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Show A LABOR PARTY IN 1970. A labor party will be in lh field in the presidential election of next year, if a movement started in Chicago yesterday yes-terday meets with a favorable response re-sponse A declaration of principles was ' adopted and a national committee was provided for to be made up of one man and one woman from eacn state. The J organization will call a national convention con-vention next summer to name camli Jdates for president and vice president. If this plan Is generally accepted by I labor, the Republican party will ga'n B sweeping victory in the next elee tion, as the Democrats, because of their espousal of labor, have alienated a big part of the commercial class, and, if they lose the labor clement they will be hopelessly in the irinori'v The principles of the new tabor p".r-ty p".r-ty include the following: I Abolition of the United S'.ates sen- 'ate. Election of federal judges by pop i- lar vote for terms not exceeaing four years. I International solidarity of labor. .Maximum hours of labor for men and women to he right hours a day and forty-four hours a week. Minimum wage for workers to be fixed by law. Old age, unemployment and sick j pensions. Government to own and operate the banking business of the country Nationalization of unused lands. Incomes of individuals to be limited by law. National initiative, referendum and recall Application of the "home mie" principle prin-ciple in state, county and cjtj govern- raent Condemnation of government by In-I In-I junction. Repeal of the espionage law and all other repressive statutes passed dur j ing the war. Condemnation of universal military mili-tary training and conscription. A demand for international lisanna-jmcnt lisanna-jmcnt to prevent future war. ! Immediate release of all political .-jnrt iTmiii..i I'll nrienndre Nationalisation of h11 public jtlllties and all basic industries. Criminal prosecution f profiteers and exploiters of labor Demand that all government work be done by da-, labor instead of by con tract. Equal pay for men and women. Ippi 01 ed woman suffrage Before adjournment ibe convention adopted a resolution condemning the peace treaty and league of nations covenant as at present drafted for the reason that it does not conform with President Wilson's fourteen points and is not in the interests of the Wjerking I lasses of the world. Election ot federal judges by popu lar vote might work injury instead o:' good. ur federal judges as h who. are men of great ability .rul "ecog nized integrity. There are exceptions, but there might be more undesirab'e judges elected than are appointr-d. Old age pensions should be required. re-quired. Incomes of individuals are beirg limited b the Increasing tax placed on incomes. The espionage law should not be repealed re-pealed until this country is cleared of ns anarchistic element. There is a demand for International I disarmament. Without an agreement among the nations not to make war and some organization to entorce thar agreement,, disarmament could not prevent war. The country baring the greatest equipment in machinery and chemical laboratorlea, would have a mastery over other nations ow'ng to it nhilttv tn n 1 1 1 c lr 1 v ovm Military training and conscription i condemned, yet conscrlp-ion nnde the power of the United States felt in the I world war Until war Is made Impossible, Impos-sible, this nation must be prepared for surprise attack. The demand for nationalization of I all basic industries points to the au-'thors au-'thors of the labor platform as being Socialists and perhaps believers in the soviet form of government. Criminal prosecution of profiteers and exploiters of labor would be s. (very good law, if profiteers and exploiters ex-ploiters could be unmistakably discovered. discov-ered. Our government today is laboring labor-ing to find the profiteer?, out with I what success is not disclosed The statement that the treaty of peace does not adhere to President Wilson's fourteen points Is the idtn jtlcal argument made by the German delegates to the Versailles conference. The entire platform might have been I made by a Berger or a LaFollelte |
