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Show I LABOR PARTY ARRANGES CONVENTION A A & ' I I- DELEGATES T0 i OUTLINE IS State Ownership of Essential Industries and Unused Land Are Leading Planks V DISARMAMENT OF WORLD IS SOUGHT Equal Suffrage and Equal Pay for iVIen and Women in Industry Endorsed 'CHICAGO, April 29. The national labor party convention "will b.e held in Chicago, July 11, 12 and 13, to nomin-J ate candidates for president and vlccj president and draft a platform, it was announced today by Frank J. Esper, national secretary. -Every labor and farm organization in the country will be invited to send one delegate for each 500 members. Esper predicted that 5,000 delegates would attend. The national labor party was formed hero last November by 1,200 representatives repre-sentatives of farm and labor organizations. organiz-ations. Max S. Hayes of Cleveland, is national chairman. Principles of Party. The declaration of principles adopt -j ed at the convention included thirty-, thirty-, two, planks, a majority of which, according ac-cording to Esper, will be repeated in vtlVepolitjcul platform tohe adopted, in , JiiiyV Among: the planks are;... Nationization of all essential indus-' indus-' Nationalization of unused land. A league of workers to "destroy au- tocracy, militarism and economic imperialism im-perialism and bring about world wide disarmament" 4 Repeal of. the espionage law. . 4 Equal Suffrage. Equal suffrage and equal pay for men "and women in industry. Abolition o the injunction power of judges in labor disputes. .Endorsement of the Plumb plan for Irl-partite railroad control. Steeply graduated income and inheritance in-heritance taxes. A national budget system. Limitation of the power of the supreme su-preme court to "vetoing legislation." "Abolition of the United States sen- |