The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-18
WORKING women
HIT 'PEACE'PA
Demand Soviet Union
Recognized
Continued from Paae One

wheih is attempting to fool itself ard
others with pacifist phrases, brings
together the same organizations
which were so active in support of
the last war, and which worked so
Systematically then to drag the
working women into war activity.
Not one word has been spoken at
this conference of the horrors of
war and its results for the workers.
We denounce this conference as a
fake and a sham and menace to
the women of the working class. We
protest particularly against the
fact that the only organization in
Guided which "an even pretend to
represent workers, the Women's
Trade Union League, is one which
has proved continually by its ac-
tons, by its support of the last war,
by its failure to organize the un-
organized women, and by its sub
servience to the A. F. of L. and its
reactionary policies that it repre-
sents the interests not of the work
ers but of the employers.
We working women see the al
lance between pacifism or prepared
ness. We know that the war being
prepared will conscript working men
for the battlefields to slaughter the
workers of other countries. 1t will
conscript working women and chill
dren for the factories to manufac-
ture the instruments of slaughter,
and food, clothing and other sup
plies to maintain the armies. We
know that this war will be fought
only for new markets for American
industrialists and financiers, only
for greater profits for American
employers.
We working women have raised
a protest here in Washington at the
moment of the passage of the KEEL
logg Pact, the introduction of the
Navy Bill and the Women's peace"
conference. By counter-demonstra-
ton and picketing we have sought
to bring home to the workers of the
country, particularly to the women
of the working class, the danger of
pacifist illusions and the necessity
of organizing for an open deter
mined struggle against the war
danger and at the same time against
the oppression and exploitation of
the workers which goes with i'm
perialism. Our struggle against the
forces of American Imperialism
must be linked up with the struggles
of the workers throughout the
world, particularly in those colonial
countries which are being enslaved
by Wall Street, and with the strug-
gle Of the workers and peasants of
the Soviet Union against the threat
ened attack by the combined capt.
talist powers of the whole world
against this stronghold and hope of
the workers of the whole world. We
call upon working men and women
everywhere to unite in struggle
against the menace of war by or
ganizing to fight imperialism, the
real cause of war, and especially
American Imperialism, the greatest
menace to the workers today.
(Signed) Vera Buch, National
Textile Union; Clara Meltzer,
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union; Helen Zarkowsky, En-
broidery Workers Union, Fur Work
ers Section; Olga Gold, National
Textile Union, Knitgoods Workers
Section; Edythe Cohen, Millinery
Workers Union, Local AZ; Fannie
Austin, Negro Women Day Workers
Union; Juliet Stuart Poyntz, Work
ers (Communist) Party; Harriet
Silverman, All-America Anti-Im-
perialist League; Kate Gitlow, New
Yorl. Working Women's Federation,
United Council of Workingclass
Women; Elsie Pulitur, New Eng
land Federation of Working
Women; Gertrude Duell, New Haven
Working Women's Clubs; Eva
Hoffman, Mothers Leagues Of New
England; Antonio Wechsler, Hun
garian Workers Clubs; Helen Yeske-
vich, Lithuanian Working Women's
Federation; Ryli Maxi, Finnish
Work;pr Wopoap,c Federation