The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-08
Celebrate WOmen'S
Struggles Today
All Over the World
International Women's
Day Meets in All
Parts of City

NEW YORK.-WorkerS, men and
women, Negro and white, will cele-
brate International Women's Day
throughout the city today in common
with celebrations all over the world
and in the Soviet Union, where
women have won their freedom.
Men and women of the needle
trades will celebrate the day at q
mass meeting and demonstration to-
night, right after work, at Bryant
Hall, Sixth Avenue, between 41st and
And Streets. Clarence Hathaway,
organizer of the Communist Party,
Will be the main speaker Other
speakers will be Rose Wortis, assis-
tant secretary Of the Industrial
Union, Grace Banfield, active Negro
worker. Helen Allison will act as
chairman. A very interesting pro-
gram has been arranged, which will
include Feldman, a violinist, Rose
Nanny, singer and Bronze Ghorn,
head Of the Dancers Theater.
The working women in the needle
trades have been in the forefront of
the struggle in the building of the
union, and are today among the best
fighters in the needle trades. Young
women workers who have entered the
trade are beginning to respond to
the message of organization and are
Joining the union in the hundreds.
The March 8th demonstration, Or
ganized for the first time by the
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union, will review the important role
of the women workers in the struggle
and mobilize the needle trades work
ers to extend the work among the
women on the broadest scale SO as to
unite them together with the men
workers in struggle for better condi-
tons against all forms of discrim-
nation and for building and fortify-
ing the Industrial Union.
All needle trades workers are called
upon to come to this demonstration.
Section IS of the Communist Party
has arranged a mass rally for Inter
national Women's Day at the TIE
mont Auditorium, 2o75 Clinton Ave-
uue, Bronx, tonight at pm. Prom
inent speakers will address the meet
ing, and an excellent program has
been arranged. Workers organiza-
tons have pledged to give their full
est support. Striking tenonts and
block committees will march to this
meeting with banners. The working
women's organization of the Bronx
are actively mobilizing women in the
shops and neighborhoods to rally on
this day
Hundreds Of women are in the
forefront of struggles that are going
on in the Bronx. Women are at the
head of house and block committees
in the rent strikes. Girls and women
i'll the dress shops in the Bronx are
conducting a militant strike against
miserable conditions These girls and
women engaged in the struggles are
the most active in their support of
international Women's Day.
NEW YORK.-In the Brownsville
section of Brooklyn workers will
march through the streets and hold
an open-air demonstration in cele-
bration of International Womens
Day.
A parade will start at u noon from
Buffalo and Atlantic Avenues and
wind its way through the working
class neighborhoods to Suffer and
Pennsylvania Avenues in E~SS New
York Here the open-air demonstra-
ton will be held.
| Tonight, at 8 pm. a mass meeting
and concert, with prominent speak
ers and exceptional entertainment,
viii continue the celebration at 1913
| Pitkin Avenue Admission TO this
meeting is free.
| Both events are under the leader
ship Of the Communist Party, Sec
ton 8, and the Womens Council of
Brownsville.
NEW YORK. - Charlotte Todes,
writer on labor subjects and union
organizer, now a member Of the
Daily Worker staff, and Sam Brown,
recently released from jail after serv-
! ing a six month jail sentence, and
delegate to the Albany Conference,
will be the main speakers at the In
| ternational Women's Day meeting in
Harlem tonight at the Spanish Work
ers Centre, l413 Fifth Avenue, near
1l6th Street.
The international character of the
day will be brought out by entertain
ment given by various groups. Selec-
tons will be rendered by the Finnish
Chorus, and Spanish, German and
Italian workers, who make up large
part of the population of Harlem
The meeting is called by Section q
Of the Communist Party. Admission
| is free
NEW YORK.-In Coney Island, at
the Workers Center, 9th Street and
Mermaid Avenue, an extensive en-
tertainment program is also being
| prepared for this evening. The
Coney Island Workers Chorus will
sing. Ruth Corey will recite, the
dramatic section will present play,
| and CARRIER will play the concertina
| Admission is also free.