Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-28
THE BAKERS.

Resolut ons Adopted by the Sixth An
NUT Convention of their International
Union Endorsing the Socialist Labor
Party and Condemning samuel Com
persia Model Trade Union Platform
No "Pure and simple About it.
At the sixth annual convention of the
Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners
international Union. held at Indianapo,
lis from the Cd to the 18th of March, the
following resolution was adopted:
WHEREAS, 1t is becoming more EVIL
dent every day that the condition of the
working class cannot be permanently
improved by trades organizations
| founded upon an exclusive trade union
basis, the present productive system
swelling the army Of the unemployed at
an appalling rate, which reserve army
threatens ruin to the best organized
union; and
WHEREAS, In order to secure a perma-
nent improvement in the condition of
the working class, it is imperatively ne
cessary that the workers should take
political action and by the ballot conquer
the political power for the purpose o.
substituting for the present industrial
system of exploitation co operative
productive system; and
WHEREAS, The policy of asking con,
cessions from the old parties, and advO-
Gated by prominent trades union leaders,
will never secure to the workers their
full rights; and
WHEREAS, Furthermore, we see in
the realization of the platform of the
Socialist Labor Party the only hope Of
securing our rights by lawful means;
therefore be it
ReSOlued, BY the Journey men Bakers
and Confect. Int. Union in convention
assembled at indianapolis. Ind, on
March End, 1891, that we fully endorse
the platform of the Socialist Labor Party
and urge our members, wherever a sec
ton of the Socialist Labor Party exists,
to Join the same; and be it furthermore
ReS0lUed, That we most strongly con
denim the action of Samuel Gompers,
President of the American Federation of
Labor. at the convention held at Detroit,
Mich, from Dec. Sth to -, 1890, in re-
ference to the rejection of the Central
Labor Federation of New York-for no
other reason but that a section Of the
Socialist Labor Party is represented in
said body;
That we fully endorse and approve
the position taken by our delegate and
Int. Sec'y August Delabar at the said
convention.
The following
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES,
which we commend to the attention of
Organized Labor throughout the coun-
try, was also adopted
Society at present is composed of clas-
SEES whose interests are antagonistic. On
the one hand we have the possessing
class, owning almost all the soil, all the
houses, factories, means of transporta.
ton, machines, raw material and all
the necessaries of life. This class is but
a small minority of the whole people
On the other hand ae have the " ork.
ers, possessing nothing but intellectual
and physical power, which they must
sell to the possessors of the means of
production in order to live. The workers
are the millions,
They receive for the product of their
labor only so much as is necessary to
live a life cf misery and starvation.
Every Improvement in machinery,
every new discovery of hitherto un-
known forces of nature the possessing
class appropriates for the exclusive pur
pose of increasing its possessions;
through this process human labor is
more and more replaced by machinery.
The workers who have become super
tluous are compelled to sell their labor
at any price in order to save themselves
from starvation. The value of labor
gradually decreases; the labOring people
are being impoverished more and more,
their consuming power is more and more
lessened, and the Consequence Is that the
commodities produced remain upon the
market without being bought by any
one, commercial stagnation sets in.
production is decreased. and even partly
suspended. The crisis has arrived.
The possessing class press into its
service the power of the State, Police,
Militia, Press and Pulpit, to protect It's
possessions produced by others, and to
enforce the ''sacredness' of property.
In consideration of these facts we
declare !:
THAT the laboring class must eman-