International Women's Day In the winter of 1908, in New York, the Cotton Textile Industry Workers went on strike demanding better working conditions. The strike lasted several days, until March 8, the owner Mr. Johnson, blocked all the ports the workshop and the imprisoned strikers at the factory which was set on fire. Among them were many immigrants, including the Italian women who were trying to free themselves from poverty with the work.
was Clara Zetkin, German socialist leader and director of the German Social Democratic newspaper Gleichheit, to propose that the March 8 is observed each year as the International Women's Day as the international day of struggle to remember the tribute of blood paid by women in the struggle against exploitation and social emancipation, to disseminate, support and pass on from generation to generation all over the world the great ideal of emancipation of women.
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