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Show NATIONAL LABOR PARTY WANTS THE PLUMB PLAN USED CHICAGO, Nov. 23 - (Men E Vufflb presented his plan for th . Lalltion of the ra,lroadR ' 1 J . t Tabor partv convention tod- fcUii enthusiastically rec, Shen be appeared in the pi, i hundred delegates repre i n ' ! fnv lbor organizations formed a Si snd marched around the hall s. . JS times, shouting "We want the PiUTh! tint "tep m the adoption of plan U to change the faces of our Jtrwentatlves In congress said At-ot At-ot Plumb "After spending a great S3 of time in Washington the last Jo vears It feels Sod to talk to plain j union sense Americans." Hesad that the Plumb plan would Joce freight rate? 40 per cent and I ' Zrefr help reduce the high cost of He defined the system as a 1' ,it saving plan rather than a profit LrlDK Plan Increased wages, he ' m did not benefit the wage earner if j Lrr raise resulted In higher prices for necessities of life j Ho said his plan was applicable to VrV DUOIIV " industry In the count ry. and that the ,iates could apply it to the public util- I '''iT if expected that the convention rill endorse the plan. The resolutions committee today was idvlsed by a number of delegates from farmers' organizations that any declaration against prohibition prob jhly would alienate the support of the wnctiltural bodies Inability of the committee to agree on several important questions led to g division of the bodv Twenty-eight members were assigned to draft a resolution reso-lution calling for the release of all ejus war and political prisoners hile fire members will prepare the new party's platform and other resolutions. B Moore, organizer of the Nonpartisan Non-partisan League in Wisconsin told the delegate that a union of farmers and the workers in the cities was practical, but added "You will have to show the farmer that It is to his interest to join hands nth you in our new party before ou can get , his support " William English Walling of the Social So-cial Democratic League, said the organization organ-ization of a national labor party woudd mean true industrial democracy. "You have chosen an opportune time to launch this movement," he said "For the first time in the histor of this country' the inherent right of labor la-bor to strike has been challenged. "Labor cannot advance by economic action alone. You must organize for political action No power of the government, gov-ernment, of capital or the press can prevent labor from obtaining its fair share of the wealth it creates." W. R Trotter, provincial secretary of the Federated Labor partv of British Brit-ish Columbia, told of the general strike in Winnipeg and of the activity of government gov-ernment agents. "In Canada at a meeting of this kind we always addresa the audience as 'Honest men and stool pigeon-,' he said "In our country we are still i looking wide-eyed but in vain lor that democracv Which VTtUI nmmiMfl no aft. er the war The time is here for political po-litical mass action at the polls The old political parties have failed us. Labor has the productive, economic and political power If it will onlj ei erciso it 1 Icok with suspicion on the league of nations and fear it is a club to control the proletariat of the different count rl s " ' He described the government agents of Canada as "gun men in uniform" Basantor Kuwar Roy. a Hindu, made a plea In behalf of freedom for India He assailed Great Britain's administration adminis-tration of affairs there. |