‘Second International Conference of Socialist Women’ by Clara Zetkin from The Progressive Woman. Vol. 4 No. 39. August, 1910.

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:

1. Opening
2. Measures for securing more regular relations between the organized, Socialist women of all countries.
3. Practical work in favor of universal woman suffrage, viz. adult suffrage.
4. 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 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 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.

The Socialist Woman was a monthly magazine edited by Josephine Conger-Kaneko from 1907 with this aim: “The Socialist Woman exists for the sole purpose of bringing women into touch with the Socialist idea. We intend to make this paper a forum for the discussion of problems that lie closest to women’s lives, from the Socialist standpoint”. In 1908, Conger-Kaneko and her husband Japanese socialist Kiichi Kaneko moved to Girard, Kansas home of Appeal to Reason, which would print Socialist Woman. In 1909 it was renamed The Progressive Woman, and The Coming Nation in 1913. Its contributors included Socialist Party activist Kate Richards O’Hare, Alice Stone Blackwell, Eugene V. Debs, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and others. A treat of the journal was the For Kiddies in Socialist Homes column by Elizabeth Vincent.The Progressive Woman lasted until 1916.

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