"Women, War, and Fascism" 1935 Argument Against the Exploitation of Women's Labor "A protest against the use of women as cheap labor in factories and offices, in the U.S.."

American League Against War and Fascism

Pamphlets

Women, War and Fascism. New York: The American League Against War and Fascism, 1935. Original paper wrappers. 18 pages. "A protest against the use of women as cheap labor in factories and offices, in the U.S. as well as in the fascist states. Munitions plants employ women at dangerous tasks, with long hours and low wages. Discriminatory laws against women should be defeated and women's wages made equal with men's for equal work. Published in 1935, this pamphlet was issued by the American League Against War and Fascism, a Popular Front organization formed in 1933 at the height of the Depression and global political instability. The League, whose membership included communists, socialists, liberals, labor leaders, and clergy, sought to organize broad resistance to the rise of fascism in Europe and to U.S. military expansion. In the preface to its founding conference at Madison Square Garden, the League declared: “We call upon all who would defend peace, democracy, and the rights of the working people to unite in struggle against the forces of war and fascism.” This 1935 publication situates the group within the international anti-fascist movement, linking Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia, Hitler’s consolidation of power in Germany, and Japan’s militarism in Asia to domestic threats posed by American reactionary forces.

Pamphlets of the American League Against War and Fascism are historically significant both for their content and for their role in shaping early U.S. anti-fascist discourse. They illustrate how broad coalitions attempted to mobilize ordinary Americans against authoritarianism years before the United States entered World War II. Such ephemera are now scarce, with surviving examples primarily held in institutional collections documenting the American Left, peace activism, and interwar political culture. For historians, it offers a primary source on the rhetoric of Popular Front organizing and the early intersections of anti-war and anti-fascist politics in the United States. Light edgewear and faint toning to wrappers, small closed tear at spine fold, otherwise well-preserved. Overall Very Good.( Buhle 372, Seidman M182.).

Item #15359

Price: $350.00