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“Cherokee Lady”

1990 Hatteras 74 Cockpit Motor Yacht

This is not a dock queen. Her owner enjoys her daily and she receives constant care and attention as a yacht should. She has been to Key west and back already this year and is ready to travel again. Seller is looking to move up to 80-100 vessel, trades considered.

• Exterior Paint shines like new
• Updated Electronics
• Stabilizers
• All Window Frames Repainted
• 42HP Bow Thruster
• (2) Generators
• Flat Panel T.V.'s
• Spotless Inside & Out

Please ask about full list of upgrades

• Specifications
• Description

This beautiful 74 Hatteras Cockpit Motor yacht with Detroit Power has four staterooms and four heads. She has the much preferred factory VIP layout that boasts a centerline queen. Master suite includes its own private entrance, walk-in dressing room, Jacuzzi Tub and Centerline King Berth.

L-Shaped Sofa w/Storage Under

Two Barrel Chairs

Coffee Table

Corian Topped Dining Table w/Chairs

Wet Bar with Ice Maker

Built In Stereo Sound System

52” Flat Screen T.V.

Corian counter Tops

Kitchen Aid 4 Burner Electric Cooktop

Kitchen Aid Trash Compactor

Kitchen Aid Microwave/Convection Oven

Frigidaire Side By Side Refrigerator w/Ice & Water

Garbage Disposal

Double Sinks

Built In Storage

Dinette Opposite to Galley

Kenmore Full Sized Dish Washer

Wood Flooring

Private Access

En-suite Head w/Jacuzzi Tub

Flat Screen TV

Opening Port Lights

Cruise Aire Reverse Cycle Air Conditioning & Heat with Digital Display

Walk In cedar Lined Closet/Dressing Room

Vanity w/Chair

Jacuzzi Tub

Granite Flooring in Head

(2) Pompanette Helm Chairs (refinished 2015)

Huge Aft U-Shaped Settee with Cushions and Teak Tables

Aluminum Framed Bimini Top (New Canvas 2015)

Refrigerator Kitchen Aide (2015)

50#’s a Day Ice Maker (2015)

New Bar with Granite Counter Tops (2015)

Marquipt 1500 Low Profile Davit

Full Electronics

Nonskid Painted in 2015

2015 Garmin 72 Mile HD Radar

2015 7212 Garmin GPS Chart Plotter

2012 5212 Garmin GPS Char Plotter

Furuno 72mi Radar

Robertson Auto Pilot

Datamarine 3200 Speed

Datamarine 3000 Depth

Northstar 941 GPS

Sea 222 Sideband

VDO Instrumentation Hatteras System Monitor

Hynautic Hydraulic Controls

42 HP Bow Thruster

Naiad Stabilizers

Glendenning Synchronizer

Rudder Angle Indicator

Maretron DSM 250 Trip Calculator/Systems Monitor ($13,000) (2013)

(2) Generators Northern Lights (2600hrs) Onan 20kw (1229hrs)

110V/220v AC System & Panel

(2) Automatic Battery Chargers

(2) 50 AMP Shore Power Cords with Glendinning Cable Master’s

Electric Windlass

Washer & Dryer (2011)

Detroit 12V71TI’s

Algae X Fuel Cleaning system

Raw Water Sea Strainers

Synchronizers

Sound Insulations

Emergency Engine Stops

Dual Racor Filters

Fuel Manifold System

Automatic Bilge Pumps (6)

Dripless Shaft Logs w/Spares

Full Beam Walk Through Engine Room

Walker Airseps

850 GPD Watermaker

Bennett Trim Tabs

Spare Shaft

Spare Props

Oil Transfer System

Co2 Fires System

Air Compressor

40 Gallon Water Heater (2015)

Engine Room Painted (2015)

Batteries Replaced (2015)

All Hydraulics Rebuilt (2015)

New Raw Water Pumps (2015)

New Manifolds (2015)

All Fuel Lines Replaced (2015)

New Black Water Lines (2015)

Tune Up on Main Engines/ Ran Rack (2015)

Non Skidd Repainted (2015)

Transom Door With Gate

Swim Platform

Jennair Electric Grill/Sink

Cockpit Freezer

(2) 35# Danforth Anchors w/300’ Chain

Fiberglass Bow Pulpit w/Stainless Anchor Chute w/Anchor & Flag Pennant

Galley Maid Windlass w/Foot Controls

Dual Trumpet Horns

Bow Seat W/Storage Under

New Cushions for Bench and Sunpad (2015)

Vertical Boarding Ladder

Twin Fiberglass Deck Boxes

Deck Hatch Centerline

Stainless Bow Rail

Windshield Wipers (New Blades 2015)

Mounted Boat Hook

Tender, motor and Seller’s Personal Items

Beautiful yacht in ready to enjoy condition. New to the market with all systems ready.

