Show r PLATFORM OF THE independent workingmen at the rally of the inde independent pendent Working mens party held in the federal court room september thip the following platform was adopted 1 As workingmen we recognize the necessity of self protection and resolve ourselves into a permanent organization with this as our primary object we have had innumerable proofs that the cause of labor can only bead be advanced by the organized efforts of those who live by their honest to toil 2 that the workingman must in order to secure recognition recognize and realize his own power as a so sovereign ver citizen and we hereby announce e to all that this power will not be bar bartered for the empty promises promised of aspiring politicians ciani 3 that utah work shall go to utah workmen and that we recognize as ottah workmen all those no matter from whither they have come who have come amongst it us to make this territory their home 4 that as factors in the body ic we are prepared to assume our portion of the responsibility in the con duct d act of public affairs 5 that we commend and pledge ourselves to support abd maintain any honorable policy which will protect our citizens against foreign labor and we shall insist upon such tariff legislation and the rigid enforcement or of existing laws against the importation of contract labor as will insure such protection we pledge ourselves to such measures as will promote the dignity of labor and the elevation of tile the laboring classes and secure to gilem such compensation for their labor as will enable them to secure homes for their families and to educate their children we favor a reduction in the hours of labor and shall forever work for the execution of provisions touching the settlement of differences feren jeren ces between capital and labor by arbitration 6 that fidelity to the laws of our country and the territory shall be at 11 times imperative and it shall be the take duty and object of this political body to enforce a strict observance of kt the same patriotism is the first element that constitutes a passport to the privileges and rights of american citizenship and should always dwell in tile the hearts of the american peo people pleis 7 that the election ati on laws of tb this country which were intended and framed for a just and honest purpose have been manipulated by political schemers emers who to gratify their lust for otrice office have prostituted prostitutes the laws of the land to such an extent that an honest voter is at a loss to know when he is or when he is ia not a citizen of this glorious country 8 that owing to the imperfection and misapplication of our present election deetion system and owing to the adoption by many of the most progressive gres sive states in the union we declare ourselves in favor of the australian ballot system 9 we demand that registrars or judges of election shall not be eligible to 10 be elected to any office within in thet gift of the people at the election n for which they are judges or registrars ID that the numbers wealth social and educational standing and independence of the citizens of this territory fully entitle them to look forward to the early admission of utah as a sovereign state 11 we believe that the education of the young should be free and obligatory upon the state that a knowledge of the common school branches should be a requisite for the exercise of the franchise we approve the compulsory dause of the educational law jaw passed by the last legislature but insist that no child under the age of ton ten be allowed to work in the stores factories workshops mines or at any other kind of labor and that between the ages of ten and fourteen they should shoula be required to attend school at least three days in each school week 12 that the legislative assembly of f this territory should pass an appropriate apprentice law in order that the male children of utah may be taught t to 0 become skilled mechanics in the different trades and occupations 13 we favor the enactment of such laws by our Fe federal derial government as shall place silver on a par with gold and make i it t a full standard for all debts but public and private and such laws as aa will encourage the development of our mines and the better protection of our mineral and agricultural lands to bona fide citizens and against the holding of either mines or laud land by an alien or an alien corporation 14 for the protection of our manufacturers rs who have been harrasser harr assed by competition with the product of convict labor imported here to the great detriment of manufacturing enterprise ter prise of this territory for which it is well adapted we demand that the legislature of this territory enact such laws as will best save the interests of the large numbers engaged in such laudable pursuits 15 we also favor the enactment of such laws by our legislature as will secure to the farmer a fair and equitable return for the product of his labor and lighten the burden which has handicapped this greatest of all industries dus tries asa As a part of the remaining business of the meeting the following resolutions were passed Be resolved solved that we censure the utah commission for its administration mal in our recent elections resolved that all men are born free and equal and that every loyal naturalized or native born adult male should enjoy the f till full rights of citizenship on the ground that all are rational beings rightfully interested in their own social condition and government ern ment we therefore denounce as un american and as opposed to the genius of our institutions all ali attempts to disfranchise men for their alleged beliefs or opinions resolved that widows property personal and real to the amount of 2000 should be exempt from taxation |