The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-09
BAY STATE SOCIALIST PARTY
NOMINATE 4 TICKET FOR NOV-
 EMRER ELECTION.
Socialists as an Officially Recognized Party-prominent Men on the Ticket The atform-Sympathy Expressed for the Miners.

f"r the Miners. Boston, Sept. S.-To-day for the first
 time in their political experience the I socialists of Massachusetts held state
 conventionas an officially recognized so- cialist party, for the purpose of nomi-
 hating a state ticket to be voted on in November. Representative James F,
 Carey of HaverhiH presided. Thirty
 four towns and cities were represented by delegates. The morning session was
 occupied in discussion of the platform, one plank of which was as follows: Resolved. That the socialist party dis claims any attempt to regulate the re- | lgious or other private opinions of it's
 members, on the ground that the social ist movement is 8 political movement, whose aim is to usher in by peaceful and constitutional methods an equitable, economic system, based upon the colec- tive ownership of the means of produc- | ton and distribution. During the afternoon the following state ticket was nominated: | For governor, John C. Chase of Ha- verhill; lieutenant governor, Dr. John | Quincy Adams, Amesbury; secretary of state, Edward A. BuckIand of Holyoke; state treasurer, David Taylor, Boston; state auditor, S. Fremont Packard, Brockton; attorney general, Charles E. Fennar, Worcester.
 The committee on resolutions reported
 that resolution introduced at the morning session relative to endorsing the protest of the coal miners strike
 meeting last evening has been, with it's amendment, rejected. The committee then presented two resolutions, which were accepted as read: The first declares that i've are pro- foundly in symbathy with the miners
 and believe that the only remedy at hand sin the effective assertion of the sovereignty of the people over the min ing property as cooperative industry in accordance with the principles of so- ciallsm."
 The second declares that "the striking coal miners are demanding higher standard of living and are engaged in one common struggle for not only the
 material, but the moral and spiritual advancement of society" After the adoption of a platform the convention was addressed by Dr. John Quincy Adams, the nominee for lieuten- ant governor, and then adjourned. = The platform was a long document, the following being some of the more important extracts:
 "The method of ownership should be made to correspond with the method of operation.
 Tools used in common should be owned in common"
 It demands: A reduction of the hours of labor
 Abolition of child labor.
 Raising of the school age.
 State insurance for the workers in case of death, accident, lack of employ ment and old age.
 State and municipal assistance in clothing and food.
 Extension of municipal and town powers to permit the public ownership of all public utilities.
 The initiative and referendum, pro- portional representative and the right of recall of representatives by their con- stituencies.
 Trial by jury in eases of injunctions issued against working men and women
 Equal civil and political rights for men and women.
 Abolition of capital punishment.