The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-30
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workers on strike. Abolition Of pri-
vate detective agencies, which have
proved to be nothing but institutions
of thuggery and frame-up against the
workers. Prohibition of use Of scabs;
penalty Of fine or Imprisonment for
all employers using or importing
strikebreakers
5. Conditions Of Labor demand
the use Of the city government power
Of regulation to compel the payment
Of not less than the union scale Of
wages, to all workers employed in
private industry OF in any kind of la
Dor l also demand that the public
health department enforces the eight
hour day and forty-hour week, severe
penalties to be put upon employers
violating same. Sanitation, safety de-
vices, ventilation, and all other condi-
tons of labor in workshops to be sub
ject to the sole control of shop com
mittees elected by the workers; any
employer violating regulations laid
down by such committees to be pun
ished as violating city health ordi-
nance.
6. Child Labor. - In accordance
with the consistent national campaign
against child labor initiated by the
Central Executive Committee Of the
Workers (Communist) Party, l de-
mand the abolition of all child labor
UP to sixteen years Of age, children
to be supported at municipal expense.
Funds for this purpose to be secured
thru taxes levied against corpora.
tons profits and high individual in
comes. For young workers, equal
pay for equal work for youth and
adult. A maximum six-hour day and
five-day week for all young workers
from sixteen to twenty-one years of
age. Four weeks annual vacation
with full pay for all young workers.
7. Contract Letting-Abolition of
private contract system in the con.
struction of public works; all con
tracts to be let thru unions, with un.
ion working conditions, wages and
hours.
8. Municipal Employes.-No inter
ference with the right of any branch
of municipal employees to organize
in labor unions. Establishment of the
shop committee system as a means of
direct control of job conditions by the
employees of the various departments.
8. San Pedro Harbor. - All en-
ployes Of companies, steamship agen-
cies, canneries, etc, using public
docks, public wharves, public water
fronts, must obtain work under union
conditions, receive union wages.
Abolition of Employers Associa-
ton Employment Agency" common
IL known as Fink Hail."
\ The above program of immediate
demands touches issues which are
| vital to every working man and wom-
Fan in Los Angeles. Every one of
these issues is a direct outgrowth of
the present system Of production for
private proftLthat is, of capitalism.
Because of the monopoly which the
DObbob MdAutdlu over the ldClOTy, md-
chimes, etc, the workers are obliged
to toll long hours for meager wages
while the goods that they produce are
taken by the capitalists. With schools,
press and police power in the hands
of capitalism, it is obvious that these
elections do not offer any real oppor-
tunity for the workers. Capitalist
democracy is nothing but sham. There
can be no real solution of the great
problems weighing down upon the
workers until capitalism is over
thrown-until the workers seize con-
troll of the government power and
take over industry. This will be ac-
lcomplished thru the establishment of
a Soviet republic and workers. and
farmers government.
(Signed) EDWARD HARRIS,
Candidate for City Council,
District Is (San Pedro Harbor.1