The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-10
BY ANNA DAMON.

BY ANNA DAMON.
THE 7th National Conference on the Cause
and Cure of War was held in Washington,
D. c.. January 1922 At this conference II
National Women's Organizations were repre-
sented by SGT delegates. While most of the dele
gates represented bourgeois women's societies,
two important groups of delegates came from
the Women's Trade Union League and from the
Young Womens Christian Association, whose
membership is composed chiefly of women
workers.
Ardent support Of the Geneva Disarmament
Conference was the keynote of the Women's
Pacifist Conference in Washington. The "fine
ladies" did their share to fool the women to
believe that peace Is possible under capitalism.
According to the official statements and propa-
ganda of these pacifists all that is necessary is
to create universal sentiment against war, gather
enough signatures for disarmament and peace
and presto-war will be no more
To show that they mean business the pacifists
organized parades, held demonstrations and in
the interest of peace" sent over several trunk
loads OF signatures Of those that were mised
into believing that the Geneva war mongers'
conference can actually disarm by being APP
pealed to- Along with the trunks of signatures
there were also sent four delegates chosen by
the pacifistS at the Washington conference on
the Cause and Cure of War and DR. Mary
Wooley, who is the first woman ever chosen to
an international disarmament conference
Dr. Wooley Conscious Agent of U. S. Imperialism.
The women pacifsts and the feminists hail
the election OF DR.. Wooley as a delegate to the
Disarmament Conference at Geneva as a victory.
They rejoice at the fact that at last woman
has been selected to participate in an Interna-
tonal Conference, and as such will represent
the interests of women. They would have the
women Of the working class believe that the in
terests Of the women are separate and apart
from the interests Of the working class as a
whole. The working class women should not be
taken in by this. We should recognize that Dr.
Wooley has been chosen and is representing the
interests of the capitalist ruling class in the u
s. and is a direct agent of U. 8. imperialsts in a
pacifiSt garb. We may be sure that she will
follow the lead Of the delegation of u s. imper-
ialsm which will play very aggressive role at
the conference.
1t Is most important for the working class
women to recognize the nature of the coming
Geneva disarmament conference and the role of
the bourgeois pacifiSts, In frthering the war
plans OF Wall Street. Out OF this conference
there will come new imperialist allignments
further common understanding against the So
Wet Union and increased armament building
Soviet Union Peace Proposals Rejected
Ing its first Five Year Plan, and is preparing
for the next Five Year plan-rapdly building in
dustries and constantly improving the condi-
tons OF the workers-forging ahead to Socialism
1t is the only country really interested in peace
The delegation Of the Soviet Union BROUGHT
forth real program for total disarmament at
the League OF Nations conferences This pro-
posal was modified and presented times but
each time was rejected by the imperialist powers
who do not want peace, whose very existence is
based on war, and who are only using the dis
armament conferences as smoke screens to hide
the real war preparations.
The Hoover Government had definite p1r-
pose In selecting DR.. Wooley, and that was to
play her up as woman who is supposed to
represent the interests Of the women, knowing
fully that she represents the interests of the
capitalists. Dr. Wooley herself is conscious
enemy OF the workers, belonging to the most
reactionary and despicable strike breaking pat
r1otic womens organization--the Daughters of
the American Revolution-the organization
which has gone on record time and time again
for deportation of foreign born in support of
the Fish Committee to outlaw the Communist
Party, and that is energetically organizing the
sentiment OF women through their organizations
for war against the Soviet Union
Hypocritical Role of Pacifists Unmasked
Working class women must recognize the
despicable role that the leaders OF the pacfist
movement arc playing. Certainly Mrs Carrie