The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-09
W0men's Day
Is Great Event In us. S. X.

tie broad masses of women from
benefiting by the new proletarian
attitude toward them and from lend
ing a hand in the building of the
new order, the Communist Party es-
tablished a Department for Work
Among Women. This department
assists the working and peasant
woman to become literate so that
she may more quickly help to build
the new life. Through this depart
ment the Party teaches the toiling
woman to herself build those insti-
tutions which will liberate her from
petty household drudgery. This de-
partment for work among women,
Lenin said, will lead to the COM
plete eradication of the old life.
Today there is no sphere of econ
omic, social or political life in
which women do not actively par
ticipate and play a leading role. In
the Soviets, in the trade unions, in
the co-operatives and in the Com
munist Party itself, the number of
women members, as well as those
holding responsible positions, is con-
stantly growing. This is also true
of the number of skilled women
workers in all industries, trades and
professions except in those where
the employment of women is for
hidden on account of health and
welfare considerations, such as I'M
derground mining, etc.
Women in Trade Schools.
This progress is achieved thru
raising the cultural and political
level of tens of thousands of wom-
en- yearly; thru the trade and pro-
fessional schools which must admit
a definite percentage of women.
This percentage is agreed upon by
the workers thru the trade union
bodies in the industry involved;
thru women delegate meetings,
where women elected by their fell
low working and peasant women
receive an elementary political train
ing and then enter the various Sow
let trade union and cooperative Or
CARNATIONS as "practicants." The
best and most developed of these
women are finally drawn into the
ranks of the Communist Party.
Thus the women are themselves
trained and drawn into the work
of constructing the only society in
which complete equality can really
be achieved-a Communist society.
The women of Soviet Russia won
the right and opportunity to make
themselves equal members of soci-
ETY. thru fighting on the barricades
side by side with their proletarian
brothers. They know from bitter
experience in two revolutions that
the old czarist and capitalist oppres-
sors did not give up their rule with
out an armed uprising of the OPP
pressed people. They relate at their
meetings about the years of strug-
gle against the united attack of the
mighty forces of world imperialism
during the terrible years of famine
and civil war. They know that as
long as capitalism exists outside of
Russia, their fight for the right
to build a society where there will
be no oppressed, no inequality, no
exploitation of man by man is not
yet finished. In the resolutions
adopted at the International Wom-
ems Day meetings in Soviet Russia
it is never forgotten to call upon
the exploited workers and peasants
throughout the world and to the
women especially to follow the ex-
ample set by the toilers of Russia,
to take power into their own hands.
Not a meeting adjourns without
calling upon the world proletariat
and peasantry to be on guard
against the war toward which the
imperialists are heading.
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