The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-08
PLAN LABOR PARTY
NEW YORK uNloNlsTs CONSIDER
SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATION

Platform of Principles Favors Pub
lie Ownership, n National Eight
Hour Law and the Payment of
Wages In Lawful Money.
The subcommittee appointed by the
executive committee Of the New York
Central Federated union to draft a
plan for independent political action on
tile part Of the labor organizations Of
the city, In accordance with the political
programme Of the American Federation
Of Labor recently presented Its report
to the Central Federated union Tie
platform submitted liz as follows: !
First.--we demand the rigid and impair
tial enforcement Of the following and all
other labor laws now on the statute
books:
The eight hour and prevailing rate Of
wages law.
The child labor law.
The compulsory education law.
The law relating TO contract prison la
Dor.
A law to be enacted by the legislature
prohibiting the introduction of prison
made goods into this state from other
states.
The laws requiring sanitary inspection
Of all mines. tunnels, workshops and
dwellings.
The law requiring the payment Of wages
In lawful money.
Second.--We demand the enactment of
iegislation-state or national as may be
| appropriate and necessary which will ac-
complish the following desirable ends:
Ownership and operation by municipal
tiles, state or nation OF all public utilities
and the enactment of a law establishing
a municipal Ice plant and law for the
establishment OF municipal abattclrs and
slaughter houses conducted by the munics
\ ipality.
\ The establishment Or a postal savings
bank
The establishment Of a postal express.
Passage Of law by congress prohibits
1 ing the use OF the injunction process in
| labor disputes.
Passage OF a national eight hour law.
/ Abolition OF the electoral college and
/ direct nomination and election Of presi-
| dent vice president United States SEN
ators. judges and all elective officers
! Extension of the provisions OF the en-
| ployers liability law so as to include
within It's provisions all classes Of EN-
/ ployment.
I Ballot reform which will prevent cor
/ ruption. insure a fair count and punish
| bride givers and bride takers.
! Adoption Of the system of lawmaking
known as direct legislation through the
! initiative and referendum.
James Hatch Of the Upholsterers'
union, chairman Of the subcommittee,
who made the report said that 1t was
! proposed to. form trades union clubs
4 in every congressional district and
assembly district to be composed only
Of men who had union cards. Each
club was to consist Of not less than
\ twenty-five men, but there was TO be
no limit TO the members after that.
Y When these clubs have been organ
lied each one will elect three dele
1 gates to a general convention which
/ win be called later and which will
more completely organize the assem-
bly, districts.
4 "The delegates to the convention"
Mr.. Hatch said, twill be looked on as
a general committee. The main ques.
ton to be decided now is whether
/ we should have a labor party exclu-
slyely that is. party which would
4 cut loose from the present parties
or organize for the purpose of nomi-
mating labor candidates or candidates
favorable to labor. 1t was decided by
the committee that at this time 1t
would not be wise to form a separate
( party, as there win be other independ-
cnt parties In the field and labor
party pure and simple might not ac-
complish as much as It would II 1t
supported labor candidates. We pro-
pose to nominate labor men in the va
rious districts 10 every office that it is
possible for a labor man to ill, but
labor men could not fill every Office.
In the case Of judges, for instance, we
could not nominate labor men. as la
Dor men are not lawyers"
i Delegate Hatch went on TO say that
4 If any Of the dominant parties chose
70 lndorse the nominees of the Central
Federated union they might do SO. but
labor man who had the nomination
of any Of the present parties first and
came to the Central Federated union
party for Endorsement would not re-
ceive It. He continued:
IF there are two candidates for Of
fee in one district who are both labor
men and we accept one of them and
the other refuses to retire we will look
on the one who refuses to retire as a
renegade. We want to make 1t impos.
sible to have contestlng candidates
who are labor men In any district II
the movement Is carried out on the
lines proposed In a conscientious way
| It will be easy at the next election to
cut loose and form a permanent labor
party"