The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1912-10-04

phones, express services, steamboat
lines, and all other social means of
transportation and communication and
of all large-scale industries.
2. The immediate requirement by
the municipalities, the states or the
federal government of, all grain ele-
vators, stock yards, storage ware
houses, and other distributing agencies
in order to- reduce the present extor-
tionate cost of living.
3. The extension of the public do
main to include mines. quarries, oil
wells, forests and water power.
4. The further conservation and de-
velopment of natural resources for the
use and benefit of all the people:
(a) By scientific forestation 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 stoppage 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 appropriation by taxation of the
annual rental value of all land held for
speculation or exploitation.
+. 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-
plos ed 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 VIII lessen the wide spread misery
OF the workers caused by the msrule
of the capitalistic class.
INDUSTRIAL DEMAND
The conservation of human resources,
particularly Of the lives and wel-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.
a. By forbidding the employment of
children under sixteen years of age.
s. 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 unn-
spected factories and mines.
Z. BY abol!shing 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.
BY abolishing official charity and
non-contrbutory system
of old age pensions, a general system
Of insurance by the state of all it's
members against unemployment and
lnvalidism and a system Of compulsory
insurance by employers of their work
ers, without cost to the latter, against
Industrial diseases, accidents and death.
POLITICAL DEMANDS
l. The absolute freedom of press,
speech and assemblage.
2. The adoption of graduated in
come tax, the increase of the rates of
The present corporation tax aud the
of Inheritance taxes, grad
lated in proportion to the value of the
estate and to nearness Of kin-the pro-
leeds of these taxes to be employed in
he specialization of industry.
3. The abolition of the monopoly
ownership of patents and the substi-
luton of collective ownership, with d.
'ect rewards to inventors by premiums
~ royalties.
4. Unrestricted and equal suffrage
or men and women.
5. The adoption of the initiative,
and recall and of proper
,ional representation, nationally as we'll (
as locally.
6, The abolition of the senate and
If the veto power of the president.