The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-23
WORKING WOMEN AND THE
PRESENT ELECTION DRIVE

orally has greatly affected working women.
In some industries such as the textile indus
try in the South, 40 percent are entirely I'M
employed, the others working two and three
days a week. For the first time in the history
of this city do we find working women, many
with children in their arms applying to the
city lodging houses for nights rest.
While the suffering amongst the workers,
particularly the working women, is becoming
more acute, tons of food are being dumped
into the river and the prices of food are in
creasing.
These are the problems confronting the
working women in the present election cam
paign. On the basis of these issues, every
woman must decide to which of the political
parties she must give her support. The
capitalists who talk about the sanctity of
womanhood and motherhood do not hesitate
to compel the women workers to slave for
them 70 hours a week for starvation wages.
They are successfully disregarding the meagre
protective laws that exist in the state for
working women They are indignant over
the fact that women at the city unemploy-
ment agency refused to accept jobs at $500
week
The record of the Socialist Party with
regard to working women is in no way
better than that of the capitalist parties
for better conditions in New York City and
elsewhere the Socialist Party and its sup
porters in the ranks of the A. F. of L.
have openly betrayed the working women,
acting as strike breakers. In the strikes
of the dressmakers and millinery workers of
New York City, in the strikes of the tex
tile workers, the Socialists acted as the
agents of the bosses, resorting to injunc-
lions and Imprisonment for working class
women. Surely the working women who
struggle to improve their conditions by
organizing into the militant unions cannot
give their support election day to their
class enemies every day.
The Communist Party comes to the work
ing women not only on election day but in
the every day struggles in the shops and
factories in the strikes and on the picket
line The Communist Party supports the
working women in the struggle against the
bosses and the fascist burocrats who have
for years persued the policy of discrimina-
ton against working women and have sold
out their interests to the bosses in order to
get some slight concessions for the priv-
eyed few skilled workers. In the present
election campaign the Communist Party has
come forth with program which deals with
the vital issues of the working class as a
whole and the working women in particular
Inc communist FdfIy IlgnIS 1Or equal pay Tor
equal work, 7-hour, 5-day week, no discrmn-
alton on account of race, unemployment and
maternity insurance, protective legislation for
women workers.
1t is the duty of every working woman
whether in industry or in the home to give
her support to the Communist Party, the
leader of the working class. 1t is the duty
of every workingclass woman to bring the
issues of the present campaign into the shops
and factories, into the housewives and fra
ternal organizations, and to help line up a
vote for the Communist Party which will
indicate the awakening of the working wom-
en- to their class interests.
The working women of Germany in the
recent election have supported the Communist
Party in thousands. The working women
of New York City and the whole U. S. in
spired by the examples of our comrades in
Berlin, must cast their votes for the Com
munist Party. Working women are called
upon to send their delegates to the Working
Women's Communist Election Campaign Con-
ference Saturday, September 20, 2 P. NJ. at
Irving Plaza.