatened settlements to be evacuated
with a minimum of panic, so that, ap-
parently. there has been very little loss
of life to date.
1t will be recalled that Etna, the
largest volcano In Europe, is on the
eastern coast of Sicily, not far from
Catania. Its eastern side rises directly
from the Mediterranean, which here is
some 5000 feet deep. Its base is 80
miles In circumference and the summit
is 1o.76o feet above sea level. We have
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needs of the country. of a fight for
pure milk in one State. for proper
schools and working conditions in an
other, for maternity centers, hospital
ization, school lunches and so Ont
is a long, long list-Hoover set about
to get the financial support and the
organization to do the job.
Wins People to Him.
There is a certain outstanding char
acteristic of this mans which wins
people to him and makes them. having
worked once with him, wish always to
be associated with him. 1t is never
failing impulse to recognize other peo-
pies values and to support and encour-
age individuals and groups who are
working for a better America. For an
example of this, take the work of Mrs.
Henry Breckenridge, the originator OF
the Wilmer Foundation, which today
IS the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore. Being
saved from blindness herself, she felt
that people over the country. and espe-
cially poor people, should have the same
help that had so blessed her own life
She took her idea to Hoover.
II think it will take three or four
hundred thousand dollars" she said.
ut will take three or four million,
replied Mr.. Hoover, land you will get it
If you fail. come back to me-"
Mrs. Breckenridge went back to him
but not for the Wilmer Foundation: she
did that job. She had another idea
The first of May had been day OF
labor disturbances in various parts OF
the world. She wanted to turn May
day into a national child health day
with churches preaching child health
schools teaching it. parents thinking il
and children, carrying the first flowers
of the year, marching In parades and
idea and between them they started
America talking and children march
ing on May day.
Flood Relief Work.
And then came the flood, with $780,
600 Americans on the banks of the
Mississippi River homeless, iobless,
helpless. The Nation gasped. Such a
horror had not struck this country
since the days of the Civil War. And
then the President appointed Herbert
Hoover to organize flood relief. What
he did in the Mississippi River Valley
for those hard pressed, ruined people
is known in the Southland and vaguely
glimpsed and understood by people in
the North. But what Herbert Hover
meant to the Nation was revealed I'M
questionably when he stood at radio
in New orleans and sent out an ap-
peal to the people of his country ask
ing them to give the Red Cross $10.-
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| should, in addition. the Democrats win
| the two doubtful seats and Mr.. Ship
| stead Join the Democrats. Il am count
| ing six insurgents" but there are said
to be 10 difficulties" including those
six which would seem to make the out
! look less satisfactory for the Repub-
licans. But I am inclined to think
that both the difficulty" and the in
Surgency' have been eXaggerated.)
One seat in the Senate remain;
vacant through the refusal Of Senator
Ware to resign after refusal by the Sen
ate to allow him to occupy that seat.
Returns to date az seats still to be
I heard from show the following House
makeup: Republicans, 258; Democrats
1854; Farmer-Laborite. I.
One negro, an Illinois Republican
namely oscar De Priest, was elected to
the House, the first of his race to win
q seat there in 35 years.
Exact statistics will be furnished next
week
1t is seen that the menace of farm
revolt proved empty, and that Wiscon-
sin, despite its reputation for wetness,
and that most of its progressive leaders,
reputed to dominate the Republican
party in that State. declared for Mr.
Smith, gave Mr. Hoover a substantial
majority. Indeed 1.-THE revolving farm
ers" came across for Mr.. Hoover very
,mpressiveiy.
Though the popular vote was the
highest ever cast in this country, its
ratio to the total of persons eligible to
vote was discouragingly low. contrasting
very unfavorably with showings in
Great Britain, Germany, France and
other countries.
The day following the election was
signalized by tremendous exulting
boom of stocks on the New York
exchange.
On November 3 the monoplane
Yankee Doodle, which had to its
credit the only West-EaSt nonstop
transcontinental flight, and only the
other day made new record at East
West nonstop transcontinental air
voyage, crashed into the east wall of
Crook Canyon, about 25 miles south of
Prescott, Ariz.. in binding rain and
fog, the occupants, Capt. c. B. Collyer,
pilot, and Harry Tucker. owner and
passenger, being killed. 1t was on its
way eastward from Los Angeles to beat
its own fine West-East record.
Aboard the whaler c. A. Larsen,
Lieut.. Comdr Byrd arrived at Yelling
ton, New Zealand, on November 5. He
had a heartening welcome from the
authorities.
Report reaches us that a practically
silent automobile engine has been de-
veloped in the automotive research
laboratory of the Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology. Thank heaven
for that.
\ X
Enthusiastically at Kyoto, Japan,
Hirohito was crowned and enthroned as
124th Cor so. at any rate, the official
records say Emperor of Japan.
On November the anxiously await
ed presidential election was held in
Nicaragua, American Marines guarding
the polls and 20 Marine planes soaring
over the country against possibility OF
trouble. There was no trouble The
two candidates we're: j. NJ. Moncada,
Liberal, and Adolfo Bernard, Conserve
tive. Gen. Moncada won by sub
stantial majority. This was the first
genuinely free election in Nicaraguan
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THE question most frequently asked
in the United States during the
last four months has been:
i why are the women for Her
bert Hoover?"
There are several answers to this
question. Some of them are geograph-
ical In the extreme dry sections great
numbers of women supported Herbert
Hoover because to them he stood for
prohibition enforcement. Groups in
various parts of the country fought
under his banner because of his great
humanitarian work in the war and in
flood relief. Other groups placed Mr..
Hoover's long and persistent campaign
for better homes and his work for
American child health at the top of
their lists of reasons for supporting
him.
But transcending all of these good
reasons is one about which women have
not been articulate, but which probably
unconsciously welded them together.
Something more than prohibition, child
health, prosperity and all the other
arguments in favor of the Republican
nominee brought out the mass of the
woman vote for the first time in the
history of the county. 1t is probable
that this one motivating influence was
born of a Nationwide consciousness
among women that Herbert Hoover is
the first national leader in the history
of the country to put his entire faith
not only in their willingness but in their
complete ability to do job for Uncle
Sam.
His Faith in Women.
The rainy morning that Mr.. Hoover
sat in with President Wilson and his
cabinet in Washington and sought a
solution of the problem presented by
the fact that millions of people would
Starve to death in Europe unless Amer
lea helped to feed them, doubt was eX-
pressed by more than one on the pos
sibility of teaching America to save
food.
THE women will do it If they see it
as duty" said Hoover.
In all the groups of men brought to-
gether then and later to face this food
crisis, only one man had unquestioned
faith in the ability of women to meet
any demands put upon them. Herbert
Hoover staked his reputation on it.
Women have not forgotten this. Nor
have they forgotten that in the organi-
cation which was to teach us to save,
and produce as well, Herbert Hoover
did not organize merely a masculine
machine; he appealed to the women
and drafted every housekeeper in the
country.
The seeds of the 1928 election were
unconsciously planted in those war
months 10 years and more ago.