The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-10

Reviewed by
LOUISE BROWN
II SPENT several days in Roberts
County, South Dakota, with *
She spoke most enthusiastically Of
the Working Woman. She said that
it was to her one of the very finest
things published, and she just
wished that every woman in her
community would subscribe"
So run the enthusiastic comments
of readers of the Working Woman,
farm organizers, factory workers,
and housewives.
Reading through the December
issue of this 5 cent magazine it
is easy to understand why its cir
culation is growing, why more and
more women buy 1t and pass 1t
along. The experience Of thousands
of women workers is summed up in
the variety Of material in this one
issue.
A stockyard worker speaks: "I
wanted to go through high school
and be somebody-but like hundreds
of others I was forced to leave and
go to work" What working class
girl has not been in the same posi-
tion2 I'VE won the demand of two
cents reduction on a pound of meat
on the fifth day of the strike"
Every woman who must make ends
meet on a reduced salary Of inflated
money wants to know how this was
done. The Working Woman tells
you.
From the article do Pills Work."
to the editorial for a Mothers Bill
of Rights for the establishment of
free birth control clinics, the estab-
lishment of free day nurseries for
working mothers. for maternity in
surance as provided in the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill, and for equal pay for
equal work comes discussion of
demands, and what to do about
problems that affect every working
woman.
What worker, man or woman, will
not respond to the plea in Rose
Wortis' article on Home Work
Give the kids bresk!"? Wages
of eight cents an hour, 81 month
per family-only the organized fight
Of all workers will break this in
famous system of home work en-
couraged by the N. R. A., and ig-
nored alike by Sidney Hillman,
member of the National Labor
Board and President of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers Union and
the government.
EVERY article is important to
II working class women - how to
make a warm gilet to wear under
worn coats, the speech of Helene
StaSsova at the World Congress of
Women against War and Fascism,
the story of how the women of
Hillsboro rallied to the defense of
the is HillSboro prisoners, the call
from the Scottsboro mothers to de-
fend their innocent sons, speedy
review of news of the month-all
these touch on many phases of our
movement showing how the prob
lens involved can best be brought
home to women entering our move
ment.
Xmas with its Intensified business
ballyhoo about getting your shop
ping done early is admirably used
by Sasha Small for description of
how the bourgeois womens publ
cations hide the year-round poverty
of the workers by heart-throbbing
stories. She calls for contributions
to the Prisoners Relief Fund of the
International Labor Defense. The
children too are not forgotten. The
story Guards of the Harvest" is
for children and their parents who
want them to grow up to defend
the workers and their fatherland,
the U. S. S. r.
The message Of the magazine from
the story over the Back Fence"
by Janet freezing: We've got to
make protests, if we ever want to
improve things. It's up to you to
demand these things. You've got
right to them. Let them know you
mean business" makes every reader
and subscriber feel that the Work
ing Woman is the means of intro
ducing the work of the Communist
Party and its mass organizations to
thousands of new women readers,
women who will be organized to
take their place to make new
world with their husbands, sons and
brothers.