Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-22
Platform of the Industrial Congress.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April IA,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April IA,
The following is the platform adopted
by the National Industrial Congress this
afternoon:
Resolued. That we submit to the people of the
United States the objects sought to be accom-
pished by the Industrial Congress:
/. To bring within the folds of the organization
every department of productive industry, making
knowledge standpoint for action. and industrial,
moral and social worth. not wealth. the true
standard of individual and national greatness.
Q. To secure to the toilers just share OF the
wealth they create, of the treasure that
rightly belongs to them, more society advantages,
more of the privileges, benefits and emouments
of the world: in a word. all those rights and
privileges to make them capable of enjoying, ap-
preciating and defending the blessings of republI-
can principles.
g. To arrive at true condition of the produc-
ing masses in their educational, moral and fnan-
cial condition we demand from the several States,
and from the National Government, the establish
ment of bureaus OF labor statistics.
4. The establishment of cooperative institu-
lions. productive and distributive.
5. The reserving of the public lands, the herit-
age of the people, for the actual settler; not an
other acre for railroad spectators.
6. The abrogation of all laws that do not bear
equally upon capital and labor; the removal of I'M
the administration of justice, and adoption OF
measures providing for the health and safety OF
those engaged in mining manufacturing or build
I. The enactment of q law to compel chartered
corporations to pay their employees at least once in
every month in full for labor performed during the
preceding month, in the lawful money of the
country.
g. The enactment of a law giving mechanics and
other labOrers first lien their work; also pre-
venting stay of execution in case of Judgment
liens.
9. The adjustment of the contract system on
National, State and municipal work.
10. To inaugurate a system of public markets to
facilitate the exchange of the productions of
farmers and mechanics, intending to do away with
mlddlemen and spectators. To inaugurate sys-
TENS of cheap transportation to facilitate the eX
change of commodities. The substitution of arbi-
tratiOn for strikes whenever and wherever employ
ers and employees are willing to meet on equitable
grounds.
49, The prohibition of the importation of all SER
vile races and the discontinuance of all subsidies
granted to national vessels bringing them to our
scores.
IA To advance the standard of American me-
chanics by the enactment and enforcement of
equitable apprentice laws.
Is To abolish the system Of contracting the labor
of conyicts in State Prisons and reormatory inst-
tutions
TO- To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal
work.
II. The reduction of the hours of labor to eight
per day so that laborers may have more time for
social enjoyment, intellectual improvement. and
be enabled to reap the advantages conferred by
labor-saying machinery which their brains
created.
49, To secure legislation providing for the as
sessment and collection of moneys required to
the principle that, if the Government possesses
the right to draft the poor mans body for pur-
poses of national defenses it has equal right to
appropriate the rich mans accumulations under
the same conditions, and in order that such debts
as those which now Cypress this people may never
again be entailed upon ourselves or our posterity.
49, To prevent by all lawful means the practice
now in vogue of invoking the aid of the military
whenever and wherever the toiing masses refuse
to submit to the arbitrary or unjust demands of
aggregated wealth of unprincipled employers. by
which the men enlisted as the nations defenders
become the nations oppressors.
90 The establishment by the Government of a
just standard of distribution between capital and
labor by providing a purely national circulating
medium, based upon the faith and resources of the
nation, issued directly 20 the people without the
tions, which money shall be legal tender in the
payment of all debts public or private, and inter
changable at the option of the holder for registered
Government bonds bearing rate of interest not to
exceed 365 per cent subject to future legislation
of Congress.