Have Women Equal Rights In the Socialist Party?
Klein, Gertrude Weil
By Gertrude Weil Klein Have Women Equal Rights In the Socialist Party? And If They Have, What Have They Done With Them? IS/17- sell ticket*, we run bazaars and we provide the eats at our...
...A steady stream of books, some of them scientific works, come from the typewriters of our women comrades abroad...
...Js that a system...
...And perhaps there is something to the frequently voiced complaint that the men don't really mean their talk of equality, that they believe women are inferior and become impatient whe'n women step out of their familiar places...
...Price refused w go into details as to whether tat freight on which she had riddea was like ths toy train...
...Ths Communists polled 2* votes in Aargau aod .365 in St> Gall...
...To the right of the ballot on this bulletin the Communists issue the following instructions: "At the left side of this paper is a copy of the way the Republican ballot msy spnear...
...The candidates they want to elect for these offices in the order named are Roger S. Murray, George Salisbury and Patrick King...
...Any woman who has some leisure and who doesn't hear the wolf howling arouni her immediate door-step—I've made out a list of three dozen such women whom I know personally— and who does not take advantage of the training being given by the Women's Section under the capable direction of Comrades Esther Friedman and August Claessens, is doing herself an injustice and depriving the Party of a more valuable worker...
...They have an idesl of life totally different from the ideal of the Capitalist mind...
...This schooling of ourselves is itself in the spirit of Socialism...
...Communists Are Seeking Republican Nominations QUTTE, Mont.—The hunger of Communists for vote...
...A Socialist has come to be such frequently by experience, observation, and thinking, but niore frequently, 'perhaps by reading...
...Vote against tat Company...
...Socialists have a cultural idesl...
...I haven't the heart to dwell on the huge, successful demonstrations the Socialist women of various European countries seem to be staging almost continuously...
...and we are doing work worthy of Socialism by realising in our own experience it" cultural aim...
...IS/17- sell ticket*, we run bazaars and we provide the eats at our less formal gatherings '1 hat about sums up the political activity of most of our Socialist women...
...In literature, of the 190 prominent writers, 7 are women...
...The instructions to voters close with the following slogsn: "All out on Election Day...
...Robert T. Kerlin A Socialist Education Program UOVV are we to go about securing this needful preparation...
...Every effort is being made to play at the race issue...
...We dare not make any concession to this prejudice, else ws are no better than the old Capitalist parties...
...Knight became furious sal shouted, '1 don't ears what bar convictions or actions were, she never lived with niggers...
...They are the backboas of the youth movement...
...There are li woman to every 14 men in Rossis, bat the arts, the sciences and in polities, women are a negligible factor...
...SOUKUP TO TOUR U. 5. CHICAGO.—Dr...
...As the defense built up its esse, Atty> Gen...
...In a recent recruiting campaign in Vienna which had as its objective 10,000 new members, 13,087 were actually brought in...
...They may be but alleviating policies, not reforming principles...
...In understanding this work of self-education by reading and discussion as here proposed we are fulfilling both these purposes: we are working for Socialism by preparing ourselves to be its messagebearers...
...wood Patterson, first of ths boyi to face a jury, got under wsy before an all-white jury...
...Ho seeks knowledge and culture as a desirable and in Itself snd for the social power they girt...
...I* also have no sympathy with ths mob spirit" He added the warning that mob action agaiast the prisoners or lawyers weuM meaa that "men attempting sack aetioa mast expect to farfelt their Uvea...
...Who was it called me a Doroty Dir...
...In Aargau the Socialists polled 20,878 votes, as increase of 2,018 over the Inst election, and topped the poll, outdistancing the second party, the Catholic-Conservatives, by over 6,000 votes...
...The plan is as follows: the Communist Party has issued a mimeograph bulletin of instructions to the voters...
...Some of my best friends are men...
...This question betrays in them a want of the spirit snd bask doctrines of Socialism...
...After all these \ears of "equal rights," too...
...To the Socialist there is no alien worker, no foreigner...
...The defense sot up a toy trad) and train ia the courtroom befoit the jury but Mrs...
...These dangers srise from our new popularity and rapid growth...
...I mention the work of the Women's Section specifically because it seems to me to be better adapted to the needs of inexperienced and usually painfully self-conscious women than the various excellent courses given by the Rand School and the various Party branches...
