The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-22
Platform OF the National Industrial
Congress.
INDIAyAPoLIs, ,JDd., April H.
The following is the platform adopted
by the Industrial Congress this afternoon.

INDIAyAPoLIs,ID ina, April IA.
The following is the platform adopted
by the Industrial Congress this afternoon:
Resotred. That we submit TO the people of the
CIiled States the objects sought TO be accom-
plished By the Industrial Congress:
j. 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 tras
standard Of individual and national greatness.
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 emoluments
of the world; in a word, all those rights and
privileges to make them capable of enjoying, ap-
preciating and defending the blessings of repub-
hcan principles.
g. TO arrive at a true condition of the produc-
ing masses in their educational. moral and finan-
cial condition, We demand from the several
States, and from the National Government, the
establishment of bureaus of labor statistics.
a. The establishment OF cooperative institu-
tions, productive and distributive.
B. The reserying of the public lands, the herit-
age of the people for the actual settler; not an
other acre for railroad speculators.
6. The abrogaton Of all laws that do not bear
equally upon capital and labor; the removal of
unjust technicalites, 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.
T. The enactment OF law to compel chartered
corporations to pay their employees at least once
III every lUOHtn III IuiI lADUT perlOFIUtO
the preceding month, in the lawful money of the
country.
g. The enactment of law giving mechanics
and other laborers first lien on their work also
ment liens.
O. The abolishment of the contract system on
National, State and municipal work.
10. To inaugurate asystem of public markets to
facilitate the exchange of the productions of
farmers and mechanics intending to do away with
middlemen and spectators. To inalgurate sys-
pf oh IN
change Of commodities. The sui titution Of arbi-
tration for strikes whenever AL, wherever en-
ployers and employees are willing to meet on
equitable grounds.
13. The prohibition of the importation of all
servile races and the discontinuance of all subs-
dies granted to national vessels bringing them to
eur 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 reformato-
y institutions.
16. 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-saving machinery which their brains
created.
IS. 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 poor mans body for 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
debts as those which now oppress 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 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.
20. The establishment by the Government of a
just standard of distribution between capital and
labor by providing u 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 corpora
tions, which money shall be legal tender in the
payment of all debts, public or private. and inter
changeable at the option of the holder for regls-
tered Government bonds bearing rate of inter
est not to exceed 365 per cent, subject to future
legislation of Congress.