The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-31
For a Labor Party.

In the SOCldllSl pldllONAu ~. hiSHtAOA
is made of the labor party. To the
socialist party that is a dead issue
while on the other hand in the Work
ers (Communist) Party platform we
find a readiness to withdraw their
candidates at any time during the
campaign in favor of a united labor
ticket, as the platform says plainly:
"The Workers (Communist) Party
has for the past three years been the
foremost fighter for the formation Of
a labor party. At the earliest oppor-
tunity this year, it proposed to the
workers of New York the formation
of a united labor ticket for the pres
ent campaign as a first step for the
complete unity of labor's political
forces in a labor party. 1t proposed
to the socialist party at its confer
ences in June, the calling of con-
vention Of all labor organizations for
this purpose. But the socialist sparty
in its servility to the labor bureau
Gratis and in it's complete heedlessness
of the elementary needs of the work
ers, gave no answer to this proposal.
Therefore the socialist party must
bear jointly With the labor bureau
Gratis the responsibility for dividing
the forces of labor and preventing the
realization of united labor ticket
against capitalism.
YTHE Workers Party has therefore
been compelled to put forward its
own candidates. But it realizes the
crying need for working class polite
al unity, and continues to call Upon
the socialist party and all other labor
groups to joint tOgethersfor united
labor campaign against thes capitalist
class for the immediate needs of the
divided and exploited workers. THE
WORKERS PARTY STANDS READY
TO WITHDRAW ITS CANDIDATES
IN FAVOR OF ONE UNITED LABOR
TICKET AT ANY TIME DURING
THIS CAMPAIGN. Workers of New
York, raise this demand for a united
labor ticket leading towards a labor
party in all of your organizations and
compel the labor bure aucrats and
treacherous socialist leaders to cease
dividing the workers. Out of this cams
paign must emerge concrete steps to-
wards the formation of labor party"
Child Labor ~
On the question of child labor we
read in the socialist platform: I'VE
pledge ourselves to maintain the New
York standards and work for the
adoption of the federal amendment"
So we see that the socialist party
has sunk so low and has become so
meek and submissive that it is Salts
FLED with the child labor laws of
New York. Everything is so perfect
that there can be no improvement, is
its line Of reasoning! Very fitting
indeed, for an organization that claims
to represent the working class that
it accepts the laws of capitalism
without one bit of criticism or sug-
gestions for improvement.
THE Communist platform demands
4 the abolition of all child labor
under the age of sixteen, and sys-
tenn of compensation for those famil-
les upon whom such a law would
work a hardship.
Municipal Employers
On municipal employers the social
isl party writes vaguely on no polite
al interference and speaks of ade-
quate pay and the recognition of abil-
ity, while the Communist platform
comes out openly with a proposal for
the right to strike for municipal en-
ployers, the prevailing union rate OF
wages and the 44-hours week, all of
which are ignored in the socialist
party platform.
Housing
On the question Of housing the so
cialist party provides for the building
of new apartments these should be
of sort for which the rent should
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