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4 a »° -; a tae GLICO MTT AL ra | NY 100-18676 UOT eee | = f~ The following is quoted from this article: "Recently in Detroit, and Flint, Mich., I had the opportunity to meet with trade union women and wives of auto workers celebrating International Women's Day. Concerned a8 were these oe WES LS le Set Nae ee Re ee ee ee women with the struggle for peace, there was as yet no evidence of organized activity to win their sisters for the organized peace struggle, "Great stress was placed by a discussion by a woman UAW worker on the necessity to clarify the masses of working women, who want peace, on the source of the war danger, This concern was so great that she hesitated to launch a peace ballot a eee ee ee ee Lediheredeeredes sth ilioadl as women in dozens of cities are doing, for fear that so many people might be involved who have different opinions as to the source of war, "In these cities, where peace ballot activities are involving thousands of women, progressive and Communist women particularly, also share concern as to the source of war, But they are impressed with the kmowledgsa that we eannot eee, ie ee eee ee clarify responsibility for the war danger if we are isolated from the masses of women, "As in Boston, Philadelphia, and the newly~ formed N. Y. Bast Side Women Volunteers for Peace, progressive women recognize, that only by organized united front, grass-roots activity of women of various political opinions is it possible for the great mass of women to express their will for peace, "It is evident in these cases that the minimum basis for unity can be achieved: namely, to demand outlawing of the A~bombs, U, S.-USSR negotiations toward establishing the basis of peaceful co-existence and peaceful competition of the two systems," |