The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-12-15


vention to-day refused to take action on
communication touching upon the
question of the tariff. The matter came
up in the form OF communication
from the plush workers from Bridge
port, Conn.,, which declared that after
the passage of the Mckinley bill their
wages had been reduced and the en-
ployers threaten further reduction in
the event of the passage of the Wilson
bill. The Communication was laid on
the table and the delegates fought shy
OF any discussion on the subject.
At the request of 200 students OF the
Chicago Theological Seminary two
representatives OF the federation were
appointed to expound its principles at
gathering Of students this evening.
a Number of resolutions were adopted
as to the sentiment OF the convention
as they came from the committee. The
theory OF the government ownership OF
the teegraphic system OF the country
was approved and the election Of United
States senators by popular vote was en-
dorsed. The president OF tho fedora
ton was authorized to draft bill max
ing it compulsory for manufacturers to
place exhaust fans in their manu-
factories. The convention expressed
itself as being in favor OF compulsory
education. 1t was resolved to petition
congress to enact law establishing
postal savings banks in view of the
inadeuuacy, as the resolution expressed
it, OF the present national banking sys-
TEN.
FUTURE USEFULNESS.
Representative Lewis Nash, OF the
Retail Clerks National Association,
read paper on the future usefulness OF
the federation. he advocated govern
ment ownership OF the telegraph and
the railroad. He said the country now
has too much law and too little Justice.
1--WE should stand shoulder to shoul-
der on election day and vote for meas
ures, not men, for statesmen, not for
politicians, for humanitarians, not for
demagogues.'
Chairman Morgan, of the committee
on resolutions, submitted programme
for the naturalization of railways,
mines, telegraph, etc, as proposed by
English economists as basis OF the
political labor movement. A motion
to have the matter presented to the or
ganizations for the purpose OF having
their delegates instructed to vote upon
it at the next convention OF the tedera-
ton received the support of number
of delegates and the disapproval OF
others. A.
THE PLATFORM,
The platform has eleven planka in it
as follows:
Compulsory education.
Direct legislation.
A legal eight-hour work day.
Sanitary inspection Of workshop,
mine and home.
Liability of employers for physical
disability.
Abolition of contract labor in all pub
lie works.
Abolition OF the sweating system.
Municipal ownership OF street cars,
electric light and gas plants.
Naturalization Of telegraph, tele-
phone, railways and mines.
Collective ownership by the people OF
nil means Of production and distribu-
''i The principle OF referendum in all
legislation.
1t was moved to have the resolutions
taken up and voted on seratim.
There was contest this afternoon
between the conservative aud socialistic
delegates regarding the adoption OF the
principles OF n platform to be sub
mitted at the next annual convention.
The conservatives came out ahead.
The committee on resolutions brought
up programme containing the funda.
mental principles OF independent labor
politics.
A Recommendation accompanied the
report, to the effect that the pIanlSs
should be submitted to the favorable
consideration OF the labor Organizations
represented, the socialisuc delegates
being against the use Of the word 'fa-
yorable" and the conservatives in favor
Of it, A resolution was adopted favor
ing a series OF national and information
nj congresses or conferences of labor,
the same to culminate on May l, 1901,
in an international demonstration Of
labor organizations in all countries.