The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-10
Bourgeois Women Pacifists Screen
Imperialist War Preparations

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During the world war Mrs Gait was appointed
by the Wonen's Committee Of the Council of
National Defense as the chairman of the Com
mittee of Education whose purpose was to pro-
mote patriotic Education especially among
immigrant women. Thousands Of mass meet
ings of working class women we're organized
through this committee to mobilize the women
and direct their energies for support of a war,
which was definitely against their interests
That Mrs. Gait represents and is a member
of the ruling class, working in the interests Of
the capitalists and against the interests Of the
workers, is proven by her actions and statements
which she made during the war. She said: THE
first message we want to send to the women
now is that whether the nation likes 1t or does
not like it, we are in war, and that whether the
sacrifices necessary to win 1t are made willingly
unwillingly tour emphcsis) they mnaA be
made" ~ 5'9
WT.U.L. Supports U. S. Imperialist War Policy.
The Women's Trade Union League which is
affiliated with the Committee Cause and
Cure of War and which is supposed to represent
the interests of wage earning women in the
u S. follows consistently the treacherous strike
breaking policy of the American Federation Of
Labor. Through pacts of Industrial peace"
with the u. S. Government, their stand against
Unemployment Insurance and for against
the Soviet Union, they are directly helping the
government prepare for war.
In the last world war the Women's Trade
Union League fully subscribed to the war poll
cies of the u. S. Miss Agnes Nestor vice presi-
dent of the w. It. U. L., acted as fellow member
with Mrs. Gait and served as chairman of
Women in Industry of the Womens Committee
of the Council Of National Defense. She had full
exploitation, speed-up and misery imposed upon
women workers through the emergency war
measures. These emergency war measures
wiped out such meagre labor legislation as then
existed for women in shops, and factories
The war records Of the so-called socialists and
pacifists. and their present trike-breaking role
in all OF the militant struggles of the working
class against exploitation, wage cuts and unem-
ploymeht, their campaign of SANDER against the
Soviet Union ample proof as to which class
they belong to- and whose interests they repre-
sent AS can be seen from the above they def
nitely represent the interests of the capitalist
class, and are the enemies Of the workers who
must recognize them such.
In the face of all the brutal obvious and in
disputable facts of authorization in all the capt.
talist countries especially in the U S., the petty
bourgeois pacifists would have the working
masses put their faith in disarmament confer
ences, one of the imperialst weapons that
existed prior to the last world war.
In the face of all of the imperialist war prep
arations of the U. S.. directed especially against
the Soviet Union, it certainly Is timely to re-
member what Comrade Lenin said about imper-
ialist wars and the stand that class conscious
women must take.
How We Rust Fight Against Imperiallst War
Authorization is now penetrating the whole
of sac:al life. Imperialism is in an embittered
struggle Of the big powers for the division and
rediyision Of the world. 1t must therefore in
evitably lead to further militarizaticn in all
countries, including the neutral and small
countries. What will the proletarian women
do against this? viii they only curse every
war, and everything pertaining to war, only
demand disarmament? Never will women Of
an oppressed class reconcile themselves 10
such shameful role. They will say to their
sons:
You will soon grow big. They will put .
gun in your hand. Take II and study thor
ougkly the art Of war. This knowledge is
essential for proletarians-not In order to fire
on their brothers, the workers of other coun-
tries as is being done in the present war and
as the traitors To socialism will counsel you
to debut in order to fight against the bour-
geoisie Of their own country, in order to put
an end to exploitation, poverty and wars, not
by means Of pious wishes but by means u
victory over the bowgeoisie and by Ainznlng
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