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


ilfiteracy and patronize all other
courses. In the factories, UNIVERSE
ties, academies and other educa-
tional institutions the ambitious
women worker students sit beside
the men. The Red Pioneers and
Comsomols also include many girls
in their ranks.
In the Communist Party, trade
unions and cooperatives the women
work on all the workers commit
tees and study as practical work
ers." The working women's delegate
conferences are at the same time
schools for the training of working
women in social and political prob
lens. The number of women who
vote and those who are elected to
the Soviets is constantly on the in
crease, as are the women who are
chairmen of soviets and members
of the Soviet Executive Committees.
The best indication of the growing
equality of women is the fact that
more than thousand village
soviets count peasant women among
their chairmen. Women participate
in the highest legislative and execu-
tive functions of the Soviet republic.
Thus in all the spheres of socialist
construction have become more fully
co-workers equal to the men in their
rights, Importance and responsibility.
The proletarian revolution has
opened an enormous field of activity
for the working women in the build
ing of socialism where the powers
of working women are being used
to the utmost. What have the
working women of the Soviet Union
done toward the achievement of this
aim? History will record the glori-
Gus work of the Russian women in
the revolution, when they fought
heroically on the barricades during
the days of October. They contribu-
ted with the men workers to the
final victory. Since the revolution
the working and peasant women
have given all their energies to the
development of the Soviet power
and the resistance to the attempt to
crush it by blockade, intervention
and civil war. Their efforts in build
ing socialism in the Soviet Union
are long story of heroism, sacri-
flee and untiring effort in the face
of the greatest difficulties and OBJ
stacles. They accept their equality
not as gift and a privilege but
as great responsibility.
The Communist Party of the Sow
let Union has done work of the ut
most Importance in drawing in mil
lions of women to participation in
the building of socialism in Soviet
Russia and in the Soviet Republics
of the Far East where the masses
Of women have awakened to the call
of the proletarian revolution and are
throwing off the yoke Of ancient
tradition, religious laws and social
subjection.f The Soviet power uses
all social and political measures to
break down the obstacles that ham,
per the development of women and
aims at establishing the equality of
women with men in all spheres of
life. Thousands of women in the
eastern Soviet Republics have thrown
off their bonds and become fighters
in the revolutionary movement and
are devoting all their energies to
the achievement of full emancipation
and the building of socialism. The
glorious example of these women
throws its light far beyond the
boundaries of the Soviet Union to
the millions of enslaved women in
the East.
The working women in the Soviet
Union do not accept passively the
fact that world imperialism is pre-
pairing an attack on the proletarian
state. They are arming themselves
against this deadly enemy. They
know that the most effective de-
tense of the first proletarian govern
ment is work for the building of the
socialist economy. They are train
ing themselves too in military prac-
tice, are arming themselves to re-
sist the onslaught of the enemy and
are preparing themselves for the
struggle on the social, cultural and
political fields, and are organizing
themselves for sanitary and other
kinds of work at the front.
In the capitalist countries and the
colonial lands working women are
modifying for the struggle against
capitalist Imperialism and the war
danger. In Italy the women work
ers have shown tremendous courage
under the brutal dictatorship of
Mussolini in fighting fascism and
also the bosses offensive to reduce
wages and install naturalization.
These struggles have been carried
on by the women in the face of the
fascist terror, and prison sentences.
In China the number of women
workers in the peasant organiza-
tions, the trade uh.cns ana house
wives organizations is growing
every day. The women students,
teachers and peasants show the
greatest heroism and determination
in the revolutionary struggle. In
the International Labor Defense the
working women stand out as trained
and daring workers bringing aid to
the victims Of the white terror,
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