The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-16
By MARGARET COWL

WHO is responding to our call for
" preparatory meetings and con-
ferences, all working toward send
ing representative delegation Of
American women to Paris this sum-
mer? Wherever I went I found the
same thing. Women from Y. w.
c. AS. womens peace societies,
churches. Negro women and white
women from trade unions, house
wives organizations. teachers, stu
dents, working women from fac
tories, writers, women professionals,
women from settlement houses,
farm women, women from charity
organizations, etc.
My latest impression is from the
conference I attended in Boston on
June II. There we're 81 registered
delegates representing their organ
izations officially. Altogether there
were about 100 present-all women
except two.
Among the organizations present
were the Boston Central Labor
Union. Women's Trade Union
League, North Eastern United
Farmers Protective Association,
Newton Sunday School, United
Shoe and Leather Workers, Jewish
Family Welfare Association, I. L,
G.. w. u, Neckwear Workers Union.
The Socialist Party sent several OBJ
servers.
The delegate from the Womens
international League for Peace and
Freedom began by speaking about
her two sons and the sort of edu-
cation they were receiving. She
stressed the importance of teaching
them how wrong it was to fight and
kill people just because they hap
pened to be born in other countries,
/ people who in no way harmed
them She was followed by an
other mother of four sons who
stated that she was determined not
to raise them to be soldiers, that
she would tell them as all other
mothers should that war is made by
few who slaughter millions for
their own greed and profits.
A YOUNG girl from the Shoe
n Workers Union. who had been
on the picket line in the last strike,
made a most impressive speech.
She told how the police beat them,
how the police were the ones who
violated the rights supposedly guar
anteed Americans by the Consti-
tution-like the right of free as
sembly. Every attempt is being
made today to deprive workers Of
every right, TO force their conditions
still lower than they are today, to
suppress every effort at resistance
SO that when war comes the bosses
will be assured Of a steady supply
of cheap shoes for the army to
march in. That's why it is so i'm
portant to organize the women shoe
workers now for the fight against
war.
And then representative from
the Socialist Party took the floor.
She was very much worried about
one thing She had heard it said
that the conference would support
the action of the Oakland long
shore strikers who dumped over
board CARO- of scrap iron being
shipped to Japan Wasn't this IL
legal? She wanted to know. Wasn't
this. destroying private property?
Were we going to support illegal
actions Of this sort and get our
selves arrested?
Mrs. Jessica Henderson, the
chairman Of the Boston committee
a member of the National Execu-
tive Committee of the National
Women's Party, answered her i'm
mediately She related incidents
of how the suffragettes were ar
/ rested in the days Of their big fight
and how people are proud to be
arrested for a cause they feel must
be furthered.
Mrs. Elba Chase. farm woman
from New Hampshire, spoke about