The Working Woman. Vol. 4 No. 6. August, 1933.

Contents: Slavery for Women Under Recovery Act, Minimum Wage Fraud by Rose Wortis, Rose Pastor Stokes by Grace Hutchins, Clara Zetkin by Harriet Silverman, What Fascism Means to Mothers by Ella Winter, Textile Workers Strike Against Slavery Act by Ann Burlak, We Strike and Win by Carrie Smith and Cora Lewis, Solidarity Not Charity The United Women’s Councils in the Bronx Laundry Strike by Anna Eisenberg, You’re Telling Me!, Women’s Voice by Dora Rich, Speed-up Kills Woman by Mary Sallee, Letters, Mental Health by Dr Lone.

The Working Woman, ‘A Paper for Working Women, Farm Women, and Working-Class Housewives,’ was first published monthly by the Communist Party USA Central Committee Women’s Department from 1929 to 1935, continuing until 1937. It was the first official English-language paper of a Socialist or Communist Party specifically for women (there had been many independent such papers). At first a newspaper and very much an exponent of ‘Third Period’ politics, it played particular attention to Black women, long invisible in the left press. In addition, the magazine covered home-life, women’s health and women’s history, trade union and unemployment struggles, Party activities, as well poems and short stories. The newspaper became a magazine in 1933, and in late 1935 it was folded into The Woman Today which sought to compete with bourgeois women’s magazines in the Popular Front era. The Woman today published until 1937. During its run editors included Isobel Walker Soule, Elinor Curtis, and Margaret Cowl among others.

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/wt/Working-Woman-v4n6-OCR-aug-1933.pdf