Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-12-11
Resolutions Adoptod,


The delegates from the 10 states
pledged their support to the following:
l: A peace program must be adopted
which will make an end of war by Gre
ating world democracy, not by SUBJ
stituting one despotism for another A
United States of the World, by consent
and not by conquest.
2. A reconstruction program must be
adopted which will provide employment
for all, reduce the cost of living, main
tain earnings of labor and of primary
producers, make end of monopoly ex-
tortion, and redeem the state and ma
tlonal governments from the autOcratic
control of mOnopolieS, and in this way
make this nation safe for democracy.
3. The termination of the present ma
tional control OF railways, and all other
public utilities and industries as war
measures, not by returning the proper
ties to private monopolies, but by ma
tional ownership, which shall be ex-
tended to include all means Of trans
pOrtation and communication and all
other undertakings which in their nature
must be either great private monopolies
or public enterprises.
d. Employment for the unemployed
in cooperation with organized labor
terprises as road building, forestry and
timber and fuel production. The nation
al improvement with buildings, stock
and machinery, of reclaimed or pur-
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cerns on longtime amortized payments,
to returning soldiers and to others able
to make small initial payments. All
such undertakings to be provided with
free schools for vocational training.
s.. The complete REIMBURSEMENT Of
women, with equal opportunities with
men, and equal pay for equal services
6. The national government should
make loans to the state governments on
state bonds secured by first mortgages
upon real estate in order that farmers
can get loans from the state at cost, and
also upon the real and personal property
of state-owned utilities enterprises or
industries, in amount not to exceed one
half of their real value.
Z. The immediate reduction of freight
and passenger rates, especially on food
and fuel
8. The immediate abandonment of all
interference with the political rights of
employees in the public service, or the
exercise of any further postofice censor
ship.
9. The national debt created by the
war should be liquidated and to that
end there should be an income and in
heritance tax, graduated upward from
$4,000 until all incomes above 100000
per annum, and all inheritances above
that amount, shall be appropriated for
that purpose, until the debt is paid; and
all incomes not accounted for, and all
income-producing properties, securities
and inheritances not listed for this pur-
pose shall be forfeited to the govern
ment.
TO- The rights of labor surrendered
for patriotic reasons must be restored;
and laws limiting civil rights Of the
people as war measures must be repeal
ed.
II. The use of the mails te1egraphs,
telephones. express companies and banks
shall be denied for making sales of
goods, properties investments or Sc
curities. except for direct delivery by
the owner or his authorized agent, and
then of the specific goods, properties,
investments or securities involved, in
order to eliminate gambling and specu-
lation in necessities Of life.