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The fourth National Women's Liheration Conference At various different times in history, women have used their time when bread prices rose to ever new heights during the 1840's, economic power as consumers to fight rising prices: thus, at the women way-laid farmers on their way to market and made them sell the grain at reasonable prices. The introduction of early capitalism, meant that both women and men were the producers of commodities, and women early learnt to use their economic strength in this field too - the carliest strike of women workers is recorded in the 1750's.
However, working women's economic strength remained comparatively weak as did their political strength, and this led to them concentrating on trying to get the vote and other bouregois rights. Even where women led to American socialist women organising working women to fight began to get the vote, it was often based on property rights, and this for the vote, leading to the first women's day on February, 28th 1907. The second International Conference of Socialist Woman called for 19th March to be made International Woman's Day as from 1911 In Russia, under the old calendar, 23rd February (now"March 8th) was Working Women's Day.
resolutions passed at the end of the conference effected the
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Demonstration Intermational Womens Day