Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-04-22
National Platform OF the Industrial
Congress.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, April a.
The following is the platform adopted
by the Industrial Congress this afternoon :

The following is the platform adopted
by the Industrial Congress this afternoon:
Resolved. That We submit to the people of the
United States the objects sought to be accom-
plished by the Industrial Congress:
l. TO bring within the folds of the organization
every department Of productive indus try. making
knowledge standpoint for action and indus
trial, moral ana social worth, not wealth. the
true standard of individual and national great
ness.
2. To secure to the toilers just share Of the
wealth they create, more Of the treasure that
rightly belongs to them, more society advantages,
more OF the privileges, benefits and emolumcnts
OF the world; in word, all those rights and
privileges to make them capable Of enjoying, APP
prcciating and defending the blessings OF republi
can principles.
Ing masses in their educational, moral and fnan
cial condition, we demand from the several
States, and from the National Government, the
establishment Of bureaus of labor statistics.
=. The establishment of cooperative institu-
tons, productive and distributiye.
B. The reserving of the public lands, the herit
| age of the people, for the actual settler; not
! another acre for railroad spectators.
D. The abrogation OF all laws that do not bear
equally upon Capital aud labor; the removal OF
unjust technicalities, delays and determinations
! in the administration of justice and the adoption
Of measures providing for the health and safety OF
| those engaged in mining manufacturing, or
building pursuits.
Z. The enactment of law to compel chartered
corporations to pay their employees at least once
l
the preceding month, in the lawful money of the
| country.
! 8. The enactment of 4 law giving mechanics
| and other laborers first lien on their work. also
preventing q stay Of execution in case OF Judg-
! ment liens.
| g. The adjustment of the contract system on
| National, State and municipal work.
| 10. 70 inaugurate system of public markets to
| facilitate the exchange of the productions of
| farmers and mechanics, intending to do away
| with middemen and spectators. TO lnangurate
systems of cheap transportation to facilitate the
| exchange OF commodities. The substitution OF
| arbitration for strikes whenever and wherever
employers and employees are willing to meet on
| equitable grounds
| h. The prohibition Of the importation of all
| servile races and the discontinuance OF all sub
sides granted to national vessels bringing them
| to our shores
| 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 convicts in State Prisons and reformatory
| institutions.
IL. To secure for beth 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
bor-saving machinery which their brains ere
| ated
10. To secure legislation providing for the as
| sessment and collection OF moneys required to
prosecute wars from the wealth OF the nation, on
| the principle that, If the Government possesses
the right to draft the posr mans body for pur-
poses of national defenses, 1t has an equal right
| to appropriate the rich mans accumulations un-
| der 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
| 10. 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 unjust demands Of
aggregated wealth Of unprincipled employers, by
| which the men enlisted US the nations defenders
| become the nations oppressors.
| 20. The establishment by the Government of a
just standard Of distribution between capital and
| labor by providing purely national circulating
medium, based upon the faith and resources of the
| intervention of any system OF banking corpora
! tons, which money shall be legal tender in the
payment of all debts, public or private, and in
Interchangeable at the option of the holder for reg
| istered Government bonds bearnga rate of inter
est not to exceed 385 per cent, subject to future
legislation of Congress.