The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-08
EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
WORKERS

employers, and establishment of the principle
of unequal pay for unequal work"
In fact the slogan of Equal pay for equal
work. seems to be applied by the bureaucrats
rather in the negative sense to justify every
inequality and discrimination in the wages of
women workers on the basis that her produc-
tiveness or work is not equal to that of mans.
equal pay for equal work" and the married
women out of the factoriesv, the slogan of
the Belgian union bureaucrats, is typical of the
attitude of the Amsterdam International.
Red Trade Unions Are Different
The defense of the wages of women work
ers, of their right to work. the organization of
their struggles against capitalist rationaliza-
ton becomes thus the exclusive task of the red
trade unions and the revolutionary oppositions.
The Amsterdam International ever more cynic-
ally and openly deserts the women workers and
at the moment of greatest need, of great and
growing mass unemployment, wage-cuts and
unheard-of exploitation leaves them at the dis
posal of the employers and tries to isolate
them in the ranks of the working class by rails
ing false issues between men and women work
ers, by neglecting the organization of women
workers and leaving them altogether outside
of the ranks of organized labor
The Red International of Labor Unions, at
this moment of crisis raises the banner of rev.
dictionary struggle before the women workers
and rallies great masses of toiling women in
fierce class battles against the exploiters to-
gether with the men workers; organizes them
in the revolutionary unions on the basis of
concrete program of immediate demands, the
seven-hour day, equal pay for equal work, right
to work of women and married women, special
increases of wages for women workers against
the wage-cuts of the employers to wipe out
the gap between mems and women's wages,
of Of ;+x, a.
and labor protection for women workers.
The Second international and the Amsterdam
International seek to divide the ranks of the
workers, to weaken the class struggle and
spread class collaboration through arbitration
in economic conflicts and socal-democratic Goa
lition policies in politics and at the same time
to aid the imperialists in preparing the next
and the attack on the Soviet Union, by
sabotaging the international solidarity and or
ganization of the workers and the propaganda
of pacifism and the League of Nations, particu-
larly among the women workers.
The Red International on the other hand is
working with the greatest energy to weld more
firmly the ties of international solidarity in the
class struggle and to draw the great masses
of unorganized and terribly exploited women
workers into the general working class fight
against capitalist naturalization and imper-
ialism, to mobilize the working women masses
for the most bitter and determined struggle
against their enemies and betrayers, the So
cial-fascists of the Second international and
Amsterdam, to lead the women workers of all
countries along the road that has brought the
women workers of the Soviet Union freedom
and new life,-the path of the proletarian
revolution.
These the tasks before the Fifth Con-
gress of the R. I. L. U. and the First Interna-
tional Women Workers Trade Union Confer
ence.