The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-05

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ish Working Women's Clubs; Ann
Washington Grafton, Textile Women's
Relief Committee; and Rachel Holt
man, United Workers Cooperative.
The conference call reads, in part:
Working women today are con
fronted with the most serious prob
lens which can only be solved by
united action. Everywhere, in the
shop, in the factory, in the home,
women workers are struggling to exc
out living for themselves and their
children under ever-worsening con-
ditions. As a shop worker, as a
housewife, as a mother, the working
woman is struggling today against
overwhelming odds. Starvation wa
res, long hours, and unemployment
are the lot of the women workers in
the factories and shops, and the
housewife struggles against high
rents and the soaring cost of living
while the family pay envelope shrinks
because. of wage-cuts, lockouts and
unemployment.
"The working woman finds it inn
possible to provide the full physical
and mental development for her
children that every mother strives
for. Unsanitary conditions in the
tenements, s-education in the
schools, poor food and clothes, lack
of Fairgrounds and healthful recrea-
ton stunt the development of the
children of the working class, and
poverty snatches them away into the
factories and life of wage slavery.
Most Exploited.
'The woman wage-earner is the
most exploited and the least organ
lied section of the working class.
The great army of women who work
in the shops, factories and stores in
New York are sinking down into
terrible condition Of underpayment
and overwork. Unorganized and de-
fenseless, their condition is one Of
growing poverty and misery. The
women workers who have organized,
as in the needle trades, dressmakers,
furriers, milliiners, and others, who
have fought for years for better con-
ditions and trade union organization,
are suffering from bitter attack of
the employers on their wages, hours
and organization. s
"The thousands Of working women
in the textile mills of the New York
district are suffering from the cam
paign of the textile bosses to squeeze
out higher profits by wage slashes
lengthening of hours and speeding
up. Their already miserable wages
are being cut to the bone, while the
bosses unite in an attack upon the
legal limitation Of hours.
Specter of War.
over all the poverty and misery
of the industrial system hovers the
specter of war! Bigger navy pro-
grams, attacks on Nicaragua and
China, enslavement of peoples all
over the world by Wall Street, those
are all steps toward another great
war and one far more terrible than
the last. The proposal of Soviet
Russia for complete and universal
disarmament was rejected by Anne
RIGA and the other imperialist powers
and preparations for war continue at
a feverish pace.
"The working women of America
must unite all their forces in ma
tion-wide movement against war and
the forces of Big Business and inn
perialism that causes war. For their
children, for themselves, for the
working class as whole, working
women must fight against this APP
preaching disaster, deliberately pre-
pared and fomented by munitions
manufacturers and international inn
perialists.
Women Fight Beside Men.
"The working women of New York
should organize to come to the aid
o ftheirto ling sisters everywhere.
Hundreds of thousands of working
women are participating in the great
struggles of labor today all over the
country. In the mines of Pennsylva-
MIA, Ohio and Illinois, as in the tex
tile mills of New England, women are
fighting side by side with men work
ers, striking against the bosses at
tempt to enslave them, or fighting
beside their husbands and brothers on
the picket line. These women are in
the vanguard of the ranks of labor,
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