Title | Women in the Soviet Union |
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Publisher | Workers Library Publishers |
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Date | 1929 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 67 pages: illustrations; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | HQ1662.W6 1929 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304548~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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Transcript | 42 WOMEN IN THE [Comrade Smith went on to describe the lower standard of life of the British workers, accompanied by increased production, the measures of ruthless economy taken against the unemployed and in regard to all schools and institutions benefiting the worker, saying that poverty had greatly increased. About six million British workers had recently suffered wage reductions, and since the war the worker's standard of life has been constantly on the downgrade. She pointed out that Soviet Russia was the first country to effect stabilisation after the war without external assistance and the only country where the conditions of the workers were improving from day to day.] I felt ashamed to-day when we met the Indian women comrades who reported how their country women were being exploited by British imperialists ; for since we have been in Russia I have come to realise that Soviet Russia means freedom not only for the women workers of Russia, but also for the small nations and the eastern peoples in the Soviet Union. What is happening in Great Britain is also happening in the rest of the capitalist world. We know in England that it is "our" imperialists, with Chamberlain at the head, who are responsible for the lowered standard of life of the worker; that it is the imperialists who are now trying to draw Soviet Russia into war; the imperialists of Great Britain who are responsible for all that. Just a short while ago Chamberlain said that the time would soon come when the governments of all countries would have to unite to stamp out what he |