The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03

world will always be glorious page
in the history of mankind. Heroic,
self-sacrificing women stood on the
barbados in the Red October days
and worked and struggled also for
the revolution behind the barricades,
doing thereby their bit for the glor-
ious victory. Their participation in
the development of the Soviet Union
towards Socialism exacts the same
self-sacrifice and steady courage I'M
der the existing difficulties and per-
lis.
In this sphere too, they show every
day that they know what revolution
airy duty means. They receive equal
ity of rights not as a generous gift,
they win it through their efforts to
achieve the Communist social ideal
as the creative power of new social
forms of life.
The passionate endeavor of women
Communists to awaken women in the
Eastern Republics to realization of
their human dignity and rights is
heroic revolutionary action. These
Eastern women, living as they do IN
der backward economic and social con-
ditions, under the yoke of the Eastern
conception of women as mems prop
erty, and tied by ancient traditions
and religious rules, are the most dis
possessed among all the dispossessed,
the most enslaved among all enslaved.
But low and behold, they too have
been set in motion by the thunder
and lightning of the proletarian re-
volution. Women Communists have
brought them the evangel of their
equality in the Soviet state. Through
stubborn struggle between the old and
the new, an theological revolution is
taking place concerning world con-
ception and forms of life. The legis-
lative and leading Soviet organs en-
courage this revolution by effective
economic and social measures through
which mans predominating position
is abolished and women become mems
equals in every walk of life. In the
eastern republics of the Soviet Union
tens of thousands of yelled women
have discarded their wells and are
struggling for their full emancipa-
ton by working Loyalty for the con-
struction of socialism.
Women Use Weapons.
! They are preparing for ambulance
and other auxiliary work at the front.
Thousands of women are learning to
handle weapons including guns and
aircraft, to guard the rear of the
Red Army against thrusts in the back,
to participate themselves in the fight
ing at the front. In their defence of
the achievements of the proletarian
revolution, the women of the Soviet
Union will show themselves worthy of
their heroic past and their present
socialist constructive work
A strike-wave is convulsing Ger
many, France, Italy, Poland, Czecho-
! Slovakia, America, and other capital
list countries In these strikes WON
en- workers and working mems wives
frequently show a greater fighting
spirit, more courage and perserver.
ance than men. In Germany, women
employed in the textile, tobacco, boot
metal and china industries put up a
longer end more successful fight for
higher wages and against a longer
working day than men. The bravery
and indefatigable activity of women
workers and workingmens wives were
determining factor in regard to thS
duration, character and trend of the
big Passaic strike in the United
States. In all strikes which took place
there in the mining districts last year
and are taking place now, women
were and are the miners most loya
and courageous allies in the struggle
against the financial power of the
coal magnates In Italy there have
been many cases when women work.
ers threw themselves into strike
struggles against Fascist wage reduc
tions, although they knew that i'm.
prisonment and Fascist prosecutions
might be their lot. In country dis
tricts women workers endeavored t
stave off reduction of their starva
ton pay by passive resistance. II
China peasant women are joining
peasant organizations, and workin
women trade unions established b!