Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-05-20
NATL UNION CONFERENCE,
ONE OF THE PLATFORMS BE.
FORE 1T.
1t Is Proposed by the NatiOnalists
of New EngIand-The Commit
tee ON Revolutions i'm Session at
3O'CIock This Morning.

of New EnRIand-The Commit
tee ON RESOLUTIONS i'm Session "a
3O'CIOck This Morning.
CINCINNATI, May 2O.-The nationa
union conference has settled down tc
work today. Here is one of the platform.
it is considering. 1t is proposed by the
nationalists, who came, most of them
from New England. This is it:
"First-We believe in the general broth
erhood OF men and that all political ac.
tion should tend on toward the practical
application OF this principle to the insti.
tutions Of society.
"Second-We believe that the indus.
trial system of the nation, as well as its
political system, should be government
OF the people by the people for the peo-
pie.
"Third-We believe that the conquest
OF the industrial and commercial interests
OF the country bv corporations, trusts,
syndicates, and billionaires is rapidly
being completed, and that the only way
to prevent it is for the people themselves
to assume charge of commerce and in
dustry through their national, state and
municipal administrations and thence
forth hconduct them for the general benefit.
'fourtb-We believe that public opin-
ion is already prepared for the applica-
ton OF the principle of public manage
ment in the public interest, to the rail
roads, express seruice, telegraphs, tele-
phones, and coal mining business. The
railroads, including local street railways,
are the highways, and for many pur
poses the only highways, of the country,
and tits opposed to all sound policy that
private persons or corporations should
have the power to levy tolls on their use
The express service, as a branch of
railroad transportation, should be
under the same management. The tele-
graph and telephone systems are prop
erly parts of the postofiice, which at
present is defective by the lack of these
branches,
"Fifth-We believe that cheapness and
efficiency would be promoted and fruit
tul cause of political corruption removed
by the general assumption on the part of
municipalities of all public services now
performed ycorporations. Let the pco-
pile serve themselves.
"Sixth-Wc believe that some form
OF national supervision and regula-
tion Of the mining and distribution ofI
coal is the only possible remedy for the |
abuses of business which both in re-
gard to the extortions practised upon
the public and the expressions exercised |
upon employees has become a national
infamy.
"Seventh-We ask that when any busi- |
ness is nationalized or municipalized the
employees be organized on basis of guar
anteed rights. with admissions and pro-
motions solely dependent upon merit and |
not upon appointment, for the purpose
OF protecting the force from political in
tiuences. We ask also. that some form
OF support be provided for sick, disabled,
and superanuated employees in such ma
or municipalized businesses.
"Eig.hth-We ask for equal educational |
provisions for the children of the rich and |
poor. and that public assistance be given
the children of the poor when necessary
to enable them to attend school. We
ask for the abolition of child labor"
The committee on resolutions ap-
pointed by the national union conference
remained in session until $50 this morn
ing, when they adjourned to meet at 10
o'clock this forenoon and complete their
work. During their session they voted
to preserve absolute secrecy in regard to
the results Of their work until officially
to the convention.