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Women Have Great Responsibility
And Political Power In America
BY DAN SMYTH.
Chicago Corrupwimt of AFL
Nm Smith
Chicago.—The immense respon
sibility and power of American
women in political edcation was
eloquently described by Mrs. E.
Ryder at the interstate conference
of the Illinoise and Wisconsin
Women’s Trade Union Leagues and
Committees.
Mrs. Ryder, a widow, grand
mother of 14, is preaident-emeritu
of the St. Louis, Mo., Women’i
Trade Union League. She is an In
ternational Typographical Union
member, employed as proofreader
by the St Louis Post-Dispatch. She
also is a social worker, and oper
ates 3 homes in St. Louis—one for
working girls, another for middle
aged women and a third for elder
ly women.
site tola uie iso delegates to UK
conference that organiitd labor hat.
only began to organize the politics'
strength of women unionists.
“Some 30 years ago,” she said,
"a new and significant privilege
was granted to the women of
America. Although it always had
been contended that the hand that
rocked the cradle ruled the world,
it was not until the constitutional
amendment of 1919 that women
were given the right to vote and
were clothed with all the legal
rights of citizenship.
"Today, women occupy positions
of trust' as government ambassa
dors, control large business hold
ings, have occupied a seat in the
Cabinet and possess the major por
tion of the wealth of the country.
"It is true that none of these
high honors or holdings of wealth
have reached the women of labor,
yet labor’s women control the pur
chasing power of labor, which rar.s
into billions of dollars annually.
"They, too, own and control a
weapon of political strength in ti.e
ballot. They can use it to protect
democracy as we know it and value
it. They can combine that voting
strength for organized labor's
benefit.
"In the voting booth, you, as an
individual, wield as much power as
anyone.”
She compared the power of wom
en in polities to the potential of
Niagara Falls before it was har
nessed to generate electricity.
"Labor is now building a power
house," she said. "You will be an
important part of it We are a lit
tle late with our building, but we
will have to get busy. Next year
the enemies of labor will spend a
lot o money, but we will have the
ballots if we use them.”
She called upon all AFL women
to rally behind the leadership of Jo
ph D. Keenan in his work as head
of Labor’s League for Political Ed
ucation.
“Never has the labor movement
been blessed with such political sa
gacity aa has been provided by Joe
Keenan,” she said.
In Chicago, the Women’s Trade
Union Longue has been a potent
political force for years
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AFL Dissatisfied
With Food Plans
Washington. —President H. L.
Mitchell of the National Farm
Labor Union of the AFL expressed
dissatisfaction with the substitu
tion world food plan adopted by
the Food and Agricultural Organ
isation of the United Nations.
His position was supported by
AFL President William Green in a
cable from London and by other
AFL leaders, fanner and co-oper
ative spokesmen.
AFL leaders fear that the fail
ure to adopt the proposal establish
ing international machinery for the
distribution of agricultural sur
pluses in accord with need will lead
to dire economic results in this
country and weaken our position in
the fight against communism
abroad.
"If the agricultural surplus prob
lem is not solved promptly, we are
headed in this country for a rapid
deflation in agriculture accom
panied by irrational and immoral
destruction of so-called surpluses
and by restriction of production,”
Mr. Mitchell warned.
Mr. Mitchell added that after the
state department “murdered” the
original proposal it backed a sub
stitute plan providing for a con
sultative international committee
with no authority and no funds.
He said his union ia dissatisfied
with this watered-down substitute
and will work for some better ar
rangement as soon as possible.
Norris E. Dodd, director-gener
al of the FAO, echoed AFL disap
pointment in closing remarks to
the conference.
“In my emrly remarks to this
conference, I referred to the hun
gry millions of the world,” Mr.
Dodd said. “No delegate here can
feel that we have held out much
hope to them. Oh, yes, we express
ed our sympathy but not much
else. Perhaps the committee sys
tem adopted by the conference will
help some. I hope so. The FAO
staff will do its best to make it
work.”
late Agnes Nestor and her succes
sor, the current president, Mias
Margaret Mahr. Hie league is
credited with securing the 8-hour
day law for women in Illinois, and
the one-day’s-rest-in-seven law
which is applied to both men and
women.
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Ca ifornia Lands
Maritime Union
San Francisco.—The executive
council of the California State
Federation of Labor gave Vice
President Harry Lundeberg, presi
dent of the Seafarers International
Union, a vote of confidence for
breaking “the one-time menacing
strength of Communist influence
in maritime unionism.”
Thee action was a refutation of
smear statements directed at Lun
deberg in the current perjury trial
of Harry Bridges, Communist-con
trolled president of the CIO Inter
national Long shoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union.
"The executive council not only
defended Mr. Lundeberg against
1 the Bridges’ legal charges but also
praised him for his winning cam
paign against Communist efforts to
control the American waterfronts,”
the California Federation reported.
The work of the maritime unions
through the AFL Maritime Trades
Department in repelling commun
i.« m was praised by the AFL's 68th
convention in St. Paul. The con
vention reaffirmed its statement
that "no group in our America has
had to fight more determinedly
against the Communists than have
our maritime unions.”
"On all fronts the anticom
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munist forces have won in this
fifht," the St. Paul convention
said. “Our labor movement, oar
nation owes much to these men
from the maritime anions. Un
doubtediy the most effective thanks
we can fin these men la to help
them in their fight to preserve
their freedgom. This we pledge
ourselves to do.”
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