Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1971-03
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note: a women's liberation newspaper : fPedestal Vancouver, B.C. . Volume III. No. 3 March. 1971 .15 page two/pedestal/march, 1971 ON STRIKE On February 11, ten thousand textile workers, mostly women, closed down Lodz, Poland with sit-down strikes. On February 15, the Polish government revoked the price increases it had announced in December. The increases in consumer prices had led to strikes by shipyard workers in December. They demanded a reversal of the increase and a reorganization of decision-making to give workers a say in national policy. Their actions brought significant concessions from the government: recognition of democratically elected workers' committees and recognition of the right to strike. However, the price increases remained. And Polish women felt them most severely. Women workers in Poland (as here) are concentrated in low-wage industries like textiles; seventy percent of the four million Polish working women are married and housewives still bear primary responsibility for children . and for feeding and clothing the whole family. Last fall thousands of housewives participated in demonstrations protesting food shortages and long queues for food and consumer goods. polish women On February 5, when delegates from the shipyard workers met with head of state Gierec, they told him: "You have- convinced us you are with us. Now we must convince our wives!:: The women workers of Lodz were not convinced. When they struck on February 11, they demanded a 15% wage increaseto match the price increases. A four-man delegation from the Polit Bureau, headed by Premier Jaroszewicz, spent 18 hours trying to convince the women they were being "unrealistic." But the women stuck to their guns. The demand they had made for themselves was granted to every worker in Poland on February 15—the reversal of the price increases. The success of this action may well lead to other actions by Polish working women. The establishment of public ownership of industry and the planned econo…
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note: ' "" ' -■---•-:■-.- OUR INDO A Smile I made a long trip From one end ofthe sky To the other. One evening the colour of dark 'coffee I crossed the threshold That separated peace from war. I was afraid my eyes would fall Into a well filled with tears, And meet the gaze ofthe dead. But when dawn exploded, like a grenade, An exhausted woman smiled to me, The foreign visitor. In her smile, o crucified Viet Nam, I saw thy suffering, thy tenderness, and thy strength. Her smile had sent me from one end of life To the other. Blaga Dimitrovna Bulgarian poetess The War Sometimes we stop reading about Vietnam because we want to escape from the horrors and the brutality or because we feel discouraged that no matter what we do, the war goes on and on. But we should and we must keep up with the events of the war— the following is a brief 01 There is not now, nor has there ever been, an American policy for ending the war in Indochina. The goal of military victory has determined all policy decisions since military advisors were sent to Vietnam, strategic hamlets were constructed, a full-scale invasion was mounted, and when that failed, a massive bombing and chemical assault on the countryside of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Only the words to, hide Amer^cVs^ntent^have - changed. Many of us wanted to believe Nixon when he promised, two years ago, to withdraw the troops from Vietnam. Today, it is painfully clear the promises were meant to dissipate dissent at home while the army attempted to win the war. Perhaps the endless newspaper and television reports, in the newly-developed technical language of the Pentagon, about defoliation, anti-personnel weapons, body counts, fire zones, strategic hamlets and Vietnamization have de-sensitized us to the horrors those words describe. 1 million dead and w funded military personnel 3 million dead and v vounded civilians 7 million refugees half the population of South Vietnam kil wounded or displaced. WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN INDOCHINA Vie…
note: Vol. 3, no. 3; March 1971
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
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language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text