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 |
Use and Reproduction | In Copyright: This item is protected by copyright. Copyright to this resource is held by the creator or current rights holder, and the resource is provided here for educational purposes. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without permission of the copyright owner. Users assume full responsibility for any infringement of copyright or related rights. |
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Transcript | 50 WOMEN IN THE [Comrade Shurskaya first of all described the wretched position of women workers in Poland where the Fascist Government has, bit by bit, robbed the workers of all their gains. In many industries, such as textiles, confectionery and chemicals, women form from 60 to 85 per cent, of the personnel, and on the average 35 per cent, of workers in industry in Poland are women.] So, she said, women workers are not a force to be underestimated, they can throw their weight in the scale when it comes to a question of whether the majority of Polish workers are prepared to fight against Fascism or against the Workers' and Peasants' State. The speaker went on to state that Fascism, and its servant clericalism, is doing everything in its power to keep the women away from the class struggle, and that the majority of women in Poland are still in the church. But the growing poverty of the Polish workers, and particularly of the women, are forcing these backward elements further and further into the camp of revolution, into the open struggle for an improved standard of life. During the bloody unemployed demonstrations of 1925-26, the women were in the front ranks, and many found death in this struggle for daily bread. The organisation of women workers under the revolutionary banner is of the greatest importance ; for the thunderclouds of war against the Soviet Union are gathering ever more threateningly. Poland will play a great part in that war. The Polish country, bordering on the Soviet Union, will |