The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.

Mechanical Disclaimer Engine and generator hours are as of the date of the original listing and are a representation of what the listing broker is told by the owner and/or actual reading of the engine hour meters. The broker cannot guarantee the true hours. It is the responsibility of the purchaser and/or his agent to verify engine hours, warranties implied or otherwise and major overhauls as well as all other representations noted on the listing.

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Hatteras Motor Yacht 74 for sale in Kemah, United States of America

Kemah, United States of America

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The Hatteras Motor Yacht 74 is 74 feet long that boasts a 18 feet beam. This 1990 Hatteras Motor Yacht 74 with 1800 horsepower

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1990 Hatteras 74 Custom Cockpit Motor Yacht

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

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Model 74 Custom Cockpit Motor Yacht

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1992 Hatteras Cockpit Motor Yacht

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Model Cockpit Motor Yacht

Category Motor Yachts

1992 Hatteras Cockpit Motor Yacht Chateau Margaux is a very special Hatteras cockpit motor yacht that began life as a 65' and Hatteras added the 9' cockpit extension at the factory.. She is now 74 feet with a large aft deck and a much larger master stateroom.  When she was built, she was the most highly customized Hatteras to leave the factory. Some of these features include VIP queen forward, VIP Queen amidships and crew stateroom to port - all with ensuite heads. Other notable features are walk-around side decks, on deck head, custom galley, two Marquipt custom Stainless Steel elevators (lifts) to the bridge and master stateroom.   She was also built with a custom walnut wood interior.   With her long life in fresh water, and only family usage, she is a gem.  The 2 custom elevators will make it easy for one's loved ones who might have a challenge with mobility to always be a part of the crowd.   The current owners have spent over 300k in the past 15 months to upgrade her to her former elegance with a modern twist.  This was to be there home for the next indefinite period of time, but alas, life can throw one a crooked punch and the seller's plans have changed.  Their loss will be your gain if you are looking for a glorious, elegant, stabilized, ready to go Hatteras Motor Yacht that has more fuel than her sister ships.  Truly an home away from home.

1992 HATTERAS Cockpit Motor Yacht

Category Flybridge Boats

1992 Hatteras Cockpit Motor Yacht CHATEAU MARGAUX is a very special Hatteras cockpit motor yacht that began life as a 65', then Hatteras added the 9' cockpit extension at the factory.  She is now 74 feet with a large aft deck and a much larger master stateroom.  When she was built, she was the most highly customized Hatteras to leave the factory. Some of these custom features include VIP queen forward, VIP Queen amidships and crew stateroom to port - all with en suite heads. Other notable features are walk-around side decks, on deck head, custom galley, two Marquipt custom Stainless Steel elevators (lifts) to the bridge and master stateroom.   Her interior features custom walnut wood. With along life in fresh water solely only family usage, she is a gem.  The 2 custom elevators will make it easy for one's loved ones who might have a challenge with mobility to always be a part of the crowd. The current owners have spent over 300k in the past 15 months to upgrade her to her former elegance with a modern twist.  This was to be their home for the an indefinite period of time, but alas, life can throw one a crooked punch and the seller's plans have changed.  Their loss will be your gain if you are looking for a glorious, elegant, stabilized, ready-to-go Hatteras Motor Yacht that has more fuel than her sister ships.  Truly a home away from home.

