International Women’s Day To Be Celebrated By Rally International Women’s Day has special significance this year when the democratic peo-, By KAY GREGORY ple of every nation are mobilized in the determination to defeat fascism. Now, after 35 years of inspiring history, this day has a message for present day women which can be a guide to-— ward better lives for all people. Originating in the United States, March 8 was set aside by the women’s committee of the old So- cialist Party in 1908 for demon- strations for “Votes for Women.” Their success in ‘working class districts in New York City led to similar events annually on a na- tionwide scale, because the strug- gle for the right of women in poli- tics and industry meant more to working women than to any oth- ers. In 1910, the Stuttgart Congress of the Socialist International, urged by the great German woman leader, Clara Zetkin, adopted March 8 as International Women's Day. From then on women in all eountries held special meetings on that day to discuss their needs and problems, to celebrate their past achievements, to plan their future organization and demands. That date has been the high point in many events of historic import- ance. . In 1917, the Russian Revolution entered its first stage on this day. A general strike of 90,000 textile and steel workers, joined by women from the breadlines, swelled to @ AID THE R USSIAN RELIEF DRIVE... huge demonstrations. When troops were brought against the strikers, the women went among them, seiz- ing their bayonets in their bare hands, pleading with the soldiers: “Do not shoot your brothers! Do not drewn the revolution in blood!” During the First World War, women began to take an increas- ingly important part in society, They gained the franchise and proved that they were capable of looking after their country’s in- terests by intelligent use of their votes, They became ‘emancipated,’ have since proved, very practically, that there is no job women cannot do equally as well as men. In the present battle of the Al- lied Wations against fascism, women are essentially part of each country’s war effort. Those coun- tries which have been able to mobilize and fully train thelr wom- en will be able to throw greater reserves into the battle of produc- tion and manpower. In the Soviet Union, there are no jobs which women will not do. They work in mines and steel foundries, drive trains, operate farms, fight in the front lines on and help those who are deserving of our help! STYLES — VALUES — QUALITY 3 IM 2 = = TOPCOATS Imported Barrymore, Vel-Tabs and Tweeds . 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To these women, who endure hardships and terror day and night without end, goes the sympathy and solidarity of women in the free countries who haye pledged they will work un- ceasingly until the conquered lands are again liberated from the hell of Nazi terror. In the words of the great Clara Zetkin: “Not a single one of us should rest at ease until fascism, which brings in its train bloody op- pression, terror, starvation and war, has been destroyed.” Symbolic of the role Canadian women are now playing in the war effort, main speaker of the Inter- national Women’s Day Rally to be held in the Beacon Theater this Sunday at 8 p.m, will be Second Lieut. Brown, from the Canadian Women’s Army Corps. Musical items will also be supplied by CWAC members. Mrs, Grace Greenwood, secretary of the Housewives’ League, will address, and President Mrs. Jean Mason will be chairman. Representatives of twenty differ- ent nations will be on the platform in national costume and an inter- esting program has been arranged containing items symbolic of the various nations concerned. Shipwrights Elect Business Agent Shipwrights local of Amalgamat- ed Building Workers of Canada last week elected Lawrence An- derson, former secretary of the Joint Conference of Shipyard Unions, as business agent. Five delegates were elected to represent the local on the manage- ment committee, in addition to two elected last December. Elected last week were Gus Berg, Art Glenn, O. Emerson, D. Bisenman, and W. Kitchener. The local voted to present a Bulova service watch to Bob Stew- art, former popular business agent who recently joined the armed forces. |/Cahada, women are taking on the” burden of keeping the home front_ TUNE IN the Weekly Labor Newscast — ‘GREEN GOLD” Station CJOR 600 Kilocycles Every TUESDAY — 7:45 p.m. with NIGEL MORGAN as Your Reporter 6 Sponsored by the International Woodworkers of America (CiO) | Chinese section. i i i A reminder that the war is not yet over, and that this ¢ try may still feel the blow of aerial bombardment, is - tained in ‘Banshees Over Canada,” latest release in Canada Carries On series. A large part of the Nationali§ Board picture is devoted to ARP work on the Pacific Cc Above is shown ARP headquarters in Vancouver's li ter for the victims. An all-parties committee was formed, including the Moslem League of the Hindu Masasabha, phich presented proposals for set- ting up a People’s Committee to control the suply and distribut tion of food. Permission was demanded for the holding of anti-fascist meetings. Under communist initiative, Twenty defense committees were formed in Calcutta for tackling the problems of food, air raid protec- tion, first aid. A wage increase and a food supply were secured. Meetings and processions have been banned in most Bengal dis- tricts. Communists brought forth the ;slogan, “Everything for Air Raid Indian Communists Organize ARP By PURNA CHARA JOSHI General Secretary of the Communist Party of India BOMBA The Communist Parity here is rallying the people o! cutta in the face of the Japanese raids. Even while the were going on the party worked to unify the transport we and keep the trams running, It strove to secure food anc > Protection,” but the attitude ARP authorities was, to § least, unsatisfactory. _ The policy of the United inces government is inexpli) For instance, the Party hel working class in the big * trial centre of Cawnpore © going out on strike after th ginning of civil disobedience yet all nine leading party trade union workers were _ The Bombay Red Guards’ — ized by the Party did usefui in controlling the food lines, ing distribution, combatting ruption, and helping people gc ly. The Party’s work in tt stance won both recognition the government and the pi appreciation. : Control of the price of was withdrawn by the centra ernment of India on the € that it would bring about t lease of the vast hoarded — of the Punjab. But the resu an immediate increase in the of wheat. It is incomprehensible ho government expects by wit ing price control to reliey acute food problem. DANCE at the EMBASSY 1024 Davie : MOD Tues., Thurs., Sat. OLD TOE = Wed.