The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-03
By MYRA PAGE

No getting away from it, there is
woman's slant to the workers fight
for a new world, and believe, after
going through the last six issues of
the Working Woman" that this
magazine is beginning to reflect it,
and that is where you and come in,
to speed it on its good way. For GER
tainly any magazine that can serve
to win new sections of this much ma
ligned SEX albeit about half the
working class, to a rousing Commu-
mist view Of things, is worth all the
support that any Red, man or wo-
man, can give it, and then some.
If you are one Of those revolu-
tionary men whose wife docs not
understand me or the movement"
(and what local movement does not
contain a few dozen of YOU, then my
advice, and no Beatrice Fairfax
either, is to save your tears, and try
taking this magazine home to your
wife Or maybe it is your sister that
needs a little education. Read the
You're Telling MeP' feature with
her, and see who'll get the points
first. Then Doctor Lone's health COL
umn, and some of those true stories
working women have to tell about
NR.A., and their struggles for a bet
ter life.
When she reads letters that work
ing women and housewives are send
ing in, raising, and often answering
as well, most of the questions near
est her heart, you will probably find
her surprising you by new interest.
No doubt she is already clipping I'm
the Home" columns from the Daily
Worker? If not, you are slower on
the pickup than I thought. Then, give
her a chance to go with you to the
next meeting or demonstration, and
see how the little woman begins to
change right under your eyes. (Of
course, it may take small string
Of weeks, we can't promise too much
right off. But it's worth trying, at
that
Maybe it is the girl in the shop
next to you who thinks that you, Lii,
are the reverse of the nuts, because
you are always splitting highbrow on
the revolution. 1 am sure that read
ing the live stories of textile women
strikers in the October issue, or about
those corking Negro nutpickers who
went union and Red lin an earlier
issue, bu5 worth looking up), will help
convince her. Not to mention, of
course, that you might learn to talk
with her good old common American,
about things right there in your shop.
II you are women worker, Wheth-
er you happen to be tending looms,
feeding belt, thumbing worries, or
minding babies and stewing poor
mans broth, or whether you are one
of that unemployed army whom
Roosevelt's ballyhco MIRA. program
has put in the category Of Forgotten
Women (but not to remain there, say
we and you) then certainly the
Working Woman" is your magazine.
Squeeze a nickel off your lunch
money, if need be, to get it. And
afterwards, obey that impulse and
write for it. And let the girl next
door or on the next aisle give it the
once over. Write in what you'd like
to see in the magazine: for, as I said
earlier, this is beginning that you
can help. But after you read it, I am
sure that you will agree that the
Working Woman" and its readers
are on their way.
One last point, which I can't re-
sist, the magazine should have more
stories like the one by Bernice Lip
ton in its July issue, "a Brand New
Comrade." How about Bernice and
YOU others sending them inp