4 . Complete abolition of compulsory contract labour and systems of legal bondage of the workers . 5 . A compulsory weekly rest period at full pay and a paid annual holiday of 4 weeks for adults and 6 weeks for youths . 6 . State insurance against unemployment , sickness , accidents , industrial diseases , old age , loss of working capacity , orphanage and compensation for disablement . 7 . Establishment of a State minimum wage of 50 rupees a month , prohibition of the contract system and establishment by law of weekly payment of wages . 8 . Prohibition of deductions from wages for any reason or purpose whatever ( fines , bad work etc .). 9 . Introduction of properly organised factory inspection , workers elected members , thereof to supervise labour conditions in all factories employing hired labour . 10 . The abolition of the system of hiring workers through jobbers , sarangs , etc ., employment and dismissal of workers to take place through labour exchanges , controlled and supervised by the Trade Unions . The abolition of all caste and feudal customs and regulations within the factories .
In addition , the CP of India supports and fights for each and every demand intended to improve the conditions of the workers ( building of new houses at Government or employers ’ expenses , provision of proper lavatories , clean dining rooms etc .).
The CP of India is definitely against the principle of arbitration and interference by capitalist arbitration courts . It emphasises most definitely that the sole means for winning any serious concessions on the part of the exploited is resolute class struggle by strikes and mass revolutionary activities . C . Peasants ’ Demands I . “ The CP of India fights for the confiscation without compensation of all land and estates , forests and pastures of the native princes , landlords , moneylenders , and the British Government and
January - 2022 the transference to peasant committees for use by the toiling masses of the peasantry . The CP of India fights for the complete wiping out of the medieval system of landholding , and cleanse the whole of the land from the rubbish of the middle ages . II . The CP of India fights for the immediate confiscation of all plantations and their transference to revolutionary committees elected by the plantation workers . The allotments to which the planters assign their contract workers and also the land not in cultivation , to be handed over to the labourers and poor peasants as their property . At the same time the CP of India is in favour of the nationalisation of ail large scale mechanically equipped plantations and workshops connected therewith , for utilisation in the interests of the whole Indian people . III . The CP of India fights for the immediate nationalisation of the whole system of irrigation , complete cancellation of all indebtedness and taxes and revolutionary peasant committees elected by the working peasantry . IV . In order to disorganise British rule and maintain revolutionary pressure against it the CP of India calls upon the peasantry and agricultural proletariat to engage in all kinds of political demonstrations and collective refusal to pay taxes and dues and also refuse ) to carry out the orders and decisions of the government and its agents . V . The CP of India calls for refusal to pay rent , irrigation charges or other exactions , and refusal to carry out any labour services whatsoever ( beggar ) for the landlords , native princes and their agents . VI . The CP of India calls for refusal to pay debts , and arrears to government , the landlords and the money-lenders in any form whatsoever . VII . As a practical watchword for the campaign among the peasantry and as a means for developing more political consciousness in the peasant movement , the CP of India calls for the immediate organisation of revolutionary peasant committees in order to carry on a fight to achieve all the revolutionary democratic changes required in the interests of emancipating the peasantry from the yoke of British imperialism and its feudal allies . VIII . The CP of India calls for the independent organisation of the agricultural proletariat , particularly the plantation workers , and its amalgamation with the proletariat of the towns under the banner of the Communist Party , as well as its representation in the peasant committees .
The CP of India is firmly convinced that the complete thorough-going and permanent achievement of the above mentioned political and social changes is possible only by the overthrow of British domination and the creation of a Federal Workers ’ and Peasants ’ Soviet Republic . D . Emancipation of the Pariahs and the Slaves
As a result of the rule of British imperialism in our country there are still in existence millions of slaves and tens of millions of socially outcast working pariahs , who are deprived of all rights , British rule , the system of landlordism , the reactionary caste system , religious deception and all the slave and serf traditions of the past throttle the Indian people and stand in the way of its emancipation . They have led to the result that in India in the 20 th century there are still pariahs who have no right to meet with all their fellow men , drink from common wells , study in common schools , etc . etc .
Instead of putting an end once and for all to this shameful blot on the Indian people Gandhi and the other Congress leaders call for the maintenance of the caste system which is the basis and justification of the existence of the socially outcast pariahs .
Only the ruthless abolition of the caste system in its reformed , Gandhist variety , only the agrarian revolution and the violent overthrow of British rule will lead to the complete social , economic , cultural and legal emancipation of the working pariahs and slaves .
The CP of India calls upon all the pariahs to join in the united revolutionary
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