The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-07

ticularly where, is the case TO an ever m
creasing degree the women workers show
particular inclination to follow the leadership
and fighting slogans of the revolutionary OPP
position.
Women workers as the most unorganized
section of the working class, entering strug-
giles outside the control or against the fiat
of the trade union bureaucracy, naturally find
their leader in the revolutionary opposition
and in the new revolutionary unions and come
into direct conflict with the union bureaucracy
as we'll as the employers and the capitalist
state.
The understanding and strike-breaking ac-
tivty of the trade union bureaucrats stands
out especially in struggles and movements
where larger masses of women workers are
nvc, ed and where their interests are espe-
cially at stake.
The conflict of the women workers with the
Triple Alliance of employers, capitalist-social-
democratic governments and union bureau
cracy appears in all the industrial struggles,
large and small, of the recent period in the
Passac, New Bedford and Gastonia strikes
and in the dressmakers' and needle trades
workers struggles in America, in the North
Bohemian textile workers strike, the great
LODI strike in Poland the strikes in Rouen,
Darnetal, ETC., in France, the Silesian textile
workers. struggle in Germany, the Rego Cloth
ing Workers Strike in London, and in numer-
Gus smaller strikes and shop strikes against
wage-cuts and naturalization in various in
dustries, and at the present moment in the
great wooden workers strike in England.
The social-fascists of the English unions
and the Labor Government who succeeded
with the employers in putting over six and
one half per cent wage-cut last year on half
million workers in the cotton industry, most
of them women, are being checked and de-
feated at the present moment in similar at
tempt in the wooden industry The Labor
Governments arbitration (MacMillan) award
of 10 per cent wage cut to the employed,
and the union officials compromise of 3D. per
cent wage cut have been met by the wooden
workers. the majority of them women, with
the most bitter resistance.
For the first time since the General Strike
the British workers are putting up a magni-
ficent fight against the combined efforts OF
the employers, union officials and Labor Gov
eminent to drive them back to work with a
wage cut. The traitorous role of the bureau
Gratis and the Labor Government is clear to
the workers as never before; with open OFFS
i fers of compromise settlements by the union
officials, with the arrests and police brutal
ty, and the application of ancient union
smashing laws against picketing, the sabotage
of relief by the union officials.
The preparations for the final sell-out are
rapidly maturing, but the workers are stand
ing solid in resistance, more than hundred
thousand strong, for a fight to the finish.
In this great struggle women workers are
playing most important part both in the
ranks of the strikers and in the leadership,
and are fighting under the direction of the
Minority Movement and the RILU against
the traitors of Amsterdam and the Second N,
| ternational
1t is at the present period of capitalist crisis
| and naturalization that the betrayal of the
women workers by the social-fascist trade
| union leaders appears in it's most extreme and
| glazing form.
| At moment when the rapidly increasing
| participation of women workers in production
and the class struggle, and their extreme ex-
| plotation as the special victims of capitalist
| naturalization calls for the most energetic
and militant struggle against naturalization
and it's consequences for the women workers
| and for the organization of the broad unor-
|. ganized working women masses, the A. F. OF
| L. and the Amsterdam leadership is not only
| completely inactive in this field, but is work
ing out a program, not of struggle, but Of
| defeat and capitulation for the women workers.
In cooperation with the socialist and tabor"
| coalition governments, trade union bureau.
Gratis are aiding the capitalists in laying the
CneI DurQen OF NATURALIZATION OH DaCkS
of the women workers and at the same time
weakening their organization and undermin-
ing the small protection and security they re-
ceive under the social insurance and labor
| legislation of the capitalist states.
| The union leaders, social-democrats and cab
! inets in all countries are busily engaged de-
vising ways and means of reducing social in
surance, health benefits, maternity benefits
and unemployed relief, particularly in the
case of the women workers. who as the least
organized section of the workers, are the cas-.
| lest object of attack in the capitaist-socal-
fascist campaign. And this at . moment
when sickness and unemployment are increas-
| ing far faster among the women workers than
among the men as consequence Of ration.
| alizaton.
| Socialists" Aid Bosses.
| 1t is in the field of unemployment insurance
that the social-fascst bureaucrats are en-
! deavoring to secure the greatest savings for
| the capitalists at the expense of the workers.
and particularly the working women. In all
capitalist countries systematic raid is being
| conducted by the social-fascists upon the I'M
employment benefits of women workers. All
sorts of Disqualification and determinations
are being introduced by legal decree or adj
! ministrative process to deprive them Of bene-
| fit, drive them off the registers of the labor
exchanges and prevent them from getting
! further work.
| At the same time to complete this drive
| against the women workers energetic cam
| paign is being conducted by the Amsterdam