2016 Hatteras Flush Deck Motor Yacht

Model Flush Deck Motor Yacht

2016 Hatteras Flush Deck Motor Yacht CHATEAU MARGAUX is a very special Hatteras cockpit motor yacht that began life as a 65', then Hatteras added the 9' cockpit extension at the factory.  She is now 74 feet with a large aft deck and a much larger master stateroom.  When she was built, she was the most highly customized Hatteras to leave the factory. Some of these custom features include VIP queen forward, VIP Queen amidships and crew stateroom to port - all with en suite heads. Other notable features are walk-around side decks, on deck head, custom galley, two Marquipt custom Stainless Steel elevators (lifts) to the bridge and master stateroom.   Her interior features custom walnut wood. With along life in fresh water solely only family usage, she is a gem.  The 2 custom elevators will make it easy for one's loved ones who might have a challenge with mobility to always be a part of the crowd. The current owners have spent over 300k in the past 15 months to upgrade her to her former elegance with a modern twist.  This was to be their home for the an indefinite period of time, but alas, life can throw one a crooked punch and the seller's plans have changed.  Their loss will be your gain if you are looking for a glorious, elegant, stabilized, ready-to-go Hatteras Motor Yacht that has more fuel than her sister ships.  Truly a home away from home. The extra list that goes with this amazingly well equipped yacht includes new folding bicycles, spare electrical cords, spare parts, spare pumps, pare engine parts, spare generator parts, and a lot more. The list is extensive.

2016 Hatteras Flish Deck Motor Yacht

Model Flish Deck Motor Yacht

2016 Hatteras Flish Deck Motor Yacht CHATEAU MARGAUX is a very special Hatteras cockpit motor yacht that began life as a 65', then Hatteras added the 9' cockpit extension at the factory.  She is now 74 feet with a large aft deck and a much larger master stateroom.  When she was built, she was the most highly customized Hatteras to leave the factory. Some of these custom features include VIP queen forward, VIP Queen amidships and crew stateroom to port - all with en suite heads. Other notable features are walk-around side decks, on deck head, custom galley, two Marquipt custom Stainless Steel elevators (lifts) to the bridge and master stateroom.   Her interior features custom walnut wood. With along life in fresh water solely only family usage, she is a gem.  The 2 custom elevators will make it easy for one's loved ones who might have a challenge with mobility to always be a part of the crowd. The current owners have spent over 300k in the past 15 months to upgrade her to her former elegance with a modern twist.  This was to be their home for the an indefinite period of time, but alas, life can throw one a crooked punch and the seller's plans have changed.  Their loss will be your gain if you are looking for a glorious, elegant, stabilized, ready-to-go Hatteras Motor Yacht that has more fuel than her sister ships.  Truly a home away from home. The extra list that goes with this amazingly well equipped yacht includes new folding bicycles, spare electrical cords, spare parts, spare pumps, pare engine parts, spare generator parts, and a lot more. The list is extensive.

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Hatteras 75

• By Peter Frederiksen
• Updated: October 4, 2007

The new Hatteras 75 Cockpit Motoryacht is an emotional rescue for yacht owners who are not smitten by the seductive sheers and curves of European boats. For too long, I felt American-built motoryachts were forced to trade speed and handling for plush accommodations, livability and creature features. That observation changed abruptly when I took the helm in the ocean off Ft. Lauderdale and had a saltwater epiphany. With a pair of 1,400 hp 3412E Caterpillars ramped up to 2325 rpm, this 56 ton beast ripped to a top speed of 27 knots, ignoring the 3′ to 4′ seas as though it were stepping on grapes. This is the only new current Hatteras motoryacht without propeller pockets, so she runs level even when the trim tabs are up. In a head sea this accounts for some spray on the windshield, particularly at full speed if you happen to punch through a green one, because she doesn’t move around much or pound. She runs through everything like a fullback. The swishing of spray whiting out the windshield filtered engine chatter to barely audible levels. Even as the wipers cleared the glass between deluges, the decibel meter never passed 74. Power hydraulic steering was flats-boat quick. On full-tilt turns, four revolutions lock-to-lock, she wheeled around like a sportfisherman whose skipper just got the word the sailfish were biting 10 miles away on a reciprocal heading with only an hour to go in the tournament.

In calm waters, and around busy Bahia Mar, the big Hatteras was oblivious to beam winds, thanks to her 6-foot draft. Yet, when I engaged one or both transmissions, she awoke like a sleeping retriever that heard the refrigerator door slam. Six-blade 48- by 76-inch propellers turn on 3 1/2-inch shafts. With a massive .87 blade ratio and 4.36:1 gear ratio, these propellers move water like opening up Hoover Dam flood gates. Conversely, pulling back on the throttles was the closest thing to a boat with brakes I’ve experienced in some time. Stabilizers are standard and a 28 hp bow thruster is an option.

Ordinarily, a boat of this LOA mandates a full or partial crew. While her size will necessitate regular elbow grease to keep the snow-white polyurethane painted exterior clean, the windows spotless and the stainless-steel polished, a husband and wife team should be able to run this boat themselves without breaking a sweat. Not only is the boat responsive, but the helms and deck plans facilitate short-handed operation.

