Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 7 | Berger Announces Socialist Platform

BERGER ANNOUNCES SOCIALIST PLATFORM MUAVACKKK. March 5. Victor T.. Peri;er, caudulate for t'nited btates senator sena-tor on the Socialist ticket. todav announced an-nounced his platform in which he savs anions other thinrs. th.at tf elected he will demand and work for an Immediate, general gen-eral and permanent pnce; tlu; passage of a resolution by congress directing tlie president to summon t lie wa 1 1 lnur countries coun-tries to an immediate armistice. anil peace conference ; the withdrawal of American troops from Europe to procure absolute security for this country; legislation legis-lation depriving' an citizen or corj oration ora-tion of profit derived from the sale of war supplies to the American Koverti-rnent: Koverti-rnent: legislation assuring this country acamst panic and wide-spread employment employ-ment when the A merican soldiers ret urn home; nationalism tinn of all Industries tha t have become t rusts; nat lona I ownership own-ership of all means of transportation and communication, and development of unoccupied un-occupied arable lands by the nation.