The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-07-20
GETTING TOGETHER.

Line ana Will Work ana Vote To-
| gether.
After a three days session the Illi-
nois labor conference agreed upon a
platform, took the peoples party name,
Endorsed the populist ticket and I'D
journed. The delegates claim that the
peoples party will poll $50, 900 votes in
the state this fall and hold the balance
of power in the general assembly. The
agreement, If carried out, means I'M
Ion of populists, socialists, trades un-
ionists, single takers, civic reformers,
mine workers and Farmers Alliance
men under one banner.
The agreement was reached after a
long and bitter struggle between the
socialists and populists, and was the
result of mutual concessions. The pop
ulists had rejected Plank 10, and with
it the entire socialist platform. The
socialists were preparing to leave the
hall when the populists agreed to vote
for plank introduced by Henry d.
Lloyd, providing for a collective own
ership of such means of production and
distribution as shall be designated by
the people. This is Plank 10, the So
cialist hobby in effect, but was adopted.
In return the socialists agreed to be re-
baptised as populists and vote the pop
ulist ticket except in Cook county,
where a joint populist-socialist ticket
will be named. Following are the reso-
lutions which did the work and sealed
the fusion of the heretofore discordant
elements:
Whereas, The peoples party already has a
standing in the state aud is entitled to place
u fhn 1pin oil tAnl1
Resolved, That we adopt the name OF the
peoples party and make our campaign under
that name.
Resolved, That we make state nominal
lions but support the ticket already named by
the peoples party, provided the candidates Of
that party sign within thirty days the platform
| of this convention.
! Supplementary resolutions provide
for the manner of conducting the cam
paign and for nominating candidates
where the populists have not already
done SO. The platform, as amended
and finally adopted, together with the
compromise socialistic coidicil, is as
follows:
! The wage earners Of the state of Illinois, In
convention assembled at time when the
growing feeling Of brotherhood is attested by
the heroic efforts Of toilers in behalf Of their
oppressed fellow workers, declare for political
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the postal system, we demand the immediate
naturalization Of the telegraph and telephone,
to be followed by government ownership OF the
railroads and mines; and we further demand
the municipal ownership Of street railways
gas and electric plants for the public distribu-
ton Of light, heat and power.
The land is the heritage OF the people, there
fore we condemn existing laws which permit
the alien ownership Of large bodies Of land held
for speculative purposes and declare in favor
Infa, tph
land to make its ownership profitable, and
also favor local option in taxation.
Believing that no general prosperity can be
obtained without an adequate supply OF money,
which cannot be controlled by private corpora
tions we demand the issuance by the general
government Of legal tender notes in sufficient
volume to meet the requirements of the bust
ness Of our country.
| We unequivocally condemn the policy OF
issuing Understanding bonds in times Of
peace.
Recognizing education to be the most potent
agency for civilization, we favor such laws as
will compel the attendance at school of all
children OF school age.
The great and unusual disturbances in labor
circles force upon us the inevitable conviction
that the time has now arrived in which the en-
croachment of capital upon labor must cease,
and that the interests Of the general public de-
mand the passage of such laws will give
adequate protection and relief to the oppressed
employees of the railways, in the factory, shop
and mine therefore we demand the following:
1. legal eight-hour work day. Sanitary
inspection Of workshop mine and home. 5.
Liability Of employers for injury to health,
body or life 4. The abolition of the contract
system in public works. 5. The abolition of
the sweating system. 6. Proportional repre-
| sentation. Z. The right to govern resting with
the governed.
We demand the adoption of the referendum
and initiative system of legislation.
"a a iS added ha
mentary plank introduced by Henry
d. Lloyd and adopted to please the So
cialists:
tion by the bodies represented in this confer
! ence.
.. To that purpose we recommend the off,
Gals of these bodies to take immediate steps
| to hold national convention to perfect plans
| for such political action.
| 3. Pending the Organization OF such party
| we recommend those we represent in this con-
| ference to vote for those candidates of the peo-
| pies party at the coming election who will
! pledge themselves to the principles of the COL
lective ownership by the people of all such
means Of production and distribution the
! people elect to operate for the commonwealth L.
The following resolution introduced
by Delegate w. A. Lautz, of Chicago, was
submitted to the convention just prior to
adjournment and unanimously adopted:
Whereas In this hour of distress, in this
! hour of gloom that confrontS the great world OF
| industries we, the delegates here assembled,
| should not fail to recognize a friend; and,
Whereas The Chicago Times having taken
| the bold, outspoken stand as the friend of the
common people, and recogni zing its power and
/ influence in our behalf be 1t
| Resolved, That We, the delegates assembled,
/ do hereby highly commend that great journal
/ for it's courageous position, and desire to ex-
tend to it the assurance Of our hearty appre-
/ citation.
A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY.
The Government Preparing to Protect