The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-05-26
Communist Party Champion OF Workers Working Farmers Negro Race

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the actual needs of the different in
dustries. The apostles of 100 per
centism are not the enemies Of the
foreign-born workers, if they can use
them as strikebreakers, as helpers "in
industrial needs"
The labor aristocracy, under the
leadership of the A. F. of L. bureau
cracy, shares with big business the
profits derived from high tariffs and
restriction of immigration. High
tariff is the material basis for the
prohibition of immigration. They were
erected together and they will fall to-
gether. The platform of the Socialist
Party for 1923 shows the true colors
of this renegade party in not demand
ing unrestricted freedom of immi-
grafton and the repeal of the infamous
immigration laws, but calling only
for the modification of the immigra-
ton laws to permit the reuniting Of
families"
The Workers (Communist) Party
of America is equally the party of the
native-born the foreign-born, and the
Negro workers. It is the party of the
whole working class. It fights the Of
fensive of the bosses against the
foreign-born workers. It fights
against nationalist prejudices which
divide the ranks of the workers. It's
slogan is: Workers of all languages
and races in America unite!
Demands.
L. All workers must unite against
the common enemy, the capitalist
class, to prevent the enactment of
new laws Ito register, fingerprint,
and Photography against foreign-born
workers and to abolish all existing
laws of discrimination.
2. All workers must wage an &C.
tive campaign to uproot the pre-
JUDGES fostered by the employing
class against the foreign-born work
ers and to draw the millions of
foreign-born workers more and more
into the political life of the country
and the class struggle.
3. Immediate repeal of the immi-
grafton laws. Abolition of all restric-
tions in immigration.
A. Equal pay for equal work for
native and foreign-born workers.
Working Women.
The number of working women is
steadily growing. There are today in
this country 81a million working
women over the age of ten.
The capitalists are the apostle of
the family, but they do not hesitate
to break up the family life of the
working class, if the needs of industry
make it necessary. They cannot re-
sist the call of the profits. The num-
Der of adult and married women in
industry is growing fast. 1t had
reached in 1920 almost two million.
Manufacturers prefer women, be-
cause they offer less resistance than
male workers to capitalist oppression.
Male workers are often replaced by
women, because the introduction Of
new machinery makes the skill of
male workers superfluous. As gen.
eral rule, women work in less we'll
paid occupations and receive lower
wages for identical work. Such and
not different is the logic of capitalism.
Working women need more protection.
They are weaker than the male
workers; therefore, they get less pro-
lection and are subjected to greater
exploitation than male workers.
The Communist Party is by no
means against women working in in
dustry. 1t considers it as social pro-
gress, but it calls on the worker to
fight the harmful effects of industrial
work on women and to struggle for
the adequate protection of working
women. Only a Communist society
can lift the double burden of house
keeping and factory work from the
women of the working class.
Demands.
1. Prohibition by law of night
work, overtime and job work for
working women.
2. The law shall provide for an
allowance throughout the period of
pregnancy and childbirth to the
amount of full working wages.
3. Legal enactment of special
allowance for working women during
the nursing period of nine months.
Nursing mothers shall have half
hours leave every three hours in all
working places.
A. Equal pay for equal work for
male and female workers.
Youth, Child, Labor, and Education.
Exploitation of children and young
workers is one of the pillars of
American capitalist society. Chill
dren's blood and young boys and
girls sweat are a growing source of
profit for big business. According
to the 1920 census, there were over
one million working children between
the ages of 10 and Is. To increase
the shame there were $4,000 tojling
children between the ages of 10 and
IL. There are no statistics on the