Springline cleats are conveniently placed right outside the port and starboard wheelhouse doors, which also access the foredeck. With her good manners, it would be easy to lasso a piling, warp the line around the spring cleat and feed slack to it while you’re standing at the lower helm working the clutches to jockey the boat into place. The rear bulkhead is sliding glass that is framed in polished stainless steel for an unobstructed view astern. Aboard many motoryachts, you hope there’s enough stern visibility to keep a piling in sight to help judge your position backing down into a slip to prevent ripping off the swim platform. Aboard this boat, looking aft is like viewing a movie screen in a theater. This feature also proved useful during the sea trial when a 20 knot gust of north wind blew the bow cushion overboard and we backed up to retrieve it. I had some concern that the sliding glass might compromise the after bulkhead, or cause the roof to wobble in a seaway. But Hatteras informs me that the frame is bedded into six-inch thick fiberglass and the hardtop is not freestanding.

Docking from the flying bridge station won’t be a problem, either. The bridge wings are four feet wider than those on the Hatteras 74, the model replaced by this new boat. That’s two more feet per side, which is a significant advantage when pulling into a tight slip since you get a much better view.

Whether you run this boat from the lower helm to stay in the climate-controlled wheelhouse, or drink in fresh air from the bridge, you won’t be lonely. The lower helm has a lounge for three built over a chest of drawers. It’s comfortable, although I would add a footrest to support dangling feet. The flying bridge, available in two styles with an island or key bar and facing L-shape lounges, accommodates 20 of your friends, as well as a tender and water toys.

Like the flying bridge, the saloon makes maximum use of the wide-body design for dining and entertaining. Interior flow and furnishings aboard our test boat were specified by the owner, and they feature a table, sofas, occasional chairs and dual entertainment centers. Joinery was clear and birds-eye maple, with bullnose moldings against marble countertops and a beige color scheme. Frameless side windows wrap around the saloon and wheelhouse, admitting natural light while adding subtle shaping to her traditional yet modern profile.

Hatteras builds the 75 Series in multiple versions, and this bread and butter boat presently is on a 22-day schedule. Styles include the widebody cockpit version as tested, and walkaround side decks are optional. However, there’s enough walking surface and a sturdy cabin grabrail on this wide-body model to get my vote. I would prefer not to sacrifice interior acreage, since there is also the afterdeck and cockpit to enjoy. A Sportdeck model eliminates the cockpit in favor of a larger afterdeck. The test boat had five staterooms; the fifth cabin also can be an office. A four stateroom plan places three of the cabins forward of the engineroom, with the full-beam master suite and his and her heads aft.

The walkabout engineroom is a benchmark of engineering that a professional skipper and the owner/operator can appreciate. Virtually every piece of equipment and every through-hull fitting is labeled for easy identification and purpose. Throughout the yacht, hatches are cut into the sole to allow access and maintenance of crucial systems. Despite her beauty, she remains business-like. Portable fire extinguishers are sprinkled throughout the interior, either exposed in recessed compartments or stowed in well-marked lockers. A separate machinery room, forward of the amidships full-beam guest suite, houses a pair of generators and the air conditioning units. Installations are neat, clean and intelligently laid out.

Convenience is the mind set throughout the yacht. The standard electronics package includes a plotter, GPS, autopilot, VHF and depth and speed instruments. From simplified line handling to intuitively reaching for a light switch and finding it there in the dark, the Hatteras 75 makes a convincing argument that you don’t need to sacrifice accommodations or performance in an American engineered and built cockpit motoryacht.

Contact: Hatteras Yachts, (252) 633-3101; www.hatterasyachts.com .

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V. I. Lenin

The tasks of the working women’s movement in the soviet republic, speech delivered at the fourth moscow city conference of non-party working women, september 23, 1919.

Delivered: 23 September, 1919 First Published: Pravda No. 213, September 25, 1919 ; Published according to the text of the pamphlet, V. I. Lenin, Speech at the Working Women’s Congress, Moscow, 1919, verified with the Pravda text Source: Lenin’s Collected Works , 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 30, pages 40-46 Translated: George Hanna Transcription/HTML Markup: David Walters & Robert Cymbala Copyleft: V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marx.org) 2002. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Comrades, it gives me pleasure to greet a conference of working women. I will allow myself to pass over those subjects and questions that, of course, at the moment are the cause of the greatest concern to every working woman and to every politically-conscious individual from among the working people; these are the most urgent questions—that of bread and that of the war situation. I know from the newspaper reports of your meetings that these questions have been dealt with exhaustively by Comrade Trotsky as far as war questions are concerned and by Comrades Yakovleva and Svidersky as far as the bread question is concerned; please, therefore, allow me to pass over those questions.

