The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-02
Call on Working Women to
Rally Against War April 6

gle to smash jim Crowism and the
lynch terror of the bossesl
Be on your guard! Don't fool
yourselves with the idea that the war
in China is far away and will not
reach you! The war in the East is
the beginning Of a war in the West.
Protest together with the men! Close
your ranks Demand Hands Off
China~ Demand the immediate
release Of the 9 inocent Scottsboro
boys sentenced to die on May 18th
by the lynch courts Of Alaban1al
The United States government
spends three billion dollars a year,
two million dollars a day for war
expenditures. 1t is feverishly prepar-
ing for war which will kill mil
lions Of workers, refusing at the same
time to grant one cent for Unem-
ployment Insurance. For the rich.
war means making fresh billions Of
profits; for the workers, war means
fresh monstrous sacrifices, poverty,
starvation and death.
The coming war will drive your
sons, husbands, and brothers into the
trenches, while the capitalists viii
send you, the women, into the fac
tories to produce munitions bombs.
poison gas-all to be used for the
killing Of your fellow workers. The
sons OF the rich will dig themselves
in" in the headquarters and offices
while your sons and daughters serve
as cannon fodder.
The capitalist manufacturers give
you women Jobs in places Of dis
charged men because they pay you
less wages. The rich increase their
profits at the expense of the health
and life Of your children. When YOU
have no money with which to pay
the rent, you are thrown out into the
streets. Many Of yousre forced to
find shelter in tents, dugouts, mis-
cradle Shanty houses-are forced to
work without pay for the privilege
OF having roof over your heads.
Thousands 0 daughters OF the work
ing class are forced to sell their
bodies to war off starvation!
Working class women! 1t depends
on you, on your struggle, on the
strength Of your resistance, whether
war is to be, or not to be, whether
the flames Of another World War,
compared with which the horrors of
the last bloody world slaughter will
pale into significance, will spread
throughout the world. Fight against
the new inlperialiSt war, mad military
Intervention against the Soviet
Unionl Prevent the wholesale mw-
wer Of the Chinese nassesi
Mothers! Don's permit yoltr chill
dren to become cannon fodder for
capitalist warl Train them 10 be-
come fighters in the class STRUGGLED
Working class women! BY staying
away from the class struggle Of the
workers, and by your inactivity you
make it easier for the capitalists to
rob and oppres sthe workers. Spread
this CALI Mobilize the women In
your shop and neighborhood to dem
onstrate against inperialist war on
April 9Th! Join the united front Of
the workers! Fight against inper-
ialist war in defense Of the Soviet
Union for a better future for your
self, your children, and all humanity
Stop the robber war aaginss the
Chinese peoplei
Defend the Chinese sovietsH
Free the Scottsboro boysI
(Signed)
The Needle Trades Workers Ens
dustriaI Union.
The National Textile Workers
Union.
Women's Auxiliaries Of the Me-
tiOnaI Miners Union.
United Council Of Working Class
Women.
Finnish Women's Organizations
Ukrainian United Toilerx Of Amer
lea (Women's Branchesl
Lithuanian Working Womenr Al
liances.
International Workers OrdcS
CWomen's Branchesl.