The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-13
THE INDEPENDENT LABOR PARTY"
ORGANIZED BY CHICAGO WORKERS
The Chicago Federation of Labor Tired of Begging Ward
Heeers and Professional Politicians Do Right By the
Workers. Has Organized An Independent Political Party.

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7. characterization of education
in public schools and universities
through the participation of labor
and the organized teachers in the
determination of new methods, poll
cies and programs in this funda-
mental field.
8. Continuation after the war of
soldiers and sailors insurance; ex-
tension of such life insurance, by
the government without profit, to
all men and women; and the estab-
lishment of governmental insurance
against accident and illness, and upon
all isurable forms Of property.
9. Liquidation of the national
debt by the application of all in
heritances above hundred thousand
dollars, supplemented as may be
necessary by a direct capital tax
upon all persons and corporations
where riches have been gained by
war or other profiteering; and pay
ment of the current expenses of
government by graduated income
taxes, public profits from nationally
owned utilities and resources, and
from a system of taxation of land
values which will stimulate rather
than retard production.
10. Public ownership and opera
tion of railways, steamships, stock
yards, grain elevators, terminal mar
kets, telegraphs, telephones, and all
other public utilities; and the ma
tionalization and development of ba-
sic natural resources, waterpower
and unused land, with the repatria-
ton of large holdings, to the end
that returning soldiers and sailors
and dislocated war workers may find
an opportunity for an independent
livelihood.
II. Complete restoration, at the
earliest possible moment, Of all fun
damental political rights, free speech,
free press, and free assemblage; the
removal of all wartime restraints
upon the interchange of ideas and
the movement of people among COM
munities and nations; and the liberia
ton Of all persons held in prison or
indicted under charges due to their
championship of the rights of labor
or their patriotic insistence upon the
rights guaranteed to them by the
constitution.
H.. Representation of labor, in
proportion to it's voting strength,
in all departments of government and
upon all governmental commissions
and agencies of rehabilitation and
reconstruction; and recognition of
the principles of trade unionism in
the relocation of soldiers, sailors
and war workers in peace pursuits,
with adequate provision for the sup
port and extension of the Depart
ment of Labor as the principal
agency therefor.
49, Representation of the work.
ers, in proportion to their number
in the armies, navies and workshops
of the world, at the peace confer
ence and upon whatever interna-
tional tribunals may result there
from, with the labor of this nation
represented by the President of the
American Federation of Labor and
such other delegates as the work.
ers may democratically designate.
ID, Supplementing the League of
Nations, and to make that instru-
ment of international democracy vi
tally effective for humanity, league
of the workers of all nations pledged
and organized to enforce the de-
struction of autocracy, militarism
and economic Imperialism through
out the world, and to bring about
worldwide disarmament and open
diplomacy, to the end that there
shall be no more kings and no
more wars.