The Prescott daily news., 1908-07-30


 which is replacing costly individual competition. The collapse of dishon- estly inflated enterprises robs invest ors, closes banks, destroys confidence and engenders panics. The Independ- ence party advocates as primary ne- cesstty for sounder business conditions and improved public service and i'm proved public service the enactment or laws, state and national, to prevent watering of stock, dishonest issues of ponds and other forms of corporation frauds, -.-'os.,T- ..--ss ss, eesl.ai .ai4t- >->-.-- e.~-.'-p Labor.
 | We denounce the so-called labor blanks of the Republican and Demo. cratic platforms as political buncombe and contemptible claptrap unworthy of national parties claiming to be serious and sincere
 | The Republican declaration that mo injunction or temporary restraining order should be issued without notice except where irreparable injury would result from delay" is empty verbiage for showing of irreparable injury can always be made, and is always made In exparte affidavits.
 The Democratic declaration that "in- functions should not be issued in any case in which no industrial dispute were inbolved' is meaningless and worthless.
 1 Such insincere and meaningless dec larations place low estimate upon the intelligence of the average American worklngman, and exhibit either igno- rance or indifference to the real in terests of labor The Indepndence par ty condemns the arbitrary use of the writ of injunction and contempt pro- ceedings as violation of the funda- mental American right of trial by jury.
 From the foundation of our govern ment down to 1872 the Federal iudici- ary act prohibited the issue of any in junction without reasonable notice un- til after hearing. We assert that. in all actions growing out of a dispute between employers and employees con. cerning terms of conditions of employ. ment no injunction should be issued until after at rial upon the merits, that such trial should be had before a jury. and that in no case of alleged con. tempt should any person be deprived of liberty without a trial by jury
 The Independence party believes that the distribution of wealth is as important as is the creation of wealth and indorses those organizations among farmers and workers which tend to brig about a just distribution of wealth through good wages for workers and good prices for farmers, and which protect the employer and the consumer through equality of price for labor and Ter product And we fa- vor such .e~'slation as will remove them from the operation of the Sher. man anf;trrst law
 We indorsa the eieht-hour workdav favor it's application to all government employees and demand the enactment of law requiring that all work be done for tho government whether Federal or state, and whether done directly or indirectly through contractors or suh-o fntractors, shall be done on an eight-hour basis.
 We favor the enactment of a law conforming as illegal any combination or conspiracy to blacklist employees.
 We demand protection for working men. through enforced use of standa rd safety appliances and provision of hy gienic conditions. in the operations oi all industrial undertakings
 We advocate state and Federal in spection of railways to assure greater safety for railway employees and fol the travelling public.
 We call for the enactment of strin gent laws fixing employers liabilities and rigid rrohibition of child labor through cooperation between the state government and the national govern ment.
 We condemn the manufacture ant sale of prison-made goods in the oper market and competition with free la Dor in manufactured goods We de mand that convicts shall be employed direct by the different states in the manufacture of products for use fl state institutions and in making gooC 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, thu head of which shall be a member O the presidents cabinet.
 The great abuses of grain inspection by which the producers are plunderet demand immediate and vigorous con viction To that end we favor Fedora inspection under a strict civil service law.
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