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NY 100~-18676 “male comrades, Indeed, they were often guilty of in- peding its devclopment. But in the course of our dis- cussions, we found that full clarity did not cxist among our women cadros on the character of such a movenent. How did this show itsclf? "Two tendencics emerged in our discussions. First was the tendency which argued that, since an outstanding wealmess of the past was the failure to build unitcd-front movements among working class and Negro women, it was now nocessary. to limit oursclves to the organization of a working-class women's pcace movement. Clearly such a tendency is wrong. It fails to understand the full concept of our Party's united- front poaco policy which is to croate a movement bascd on the working class in unity with all other poacc-loving pooplics, It roflccts a lack of faith in the working- class women thomsclvcs who can and will lcad ail strata of the women in their strugglc for peace, This tendency has 'licftt-scctarian implications, For to defeat the warmakcrs, it is neccessary to unite all sections of the women under tho lcadership of the working women, as it is neccessary to unite its broad allics undcr the leadership of the working class. "Scocond was tho tendency to scc the nocd of bringing into boing a poaco movoment embracing 211 women. Such comrades argucd that the broad masses of women in our land, becauso of their oppressed social status in present-day socicty, because of thoir role as mothers, ag tho ercators of life, are dcoply opposcd to war and can bo won in thoir majority to pcaco, However, in pro- senting this gcnorally sound point of viow, tho comrades undorostimated tho need that such a movement be rooted first of all among working-class women. Nogro and white. This tondency had certain Right-opportunist implications bocause thore was absont the understanding that the sharp turn to tho working class, required in all phasos of Party work, applicd to tho fiocld of work among women as well,