The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
working men and working women
the world over.
Imperialist Pacifism.


As the conflicts between the i'm
perialist powers deepen and the
struggle for world domination grows
more bitter, as the hatred of cap
italist imperialism toward the So
Wet Union grows more intense, the
war danger looms ever nearer on
the political horizon. Once again
as in 1914 and 1916 the imperiaiists
seek to draw the veil Of phrases of
peace and goodwill over their bloody
deeds. The fourteen points have
faded into ridiculous oblivion. The
Kellogg Peace Pact is the new in
strument of delusion.
Women. lacking in political ex-
perience, isolated in the home, are
readiest victims of pacifist illu-
sions. The bourgeois femfnists
are mobilizing the women's organ
izatiors on a nation wide scale in
the interests of imperialist pacif-
ism.
State and national conferences of
women's organizations with ten mil
lion members are being held this
winter in support Of the Kellogg
Peace Pact. All the vast machinery
of imperialist propaganda press.
radio, pulpit, movies is being used
to put over the Kellogg Peace Pact
and the new war. And the women
are intended to be the first and
chief victims Of this campaign of
befuddlement and hypocrisy. The
working women are for the most
part outside the orbit of these vast
bourgeois women's organizations,
but determined effort is being
made to reach them with the fake
peace propaganda. In this effort the
socialist party and the American
Federation of Labor, the Y.W.C.A.,
the Women's Trade Union League
and smaller agencies are the chief
topls of the capitalists. The drive
for political domination and mis-
leadership of the working women is
increasing daily, as their class con-
seriousness and Revolutionary activity
develops.
Communists Lead.
The Workers (Communist) Party
stands forth as the leader of the
working women of America in their
struggle against American capital
list Imperialism. The isolated, spo-
radio struggles of women workers
50 often defeated in the past are
now being linked up in continuous
chain, strong and permanent, with
the support and guidance Of the
world organization of the proleta-
triat.
The great struggles in Passaic and
New Bedford, in which women work
ers played a leading role both in
numbers and militancy, laid the
foundation for the new National
Textile Union, the only, instrument
for the struggle of the slaves Of the
textile mills, men and women. The
women played part and heroic
part in the struggle of the miners
and are in that struggle to stay and
to help build the fighting union of
the future. The women workers in
the needle trades have long past
the first stage in their struggle. The
marked the beginning of series of
great dressmakers' strike Of 1909
conflicts in which the women work.
ers in the needle trades achieved or
ganization and power.
In the industrial struggle the
women workers are drawn under the
leadership Of the left wing. Deserted
and repulsed by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, neglected and
double-cros.ed by the Women's
Trade Union League, openly be-
trayed by the socialist party and
it's trade union bureaucrats, the
masses of undsrpaid unskilled and
unorganized women workers are
flocking to the banner Of the left
wing, the militant leader in their
struggles.
To Revolutionary Struggle!
In the broader political strug-
giles Of the working women of
America the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party is leading the work
ing women along the only road
that leads to freedom-the road.
Of revolutionary struggle. The
Workers (Communist) Party u.s.;
leading the working women Of
America today to struggle against
war danger with all their forces,
to resist with oil their might the