The Socialist and labor star. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1911-1915, 1914-10-30

|. The collective ownership and
democratic Engagement OF railroads,
wire and wireless teleeraphs and tele-
rhones. express services, steamboat
lines and all other social means OF
TRANSFORMATION and communication and
pledge ourselves and our elected 9TH
GERS to the following program:
=. The immediate requirement by
the municipalities, the states or the
federal government of all grain eIeVa-
tors, stock yards. storage warehouses
and other distributing agencies, in or
der to reduce the present extortlonate
cost of living.
). The extension of the public do,
main to include mines. quarries. oil
wells. forests and water power.
/. The further conservation and de
rcIopment Of natural resources for the
use and benefit Of all the people:
tai By scientific forestation and
timber protection.
(b) BY the reclamation of arid and
swamp tracts.
(c} BY the storage of flood wat
crs and the utilization Of water pow
cr
i'd By the stoppage Of the pres,
?nt extrz4vagant waste of the soil ana
Of the products Of mines amt OF! wells.
(e) By the development OF high
Way and waterway systems.
). The collective ownership OF land
wherever practicable, and IN case
where such ownership is impractlcable
The appropriation by taxation OF the
annual rental values of all land held
for speculation.
6. The collective ownership ana
democratic management OF the oank
ing anil currency system.
Industrial Demands.
The immediate government rehe!
If the unemployed by the extension OF
all useful public works. All persons
,mpIoved on such works to be en-
rug4d directly by the government I'M
Ter a work day Of not more than eight
hours and ut not less than the pre-
Ealing union wages. The government
tlso to establish employment bureaus
20 lend money TO states and NUM-
Qualities without interest for the pur,
pose of carrying on public works ano
10 take such other measures within us
bower as will lessen the widespread
misery Of the workers caused by the
,uisrule OF the capitalist class.
The conservation Of human re-
sources. particularly Of the lives ano
xcii-bcing Of the workers and then
Families.
|. BY shortening the workday IN
.;eeping with the increased productive
ness OF machinery.
,. BY securing to every worker a
rest period Of not less than day anc
l half each week.
=. By securing more effective in,
spcction Of workshops, factories and
mines.
j. Forbidding the employment OF
children under 10 years of age.
:. BY the cooperative organlza-
lion of industries in federal peniten-
;iaries and workshops, for the bene-
IL of convicts and their dependents.
s. By forbidding the interstate
TRANSFORMATION Of the products of child
labor, Of convict labor and all unin-
spcytcd factories and mines.
:. BY abolishing the profit system
- government work and substituting
ither The direct hire Of labor or the
.warbiug "f contracts 10 cooperative
groups of workers.
s. By establishing minimum wage
scales.
9. By aboliShing official charity
md substituting a non-contribntary
system Of old-agc pensions, a general
system anN invalidism and i system
compulsory Insurance by employers OF
their workers. without cost to the lat
.er. against Industrial dieaSe, acct
inDtS and death