The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-06
NO M EMS Dept.
Of c. P. RAPS The
ANTI-LAB0R GANG
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Policies of u. S."

|ldoG HlRuC ny tile w OHlSH Dep0I u
ment of the Communist Party.
"The right wing reactionaries of
the women's trade union movement
meets in Washington today when
the Women's Trade Union League
opens its eleventh national conven-
ton. The convention meets ap-
'propriately in the Y. W. c. A. hotel,
the Grace Dodge Hotel. The Y. w.
c. A., which has many times refused
shelter to organizers Of women
workers in the textile, needle and
other industries. accepts the Wom-
ems Trade Uaion League with upcr
arms.
"The convention call is issued in
the name of Mrs. Raymond Robins,
honorary president, and other
wealthy ladies of the capitalist
class who support the League, and
of their proteges, Rose Schneider
man, and other officials of the
League, who have long since ceased
to have any connection whatever
with working women or the labor
movement and have become mere
tools of the bosses and the capt.
talist class in both the political anc
industrial field.
No Information Available.
"The convention of the league is
something of mystery. No infor-
nation is available at league head
quarters as to order of business,
program of the conference, etc. Per-
haps the league hopes in this way
to escape the notice of the militant
workers and be left in peace. The
convention is organized to give rep
/ resentation only to safe organiza-
4 lions and to exclude all militant ele-
I ments. The A. F. of l.. will be there
: in full force, it's internationals and
state declarations, also members,
| ladies' of the middle class with
flair for uplifting the poor work
ing girls But the women workers
from the shops and factories, the
great mass organizations of women
in the textile needle trades and the
unorganized will be entirely absent.
Their representatives have long
since been thrown out of the WTUL,
which now devotes its energies to
organizing scabs tc break their
strikes.
Petty Bourgeois Statement.
"The cali for this convention is
typical of it's spirit-a feeble, vague,
petty bourgeois meandering. A
girl-her job-the relationship be-
tween them: this is the first con-
Germ of the Women's Trade Union
League of America So it runs!
'One day will be given over to an
organized discussion of the relation
ship between the girl and her job.
Is there demonstrable wage
theory? Are there wage levels that
can be estimated?' Questions such
as these will challenge the dele
gates thinking.
Convention deliberations will COW
err other phases of the women work
ers. Observation-Disclosures chances for
I education and the direction of public
opinion toward an understanding of
her workaday life; and industrial
legislation which follows the die
tates of that opinion and brings up
the laggards in industry. To this
eleventh convention of the NWTUL
of A we summon you that its col
lective thinking may be the richer
for your contribution
"Such is the mixture of liberal re-
formism, cheap sentimentality and
general slip-slop that covers the re-
dictionary character and program of
the Women's Trade Union League,
whose function is not the organiza-
ton of working women but the
breaking up of their organizations,
which is allied with the worst cor
ruptionists of the republican and
democratic parties and supports
their reactionary capitalist and i'm
perialist policies, which is the tool
and servant of the right wing bu-
reaucracy of the A. f. of L. and its
Internationals for the crushing OF
! the militant labor movement. Not a
note of the class struggle in this
convention. No word of the great
struggles of the workers raging in
America today, of the war danger.
Not a mention of capitalist ration
alization and the speed-up with its
terrible results for the women work
ers. Not a word of Soviet Russia
and its achievements for working
women!
Working Women's Reply.
"Women workers have only one
answer to the cal of the National
Women's Trade Union League Con-
vention. That is, Away with you
and all your works! Down with the
betrayers of the class struggle, the
traitors to the cause of the workers
and of working women! On to
I Cleveland to build new trade union
center for workers and working
women, to lead them in the bitter
struggles that lie ahead! On to the
Trade Union Unity Congress on
june 1st.'