The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-02
Page Four

WORKING Women Of the United Statesl The
w economic crisis in the United States which
is part of the general capitalist crisis is forcing
daily more and more burdens upon you. Due TO
the capitalist naturalization, millions OF women
workers have been modified into industry. The
continuous division of labor and decentralization
places you today in the most hazardous occupa-
tions You are subjected to the most fierce speed
I'm. Your role in industry is tremendously In
creased: the lengthening Of the working day
and the continuous slashing OF your wages the
increase of your physical exhaustion through the
speed up system, the total lack OF social insur-
ance for the protection of motherhood and child
hood. the mass Iay-offs and the severe unem-
ployment among married women especially are
causing the most intense suffering to women
and women workers in the United States. The
women workers-one-fourth Of the army OF
workers I'm the United States-are being drawn
into industry in larger numbers to displace men
workers at lower pay AS one Of the most ex-
r,Ioited sections of the American WorSingclass,
,,norpani5ed. Disseminated against and forced to
bear the double burden Of caring for their fani-
lies as well as of bread-w1nnlng the women
workers are especially hard hit by the crlsls' On
the lob. they face hard work much speed up
mn snecIaI protection against the hazards OF in
5rstrv against night work, against long hours,
their children deprived Of nursery care, as I'M
EMPLOYED workers, they face evicttons hunger,
charity and bread lines. Side by side with the
women in industry, the wives OF workers ana
poor farmers are equally hard hit by the mass
unemployment and the lowered standards OF
the workers.
In MANY states there are no special laws limit
ING the work day for women. In the southern
+extiIe mills IS or 70 hour day is not uncon-
ynnn-, NIGHT work for women exists in many in
5,,striaI centers The number OF deaths OF
women in the radium clock shops is a witness
ia the lack of protection Of the working women
in industry.
In spite of these conditions, you are totally
unoreanized, left without defense. The Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor claims about 100000
women members in their various unions. But
what are these organizations doing? Led by
fascist leadership, the American Federation OF
Labor has never attempted to organize women
workers and is following systematic policy OF
discrimination against the masses OF women
workers in collaboration with the bosses. The
so-ce,ted Women's Trade Union League Of the
American Federation OF Labor is only counter
part of the fascist American Federation Of Labor
bureaucracy which with the spreading Of pacif1st
and social fascist propaganda, with the arTang-
ing OF banuuets, etc.. try to divert the women
workers from their struggles for better condi-
tons, from the class struggle, and bind them to
the wheels of capitalism.
One in one country are the women workers
completely free and participate IN the same
duties and rights as the men in the building Of
socialism and in the building Of a new system
1t is only in the Soviet Union that women are
continuously drawn into industry, not for the
purpose of displacing men and increasing unen-
pioyrnent as is the case in the capitalist coun-
tries, but because unemployment has been abol-
ished. It is only in the Soviet Union that the
workers achieved the seven hour day and the
five day week. 1t is only in the Soviet Union
that the workers, men and women, have regular
paid vacations, that every worker is guaranteed
social insurance, that night work is abolished
that the women are free from domestic drudgery
and from the care of their children by the ire
mendods net work of dining rooms, laundries
nurseries and kindergartens provided by the
government and the trade unions. This was
possible only through the victorious revolution
Of october which broke definitely the capitalist
sySten there.