Document 16: "Foreign Language Bodies Celebrate Woman's Day," New York Call, 1 March 1915, p. 3.Introduction
German-speaking socialist women sponsored their own Woman's Day meeting in New York City in 1915, with a speaker who contrasted "English bourgeois suffragists" with "the Socialists in this country."
FOREIGN LANGUAGE BODIES CELEBRATE WOMAN'S DAY
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Several Strong Speakers Interest Audience on East Side
_______________________ The foreign language branches of the Socialist party of New York celebrated Woman's Day at a joint meeting in the Labor Temple, 247 East 84th street, in the afternoon. It was under the auspices of the German Women's Agitation Committee.
Martha Ortland presided. Mrs. Rautenbach gave a recitation and was followed by Dr. Anna Ingerman, who spoke in German on the necessity of women taking active part in all human activity since their entrance in industrial life.
Julius Koettgen explained the attitude of the English bourgeois suffragists, showing the difference between their attitude on the woman question and that of the Socialists in this country.
Louis Tarcal spoke in Hungarian and Henrietta Derrman in Lettish. The Lettish orchestra played lively march pieces and revolutionary airs and the Lettish Singing Society was heard in several pleasing vocal selections.
