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credit such associations to be preferred
in the placing of contracts for public
works.
7. The United States to have the ex-
elusive right to issue money.
8. Congressional legislation providing
for the scientific management of forests
and waterways, and prohibiting the
waste of the natural resources of the
country.
8 Inventions to be free to all; the
inventors to be remunerated by the
nation
TO- Progressive income tax and tax on
inheritances; the smaller incomes to be
exempt.
II. School education of all children
under IA years of age to be compulsory,
gratuitous, and &C cessible to all by pub
lie assistance in meals, clothing, books,
etc where necessary.
12. Repeal of all pauper, tramp, con
spiracy. and sumptuary laws Una
bridged right of combination.
10. Official statistics concerning the
condition of labor. Prohibition of the
employment of children Of school age
and of the employment of female labor
in occupations detrimental to health or
morality. Abolition of the convict
labor contract system.
IA. All wages to be paid in lawful
money of the United States. Equaliza-
| ton of womens wages with those of
men where equal service is performed.
TO- Laws for the protection of life
and limb in all occupations, and an eff
cient employers liability law.
POLITICAL DEMANDS.
/. The people to have the right to pro-
pose laws and to vote upon all measures
of Importance, according to the Refer
endum principle.
2. Abolition of the Presidency, Vice.
Presidency and Senate of the United
States. An Executive Board to be es-
tabished, whose members are to be
elected and may at any time be re-
called, by the House of Representatives
as the only legislative body. The
States and Municipalities to adopt cor
responding amendments to their consti
buttons and statutes.
3. Municipal self-government.
A. Direct vote and secret ballots in all
elections. Universal and equal right of
suffrage without regard to color, creed
or SEX. Election days to be legal holi-
days. The principle of minority repre-
sentation to be introduced
5. All public officers to be subject to
recall by their respective constituencies
Uniform civil and criminal law
throughout the United States. Admin
istration of justice to be free of charge.
Abolition of capital punishment.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, Oct 1917.
The Constitution was then taken up.
Several important amendments were
adopted, which the lack of space does
not permit us to give in this issue. A
report of this part of the proceedings
will appear in our next.
The following appeal in aid of the
party organs was unanimously adopted
and ordered to be printed and issued
Immediately:
"CHICAGo, Oct. Is, 1889.
"Io the Members Of the Party.
"The National Convention of the So
cialist Labor Party. assembled at Vor-
warts Turn Hall, Chicago, ILL.,, sends
you greeting.
ITO you, comrades, everywhere, the
Convention appeals and urges you to
take immediate and energetic action to.
wards the support of the party jour
mails, the WoRKMEN's ADVOCATE and
Der Socialist.
, "You know that Rosenberg and his
colleagues, upon their suspension by
the Board Of Supervision, refused to
d turn over the party funds in their
hands, and expended these moneys.
+ amounting to nearly 5000, for factlonal
q purposes.
= "The German Section of New York
has done its very utmost to secure the
continuance of the party journals.
During the last four weeks the mem.
bers Of this Section have raised about
81 900 for that purpose; but their means
are now exhausted, and the convention
= feels called upon to appeal to your spirit
= of sacrifice. You are urgently requested
to at once transmit all arrears of sub
scriptions and dues, and also, as far as
possible, to send voluntary contrlbu-
tons, in order to secure the continu
ance of the party journals.
= 1--WE trust this appeal will be promptly
,, responded to. Whatever you intend
doing, do it without delay. All remit
tances should be directed to B. J.
: Gret, Oh, 25 East Fourth street, New
u York City. With fraternal greeting,
THE CONVENTION, s. l.. P"
f The following resolutions were adopt
ed by the Convention in the course of
S its proceedings:
THE ROSENBERG CONFLICT.
O "Resolued, That in the judgment OF
i. the convention the management of the
q party by the former executive was in
efficient and highly injurious to the
interests of the party and of the cause