New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-15
HOPEFUL IN maryland new LABOR PARTY BORNI
First Since George Campaign.
and Covers AL! Boroughs.
PLATFORM ASKS REFORMS
Wants Municipal and National
Ownership and Operation and
Many Other Things.

New York City has a brand new labor
party, and its platform and declaration OF
principles were made public last evening
1t Is the first municipal labor party in this
city since the Henry George campaign OF
1885, when the United Labor Party was
formed. The organization. which Is to De
known as the Federated Labor Party or
New York, takes in all five boroughs OF
the greater city. The new party had It's
inception at meeting of prominent laoor
men at No e49 East 9th street, its present
headquarters, on July %.
Among those who attended were some
well known delegates of the Central Fed
Grated Union. The proposition TO form
the new political organization was we'll re-
ceived and organization was effected with
James H. Hatch, chairman of the Ne"
York Building Trades Council, as presl~
dent; Edward L. Hannah, general secre-
tary of the International Union or FdFeis'
Rammermen, Bridge and Curb Setters' "S
secretary-treas urer. and Joseph HedleS'
president of the Central Federated Chhoh'
as chairman of the committee on orsdilA-
alton Thomas Meehan, chairman OF 'he
Manhattan Board of Business Agents, acted
as chairman of the committee on PLATFORM
The organizers made this statement yes
terday:
The Federated Labor party has eh n rlot
ALL of the prominent LABOR men ol t,eS
York City, and they intend 70 cdlly ~, " nc
progressive plan of organization. WIN 3 St.o
object of organizing every ASselnulS u uiS
trict within the boundary OF New Aorh 80
for the purpose of agltatlng the Prlilclple.0
as set forth in the constitution ana plat
form. so that they will be III position 10
nominate and elect candidates VINO VIII
support the principles Of the Federat tfsd
interests of la Dor. Labor men VINO are
ualihed TO I'LL the various offices TO pc
voted for in the fall election shali pc gwen
the preference over all other candidates
The following is the platform of the new
party:
First-We demand the rigid and impartial
enforcement of the following and all other
Dor laws now on the statute book: The
eight hour and prevailing rate of wages
law; the child labor law; the compulsory
education law; the law relating 10 contract
prison labor; a law to be enacted by the
Legislature prohibiting the Introduction OF
prison made goods into this state from other
states the law requiring sanitary nspec-
ton of all mines tunnels, workshops ana
dwellings; the law requiring the payment of
wages in lawful money; the employers la
hil1ty law; the compensation law.
Second-We demand the enactment OF
legislation, state or national, as may be
appropriate and necessary which Will ac-
complish the following desirable ends:
Ownership and operation by municiDall-
ties, state or national, of all public utili-
ties and the enactment of a law establish
ing a municipal ice plant; the establish
ment of postal savings banks; the estab-
lishment of a postal express: passage of a
law by Congress prohibiting the use of the
injunction process in labor disputes, pas
sage of a national eight-hour law: aboli-
ton of the Electoral College and direct
nomination and election of President, Vice
President United States Senator's judges
and all elective officers; extension of the
provisions of the employers liability laws
and the compensation laws, so as to in
! clude within their provisions all classes of
employment; ballot reform that will dis
| pense with the cumbersome ballot now in
use: to establish universal transfers on all
surface railroads within the city of New
York.
The present plan of selecting candida es
for public office by the dominant political
parties of this state is obsolete in the ex-
IRENE, ana candidates so selected cannot
| De CONSIDERED as the choice of the people
| whom they are supposed to represent. The
| great army of the WOTkingmen voters who
are in the majority and decide all elections
have little or 10 representation in the gov
eminent OF our CITY, and are therefore
without the representation that is Justly
theirs, because of the fact that the Candf-
dates are selected with a view of preserv-
working class.
| Therefore. a united labor party. com
| posed of all workingmen voters. is neces-
sary for the purpose of protecting the in
great city. We invite the cooperation and
support of all citizens who believe in hon
est ana efficient public officials who will
enforce the laws with equal justice to cap
ital and labor
There shall be a general committee COM
| posed of two members from each Assem-
bly, district organiza ton. This committee
snail constitute the general committee and
governing BODY of the Federated Labor
party, in which shall rest and be repoSed
all the powers of this organiza ton