The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-03
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FOR IMPERIALIST
WORLD CONFLICT
Women Workers Must
Organize
By JULIET STUART POYNTZ

BY JULIET STUART POINIZ
international Women's Day, 1928,
finds the working women of Ameri-
ca side by side with their sisters Of
other lands as the victims of CAPT
talist oppression and exploitation.
The worldwide power Of American
imperialism weighs as heavily upon
the working class and the working
women of America as it does upon
those of all other countries whom it
is exploiting tod ay-tne toiIing
masses of Europe and of the back
ward" countries, Mexico, Nicaragua,
China, etc. The American working
class suffers especially in the de
Velopment of American imperialism
for in the struggle for world DONNA
ton by Wall Street, the living an
working conditions of the America
proletariat are being reduced beloy
the subsistence level. And the WORK
ing women as the weakest, the leas,
skilled, and least organized section OIL
the working class is the chief victim
of advancing imperialism. 1t brings
her starvation wages, long hours, eX
hausting toll, and takes from her all
possibility Of satisfying her most
vital needs-as a mother, as work
er, as a woman.
American Women Must Fight
Imperialism.
America, an industrial exporting
country since the world war, has en-
tered the international race for
world markets with European in
dustries and cartels. And the Ameri-
can working class is paying the costs
of this competition in wage-cuts,
lengthening hours, unemployment
and the open-shop drive. The work.
ing woman particularly is the victim
of these worsening industrial con-
ditions, ground between the upper
and neither milestone of capitalist
imperialism.
American Efficiency Exploits the
Woman Worker.
The naturalization of industry, the
american idea, enslaves the fac
tory worker to the demands OF cheap
production for competition in the
world market. The woman worker
as the least organized and least
skilled section OF the WORKING class
feels the worst effects OF American
deficiency and economy" low wages,
long hours, intensification of labor.
Mass production with its preference
for cheap unskilled and unorganized
labor finds the woman worker the
easiest and most adaptable object of
exploitation.
Smash the Bosses Offensive!
The bosses at the present moment
have taken advantage Of the weak
position of the women Wage-earners
and are conducting a sweeping Of
fensive throughout the country to
break down the wages and conditions
of women workers. In the textile
factories of New England and New
Jersey, the needle trades and many
other women's employments wage
cuts are universal. Hours are in
creased far beyond the legal stan
dards and these standards themselve.
are being attacked by a concerted
drive of the employers on state legis
latures everywhere to wipe off tn
statute books all laws protecting
women, minimum wage laws, prohi-
bition Of night work, limitation OF
the hours of labor.
Unemployment plunges the woman
worker into a desperate position.
Hardly able to earn living while
she is working, a weeks loss of
wages is a disaster, and continued
unemployment spells ruin. Starvation
and prostitution are the terrible
alternatives that face the unemployed
working woman in capitalist Ameri-
ca. Among the 100000 jobless at
the present time are hundreds of
thousands of working women facing
starvation without the organization
to struggle against it and demand re-
lief.
The Housewife Faces the Super Trust
What Of the working woman who
is mother and housewife, and often
wages-earner as well,-who must
made ends meet on the meager pay
envelope during strikes and lockouts
and unemployment? She faces the
boss on one side and on the other
the super-trust of Wall Street. In
the new monopolistic era OF CAPT alist
Imperialism every day brings forth
new billion dollar mergers and COM
binations that cast their tentacles
around every necessity OF the work
ing class family, food, clothing, shell
ter, transportation. Great public
utilities mergers control electric
light, gas, telephone, coal and oil.
Combinations OF land spectators in
every city boost the price OF land,
rents, housing transit. These ANAL
carnations openly millions to buy up
municipal, state and national govern
ments.
The housewife and mother finds
herself as the family manager in the
clutches of the super-trust and the
corrunt government officialdom