The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-15
Rap SOCIALISTS,
DEMOCRATS, COP
AS ANTI-LABOR
Platforms Ignore the
Woman Worker

Declaring the republican, demo-
t,ratic and socialist parties to be par
tiles of the bosses, shop delegates of
lall needle trades, at huge rally on
Oct. 9, in Bryant Hall, urged all
women workers and housewives of
needle workers to vote for the can
didates of the Workers (Commun-
I ist) Party. The statement follows:
f"Sisters:
eve, the shop delegates of all
needle trades, assembled at Bryant
Hall, Oct. 9, 1928, call upon all
women workers of the needle indus
try and upon all housewives of
npdle workers to vote for the can
d ates of the Workers (Communist)
PITY in the coming presidential
elections.
"You women workers, dressmak-
ers, trimmers, fur finishers and other
women needle workers have shown
by your splendid activity in the
unions and on the picket line that
you know how to fight against the
Losses and the socialist traitors of
the right wing cliques and that you
know how to defend your interests.
But this fight which you are lead
ing so courageously extends TO the
political field, also. Your fight
against the parties of the bosses
and the socialist traitors on cleo
ton day will be part of the fight
you are conducting against them on
the picket line.
""All needle trade working women
al well as all housewives of needle
workers must register now and must
turn out on election day and vote
fgI the only working class Party,
II Workers (Communist) Party.
You housewives of needle work.
ers know we'll that the republicans,
democrats and socialists are the SER
wants of the bosses. When your
husbands went on strike, the repub-
lican and democratic judges and the
'Tammany police were there to pro-
tect the bosses interests. Your hus-
hands were arrested and beaten up
while the bosses, scabs and gang
sters were protected. The socialists
also have lined up with the bosses,
police, courts and gangsters and
have succeeded in running your hus-
lands union conditions. The pay
envelope and the long hours your
husband has to slave in the shop
tell you the story of the treachery
OF the socialist right wing cliques
No Protection for Women.
"The capitalist parties as we'll as
the socialist party care very little
for protecting the women workers
in the shops and, homes. Women
anf being exploited in the needle in
dsutry and other industries. There
al no laws providing for such
special compensations and insurance
which women workers must have.
"The socialists, who claim to
speak in the name of the workers,
did not care to have one word in
their election platform about the
women workers and about laws pro-
tecting them in the industries.
"There is only one country in the
world where women are protected
in the factories and homes and
special compensations are provided
for them for periods when they are
unable to work. That country is
the Soviet Union, which the social
lists are slandering and attacking in
every way and against which the
capitalists of all countries are plan
ming holy war;
"The Workers (Communist) Party
which is alive to the interests of all
workers is conducting active propa-
ganda for the interests of women
workers in the shops or in the
homes. The platform of the Work
ers (Ccmmunist) Party demands
laws for forty-hour week for
women, prohibition of night work
arr overtime, equal pay for equal
V2rk for male and female work
err, laws providing for special al
lowances for working women during