The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-04-22
Platform of the Industrial Congress.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April

| lNDlASAFOLls, 1Hu., hpiu II.
The following is the platform adopted
by the Industrial Congress this after
| noon:
Resolved, That we submit to the people of the
U United States the objects sought to be accom-,
| plished by the Industrial Congress-:
1. To bring within the folds of the organiza-
| tion every department of prOduc i've industry,
making knowledge a standpoint for action, ana
industrial, moral and social worth, not wealth,
| the true standard of individual and national
greatness.
, To secure to the toilers a 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 emonments
of the world; IN word, all those rights and
privileges to make them capable OF enjoying, ap-
preciating and defending the blessings OF repub-
lcan principles.
5. TO arrive at a true condition of the produc-
ing masses in their educational, moral and imam
cial condition, demand from the several States
and from the National Government the establish
ment of bureaus of labor statistics.
1. The establishment of cooperative 1nsntu-
tions. productive and distributive.
5. The reserving Of the public lands, the herlt-
age of the people for tine 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
all unjust technicalities. delays and discrmina-
tions in the administration OF justice, and the
adoption of measures providing for the health
and safety of those engaged in mining, manuiac-
T. The enactment of a 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.
s. The enactment Of law giving mechanics
and other laborers first lien on their work also
preventing q stay OF execution in case OF Judg-
ment liens.
.. The abolishment of the contract system on
National, Stale and municipal work.
10. To inaugurate system of public markets
EXCHANGE
farmers and mechanicginte to do away with
middlemen and spccu.ators. To inaugurate sys-
change of commodities. The substitution Of ar
bitration for strikes whenever and wherever en-
ployers and employees are willing to meet on
equitable grounds.
13 The prohibition Of the importation of all
servile races, and the discontinnance of all sub
sides granted to national vessels bringing them
to our shores.
II. To advance the standard of American
mechanics by the enactment and enforcement of
equitable apprentice laws.
l5 To abolish the system of contracting the
labor OF convcts in State Prisons and reforma-
to institutions.
s. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal
work.
Il? The reduction of the hours of labor to eight
per day, go that laborers may have more time for
social enjoyment and intellectual improvement,
and be enabled to reap the advantages conferred
by labor-saving machinery which their brains
created.
IS. To secure legislation providing for the
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 poor mans body for the pur-
poses of national defenses, it has an equal right
TO appropriate the rich mans accumulations un-
der the same conditions, and in order that such
1ehts rs those which now Oppress this people
may never again be entailed upon ourselves or
our posterity.
~ To prevent by all lawful means the practice
now in vogue of invoking the aid of the military
whenever and wherever the toiling masses refuse
to submit to the arbitrary unjust demands of
aggregated wealth of unprincipled employers. by
which the men enlisted as the nations defenders
become the nations oppressors.
~. The establishment by the Government of
Just standard of distribution between capital and
labor by providing purely national circulating
medium, based upon the faith and resources of
the nation. issued directly to the people without
the Intervention of any system of banking cor
porations, which money shall be legaltender in
the payment OF all debts, public or private, and
interchangeable at the option of the holder for
registered Government bonds bearing rate of
interest not to exceed 3.65 per cent, subject to
future legislation OF Congress.