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Show NEW LABOR PARTY LAUNCHED IN CHICAGO. Chicago, Sept. 15. A movement for enlisting the hosts of workingmen throughout the United States into a semi-political organization has been launched in this city, says the Post. A platform said to embrace the eco-, eco-, nomical and political ideas of labor leaders, and covering the whole labor system, has been prepared andwill be presented first for approval next week before the Chicago Federation of Labor. La-bor. The platform demands the abolition aboli-tion of the "so-called "political ma-I ma-I chine," the establishment of primaries where votes may be cast for nominees as citizens and not as members of a machine." and the initiative and referendum. re-ferendum. It farors the right of recalling re-calling representatives who are out of touch with voters. Relief from ths trusts is suggested in the plan for "the passage of an amendment to the practice prac-tice laws of every state and the federal, fed-eral, government under which litigants may be brought up, in any suit in which a corporation is the plaintiff or defendant, the question of its right to its franchise, whether It has- usurped power not given it under statute, and whether it has forfeited its powers." This method, it is argued, would be productive of more good than the institution in-stitution of suits by federal district attorneys. Vigilance committees in every state and large cities are favored, fa-vored, to see that the laws are impartially impar-tially administered. The eight-hour day, sanitary conditions, living wages, the repeal of the laws limiting the liabilities lia-bilities in personal injury suits, the supplying of free text-books to all children chil-dren in the lower grades of public schools and the abolition of convict Ti-bor Ti-bor in competition with free men are demanded. Limitations of the injunction injunc-tion powers of judges is asked, and the popular election of federal judges and senators is suggested. In all civil trials majority verdicts are desired. The plan favors the government, instead in-stead of banks, issuing all kinds of money, and it Is suggested that private individuals be driven from the banking business. Laws are demanded restricting restrict-ing the issue of capital stock, bonds and securities to any greater extent than the actual property owned by corporations. cor-porations. Public ownership of utilities utili-ties is desired, and state insurance and provisions for old age are approved. Child labor is decried, and educational aids and trades unionism to keep the wages are approved. In closing, the platform reads: "In order to bring about a state of harmony Instead of - constant discord, the workingmen must look for relief at the ballot box. Here, where the will of the people is supreme, the remedy lies at hand and must be taken advantage advan-tage of. Workingmen must undertake to govern, as well as toil, and in that way they will get justice." |
