The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-12
LABOR REFORMERS.
THEIR VIEWS AND THE OBJECIs
THEY SEEK TO OBTAIN.
necInratIon OF Principles Adopted
by the Executive Committee
of the Party.

Alta meeting Of the Executive Com
mittee of The Labor Reform party,
the committee appointed at pre-.
vious meeting to daft their views and
the objects they seek to obtain, re-
ported the following
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES.
II being apparent that the relations
bytween capital and labor rs at present |
carried out constitute bargain by |
which labor always suffers, ana lully
realizing that persuasion VIII aVal
nothing, aud deprecatiug acts OF vio1-
lence as unwise, futile and criminal,
the alternative alone remains to fdli
hack upon our inherent right, the pal
lot 10 maintain and defend our claim
To fair share of the products labor
alone creates. We therefore demand,
in the first place, the purity oil the
ballot SIS the true safeguard Of society
and cur sacred liberlits, and to this
end we insist he eater on the lmme,.
date punishment to the full extent OF
the law as laid down, OF all persons
buying or selling votes, intimidalng
voters, forging tiCkets, repeating, frau
dulent counting, tamperlng with bal
lot-boxes or any criminal otfense COM
mi,ted against the freedom of the bal
LOT, and this TO be without distinction
of any penon or political party what
soever.
Second-We demand on the part oil
the State Government that eight
houts shall be recognized as legal
DAVIS work in every case where the
contract is silent in regard to the
number Of hours required, thereby
giving workingmen some time TO en-
ioy life, and employing numbers o.
men that will other wise remain in en-
forced ideneis.
Third-We again affirm our deter
mipation to secure good, practical me
chanics' and laborerJ lien law az
much needed protection to the labor
err, securing the prompt payment. o
his wages, his onl y means oil exist
, ence, such lien to also cover tn
cost of all material supplied to or use
. in or for the building,
, Fourth-We advocate a liberal sy'
tenn OF education that the children c
, the poor may be trained to becom
!, rood citizens, with an advance systel
4 for all those willing or capable OF r
! ceiying IL, and we are opposed to u
employment OF children under tr
T age of fourteen in factories or shop
2 Fifth-We demand the abolition
n those taxes, privilege aud otherwis
N that act as restriction on the lie
" dom of trade, and are, therefore, o
10 posed to the progress Of the countr
N and the deficiency to be supplied
T. a graduated inc me tax, thus placll
4 the burden where it properly belon
- ON the wealth, and not on the pi
Ill ductiye energy of the country.
he Sixth-We believe in the es'ablis
I'd ment OF cooperative societles, liol
% RES, bath houses, aud all ration
~ amusements calculated to advlnce I
ns moral and physical condition oil I
et lahorlDg masses.
et Ssyenth-We consider the empl'
ha ment of women at a lower rate IN
n' men are paid for the same class
an work is a disgrace to our ctvilizatl'
ms and therefore advocate equal pay
IN, | the HNulb ClabS VI NOiA1 nv AA"''NA
est whom performed.
0'' Seyenth-We believe that our
I'm and police departments are, accord
ZEN 10 their size, as efficient as any in
300 country, and that the way to sec
GOO the bts men is to promptly pay
V =, employees OF the city fair salary.
by NintL-Wedemand an equal asst
,er, ment OF all property, improved or
hor improved, and the prompt collect,
al according to law, of oil taxes wi
aN due, without unjust discrimination
am favor OF wealthy owners.
1000 Tenth-Wea advocate the.contisca
$50 of all lands held by corporations, I
,o, resident aliens, spectators and
-ou others not cccupiers aud culliva'o'
'uio our soil.
the We iraternally submit these pr
lure pies TO our fellow-workers Of Sh
A. county, without distint ton Of
.no color or political affinity, belle
the them TO be for the good oil all.
In TT. MAYNARD, Q, y GEBHARl
80 ~ i. AEEDERsoN, 7, J. AAESSlNs'
" ~, o. " Commit
-. After consideration, the report
'o"' adopted by the Executive Comm
were and the secretary was ordered L
[ the nish copy to each Of the daily p'
er in for publication.
lirty- y RUd aTf.f' $500 TaAlfu
made