The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-06-23
Lab0r'S Demands Presented
To Republican Con-
Ventiun.


O'Connell and Secretary Morrison
of the American Federation of La
Dor appeared before the platform
committee of the Republican con
vention and presented a series of
planks in the interest of the men
and women of toll.
These included
Pledge to maintain the federal
Clayton law which assures workers
the legal right of voluntary asso-
ciation and guarantees the right of
trial by jury In alleged contempt
cases committed outside the pres
ence of courts.
Vigorous enforcement of the sea
men act and the most liberal in
terpretations of its provisions. Op-
position to weakening any section
intended to protect seameu and
travelling public. 1t is declared
that American seamen will con
stitute trained reserve force in
time of national peril, Z" and that
conditions should be such as to in.
duce resourceful, capable, liberty
loving Americans to follow thaf
vocation.
Demand that the immigration
and contract labor laws be enforced
and so extended as to debar from
the United States all persons who
cannot read some language.
Industrial education aud voca
tional training Ia addition to cul
tural education, on the theory tha
national industrial efficiency /.
not haphazard occurrence but i:
the result of carefully considered
methods and policies.
The enactment and rigid enforce
ment of federal child labor law.
The faithful observance and en-
f-rcement of all federal eight -houl
laws and their extension to all de
partments of government.
The enactment OF a federal work
men S compensation law,
Laws excluding from interstat,
commerce the products of convic
labor.
Legislation to abolish preventa
bic loss of life and injury to work
ers in industry and transportation
The creation of bureau of safety
under the department of labor t
collect data relative to industria
hazards and devise methods of de
crease deaths and injuries In In
dustry.
Opposition to scientific manage
ment" and other speeding up sys
TENS in industry.
Extension OF the powers anc
functions of the federal bureau Q
mines.
Full rights of American citizens
ship to the people of Perpo Rico
Adequate compensation for al
civil service employees and a rea
sonable minimum wage for all sucl
employees.
A tribunal to which all employe
in the competitive civil service ma.
appeal for redress of grievances.
A federal compensation law t
apply to all civil service employees
An equitable retirement law pre-
viding for the retirement of super
annuated and disabled employees c
the civil service.
Employment in the civil servic
must not impair the employees RICH
of petition.
Government ownership of tele
graphs and telephones
Equal suffrage.
The platform committee subst
tuted the following, which wa
adopted by the convention.
"LABOR LAWS"
eve pledge the Republican pal
ty to the faithful enforcement of a
federal laws passed for the protet
ten of labor. We favor vocation;
education; the enactment and rigi
enforcement of a federal child Il
Dor law; the enacement of a gel
erous and comprehensive WORK
mems compensation law within ii
commerce power of congress an
an accident compensation law COY
ering all government employe
We favor the collection and cell;
ton, under the direction of the d'
partment of labor, of complete dat
relating to industrial hazards fl
the information of congress, to th