The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-08

y
geois feminists of the Woman'S
Party. Minimum wage laws for wo-
men workers and child labor laws
have been wiped out by the supreme
court. Everywhere hours are being
lengthened, new efficiency" systems
installed to intensity labor, to in
troduce bonus and piece-work sys-
TENS and set up standards of produe-
ton. The number of looms assigned
textile worker is being doubled and
tripled. The travelling belt or con-
yeyor system introduced in many
factories keeps the worker jumping
to work at top speed.
Women Un0rganized.
The employers in their attack
place reliance upon the pnorganized
condition of the women workers in
America where only about 2 per
cent are in unions as compared with
10 per cent in England and 25 per
cent in Germany. And where the
women workers have organized OF
are organizing, as in the needle
trades and the textile industry, the
employers have undertaken a drive
to smash the unions and defeat the
strikes with the aid of the traitor
Gus A. F. of l.. and socialist official
dom.
The American Federation of La
Dor not only negiects the organiza-
ton of unorganlzed women workers
but it places every obstacle in their
path. And its petty-bourgeois APP
pendage, the Women's Trade Union
League, follows the same policy.
The close combination of reaction
airy forces, the government with its
court injunctions and police, the cor
rupt A. F. of L. and socialist bur-
eaucracy, the open shop employers,
are all driving toward the same end,
to prevent working women from or
ganizing and to smash their unions
when they do organize,
The drive of the Zaritsky Inter
national to smash the Millinery
Workers Union, of the Sigman In
ternational against the dressmakers,
OF the Shiplacoff-W aldman socialist
gang against the paper box makers,
O, the Batty clique against the NV
Bedford textile strikers; these are
all activities in the offensive of boss
es and 9sureaucrats against women
workers organizations.
T.U.E.L. to Organize Them.
The organization of unorganized
women workers thus becomes the
task of the Left wing and it's leader
the T.U.E.L. and is only possible in
the new unions which are being
built in the present struggles of the
women workers. %
! The offensive of the employers
finds an ever-increasing determine.
ton for struggle on the part of the
women workers as is shown by theil
heroic resistance in the New Bed
fod strike and by their determined
struggles in the needle trades, by
the participation of women in the
miners strikes in the most violent
struggles.
The working women in thess
struggles have shown themselves t.
be brave and perseryering fighters
meeting the attacks of the police
gangsters, and mounted constabu
larry on the picket line, conducting
streets demonstrations, undergoing
arrest and prison sentences-organ
izing relief ard defense.
| This growing mood for struggle
among the masses of unorganizet
women workers opens new possible
ties for the building of new militant
unions. The fighting spirit shown
by the women workers in strikes
and on the picket line and in thu
persistent struggle to maintain thes.
organizations is the necessary basi.
on which the new fighting unions
must be built. 1t is from such strug
giles in Passaic, New Bedford ant
in the dressmakers' strike that tn,
new unions in the needle trades ant
the textile industry have grown
The task is now to utilize the fight
ing spirit of the women workers
their mood for resistance to tn,
bosses drive, to widen and strength
en- these new unions and build then
on a broad mass foundation.
Special Apparatus.
The organization drive to organ
ize the unorganized women workers
must be extended to other industrie.
and par .cularly to the heavy indus
tries and those manufacturing wal
materials, to those which like tn,
auto industry are particularly sub
ject to capitalist naturalization
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