PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OC PLANS TO CONTINUE WAR — Endicott Dr. James G. Endicott, presi- dent of the Canadian Peace Con- gress, is of the opinion that the Nixon administration plans to continue its war of aggression against Vietnam for another five years. He said, “Those who resist the U.S. war of aggression against the Vietnamese people will make a great mistake if they are mis- -led by the propaganda ballyhoo . about withdrawal of another 35,000 men by Christmas. The present plan of Nixon is to keep a strong fighting force of about 250,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam. They will not only back up the Saigon puppets but make sure that they continue fighting. “As U.S. News and World Re- port puts it (Sept. 22, 1969), the U.S. will take steps alone, at home and in the war zone to show the-successor of Ho Chi Minh that Washington is deter- mined to fight the war as long as necessary to ‘obtain an hon- orable peace.’ This means that the U.S. puppets in Saigon will continue to rule, or misrule, South Vietnam. Hanoi is to be forced to accept this idea. Mr. Kissinger, top adviser to Nixon, say that ‘If Hanoi proves intran- sigent and the war goes on, we should seek to achieve as many of our objectives as possible unilaterally.’ It adds that Hanoi is already in serious trouble. ‘Industry is stagnant. Food is short. Floods have driven thous- ands from their homes and morale seems to be sagging.’ We have heard that story often since 1951.” plan haw youl: Gaal The founding convention of a “working-class Marxist-Leninist youth organization” will be held in Chicago December 26, 28. A call has been issued by the “temporary organizing commit- tee” for the new organization. Members of the committee are members of the W. E. B. DuBois club, young members of the Communist Party of the United States and “independent Marx- ist youth.” The call says that “young black, brown and white work- ers” will constitute the “core and leadership” of the new or- ganization. The call says, in part: “U.S. capitalist society is a society challenged by its youth. Young people seeking a mean- ingful future are struggling against a sick society, a society which attempts to drag the whole world with it to the grave. “Millions of young people are demanding an end to a society that threatens raankind with nu- clear annihilation. They demand an end to imperialist wars, rac- ism, poverty, exploitation, re- pression, and the moral and cul- tural] values of the millionaires. Tens of thousands of youth are demanding revolutionary change. Why not women too? By DORIS MAY An area of: struggle that has been sadly neglected is the rights of women. In all peace actions, in every peace organization, women play a vanguard role and numeri- cally outnumber men. In the black liberation movement, the welfare mothers are waging a brave fight; in the schools, wo- men are in the forefront, fight- ing for a better education for their children. There is no rea- son why their struggle, the long-- neglected battle for equality of the sexes should be kissed off as something to think about and deal with in the nebulous future. In today’s world women have felt no significant change in their status either at home or on the job. A working wife in the vast majority of cases has to hold down two full-time jobs. She must rise and shine early to hold both of them down. Before beginning her “ ay- ing” job, she aust Hehe cessary household tasks, dress, feed and bring her child or chil- dren to a nursery or sitter while her husband has only to jump into his pants, enjoy the break- fast she has prepared and set off to work. Her day has only begun! At the end of it, today’s woman must take the deadly, stifling subway trip home and, on. the way, stop to shop for food prior to preparing it for her Lord and Master. Women are warm and loving creatures and I do not say that it is unwillingly done; more often it is a labor of love. But the man of the household more often than not takes it for granted—as his natural birth- right by reason of having been born a male. He disregards her weariness, is not aware that she may be oppressed by the heat of the stove or the tensions of getting together a hurried meal and more than likely he can be found settled in his chair, cool and comfortable, reading the eve- ning paper and awaiting his meal. His wife is busy with “women’s work” and his sex frees him from sharing it; rarely does he have a twinge of con- science. Later on, women’s work con- tinues for there are dishes to be washed, food prepared for the next day, washing, ironing or ' both, various household chores to catch up on; and what is friend husband doing? Snoozing before TV or out for an even- ing’s recreation! There are exceptions to the rule, of course, but the excep- tions all too infrequently are not to be found among so-called Progressive men. Men are not Progressive if they do not un- derstand the need for women to sometimes be free from house- hold drudgery and child care. And doing something about it. In the business world today men follow the same procedures as they do at Home. The execu- tive secretary is hired to do all the drab, dull, uninteresting work her boss does not care to do. Who says that men alone can think? That’ women were meant to be merely their slaves, robots to act on cue when a man commands? Secretaries arrive in the morn- ing, dust the boss’s desk, sharpen his pencils, take note of his ap- pointments and then settle down to do his job. In her underpaid job, she knows that she can never go any farther regardless of her skills and talents. -She may be the brainiest woman in town and her boss a low-grade moron, but she is a woman and therefore must learn to stay “in her place.” There is a shortage of skilled office help for which many varied reasons are given, such as transportation problems, the fussiness of today’s generation about jobs, early marriage, etc. But there are two basic real reasons: 1. Women are more and more coming to realize they have higher potentials; and 2. The wage rate is inadequate in terms of services expected. In industry it is the same sto- ry. Reasons given for the low rate of pay for women range widely. One is: “They are not heads of families and therefore do not need the amount of money a man needs for the same job.” Who said so? There are proportionately as many women as men heading families today and supporting them. Another is: “A girl only takes a job until she finds a husband and then quits, so why put her in a position of responsibility?” Hogwash. They do not ,stop to think that she would perhaps not feel it necessary to find a husband and swap one demand- ing position for another if her upbringing and conditioning by men had not convinced her that this was the only recourse a - woman has! Career women have to put up a hard fight to attain ‘any position of authority on an executive level. They must con- stantly contend with some man who is convinced they should be at home tending the pots and pans, not breaking into his “Socialism, in power in one- third of the world is capturing the minds of*youth in every op- pressed and exploited corner of the globe. The U.S., heartland of imperialism, is no exception. Young people are learning through their own struggles, and the struggles of other peoples, that the working class, black and white, is the one force cap- able of wresting power from the billionaire rulers. Young workers are taught on the as- sembly line the daily exploita- tion of capitalism. “In rebelling against brutal speed-up, dead-end jobs, killing working conditions, low pay, racism, and discrimination bas- ed on sex, young workers, black and white are beginning to feel their power—their class power. “It is these young workers which will lead the youth move- ment into a powerful alliance with the whole working class and the nationally oppressed black, Chicago, Puerto Rican and Indian peoples—an alliance for progress and socialism. “To help build this powerful alliance, a Marxist - Leninist youth organization is needed. Marxism-Leninism is the science of liberation, the science of working class victory. It tells private domain. Faced with a _ Choice of a not-quite competent male and a well-qualified female for desirable positions, the boss invariably chooses the man. The boss is a man. Even so, many brilliant and determined women are willing to put up the fight no matter how great the odds against them; and a few excep- tions have won the good fight. Psychologically a woman has a couple of strikes against her. A modern boss will tell you » about the times the female per- sonnel does not function as ef- ficiently at specific times of the month. What they never talk about is: how much work-time is lost by male employees for other reasons—such as liquid lunches, morning-afters etc., which under no circumstances would ever be overlooked in a woman. 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