I should like to say a few words about the general tasks facing the working women’s movement in the Soviet Republic, those that are, in general, connected with the transition to socialism, and those that are of particular urgency at the present time. Comrades, the question of the position of women was raised by Soviet power from the very beginning. It seems to me that any workers’ state in the course of transition to socialism is laced with a double task. The first part of that task is relatively simple and easy. It concerns those old laws that kept women in a position of inequality as compared to men.

Participants in all emancipation movements in Western Europe have long since, not for decades but for centuries, put forward the demand that obsolete laws be annulled and women and men be made equal by law, but none of the democratic European states, none of the most advanced republics have succeeded in putting it into effect, because wherever there is capitalism, wherever there is private property in land and factories, wherever the power of capital is preserved, the men retain their privileges. It was possible to put it into effect in Russia only because the power of the workers has been established here since October 25, 1917. From its very inception Soviet power set out to be the power of the working people, hostile to all forms of exploitation. It set itself the task of doing away with the possibility of the exploitation of the working people by the landowners and capitalists, of doing away with the rule of capital. Soviet power has been trying to make it possible for the working people to organise their lives without private property in land, without privately-owned factories, without that private property that everywhere, throughout the world, even where there is complete political liberty, even in the most democratic republics, keeps the working people in a state of what is actually poverty and wage-slavery, and women in a state of double slavery.

Soviet power, the power of the working people, in the first months of its existence effected a very definite revolution in legislation that concerns women. Nothing whatever is left in the Soviet Republic of those laws that put women in a subordinate position. I am speaking specifically of those laws that took advantage of the weaker position of women and put them in a position of inequality and often, even, in a humiliating position, i.e., the laws on divorce and on children born out of wedlock and on the right of a woman to summon the father of a child for maintenance.

It is particularly in this sphere that bourgeois legislation, even, it must be said, in the most advanced countries, takes advantage of the weaker position of women to humiliate them and give them a status of inequality. It is particularly in this sphere that Soviet power has left nothing whatever of the old, unjust laws that were intolerable for working people. We may now say proudly and without any exaggeration that apart from Soviet Russia there is not a country in the world where women enjoy full equality and where women are not placed in the humiliating position felt particularly in day-to-day family life. This was one of our first and most important tasks.

If you have occasion to come into contact with parties that are hostile to the Bolsheviks, if there should come into your hands newspapers published in Russian in the regions occupied by Koichak or Denikin, or if you happen to talk to people who share the views of those newspapers, you may often hear from them the accusation that Soviet power has violated democracy.

We, the representatives of Soviet power, Bolshevik Communists and supporters of Soviet power are often accused of violating democracy and proof of this is given by citing the fact that Soviet power dispersed the Constituent Assembly. We usually answer this accusation as follows; that democracy and that Constituent Assembly which came into being when private property still existed on earth, when there was no equality between people, when the one who possessed his own capital was the boss and the others worked for him and were his wage-slaves-that was a democracy on which we place no value. Such democracy concealed slavery even in the most advanced countries. We socialists are supporters of democracy only insofar as it eases the position of the working and oppressed people. Throughout the world socialism has set itself the task of combating every kind of exploitation of man by man. That democracy has real value for us winch serves the exploited, the underprivileged. If those who do not work are disfranchised that would be real equality between people. Those who do not work should not eat.

In reply to these accusations we say that the question must be presented in this way—how is democracy implemented in various countries? We see that equality is proclaimed in all democratic republics but in the civil laws and in laws on the rights of women—those that concern their position in the family and divorce—we see inequality and the humiliation of women at every step, and we say that this is a violation of democracy specifically in respect of the oppressed. Soviet power has implemented democracy to a greater degree than any of the other, most advanced countries because it has not left in its laws any trace of the inequality of women. Again I say that no other state and no other legislation has ever done for women a half of what Soviet power did in the first months of its existence.

Laws alone, of course, are not enough, and we are by no means content with mere decrees. In the sphere of legislation, however, we have done everything required of us to put women in a position of equality and we have every right to be proud of it. The position of women in Soviet Russia is now ideal as compared with their position in the most advanced states. We tell ourselves, however, that this is, of course, only the beginning.

