The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-08

principal demands in strike movements The
C.P. of India calls for the countrywide organ
ization of workers defense detachments both to
defend workers strikes and demonstrations and
to take part in the general revolutionary struggle
2. The C.P. of India calls upon all class-con
scous workers to help the Party to organize the
movement and the struggle of the unemployed
for regular relief at the expense of the State and
the employers. 1t calls for the country Or
ganization of unemployed councils, demonstra-
lions and joint struggle with the workers in in
dustry for the partial demands of the unem-
ployed-monthly unemployment benefit at the
cost of living minimum, refusal to pay rent, free
supply of fuel and food stuffs by the municipal
authorities, etc.
3. Taking note of the Semi-slave conditions
of plantation and agricultural workers, the C.P.
of India calls upon class conscious workers to
take part and assist in the organization of trade
unions of plantation and agricultural workers.
The fight for complete abolition of all systems
of serfdon1, compulsory and contract labor, de-
privation of rights and unprecedented exploita-
ton OF the agricultural proletariat is one of
our main aims, linked up closely with the aim
OF mobilizing the broad masses of peasantry to
fight imperialist and feudal exploitation under
the leadership of the working class
4. With the object of protecting the working
class from physical and moral degeneration. and
also in order to raise its capacity to fight for
emancipation, the C. P. of India fights for:
l. Limitation of the working day to 8 hours
for adults and hours for youths from to 90
Introduction of the hour working day in all
harmful industries including coal mining and
free supply of milk and butter to the workers
in these industries.
2. Complete freedom of trade unions demon
STATIONS, picketing and strikes
8 Equal pay for equal work for women youths
and men.
4, Complete abolition of compulsory contract
labor and systems of legal bondage of the work
ers.
5. A compulsory weekly rest period at full
pay, and a paid annual holiday of four weeks
for adults and six weeks for youths.
6. State insurance against unemployment,
Sickness accidents, industrial diseases, old age,
loss of working capacity, orphanage and COM
penSation for disablement.
7. Establishment of State minimum wage of
so rupees month, prohibition of the contract
system and establishment by law of weekly pay
ment of wages.
8. Prohibition of deductions from wages for
any reason or purpose whatsoever Cfines, bad
work, etc.
9. Introduction of properly organized factory
inspection, workers elected members thereof, to
supervise labor conditions in all factories en-
ploying hired labor.
TO- The abolition of the system of hiring work
ers through jobberS, sarangs, etc, employment
and dismissal of workers to take place through
labor exchanges, controlled and supervised by
the trade unions. The abolition Of all caste and
feudal customs and regulations within the
factories
In addition the c. P. of India supports and
fights for each and every demand intended to
improve the conditions of the workers building
pense, provis'~~ of proper layatorics,-clean
dining rons, etc0.
The c. P. of India is definitely against the
principle of arbitration and interference by capt.
talist arbitration courts 1t emphasizes most de-
fnitely that the sole means for winning any
ious concessions the part of the expIoiters is
resol.-.c class -1ruggIe by strikes and mass revo-
lutionary activities.
c. Peasant Demands.
I. The c. P of India fights for the confscation
without compensation of all land and estates,
forests and pastures of the native princes land
| lords, money lenders and the British Govern
ment - the transference to peasant comm
tees for use by the toiling masses of the peas
antry. The G. P. of India fights for the complete
| wipng out of the mediaevel system of landhold-
| ing to cleanse the whole of the land fro the
| rubbish of the middle ages.
II. The C. P. of India fights for the immediate
confiScation OF all planta ions and their trans
| ference to revolutionary committees elected by
| the plant -ers The alotments to Itch
! the planters assig' their contract work. and
also the land not in cultivation to be handed over
to the laboiers and poor peasants as their prop
erty. At the same time the C. P of India is in
| favor of the naturalization of large-scale me-
| chemically equipped plantations, and workshops
connected Herewith, for utilization in the inter-
| ests of the whole Indian people.
! III The G. P. of India fights for the immediate
naturalization of the whole system of irrigation,
complete cancellation of all Indebtedness and
taxes, and the transference of the control and
| supervision of the work of irrigation to revolu-
lutionary peasant committees elected by the
| working peasantry.
w. In order to diSorganize British rule and
| maintain revolutionary pressure against it, the
| c. P. of India calls upon the peasantry and ag-
ricultural proetariat to engage in all kinds of
| political demonstrations, and collective refusal to
pay taxes and dues, or to carry out the orders
and decisions of the government and its agents.
v. The c. P. of India calls for refusal to pay
rent irrigation charges or other exactons and
refusal to carry out any labor services whatsoever
(behars) for the landlords, native princes and
their agents.
VI. The C. P. of India calls for refusal to pay
debts and arrears to government, the landlords
and the money lenders in any form whatsoever.
VII. AS practical watchword for the cam
paign among the peasantry, and as means of
developing more political consciousness in the