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Hellraisers Journal – Friday September 2, 1910
Copenhagen – Second International Conference of Socialist Women
From The Progressive Woman of August 1910:
Second International Conference of Socialist Women.
The representatives of the organized Socialist Women of different countries, having given their assent, the undersigned convokes by their order,
The Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen on the 26th and 27th of August next. The sittings will be held in the Arbejdernes Forsamlingsbygning, Jagtxej 69 and be opened Friday, August 26th at 9 o’clock in the morning.
The provisional agenda of the conference is:
- Opening
- Measures for securing more regular relations between the organized, Socialist women of all countries.
- Practical work in favor of universal woman suffrage, viz. adult suffrage.
- Social protection and provision for motherhood and infants.
All the organized Socialist women-without difference of the group or party they belong to-as well as all the societies and unions of women workers, recognizing the fact of class war, are earnestly asked to send their delegates-women or men-to this conference.
The organizations of each country are autonomous to decide the rules of sending delegates to the conference. The number of delegates is not restricted for any organization.
The Socialist women in the various countries are kindly asked to forward proposals
All the organized Socialist women-without difference of the group or party they belong to -as well as all the societies and unions of women workers, recognizing the fact of class war, are earnestly asked to send their dele gates-women or men-to this conference. The organizations of each country are autonomous to decide the rules of sending dele gates to the conference. The number of dele gates is not restricted for any organization. The Socialist women in the various countries are kindly asked to forward proposals to the undersigned in order that those proposals can be translated and communicated to the national correspondents in time. The names of the delegates and the reports on the state and work of organizations Socialist women are concerned in, must be sent not later than the 1st of August. The reports are to be published in the three languages of the conference—German, English and French. If received in time, they will be distributed before the opening of the conference.
The women comrades of all countries are heartily requested to do their best that many delegates will attend the conference, so that the second international gathering of Socialist women will successfully continue the theoretical and practical work taken up successfully in a strong community of the Socialist ideal by the First International Conference of Socialist Women at Stuttgart,
Fraternally yours,
CLARA ZETKIN.
International Secretary of the Socialist Women,
Wilhelmshohe, Post Degerloch bei
Stuttgart, Germany.[Photograph and emphasis added.]
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SOURCES
Quote May Wood Simons, SPA Convention Chicago, May 10, 1908
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-speech-by-may-wood-simons-at-socialist-party-convention-brings-delegates-to-tears/
The Progressive Woman
(Girard, Kansas)
-Mar 1909 to May 1911
(note: some issues missing)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ
Aug 1910
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA16-IA225
Letter from Clara Zetkin
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=Zo1EAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.RA18-PP1
IMAGE
Clara Zetkin, Zurich 1897, wiki
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clara_Zetkin.jpg
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Thursday September 1, 1910
Copenhagen – American Socialist Women Attend International
Clara Zetkin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Zetkin
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Bread and Roses – Dawn Landes, Alana Amram & Abigail Chapin
–drawing by Danica Novgorodoff
As we go marching, marching
Unnumbered women dead
Go crying through our singing
Their ancient cry for bread
Small art and love and beauty
Their drudging spirits knew
Yes, it is bread we fight for
But we fight for roses too