Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-01

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| Injunction in strikes only
| after declaration by the execu-
| tive official Of the community
| HI affected that he is unable to
| II cope with the situation.
HI Extension of factory inspec-
| ton. minimum wage scale, pro-
| hibition of child labor, an eight
| II hour day.
Ill Penal reforms, segregation of
! children in court cases.
| Agricultural improvements.
| Elimination of grade cross
| ings. N
| The short ballot.
over and operate any public utility upon
| Just compensation upon the vote of its
people or the Public Utility Commission
should be required to establish rates HIM
tied to reasonable rate upon the value
| OF the physical property devoted TO the
public use.
| Land Tax Favored.
The second privilege to ne reached by
| State laws is the land privilege. The
value of the land Is due 10 the presence
the growth. the enterprise OF all the
people. The existing taxing system puts
a premium upon speculation in land
which is the holding of land out of use
with the expectation of receiving at some
l4uturt Time an increase IN value. .IUE
operates to keep land which is the OPP
portunity Of labor, out of use; to make
congestion In cities, to crowd the labor
market, TO reduce wages, TO raise rents
/ and generally to restrict authority. The
remedy is that all the products of labor
such as buildings and improvements, ma
chinery, household furniture, merchan-
disc, and other personal property, the
fencing. ditehing and clearing of farm
lands, should ultimately be exempt from
Taxation, and the taxes heretofore raised
from this source for municipal. county
and State purposes should be raised by
increasing the taxes upon the value OF
the land This will encourage industry,
make it easier to get a home or to estab-
| lish and carry on a business. and force
idle land into use, thus increasing the
| We favor applyiog this remedy gradu-
ally by law allowing each municipality
upon the vote of its own people TO ex-
empt buildings. improvements and per
sonal property from taxation In whole OF
| We recommend that the tax on build.
| ings and improvements, household furni-
ture, machinery and merchandise and the
| fencing ditching and clearing of farm
| lands be reduced 10 per cent a year, anC
| corresponding increase in the tax rate
| on land value, until the rate on such i'm
| provements is one-half the rate on the
| land.
The rules of law governing trade dis
| putes, as developed by our courts. do mo-
| hold the balance of Justice even as be.
| tween employer and employee.
| Prohibiting the issuance of any re
| straining order or injunction in trade dis
putes without hearing or notice, and theI
| only. upon the certificate or testimony Of
| tn" chief executive of the municipality
that he Is or will be unable to protec
| the property claimed to be threatened.
| Granting the right to trial by jury il
| all contempt cases where the acts com
| planned of are not committed in the
| actual presence of the court.
| We favor the strengthening of the law
governing inspection of factories ant
workshops to the end that the safet,
and health of employees may be more
carefully safeguarded and the places Of
labor be made more safe, sanitary anC
| attractive.
| Minimum Wage.
| We stand for the establishment of til,
minimum wage standards for workin;
women to provide a living scale of wages
| in all industrial occupations.
We favor the prohibition of child labor
| We favor the maintenance and strength
ening of the laws enacted by the Legis
| lature of 1912 for the suppression OF
monopoly and the regulation of trusts
commonly known as the Seven Sisters
| The protection of the people from ex
plotting of any kind of fraudulent secur
! tiles.
Penal reform; the humane trea tment OF
! imprisoned offenders; the abolition OF
| prison contract labor and the substitu
| tion of State work in healthful employ
ments, with the application of at least
some of the earnings to the support Of
the families of persons imprisoned.
| The absolute segregation in trial anc
| confinement OF all children and young
| persons.
Legislation for the purchase of all sup
| plies for State institutions through al
| administrative board
The consolidation of boards. bureaus
and commissions having cognate duties
the abolition of all unnecessary Offices
and the Introduction of such economics
| In all departments and Institutions as
efficiency Will permit.
The maintenance of the present civil
service laws and the Increasing of the
efficiency of the same.
The promotion of agriculture and agri-
| cultural methods by schools of instruc--
| ton and assistants. to aid in the use OF
modern methods of farm development and
| for the increase of crop production.
| The conservation by the State of the
| potable waters of the State, for the pur-
| pose of supplying waters by the state
at a minimum of costs TO its municipali-
| ties or inhabitants.
The establishment and contamination
of a systematic system of State highway
to be maintained by the State, with at
tendant relief of local taxation for such
maintenance.
| The prevention of all tax evasion by
banks or othen corporations.
| Grade Crossings.
| Specifically requiring the Board of Pub
| lie Utility Commi ssioners at once to pro
coed TO survey all railroad grade cross
| ings in the State. and to classify th'
| same according to the elements of dan
| ger Involved. and to proceed under tbs
| existing legislation continuously to secure
the elimination thereof as nearly as ma!
| he in the order of their classification, ant
| In the meantime to require the adequate
| protection of such crossings
| We favor the continuance and compile
tion of the projected aud partially com
| pleted inland waterways of the State
| and of the proposed ship canal across tn
| State with the assistance of the nationa
| government.
We declare for the revision and codiH
cation of the fish and game laws
We favor the eigbt-hour day for labor
| together with a half-holiday and on
whole day for rest In each week, and W.
| pledge our candidate, II elected, TO en-
among the several States regulating the
! hours and conditions of labor.
We favor pure food legislation alon:
| the line of strengthening and extendin.
| the powers of the State Board of Health
! 10 insure the making, selling and usinl
| of only pure and wholesome food through
out the State and shipping the. same ou
| of or into the State. Providing ample
| inspectors for enforcing the law, and lnl
mediate destruction of all impure foods
detected.
We favor permitting the jury in capita
cases to determine by their verdict
whether the penalty shall be death or life
Imprisonment.
we favor the principle of the short bal
LOT. The people are called upon to selec
too many officials. 1t is impossible fol
the average citizen TO inform himself al
10 the qualifications of the large number
of candidates presented for his suhrag'
at the average election. The true prin
ciple of democracy is the election of few
officials invested with great power, wh'
shall hold office either for short terms o.
shall be subject TO recall at any tim,
upon petition of a reasonable number o.
tfe voters. To this end we favor tn,
lection of the members Of the begis
.ature by legislative districts instead o.
by counties; the appointment by the Coy
ernor or court or the Board of Freehold