Owing to her work in the house, the woman is still in a difficult position. To effect her complete emancipation and make her the equal of the man it is necessary for the national economy to be socialised and for women to participate in common productive labour. Then women will occupy the same position as men.

Here we are not, of course, speaking of making women the equal of men as far as productivity of labour, the quantity of labour, the length of the working day, labour conditions, etc., are concerned; we mean that the woman should not, unlike the man, be oppressed because of her position in the family. You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain factually downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

In pursuance of the socialist ideal we want to struggle for the full implementation of socialism, and here an extensive field of labour opens up before women. We are now making serious preparations to clear the ground for the building of socialism, but the building of socialism will begin only when we have achieved the complete equality of women and when we undertake the new work together with women who have been ’emancipated from that petty, stultifying, unproductive work. This is a job that will take us many, many years.

This work cannot show any rapid results and will not produce a scintillating effect.

We are setting up model institutions, dining-rooms and nurseries, that will emancipate women from housework. And the work of organising all these institutions will fall mainly to women. It has to be admitted that in Russia today there are very few institutions that would help woman out of her state of household slavery. There is an insignificant number of them, and the conditions now obtaining in the Soviet Republic—the war and food situation about which comrades have already given you the details—hinder us in this work. Still, it must be said that these institutions that liberate women from their position as household slaves are springing up wherever it is in any way possible.

We say that the emancipation of the workers must be effected by the workers themselves, and in exactly the same way the emancipation of working women is a matter for the working women themselves. The working women must themselves see to it that such institutions are developed, and this activity will bring about a complete change in their position as compared with what it was under the old, capitalist society.

In order to be active in politics under the old, capitalist regime special training was required, so that women played an insignificant part in politics, even in the most advanced and free capitalist countries. Our task is to make politics available to every working woman. Ever since private property in laud and factories has been abolished and the power of the landowners and capitalists overthrown, the tasks of politics have become simple, clear and comprehensible to the working people as a whole, including working women. In capitalist society the woman’s position is marked by such inequality that the extent of her participation in politics is only an insignificant fraction of that of the man. The power of the working people is necessary for a change to be wrought in this situation, for then the main tasks of politics will consist of matters directly affecting the fate of the working people themselves.

Here, too, the participation of working women is essential —not only of party members and politically-conscious women, but also of the non-party women and those who are least politically conscious. Here Soviet power opens up a wide field of activity to working women.

We have had a difficult time in the struggle against the forces hostile to Soviet Russia that have attacked her. It was difficult for us to fight on the battlefield against the forces who went to war against the power of the working people and in the field of food supplies against the profiteers, because of the too small number of people, working people, who came whole-heartedly to our aid with their own labour. Here, too, there is nothing Soviet power can appreciate as much as the help given by masses of non-party working women. They may know that in the old, bourgeois society, perhaps, a comprehensive training was necessary for participation in politics and that this was not available to women. The political activity of the Soviet Republic is mainly the struggle against the landowners and capitalists, the struggle for the elimination of exploitation; political activity, therefore, is made available to the working woman in the Soviet Republic and it will consist in the working woman using her organisational ability to help the working man.

What we need is not only organisational work on a scale involving millions; we need organisational work on the smallest scale and this makes it possible for women to work as well. Women can work under war conditions when it is a question of helping the army or carrying on agitation in the army. Women should take an active part in all this so that the Red Army sees that it is being looked after, that solicitude is being displayed. Women can also work in the sphere of food distribution, on the improvement of public catering and everywhere opening dining-rooms like those that are so numerous in Petrograd.

It is in these fields that the activities of working women acquire the greatest organisational significance. The participation of working women is also essential in the organisation and running of big experimental farms and should not take place only in isolated cases. This i5 something that cannot be carried out without the participation of a large number of working women. Working women will be very useful in this field in supervising the distribution of food and in making food products more easily obtainable. This work can well be done by non-party working women and its accomplishment will do more than anything else to strengthen socialist society.

We have abolished private property in land and almost completely abolished the private ownership of factories; Soviet power is now trying to ensure that all working people, non-party as well as Party members, women as well as men, should take part in this economic development. The work that Soviet power has begun can only make progress when, instead of a few hundreds, millions and millions of women throughout Russia take part in it. We are sure that the cause of socialist development will then become sound. Then the working people will show that they can live and run their country without the aid of the landowners and capitalists. Then socialist construction will be so soundly based in Russia that no external enemies in other countries and none inside Russia will be any danger to the Soviet Republic.

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