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UKRAINIAN WOMAN O U R E N G L I S H C O L U M N THE UKRAINIAN W OM AN IN BONDAGE This article is an abridgement of a talk by the author on short wave from a radio station in Rome, Italy, to Ukraine behind the communist Iron Curtain. Lenin was a fanatical сопшій* nist doctrinaire and interpreter of Russian bolshevism. In his writ ings and speeches be demon strated that he was interested -in suffrage for women only as in an instrument to further the .plans of Russian communism. In lhis work under heading “The development of capitalism in Russia” 'he disclosed his opin ion on this subject without regard t o woman as a mother or a keeper of the family hearth, but consid ering her only as a potential force for communist designs. He s:a.id that using women as industrial workers is a -step of progress, and that an attempt to restrict it is a backward movement. Yet he was not interested whether labor in heavy industry is suitable for women. He was satisfied that it helped to promote the communist schemes. In 1913 Lenin expressed his per verse conception respecting wo man’s work siaying that the wo man ought to disregard her health and the health of her children in order to attain equality with the man as a factory worker, for only as such she would be able to carry on the strife to attain im provement in her economic posi tion, through the court, strikes and boyicott. Instead, in that “socialist para dise,” which had 'been framed aft er Lenin’s pattern, the woman is a slave, totally deprived of all rights. It was precisely that “bol shevik equality” which brought about such conditions that women are assigned men’s tasks as labor ers. The biological possibilities and limitations of the woman are of no consideration in Soviet Union. Many professions are be ing allotted to women there, no matter how detrimental they might be to their constitution and character. A woman miner is not an in/frequent scene in USSR. The system has already gone so far that women are working there as blacksmiths in the forges. Doubtless there is no such mis treating of the woman in the Western World. And when we now recall Lenin’s words of 1913 that women ought to overstrain themselves in their toiling in the factories, even to the detriment of their and their children’s health, we do realize that these words apply best to the Soviet labor system. At the first congress of work ing women in 1918 Lenin assured the women that socialism will free them from heavy and ardu ous work and exhaustion. But this phrase had no meaning in Soviet reality. On the contrary, ‘bolshe vism 'brought an exploitation of women’s labor and complete dis regard of their rights as mothers. It, therefore, can truly be stat ed that nowhere in: the wiidle world the woman is as painfully oppressed as in Soviet Union, and in Ukraine in particular. The exploitation by the com munist system of Ukrainian wo men’s stamina and vitality is worse still, for they are coerced to endure the social bondage not only, but likewise the cruel na tional persecution. This is the .price the Ukrainian woman is paying for the loss of freedom and independence of Ukraine. Ivanna Chornobrivets PRESIDENT OF WFUWO ACTIVE AT 84 The president of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations, Madame Olena Ki- silevska, will be 84 years old on March 21. The Ukrainian women 'throughout the world will rejoice and delight in congratulating their leader, one of the pioneer suffragists in West Ukraine, edit or and writer, a senator in Polish (parliament in 1920’s. In all her ac tivities she had been keen and en terprising. After West Ukraine was occu pied by Russian communists she escaped to the West and emigrat ed to Canada as an octogenarian. She settled in Ottawa where she is living with her son. At the present time she is very active as 'the president of WFUWO and is a constant contributor to Ukrain ian newspapers in Canada and United States. Через надмір матеріялу не увійшли до числа звіти з подій та імпрез у лютому та деякі з січня (Нюарк, Н. Дж, Клівленд, Огайо, Гемтремк, Миш.). Вони появляться в черговому числі.
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