The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
STATEMENT of the CENTRAL
COMMITTEE ON INTERNA-
TIONAL WOMENS DAY

International Women's Day must be the means
Of calling sharply to the attention of the whole
workingcIass the special problems confronting
the mass of women, both the women of indus
try on the farm and the wordngclasS house
for the immediate struggles confronting them in
wives 1t must mobilize the whole workingclass
which the women workers play an enormous
part,
The women workers have reacted with stub
born determination and struggle to the attacks
OF the capitalist class. They have participated
in the whole series Of struggles not only as mill
tant fighters but have in the forefront and lead
ership. The strikers in Kingston and Danbury
and many Of the dress makers in New York and
Philadelphia, where the women dressmakers have
shown great militancy in clashes with the police;
the women on the picket line; in the tremend
GUS unemployment demonstrations where women
have shown energetic resistance to the brutal
attacks Of the police show the growing revolu-
tionary strength among the women workers
which can and must be turned into channels Of
greater struggle for the immediate Improvement
Of the condition of the workingclass for the
development of the struggle against the capital
list system.
WOMEN WORKERS OF THE UNITED
STATES! While you become more and more
bourgeois pacifst organizations such as 1.-THE
conference for the Cause and Cure of War;"
''The Women's Trade Union League the church
missions and charity organizations are mobiliz-
ing the masses of working and farmer women
workers wives for the coming militarist war
and for the intervention against the Soviet
Union. The capitalists are doing everything
possible for the militarization of the masses of
working women by drawing them directly into
the war apparatus and INFLAMMATION, which can
be seen in the training of women in production
Of ammunition, in the building of women's mill
tary organizations, etc.
The women workers must mobilize, must Or
ganize not only to fight against the speed up
system. against the wage cuts and lay-offs
against their present slavery conditions but also
against the preparations for nilitarist war which
will involve not only the workers but also the
men and women from the farms. The women
must mobilize and organize against the prepara-
lions for intervention against the Soviet Union.
They must prepare themselves with the rest of
the proletariat to transform the nlilitarist war
into civil war, into proetarian revolution as the
only way that will emancipate them together
with the rest of the proletariat from capitalist
exploitation, and the only way that will eman-
cipate completely the women
Inc women WORKERS OF GIl6 OuC6Q SJaJeS VINO
have given such splendid examples of class bat
ties in the past in Passaic, in Gastonia and in
the present in all strikes that are developing
in the country, must be in the forefront Of the
class struggle fighting shoulder to shoulder with
their fellow workers.
OUT ON MARCH 8, Make March 8, 1881,
a historic day of class struggle; a day of strug-
gle for your rights; day of struggle for better
conditions; day of struggle against the mill
tarist war; day of struggle in defense of the
Soviet Union.
OUT ON MARCH 8! Fight for immediate
unemployment relief and social insurance. JOIN
THE UNEMPLOYED COUNCILS AND TEN
ANTS LEAGUES and struggle against evictions,
for nourishing food for the children, for free
rent heat and light.
JOIN THE TRADE UNION UNITY LEAGUE
AND THE REVOLUTIONARY INDUSTRIAL
UNIONS, the only organizations that will lead
you in the struggles for better conditions; in the
struggle against wage cuts, speed ups and dis
ordinations