...I can't go into the possible snd probable reasons for this backwardness on the part of the Russian women in this article,' but there are no similar excuses for Americsn women...
...To the left is a sample of the ballot ar.d in the blank ipares for the offices mentioned they have inserted stickers, the end of each sticker being stuck to the blank so that it can be torn off and pasted on the regular printed ballot when they go to the polls...
...When I read the correspondence from the Women's Sections of the various countries I sigh with envy...
...Education alone can make them true Socialists...
...True Socialism has for its aim the abolition of that system, as speedily as possible, not its mitigation...
...We therefore put this outline snd suggestion for study into your • hands, comrades, with the hops that ¦ it may at once stimulate and guide to such a systematic reading of Socialist literature, as will fulfill the purposes above indicated...
...The jail Is sa araenal...
...Arrangements will be made by the- federation for meetings to be addressed by Dr...
...It w«l evident however, that the defense was planning to prove her record by witnesses and documents...
...sf the prohibition law snd sexual relations with many men...
...he has therefore come to abhor it...
...This ia nothing but jimcrowism, what ever plausible reasons may bo given by new converts...
...In St Gall ths Socialists are not ¦o strong as compared with the Conservatives, but their vote was 12,841 as compared with 11.634 si the last election...
...Immigrant and nstivo are alike brothers to him...
...Here is part of the report: "On two occasions groups of 20 women set out from our district...
...Then, a period of searching thought, - ?—and the great decision: he became a convert to Socialism...
...tea...
...Of the 60 prominent persons in the field of ait...
...A systema t i c course of reading in the doctrines and history of Socialism, covering all its aspects, all the arguments Pro...
...Soukup, not only among Bohemian groups, but also with audiences understanding French and German...
...Reading, systematic, persistent reading, is the road to education, and education means usefulness to the Cause...
...Those who fail to get stickers are advised to write in the names...
...There Is danger in our emphasis upon them: this danger, that they may so mitigate the evils and distresses under Capitalism as to perpetuate that nefarious system another generation...
...2 are women...
...If we are to draw national linos after the manner of the old parties we abandon oar fundsmental principle of the world-wide solidarity of labor...
...States next summer, according V word received by the Bohemias federation of the Socialist I'arty, 3551 W. 26th St, Chicago...
...To be specific, Socialists will not countenance the organization of separate locals for Negroes...
...Frank Souket> speaker of the senate of tat Czechoslovak Republic and meat* ber of the executive committee sf the Labor and Socialist International, will visit, the Units...
...To a true Socialist life means the fullest possible realization of self ss a social being...
...By Prof...
...Victoria Price, one sf the two girl hobosj the Scottsboro boys are accused el raping, was the first witness rallei by the stats as the trial of Hay...
...Than she claimed she wtj attacked by six of the Negro boy*, while a knife was held at be throat In cross examination she denied thst she had been convicted e| lewdness, vagrancy, violation...
...Recently Comrade Ada Alberg, one of the staff of the Vienna Arbeiter-'Leitung, published a book called "Woman and Intel lectualism," which was an answer to a much discuss?' book by a fasaoas p.shnsr, eaBed Tha Physiological tmmwmmtmm at Women " . far Russia Only In Russia, where tha woman sra most free, have they made the least progress...
...If they are a little patronizing in their attitude it's up to the women to equip themselves with knowledge, to train themselves to become articulate (talking is a woman's game, anyway) and to make a deliberate, conscious effort to become effective propagandists...
...Educstlon for him is, therefore, a life-long process...
...In fact, women in the Socialist Party have always been accorded "equal lights.' He fore the tight for suffrage, before the feminists liegan their clamor for recognition, ihe Socialist Party welcomed women into all of its activities Why have women failed t o use their privileges within the S o c i alist Party...
...It appears that the Ku hlui Klaa held s meetlag the sight before which the national guard coald not locate...
...But Abroad In the European countries the women are far ahead of us in their work with and among women...
...They will, incidentally, become nore captivating perronalities...
...Repeats Rape Charge Denies Pelice Record DECATUR, Ala.—Mrs...
...They succeeded inside of 2,/J hours in gaining 120 new women members...
...What, then, was necessary to make him an efficient worker...
...In Lithuania, a domestic servants' trade union has been formed through the efforts of the Socialist women...
