Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-06

| iioui pONtll(, Woulu unueT eNlStlnB con
dltions be otherwise unable to send them
to school.
5-The enactment of laws making it a
penal offence to work any adult employ &,
police and tiremen included, more than
eight consecutive hours per day. or to
at all employ any child of school age in
any industry whatever except for tech
meal education.
1.-THE settlement of the unemployed
upon the still remaining broad acres of
the national domain and the Inaugural
ton there of the cooperative common
wealth.
The equalization of pay for prim
| airy and grammar school teachers.
S-The enactment of laws providing
for indemnity to employees in all cases of
accident
9-The enactment of efficient laws for
the inspection of factories, mines etc. -,
and the selection of factory inspectors
by Organized Labor.
10-The abolition of the Excise Law.
1l-Universal suffrage without dis
tinction of race, color or sex.
12-The establishment of Home Rule
in all matters affecting local Interests.
l3-The management of prisons so
that prison labor shall not compete with
honest labor.
1.-THE enactment of laws against the
establishment or entry of private and
irresponsible armed forces into this
state such as the Pinkertons.
l5-We demand the abolition of the
contract system on public works; the
repeal of all laws abridging the right of
free meeting and free speech, undis-
turbed by the police; of all laws which
obstruct the right of labor to protect
itself by organization; of all laws author
lzlng private corporations to exercise
police powers under the mask Of charity
or morality, and of all laws authorizing
the commitment of persons guilty of
otfenses against the law, to private sec
tartan institutions and donating the pub
lie funds for such purposes.
Unconstitutional provisions affording
to the people the right to the referendum
and to recall their public servants at
will. And lastly we insist.
17-That there should be no inter.
ference with the political or social OPT
mons of American citizens by ecclesias-
tical authorities, either foreign or do
nestle, and that the dogmas of religion.
lists should not be used to influence or
control the civic action of American
freemen.
The real tussle started on the name to
be given the new party. A wrangle
ensued that occupied nearly three quar-
tiers of an hour as to the procedure in
presenting names. Some delegates, who
saw ghosts, imagined all kinds of SIMS
ter designs in the motions proposed to
this end. Finally the convention came
presented. Emancipation Party, Indus
trial Alliance, SO as to keep pace with
the Farmers Alliance, Commonwealth
Party and Nationalist Party. OF these
only the two last ones became the subject
of real discussion.
In behalf of the Nationalist Party it
was claimed that the platform was an
out and out Nationalist one; to take any
name other than Nationalist would be to
conceal the platform and sail under false
colors; that another name might pos
slbly attract larger vote this fall, but,
being vote cast under misapprehension
1t would melt away again; that the i'm
portant thing was to lay the solid foun-
datlon for party rather than soaring
up hurrah that this name would raise
the party from local to national place
and thereby do away with the causes of
local discussions; and finally that no
harmony was likely among the ranks of
labor with any other name.
The argument on behalf of the Com
monwealth Party was conducted upon
a different system. The Nationalist
advocated their name upon the merits
of the question itself; they offered no
interruption to their opponents, limited
at no improper motives, and stuck close
to the question. The advocates of the
Commonwealth Party, however, with
the single exception of L. T. Quinn,
who did stick pretty close to the ques-
ton, directed their arguments mainly
against the NatiOnalists, One had it that
the Nationalist only wanted to adver-
tise themselves, another that they had
made up their mind to capture" the
convention, and as a proof he referred
to call issued by the Nationalist for a
caucus on the very evening of the Union
Square mass.meeting, notwithstanding
the fact that the call for the caucus was
issued before the one for the mass meet
ing, and notwithstanding the speaker
was himself invited to that caucus;
others again discovered deep turpitude
in the Nationalist proposal upon the
ground that at the previous meeting the
Commonwealth Party had been adopt
ed" as the name, and they reiterated
the charge Notwithstanding the minutes
of the secretary, which had been adopt
ed, showed that the Commonwealth
Party had been taken at the previous
meeting only temporarily. and notwith-
standing the repeated assertions TO that
effect made by the presiding officer him
self, who, be it noted, was not Ma