The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-18
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NY u omen s WO,R
By OLGA GOLD.


! JANUARY 12, 1880, for the Com
munist Party is date to honor
the memory and carry on the teach
ings of the leader of the world pro-
letariat, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
In this article we will examine our
work in Working Women's Fraternal
Organizations in New York.
There is still a lack of clarity
of the functions and purposes of fra
ternal mass organizations and their
relation to the Party. In the New
York District we have the following
womens' organizations: The United
Council of Working Glass Women,
with a membership of over 1000;
The Finnish Womens' Organization,
with a membership of over 300, and
the Lithuanian Organization, with
membership of about 200. There
are also miscellaneous bodies, such
as the Ukrainian, Checkoslavakian,
Hungarian, cts, with a membership
of 10000.
The composition of the United
Council is very unsatisfactory. 979o
of the members are of one national
ity, namely, Jewish, with too large
percentage of wives of skilled
workers. Even in Passaic and Pat
erson, where the mass of working
population is composed of Textile
workers and workers from other
basic industries.
While the membership in the other
organizations are composed of work
ers from basic industries, such as
textile, etc, nevertheless the COM
rades active in these organizations
fail to use them as medium in
assisting in the campaign to organ
ize the unorganized, in helping to
build shop circles and shop nuclei.
etc.
Another serious defect in their
work is that they do not carry suf-
ficient political character. Issues
and local problems are not raised
and utilized on clear class-cut line
The relief work in most of these or
CARNATIONS carries too much of a
charitable character. We must re-
member that relief work is a very
attractive field for petty-bourgeois
activities.
feminist Fight Against Imperialism
The struggle against war must
be carried on in a more feminist
spirit. The evils of pacifism, especi-
ally liberal pacifism, still prevail in
the ranks of our womens' organiza-
tions. 1t is the duty of the COM
munists in these organizations to
train the working class women in
the spirit of feminist struggle
against war, and to prepare the
working women to be ready to take
up arms in defense of their class
and the necessity of war against
war. She must be ready to train and
bring up her children in that spirit.
They must remember that when the
son of the proletarian mother will
be given the rifle. she should tell
him to learn the art of war, but to
use it against the ruling class"
Another short coming in our Ian
guage organizations is a narrow ma
tionalistic view concerning their i'm
mediate nationalistic interests. The
need for internationalism is not put
forward to a sufficient degree.
The gravest short coming is that
the role of the Communist Party is
not brought forward as the leader
and guide. The workers should recog-
nize in their work the Party as the
functioning body and look up to the
Party members in this organization
as representatives and spokesman of
the Communist Party and be proud
to accept the leadership of the COM
rades.
In most cases the Party is made
to appear as another left wing Or
ganization. Our Party comrades do
not function as Communist Frac-
lions in these organizations.
Only by systematic agitation will
we increase the influence of the
Party in these organizations. We
must bring forward the Party as a
leader among the women workers.
We must bear in mind this, however,
that the main agency of increasing
the Party influence among the mas
SEES of women, is the building of shop
circles, delegate conferences, etc.