Page:Olive Malmberg Johnson - Woman and the Socialist Movement (1908).djvu/2

 Prompted by the urgent need of class-education for the 5,000,000 large and ever-increasing army of women workers of the United States, the Socialist Women of Greater New York, organized on October 27, 1906, for the purpose of spreading Socialist thought and knowledge among women, issued in February, 1907, a call for a prize essay on the subject on “Women and the Socialist Movement.” This call was sent throughout the English speaking world, and to France as well.

In response thereto came a large number of excellent essays, of which the present one, by Mrs. Olive M. Johnson, was selected to lead the series. This will be followed soon by three others, recognized of importance to the education objects pursued by the Socialist Women of Greater New York, and then the prize-winning essay from the pen of John H. Halls of London, England.

We offer this first Gospel of true scientific Socialism to our proletarian sisters in the hope they may open their eyes and recognize their only true salvation, the true goal of their sex as it is, in the goal of their whole class, viz.: Complete emancipation from wage slavery, which is the aim and ideal of the class-conscious proletariat of the world, regardless of sex and nationality.

Soon to appear:—“Woman and the Socialist Movement,” the prize essay, written by John H. Halls, of London, England.