The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-31
SOCIALISTS TRY
TO Harmonic
Transacted by the Con-
yentiOn at indianapolis.
SEND MESSAGE TO DEBS
EFFORT TO SHELVE HIM DOES
NOT DISCOMFORT LEADER.

indianapolis, Ind, July 30.-The Ma
tioEal Socialist convention made an eff
fort today TO harmonic and was par
TALLY successful After a. conference
between Mr.. Brooks, leader of the Chi
cago faction, message was sent to
Eugene V. Debs declaring the conven-
ton to be harmonious. Eugene Y
DebS, when asked at his home in Tarra
Haute tonight for an expression con-
corning the action of the convention to-
ward him, said:
The term 'shelved' has little or no
significance with me. They may shelve
me II they like. [ have no personal de-
sire to be called a leader The action
of the Springfield faction does not dis
concert me in the least. 1t is simply
an effort on the part of the eastern fac
ton to dictate to the Chicago faction.
OF which 1 am a member. The Conven-
ton in Indianapolis is not a represent
atlVe body Of socialists as the Spring
field faction is largely in the mapority
and is in position to dictate"
The session was occupied with the
reports of the national secretari of
the Springfield and Chicago factions,
and the reports Of the committee on
resolutions.
Secretary Butcher Of the Springfield
faction, reported receipts of SASS, ex-
pendituTes of 81 0S9 and a debt Of 1871
Secretary Theodore Deggs of the Chi
cagO faction reported expenditures of
S3,63S and balance of 500 for the pres
ent year Mr. Deggs said at the end
of his report that he would not be a
candidate for reelection when the
parties were united
Trades Unions Formed.
Chairman Hoehen of the committee
on resolutions presented a resolution
taVorlng trades unions as an economic
force TO carry on the class struggle and
a step toward independent political ac-
ton. 1t was returned to the committee
to be shortened.
In the debate, during which some
animosity toward labor unions ap-
peared, II. Gaylord Wiltshire of Los
Angeles, Cal, the millionaire social
list" appealed from a decision of Chair
man Carey The chairman was over
whelmingly sustained
A Porto RiCan resolution created an
other debate. L spoke of Porto Rico
as the Siberia of America" and said
the military tools of the United States
were suppTessing trades unions and
prosecuting trades uniOnists. It de
Scribed this as un-AmeriCan. a mo-
ton TO strike out the word ''un-Ameri-
can" was carried. and the resolution
was adopted.
A resolution urging organization
among negro WOrkmen was tabled. and
then another was made the basis of an
address to negroes which a, committee
is to prepare and issue.
4 resolution on expansion. calling on
the wOrkingmen of the new possess
sions to organize, was adopted.
Platform of Socialists.
The platform committee reported at
( 3 o'clock this afternoon. The platform
as reported declares that private own
erShip Of the tools OF production and
/ distribution is. responsible for the ever
increasing uncertainty OF livelihood
and the poverty and misery of the
working class. and it divides society
into two hostile classeS-the capitalists
and wage-wOrkers- It advocates as
Immediate demands" public ownership
OF all means of transportation, COmmu-
niCation and other public utilities, as
we'll as all industries controlled by mo-
nOpOIieS, trusts and combines. the re-
duction of the hours of labor; state or
national insurance of working people,
4 the Inauguration of a system Of public
/ works and improvements for the en-
/ ployment of the unemployed. the public
! credit to be utilized for that purpose;
/ the education of all children up to the
age Of IS years, and state and munich
pal aid in the purchase of books, cloth
| ing and food: equal civil and political
rights for men and women; the init
alive and referendum, and no more
public land to be sold.
/ The platform was discussed at length
! this afternoon. and at the session To-
riob+ held for that purpose