The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-17

tiyes Of reactionary patriotic and in
Hustrial organizations. The support
ers Of the anti-Soviet move are the
same people who have opposed the
proposals from certain liberal
groups for boycott against Japan
on the grounds that such a boycott
would lead to war with Japan.
Yesterday delegation visited Sec
rotary of the Treasury Mills to de-
mand the exclusion of Soviet prod
ucts, on the lying pretext that the
Soviet system is based on forced
labor. Secretary Mills expressed his
regrets that under the present law the
Treasury could not place a general
embargo on Soviet products. He sug-
gested that provision to that effect
be placed in the law by Congress.
lie admitted that the Treasury has
had great difficulty in establishing
the fiction of forced labor in the
Soviet Union
Senator Oddie, spokesman for the
delegation, promised to sponsor such
legislation. He declared:
IF you believe the law is defec-
tive it is our purpose to urge the
enactment of effective legislation"
Women Workers and Forced Labor
in the U. S. S. r..
In the meantime. yesterdays New
York journal published an article by
Margaret Mooers Marshall which gave
the "low down" on forced labor in
the Soviet Union. Writing on the
Soviet Union ard the women work
er5. she declared, in part:
Zone has only to read the reports
OF surveys undertaken by the Wo-
mems Bureau OF the United States
Department of Labor, to see how
much plessanter life must be for
Russian than for American mothers
OF families, who also are toiiers in
shop or mill.
"Russia's Policy.
"These American mothers are work
ing not because of any grand theories
about the economic independence of
women, but because-quite simply
their families would suffer without
the pitifully few dollars they can
earn. Yet what is done to help them7
Practically nothing.
Soviet Russia follows different
policy, If you want to know how
different-and TO blush for your
coUntry's callous Indifference TO
working mothers-read that most
interesting new book, Protection Of
Women and Children In Soviet Rus
STA by Alice Withhold Field.
Mrs. Field Is an American woman
who made her own investigation of
Russian conditions. These are some
Of the things she found:
I'm Russia, every woman worker
receives from three to six months
vacation, WITH FULL PAY, when
ever she has baby.
After she goes back to work, she
gets time off every three hours 10
nurse her baby, without being
doeked.
"Creches are connected with an
ever-increasing number of factories
and Offices, where the children of
women workers receive free the
best scientific care.
Social insurance provides med
zeal attention for working mothers
and their babies, and has reduced
infant mortality among the children
of working women from 40 per cent
before the revolution to u.s. per cent
now.
In Soviet Russia" sums up Mrs.
Field, "a woman Is given every pos
sible chance to be both a healthy
mother and at the same time self
supporting individual.
Can the United States say as
much?"
One World Yours Workers! One the
Capitalist World"
Two worlds, workers. The Soviet
world of the emancipated working
Ciccos nll0 tAlC CdplbuiloU WOIlQ III
which small class of parasites con-
trolls the means of production and
robe and plumbers the toiling masses,
driving them like slaves in their shops
and mills, throwing them on the
streets to starve in times of crisis,
callously denying them unemploy-
ment relief, and using their police to
shoot them down when they demand
relief.
Two worlds. workers! The Soviet
world of your class and your hopes.
And the capitalist world of the OPP
pressors. Workers! Defend your So
cialist fatherland Ring the rising,
Furnishing Soviet world with an iron
defense