United labor bulletin., 1910-05-26

effrontery to stand before the Trades
and Labor Assembly of Denver and say
they are for Speer-tbe man who sent
out the word to VOTE DOWN the initla'
tive. referendum and recall. They ha!
the unadulterated gail to try and dis
credit the three daily papers-News'
Times and Express-that were boosting
tor these amendme rom daylight I'M
I'll the sun rose on a new day, and never
a word about the paper that first BOOST
ed" and then turned turtle and took up
the cry of Speer-''Vote them all down.
Their names should be kept standing IN
type and run in every issue under the
heading, ROLL OF DISHONOR.
We cannot get any number of men on
a ticket of either of the old-line parties
unless we have a primary election law.
What have our representatives In the
legislature done but enter into intrigue
with the corporation agents. AT the last
sitting of the legislature a bill was In
troduced by one of our touted leaders
Sheer Democrat-repealing the boycott
law. This leader even voted against MS
own measure.
We believe in political labor party
mort a labor ticket that represents clti-
zenship and not piracy.
We believe that the people will HOOK
to vour support by the hundreds ana
thousands if union labor gets rid of the
crooks and blackmailers that infest their
ranks.
We must stand for principle-civic
righteousness-and not for graft, If we
of he
Among the ''ins," if a man was not
lin on the water graft he lacked lab
| ity." He is branded as a man to be
stunned.
Have we of Denver in the past
showed cause" why we should receive
support in any political action? Ii
would be a crime never to be forgotten
to Mace some of our labor politicians
in power Whenever you are deserving
ot the support of the people that support
will be forthcoming.
We take the following from one OF
our exchanges. 1t places our views fair
ly and squarely before you:
| at is believed that the time is now
ripe for the working classes of the
United States to forward their legitimate
interests by political action. 1t is mani
fest that were the several labor groups
now organized in the community, unit
ed in a political labor party upon COM
mon platform, such party would exer-
else political influence far greater than
any group acting separately could exer-
else. The working men and women 1--WE
include women, for women should and
will have the BALLOT can best serve their
interests by united political action
United by loyalty that money will not
buy and self interest will not tempt.
1.-The time has come when we must
cease to be either a strenuous Republi-
can or Democrat, and become siren
GUS labor party man united politically
as well as industrially.
This labor party should be formed
along the following lines: Initiative, ref
erendum and recall; national income tax
law; national inheritance tax law; ma
tional employers liability law; change
of the United States Constitution SO
that all judges, without exception. be
elected by vote of the people; national
law granting pensions for old age or to-
tai disability and accident benefit; postal
savings banks; abolition of capital pun
ishment; woman suffrage; self govern
ment of cities; abolition of the contract
system on all public work, city, state or
national, such work to be done on the
day labor plan at union wages prevail
ing in such locality; election of United
States senators by direct vote of the peo
pie; municipal ownership of public util
tiles, and prohibition of ownership by
any individual or corporation of the three
greatest necessities on earth-water
light and air
"A labor party SO organized would
place the working men and women in a
position to get the full value of what
they produce"
Perhaps the time is now ripe" for
the launching of such a party, but there
is no proof of the fact only in the trying
of the experiment
This same thought has been INDUCED
in many times before, with even the ex-
pertinent made; but the result wasn't
successful The workingman wasn't at
tracted to its banner. He still kept on
in the even tenor of his way-one
against the other-in the old political
parties, even when the tenets of either
of them held nothing whatever that APP
pealed, in the remotest degree, to any
self-interest of his
And these parties died solely because
of this Indifference of the workingman
himself. Not only could he not be pre-
vailed upon to ally himself with the par
ty organization but he couldn't be in
duced to even read its literature or at
tend the meetings of those brought to
his vicinity to expound and explain its
principles
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