...When ws da that our reason for existence van ishes...
...3. Empka*it on Mvaturee Designed for Immediate Relief.— These measures are not all necessarily Socialistic, They may be but partial and temporary, not fundamental and permanent in character...
...She avoidel details in every possible way...
...The workers are going to carry on a stick-in, write-in campaign...
...If we have to qualify the answer to the head of this article, if we can't give an emphatic "yes, women have equal rights in the Socialist Party," the qualification is one that the women themselves can very easily remedy if they want to...
...3. Immigration.—In another form racial prejudice is appearing among new recruits, and to this is added a narrow nationalistic spirit Workers soelalietically inclined who have been taught by the Republicans and Democrats to think only of themselves and of the preservation—heaven save them 1—of the American worklngman's standard of living, ask us what we propose to do about immigration...
...They publish numerous periodicals addressed to women and, of course, women sit in all the legislative bodies where the Socialists are represented...
...Now I have no intention of slamming the men...
...Perhaps his experience was interpreted to him by a Socialist speaker or by a Socialist paper or leaflet...
...We have plenty of men and we art going to shoot...
...Of the 106 prominent scientists, 1 is a woman, the Director of the Dostoyevsky Museum—an administrative job, really, rather than a scientific one...
...This booklet has been prepared to guide Socialists, young and old, new and experienced, in this indispensable work of education...
...anyway...
...1. Race Prejudice.—-The drawing of any race or color line is wholly contrary to the fundamental principle of Socialism, which is the brotherhood of man...
...in this city hss induced them to try to elect three of their members to office on the Republican ticket...
...And of the 350 members of the government and central executive, 20 are women, of whom one is the widow of Lenin and one his sister...
...prssidlsg at the first af tb* flosdaiaott keys facing trkd here, created a profound SSBBV ttsa ea Wednesday when he Mnt the Jary oat sf tke ream aad made a dramatic sUtesasat to the saaHeace...
...The offices they seek to capture are Mayor, Treasurer and Police Judge...
...The member who is imbued with the spirit of Socialism, who has grasped its principles and understands the nature of the co-operative commonwealth to bo, will not tolerate the thought of such racial bigotry...
...Captain Burleson of the guard ssid that "the situstion is pretty bad sad ws waat to nip it ia tha bad...
...Often his experience has been hitter: he has been a victim of the ruthlessly inhumane capitalist system...
...Swim Socialist Successes BERNE.—Elections for municipal councillors have just been held in Aargan and St Gall, and the Socialists continue their resistless forward march...
...Large numbers of recruits are joining us who have but an imperfect grasp of our radical principles and who lack the fullness of the spirit of Socialism...
...Spsoial » The New Law** DECATUR, Akt—Jodie laa...
...Ws mutt keep our program of abolition to the front and emphasise the fact that certain of our proposals are no more than temporary measures to alleviate a too urgent and cruel distress to be neglected...
...4—-Dangers Ahead The necessity of immediate education is pressed home upon the old members of our party by the new dangers now threatening us...
...Tea will have to kill tkam gears* before you get tkoM prisoners," said the judge...
...They seem to be the most live and active part of the Socialist movement...
...R. T. Kerlin against it...
...I think one reason my be that they lack the vigor and the knowledge to meet men on equal grounds...
...They will tear off the ilirkcis on here and paste them onto the ballot on election day, in the space that Is left blank under the boss candidates name...
...William Morris, the poet and artist who did so much for Socialism in England a generation ago, !once wrote: "There are only two ways today of being really happy —to work for Socialism or to do work worthy of Socialism...
...After they have pasted in the sticker and it is firmly on the ballot, they will place an X in the square before the name they have just pasted in...
...As those* her story was memorized, she told thst Negro boys swinging knirfc and guns throw six of seven whft* boys in a nearby gondols off tfct train...
...These perils must here have soma consideration that we may be fully awsre of them and know how to meet thsm...
...Of course, they have become bricklayers, shoemakers snd machinists, bat this has merely added to their burdens...
...In Pelsnd they have made it possible, by their help, for the Red Falcons to organise tourist camps in the woods for the boys and girls...
...Socialists would create a society in which the chief occupation of all men throughout their lives was just this kind of education- -an education thst means fullness and richness of life...
...The indispensable way is Reading...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 14
