The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-08
Demonstrate on
March 8th!
BY CAROLINE DREW

THE socialist Rose Schneiderman, president Of
the Woinen's Trade Union League, has new
scheme to help Mayor Walkers Emergency Un-
employment Relief Committee solve the question:
OF the $4,000 women she admits are unemployed
in New York City She asks that loan fund
be established from which these women may
borrow SO or $40 week during the winter. She
states that las the situation stands now, all the
factory women can do is to go to a charity or
ganization and ask for doles. A system Of week
ly loans would be more agreeable to their dignity
and self-respect."
This socialist, vino has for many years. been
misleading the working women through strika
betrayals and keeping the working women from
organizing and struggling against their very
low wages, thinks 1t is dignified to have the wo~
men workers who earn barely enough to pay
board, room rent, and buy clothes when they are
employed, sink deeply into debt. The socialist
Schneiderman sets the standard Of living Of this
workers below the subsistence level With her
statement that the women workers, the majority
of whom have dependents, can live on Sc per
week.
Elinor II. Herrick, secretary Of the Consumers
League, a liberal" organization, after decrytng
the fact that the unemployed women are not
receiving help, proposes that these women should
be put to work In sewing rooms in the continu"
aClOQ SCHOOLS aG q wage OIL 90 q NEGA Sa4VcE
admitting that most OF the unemployed women
can sew, she covers up the extremely low wage
OF So a week by stating that these should be
apprenticeship classes"
The Consumers League seems TO forget that
twelve million workers are unemployed and tfSaa
capitalism has created a permanent army of un~
employed; that capitalism has created too much
Of everything, while the workers and their FAM
lilies starve They propose further, that the Wo-
men should be trained for jobs which do not
seasonally overlap with their present job, and
that in this way the working women will even
tualIy become self-supporting the year around.
The Emergency Committee to which the So
cislist Rose Schnederman and the liberal Con-
surnerS League offer their suggestions, is spend
ing $4,000 every week to pay wages to 1000 In
vestigators. The task Of these investigators is to
find Jobs which do not exist, and insult the urls
employed by general diStrust and bad treatment
The Communist Party and all the revolutionary
organizations have through their organization ara
propaganda work, shown the working women ana
workers wives IN New York and throughout the
country that the way out Of the crisis Is through
militant struggles for unemployment insurance.,
struggles against the attacks on their living STAN
dard, ard through struggles against the new IN
periahst war being waged in China. Tres
stand for the revolutionary way out Of the crisis
The proposals Of the socialists liberals and ott1eT
enemies of the workers further help the capital
lists enslave the workers, look for more ways ia
make the workers pay for the crisis which capi-
talism created through pacif1st talk, hide the
war preparations, and to make the capitalist
system with its misery for the workers more pa
latable for them.
The working women, employed and unemploy-
ed should give their answer to the socialists and
their ik by mass street demonstrations on March
Eighth, International WomenS Day Under the
leadership Of the Communist Party, thousands OF
women who have had one wage cut after another.
thousands Of unemployed women who were forced
to seek shelter in the municipal lodging houses
mothers who had their children taken away from
them and sent to institutions because there vera
no jobs, they could not pay rent and were s-ic5.
ed will demand unemployment insurance, eG.ai
pay for equal work, the seven hour day. five GsF
week without wage cuts, free hot lunches III the
schools for children; maternity and social in
surance al the expense OF the state.
On March Eight the working women IN the
United States will pledge their solidarity with
the International working class, oppressed under
capitalism, snd with the emancpatad women III
the Union Of Socialist Soviet Republics. They
will pledge to doferd the only workers Country
against imperialist wan.