Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-07-29
NOMINATE HIsGEN
FOR PRESIDENT.
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/ ttalization. Modern Industrial con-
ditions make the corporation and
stock company a necessity, bat over
capitalization In corporations 10 as
harmful and criminal as is personal
dishonesty in an individual.
The independence party advocates
as primary necessity for sounder
business conditions and improved
public service the enactment of laws,
state and national, to prevent the
watering of stock, dishonest issues OF
bonds and other forms Of corporation
funds.
Declaration ON Labor.
We denounce the so-calIed labor
planks Of the republican and demo-
cratic platforms as political buncombe
and contemplate claptrap, unworthy
of national parties claiming to be SER
ious and sincere.
The independence party condemns
the arbitrary use OF the writ of in
junction and contempt proceedings
as violation of the fundamental
American right of trial by jury.
From the foundation of our gov
eminent down to 1872 the federal
jury act prohibited the issue of any
injunction without reasonable notice
until hearing. We assert that in all
actions growing out of disputes be-
tween employer and employee concern
ing terms or conditions of employ
ment no injunction should issue I'M
til after trial upon It's merits, that
such trial should be had before
jury and that in case of alleged con-
tempt no person should be deprived
of liberty without trial by jury.
The independence party believes
that the distribution of wealth is Inn
portant as the creation of wealth and
Endorses the organization among far
mers and workers which tend to
bring about a just distribution of
wealth through good wages for work
ers and good prices for farmers and
which protect the employer and the
consumer through equality of price
for labor and for product, and we
favor such legislation as will remove
them from the operation of the Sher-
man antitrust law.
We indorse the eight-hour work
day, favor its application to all gov
eminent employees and demand the
enactment of laws requiring that all
work done for the government,
whether federal or state, and whether
done directly or indirectly through
contractors or subcontractors, shall
be done on an eight-hour basis.
| We favor the enactment of a law
condemning as illegal any combina-
ton or conspiracy to blacklist en-
ployes.
We demand protection for work
men through enforced use of standard
safety appliances and provision for
hygenic conditions, in the operation
OF factories, railroads, mills, mines
and all industrial undertakings.
We advocate state and federal in
spection of railways to secure better
safety for every employee and for the
travelling public.
We call for the enactment of strin-
gent laws fixing employers liabilities
and rigid prohibition of child labor
through cooperation between the
state government and the national
government.
We condemn the manufacture and
sale of prison-made goods in the open
market in competition with free-labor
manufactured goods. We demand
that the convicts be employed direct
ly by the different states in the man
ufaeture of products for use In state
institutions and in making good
roads, and in no case shall convicts
be hired out to contractors or sub
contractors.
We favor the creation of a depart
ment of labor, including mines and
mining, the head OF which shall be
member of the presidents cabinet.
The great abuses of grain inspec-
tion by which the producers are
plundered, demand immediate and
vigorous correction. To this end we
favor federal inspection under a
strict civil-service law.
Currency.
The independence party declares
that the right to issue money is in
herent In the government and 1t IA
yors the establishment of a central
governmental bank, through which
the money so issued shall be put in
to general circulation.
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