The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-11-01

OF all large scale industries.
z. The immediate requirement by
the municipalities, the states or the
federal government of all grain ele-
vators, stock yards, torage ware
houses, and other distributing agencies
in order to reduce the present extor-
Il mate cost of living.
3. The extension Of the public do
main to include mines. quarries, oil
wells, forests and water power.
q. The further conservation and de-
velOpment of natural resources for the
use and benefit of all the people:
(a) By scientific foreatation and
timber protection.
(b) By the reclamation of arid and
swamp tracts,
| (c) By the storage of flood waters
and the utilization Of water power.
(d) The steppage Of the present ex-
travagant waste of the soil and of the
products of mines and oil wells.
(e) By the development of highway
and waterway systems.
5. The collective ownership of land
wherever practicable, and in cases
where such ownership is impracticable,
the a., -ropriation by taxation of the
annua! rental value Of all LAND h"'' e.
speculation or exploitation.
q. The collective ownership and
democratic management of the bank
ing and currency system.
UNEMPLOYMENT
The immediate government relief of
the unemployed by the extension of all
useful public works. All persons en-
ployed on such works to be engaged
directly by the government uuder
workday of not more than eight hours
and at not less than the prevailing
union wages. The government also to
establish employment bureaus; to lend
money to states and municipalities
without interest for the purpose of
carrying on public works, and to take
such other measures within it's power
as will lessen the wide spread misery
of the workers caused by the misrule
of the capitalistic class.
INDUSTRIAL DEMAND
The conservation of human resources,
particularly of the lives and well-being
of the workers and their families.
l. By shortening the workday in
keeping with the increased produc
tiveness of machinery.
2. By securing to every worker a
rest period of not less than day and
half in each week.
3. By securing more effective in
spection of workshops, factories and
Mines
4. By forbidding the employment of
children under sixteen years Of age.
5. By the cooperative organization
Of the industries in the federal pen
itentaries for the benefit of the con-
victs and their dependents.
6. By forbidding the interstate
transportation of the products of child
labor, of convict labor and of all unin-
spected factories and mines.
z. By abolishing the profit system
in government work. and substituting
either the direct hire of labor or the
awarding of contracts to cooperative
groups of workers.
8. BY establishing minimum wage
scales.
9 BY abolshing official charity and
substituting non-contributory system
of old age pensions, general system
of insurance by the state of all it's
members against unemployment and
invalidism and system of compulsory
insurance by employers of their work.
ers, without cost to the latter, against
industrial diseases, accidents and death.
POLlTlCAL DEMANDS
l. The absolute freedom of press,
speech and assemblage.
". The adoption of graduated in
come tax, the increase of the rates of
the present corporation tax aud the
extension of inheritance taxes, grad
uated in proportion to the value of the
estate and to nearness of kin-the pro-
ceeds of these taxes to be employed in
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| 3. The abolition of the monopoly
tuition of collective ownership, with d.
rect rewards to inventors by premiums
or royalties.
4. Unrestricted and equal suffrage
for men and women.
S. The adoption of the initiative,
referendum and recall and of proper
tional representation, nationally as we'll
as locally.
6, The abolition of the senate and
of the veto power of the president.
z. The election of the president and
vice president by direct vote of the
people.
8. The abolition of the power usur-
ped by the supreme court of the United
States to pass upon the constitutions
atty of the legislation enacted by con-
gress. National laws to be repealed
only by act of congress or by referen-
dunn vote of the whole people.
9. The abolition of the present re-
strictions upon the amendment of the
constitution so that that instrument
may be made amendable by majority
of the voters in the country.
10. The granting of the right OF suf-
frage in the District of Columbia with
representation in congress and demo-
cratic form of municipal government
for purely local affairs.
II. The extension of democratic
government to all United States terri
tory.
IL. The enactment of further meas
ures for general education and par
ticularly for vocational education in
useful pursuits. The Bureau of Edu-
cation to be made department.
49, The enactment of further meas
ures for the conservation of health.
The creation of an independent bureau