The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
COMMUNISM IS HOPE
OF WOMEN WORKERS
By JULIET STUART PoYNTZ.

Communism is the only way out
for the working woman. Under the
capitalist system she can never solve
her problems, can never free her
self, as a worker, as a mother, as
woman. On the contrary the grow
ing development of capitalism finds
her sinking deeper and deeper in
the mire. In the factory she is
speeded up and overworked, robbed
of the last drop of strength and
vitality, pail a mere pittance, not
even enough for subsistence. In the
home she is bound to the wheel of
household drudgery trying to make
ends meet for the family with the
cost of living going up and the pay
envelope shrinking. While the
bosses attack on the workers con-
ditions, with lockouts, and unem-
ployment, threatens her and her
children with actual starvation. She
brings her children into the world
in poverty and anxiety and sees
them die in infancy or grow up
stunted and underfed to become ma
chine fodder for the factories and
cannon fodder for capitalist wars.
Naturalization Victims.
The latest development of capital
list imperialism has opened up new
era of exploitation for working wo-
men. The advance Of American inn
perialism abroad, the export of cap
ital into all lands, the competition
with other nations for the world
market and the mastery of world
trade is accompanied by q drive of
capitalists in America to lower
costs of production, to reduce the
standard of life Of the American
workers, and to break up labor or
CARNATIONS and to crush every OBJ
stacle' in the path of carrying out
their program Of complete rational
ization of industry in the interest
Of super profits.
Working women are the special,
victims of this naturalization drive
of the capitalists. Unskilled and UNI
organized, they are least able to
protect themselves against the bos-
SEES Of offensive. Wage cuts are
the rule in all industries and occu-
pations where women are employed.
Their starvation wages are being
sheared to the bone. Their hours
are. being heightened, and unlimited
and unpaid overtime is heaped on
their already unbearable working
time. Legal limitation Of hours long
a dead letter, may soon be wiped off
the statute books altogether by pow
crful employers Hobbies and by
bourgeois feminist reactionaries.
To the Class Struggle.
The new speed-up in war produc-
ton falls hardest upon the working
woman. Ingenious speed-up sys-
TENS, standards Of production, piece
work are being introduced. The
travelling belt or "conveyor" brings
along the work at ever more rapid
pace until the nervous system of
the woman worker breaks under the
strain.
The sUorking womon as she
aWakes to consciousness of her
terrible position realizes that the
capitalist system itself is the
enemy and that there is no relief
for her, no ease from her terrible
burdens except through the class
struggle, through determined at
tack upon the capitalist system
and all ats works, imperialism
abroad, the bosses offensive aud
the naturalization at home.
The interests of the working wo-
man lead out from the shop and the
nome into the broad field of the
class struggle on a national and
International scale. Soviet Russia
with the new freedom Of women
workers and peasants in the land
Of the proletarian dictatorship stands
like beacon star before the eyes
Of the toiling millions Of working
women in other lands. Working
women in America as in other coun-
tries are awakening to world con-
seriousness to a realization Of the i'm
ternational class struggle, of the
world conflict between capitalist
Imperialism and Communism. In
this struggle the deepest interests
Of working women and those Of
their children are involved
Working women in America
must organize to take part in
this struggle and take all meas
pres in defenSe Of the Soviet
Union. the only fstherland of