WOMEN MILITANT
IN WEST GERMANY

Leftists Throw Tomatoes in Drive for Wider Rights
By DAVID BINDER

Special to The New York Times

BONN , Sept. 14— Shouting "counterrevolutionary agent of the class enemy," a young woman threw two tomatoes at the left-wing student leader Hans Krahl in Frankfurt last night — and hit him.
It was the high point of a struggle for women's rights in the radical socialist German Students League at its 23d annual conference.
The unidentified suffragette rose amid a stormy controversy over a proposal to establish an "action council for the liberation of woman." The proposal was put forth by the fiery delegate from West Berlin, Heike Sanders, who cried to the predominantly male student gathering:
"We don't want to put up with your repressions any longer. We must liberate ourselves from your oppressions."
She was laughed at by the men. Then the tomatoes flew.
Last year eight West Berlin students invited three girls to join them in forming a utopian commune to experiment in practical socialism. It ended up with the girls doing all the cooking and most of the washing for their classmates, and after six months they withdrew.
During the summer more than a hundred students of West, Berlin's Free University decided they were not seeing enough of their female classmates and moved unopposed into the girls' dormitory at Schlachtensee.
According to reliable reports, the girls have since been burdened with housekeeping work, as in the unsuccessful 1967 commune.
The left-wing girls are understood to be rebelling against the inequalities of the arrangement They are part of a larger female uprising in West Germany
against the traditional domination of males.
According to Government statistics, 31.9 per cent of West Germany's women work full time for a living, carrying out household and family tasks as well. While refrigerators, washing machines and prepared foods have eased their obligations, they are still treated as second-class citizens.