Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-05
PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM AIMS
At THE CORRECTION or MANY
INDUSTRIAL EVILS.
WAS DRAWN UP BY EXPERTS
interesting Comparison Of It's Salient
Features With the Program Sub
United to American Association for
Labor Legislation by Prot. sesaer.

industrial Justice. This means an ef-
fsctive system for promoting the well
fare OF the workers Of the nation. Just
- 1t has been promoted in Germany
and England. through workmen's com.
pensation acts. disability and old
pensions and similar cooperative de-
vices.
The program was drawn UP by OK.
perts who have made q thorough study
OF conditions In the United States and
the remedies that have proved effec-
tive abroad to correct industrial evils.
1t is Interesting to observe how
closely 1t follows the plan that was
submitted to the American Associa-
tion for Labor Legislation In Decem.
Der. 1907. by Prof. II. r. Seager of Co
lumbia university. Here are the salt.
emit features Of that program, COM
pared with the planks in the Progress.
sive platform:
Seager: Workmen's compensation
acts by which men may be repaid for
losses due to industrial accidents, or
TO trade diseases.
Platform: Standards of compensa.
ton for death by industrial accident
and injury and trade disease which
will transfer the burden Of lost earn.
ings from the families Of working
people to the industry and thu to the
community.
Seager: Provision against invalidity
and cid g
Platform: The protection Of home
life against the hazards Of sickness,
irregular employment and old age
through the adoption Of q system OF
social insurance adapted to American
use.
Seager: Provision against losses due
to unemployment is attended with
great difficulties. but may be worked
out.
Platform: Effective legislation look.
Ing to the prevention OF Industrial &C.
cidents. o~ccupattonal . diseases, over.
work. involuntary unemployment and
other injurious effects incident to mod.
crn industry.
Seager: Prescriptions in regard to
sanitation and safety appliances.
Platform: The fixing Of minimum
safety and health standards for the
various occupations, and the exercise
OF the public authority on state and
nation. including the federal control
over Interstate commerce, and the tax.
ing power. to maintain such standards.
seager: Laws prohibiting the EN-.
ployment OF children under fourteen
in all gainful pursuits.
Platform: The prohibition OF child
labor,
seager: Laws regulating the hours
of labor OF women.
Platform: The general prohibition
OF night work for women and the es.
Enlistment of an eight.hour day for
women and young persons.
Seager: Special. Industrial training
for children.
Platform: The development Of the
creative power of America by lifting
the last load of illiteracy from Amer
lean youth and establishing continue.
ton schools for Industrial education
under public control and encouraging
agricultural education and demonstra.
tion In rural schools.
In addition to the provisions in the
Seager program the platform pro
vides:
Minimum wage standards for work.
Ing women. to provide a living wage
In all industrial occupations.
One days rest In seven for all wage
workers.
The eight.hour day In continuous
Neutrality-suspicious. industries.
The abolition Of the convict con.
tract labor system.
Substituting a system OF prison pro-
duction for governmental consump-
ton only, and the application OF pris-
oners' earnings to the support of their
dependent families.
Publicity as to wages. hours and
conditions Of labor: full reports upon
Industrial accidents and diseases and
the opening to public inspection of all
tallies. weights, measures and check
systems on labor products.
The establishment OF industrial re-
search laboratories to put the methods
and discoveries OF science at the serv.
ice OF American producers.
We favor the organization OF the
workers. men and women. as a means
Of protecting their interests and Of
promoting their progress.
seager: This program Of social leg.
islation 10 urged as a step toward real.
thing that canon Of social justice
which demands for all equal Industrial
opportunities. It IL believed It will
help to raise the standard Of citizen.
SHY In the country by making both