The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-25
SOCIALISTS PUT
TICKET IN FIELD
James A. Smith for Congress,
and Z. S. Lund for Supreme
Bench.
CONVENTION ALSO ADOPTS
PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES
Reception Is rendered to Dele
gates by Rev. William
Thurst0n Brown.

held forth at the COminerc1ai Cluo ouiio
ing Sunday, placed a congressional
nominee and n nominee for Justice Of
the supreme court in the field per-
fcctnd party campaign organization,
adopted i platform Of principles and
decided unanimously to "Gnt some
ice" in the coming state election.
Twenty-eieht delegates were present
from Salt Lake. Weber, Tooele, Utah,
Emery, Wasatch and Uintah counties
The morning session was called to or
dor al II o clock and W. J. Morton
was elected chairman of the conyen-
tion The entire forenoon session was
taken up IN the election OF committees
on resolutions, platform, etc,
The afternoon session convened a
'clock and following the reports OF
the committees on platform ana Ieso-
luLions, the convention proceeded 10
ballot for nominee for representa-
tive in congress. justice Of the su-
preme court and officers of the state
organization The results follow:
Congressman. James A. Smith; JUS
state organizer. William Thurstoon
Smith, Salt Lake City. state chair
man, Homer p Burt, Salt Lake City;
national committeeman. F, j. Mallett,
Tooele; state executive committee, Ho-
mer p Burt Salt Lake City; O, y. Par
sons, Tooele,; II. 4; Saunders, Prove;
Grant Syphers, Ogden; George II.
Watts, Salt Lake City.
May Establish Paper.
A committee of three was appointed
to consider the publication of an inter
mountain Socialist weekly and report
To the executive committee, which was
given power to act. 1t is likely that
the paper will be called ''1he Utah
Progress
The convention recommended that
the Socialist locals elect committees
10 work in conjunction with labor
unions for the protection and advance
of union interests. 1t further recon-
mended rhc complete industrial organ
i2ation of workers to meet the com
plete organization OF what the conven-
tion termed the capitalist class.
The convention also recommended 10
members of the party that they sup
port BIZ their patronage the Common
veal Supply company. a Salt Lake City
organization for supplying the .neces-
stes of life practically at cost. 1t
was further recommended that the va
rious locals organize women s commit
tees TO have special charge of educa-
tion among women and children. Fol
lowing is the state platform adopted:
The Platform.
America today the producing classes are
feeling as never before. the burden OF
the Increased cost OF living. Never was
labor so productive as now. never the
supply of food products great. And
vet the prices OF the necessities of life
have been steadily going up Within less
than twenty years the increase In the
cost OF flour, beef. butter. eggs and NUT
ton has been from 60 to 1877 per cent
Attracting National Attention:1so Ate ton. SO
congress was forced To- recognize II. and
a commission was appointed TO investi-
gate 1T. This commission was farce Ill
made no attempt TO find or remove the
cause. and merely declared. by strict
party vote. that the Aldrich-Payne tariff
bill is not responsible
The Cause OF High Priccs-It Is now
becoming plain TO all who read or think
that the only reason why We are being
sites stiles Of Of lie is because these prices are
fixed by the trusts Arc you aware that
less than n dozen men have almost alb
solute control OF tho money of the ma
tion; that three or four men control all
the iron mills and two OF three others
control the sugar industry: that the price
OF oil and beef and bread the rates of
transporta ton. and the whole industrial
ne OF this nation of ninety millions OF
people at the disposal OF mere hand
full OF powerful men? The time has come
ship of the trusts. can and do decide how
We shall 1--we. where we shall live, and
how long we shall live.
Cost of Living.
Wages and the Cost of Llving-The
cost of living Is largely a question of
wages or income. Tho owners of the trusts
are not affected by increased pricos OF
food or clothing. Only wage-earners are
80 affected. We have hard times because
wages do not keep pnce with the cost OF
the necessities OF life. While the average
income ss OF the zee consumer rs has not
OF the necessities of life has Increased
What determines wages?-What are
wages? They arc the price OF COM
modIty--labor What determines the
price Of any commodity? The cost Of re-
producing it. What is the cost Of re
producing the commodity. labor7 A sub
sistence-that and that only. What makes
labor and the laborer n commodity and
30 decrces bare Subsistence 10 the work
Ing class? The capitIlisi system under
which ne live. What in tho capitalist
kystem? Ii Is the private ownership OF
the effect of such ownership? The divl-
ZION OF society into industrial masters and
wage slaves. and unccaslng warfare be-
tween these two classes.
Todays Political Challenge.-Onc ques-
tion. therefore. towers above all others
today; Shall the government OF the ma
tion and OF the several states remain. as
now, an irresponsible Industrial ollgarchy:
Or shall this government everywhere be
made an Industrial democracy? Shall the
trusts be permitted To decide what the
people shall pay In order 10 live or shall
the people take that power into their own
hands? Shall the trusts own the nation
or shall the nation own the trusts? Shall
capitalism continue and the working class
remain wage slaves. limited 10 bare
subsistence; or shall capitalism be abol-
iancd and every worker receive the full
product OF his toll?
Issues of Coming Election,
Tho Issue OF the Coming State Election.
Tho only important question to be de-
rided by your votes at the coming state
election Is, shall the public powers of the
state OF Utah be used for the common
benefit OF all the people: or shall these
powers continue TO be perverted for th,
enrichment OF a few and the robbery Of
she n1any7
Political Parties and Their Meaning
4 political party Is always the political
expression Of economic class or In
tcrest. The Republican party and the
Democratic party and the American party
nro all political expressions OF The preda- :
tory cloes and OF perpetual wage slavery.
y vote for either is vote for Increased Il
cost or living robbery and graft.