The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-06-25
PLATFORM OF THE
UNITED LABOR PARTY
The United Labor Party of Ohio County Has
Nominated Four Candidates for the Legislature
I'D Will Enter the Fight in Earnest.

III. United Labor Party of Ohio
Co q, has nominated four can
didat2s for the legislature and will
enter The fight in earnest. The
= tofiat ing is the declaration of
principles and platform adopted
by the convention in Wheeling
RESOLVED, That we, the United
Labo: party of Ohio Countys State
of West Virginia, in convention
assembled, record our protest
against the Indifference and utter
disregard Of the Republican and
DcmooTaticic parties to enact re-
medal legislation to improve the
condition of organized labor.
Though evasively pretending with
hattcring promises to relieve the
political grievances of the working
mel, still those~earnest pledges are
continually broken with all the
brazenness characteristic of un-
scrupulous politicians, proving
them baseless and insincere to en-
snare and deceive workingmen for
their votes.
We denounce and enter our
solemn protest against those two
parties of corruption and fraud,
who are controlled by the state
machine and county rings, who
select the candidates unobstru cted,
pack them into conventions with
the nomination tags of the bosses,
primary convention corrupters,
and ballot box suffers on their
backs; force them on the unthink-
ing credulOus wage earners; men
who are obnoxious to their politi
cal interest and a lettering obstacle
in their way in>getting adequate or
just laws in their behalf.
An example of this nefarious
and disgusting system has been
worked to perfection through the
state rings and factions fighting
with bull dog ferocity to give the
innocent wage earners candidates
for Governor supported by man.
killing and inhuman coal opera
tors and railroads The power of
the bosses and rings gives us none
but corporation lawyers as candi-
dates for Congress. Intelligent
business men, farmers or working
men need not apply. None but law.
yeTs can be elected to that office.
Candidates for the State Senate
and Legislature are selected as
hlrelin2s of United States Senators.
Candidates given us by those cor
rupt political dictators are not the
choice of the workingmen, and we
have been meekly voting for them,
or not vote at all.
Those two parties have sanction
Ell the evil of convict made goods
10 he sold i'll the open market in
competition with the product of
Tree .abor. They have sanctioned
the enSlavement of citizens as
poems or slaves; the organization
OF coal police and detectives agen-
cle~, composed of thugs and bull
lies, to brow beat anti intimate
l.ftr"able citizens from organizing
'ay3H unions who work in the
H....r for Il livelihood. They have
-.@."d laws giving the State the
'.- to employers to organize for
Ha1>al protection, while those EN-
'>hy SllS SdnC llShO ~
aingmen. They have know
=" "t and tolerate the truck
,."m carried on by inscriptions
Ea coal operators who rob theiI
IS Ivy extortionate prices fol
">Saries of life and contribute
q it to keep political party
lirels and theving politicians
'wer
denounce those parties il
litter neglect and failure il
workingmen the protection
e ,tate to organize labor union:
and independent from thu
'g'ence or. obstruction O.
al and recognizing this to b.
at IL the history of our State
-uty of citizenship should as
self in the heart of every true
sTmpathizing friend of labol
< with all the power and in
He at his command until thi
l$slve law is wiped out ant
If equal justice to all men ant
"al privileges to none adopted
stead.
oFHlngmen have repeated.
'sNted both the Democratic an,
bhilcan legislations to enact al
III hour work-day, as has bee