The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-11-15

in the governments plunging into any
proposition of this sort with wasteful
unpreparedness, it is proposed that
there shall be experimental public
ownership of such business and or
CARNATIONS until the feasibility and
practicability of such business opera
tions on the part of the government be
fully and accurately determined. The
platform further declared for the en-
enlargement of the fullest individual
liberty and initiative in industrial en-
terprise and specifically set forth that
such net incomes as result from pri-
vate undertakings should not be re-
increment for the reason that such in
enterprise are in most cases but fair
wages due for the useful experiment
performed and the special services
such accumulations of property and
purpose of exploiting the public lay
were acquired by some special privi-
lege or actually earned by the person
who holds them. In order to avoid
eaucracy which might obtain perma-
nent control of the government it is
proposed that there shall be protec-
ton to the workers and the expert
business managers of industry from
tyranny of unenlightened public Of
ficials by administrative boards upon
which the workers, the managers and
the government be all represented.
For the assistance of the farmer it IS
proposed that the federal loan law
privileges be extended as far as posi-
bic commensurate with the safety OF
the government funds loaned upon
farm security, and that the govern
ment adopt, as the Canadian govern
1nent has already adopted, provision
for advance upon crops and for gen.
eral governmental insurance of crops
and farm stock against thousand
calamities.
The abolition of speculation in grain
was favored as to trading upon fu-
lures, margins and the like, wherein
the so-called contracts were settled
by payment of differences between
clearing houses, jobbers of commerce
or otherwise. An extension Of the
postal savings system was advocated
and provision for national incorpora-
ton of interest enterprises urged. For
the betterment of the condition of the
laborers of the country the counsel
Endorsed the principles of union labor
and collective bargaining; of repre-
sentation by the laborers upon any
| boards or commissions created for
the management of public enterprises,
or for the supervision Of private en-
terprises. For the shortening of tho
industrial day and the giving to each
laborer a rest of day and a half
each week. For government insur-
ance, maternity benefits and old age
pensions to the workers.; for more
rigorous inspection of factories and
workshops; for the enactment and
rigid enforcement Of state and federal
child labor laws; for the forbidding of
interstate shipments Of all products
made by children and women employ
ed more than eight hours a day or
six days week, convicts under pri-
vate contract and persons employed IN
uninspected mines and factories. The
conferences opposed the invasion by
the courts through injunction of the
constitutional guarantees of freedom
Of speech and assembly and of con-
tracts, and favor the extension of the
labor bureau system for distributing
labor in accordance with the supply
and demand, and the establishment of
q system for placing settlers upon I'M
occupied lands, for the relieving of
poverty and unnatural congestion in
! the larger cities of the country, and
for the development of such instru-
mentalities as shall guarantee to every
willing worker opportunity to secure
employment adapted to his capacities.
What was at this time the most i'm
rortant matter Of the conference was
taken up at the conclusion of the dec
laration of principles. A declaration
vas made demanding the abolition of
secret diplomacy and that the United
States urge that the consent of the
peoples of the nations be had to any
treaties or agreements among civil.
lied nations, and, further demand
was made for the advocacy of the
freedom of the seas to all people and
the enforcement Of order by the pol
| icing of the seas as the collective func-