Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-13
LABOR PARTY DEMANDS
REMOVAL OF BURLEs0N
New Organization, I'm Convention
EIays Postmustcr-Gcncral
for His Actions.
MOULD HALT PROFITEERING
Platform Declares 1t Will Free Gov
. crnmcnt From Control of Big
BuSincss-AlI Workers Arc Mem.
bcrs OF Political Body.
fRr Associated Prcss.l

tBy Associated Prcss.1
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,. April Ere
smoval from Office of Postmaster Gen
scral Burlcson because OF his alleged
.rcactionary attitude toward labor. free
-spccch and free press" was demand
cd in resolutions adopted today by the
- convention of the Labor party OF ILL.,
-nois.
The convention. by resolution. also
denounced Harold l.. Mccormick, OF the
3 international Harvester Company, who
awas accused OF employing convalcsc-
Sing soldiers from Fort Sheridan on his
sLakc Forest estate TO break strike
tof landscape gardeners. and asked for
AN investigation by the War Depart
ment.
Endorsement WAS given by the new
party TO "a league OF nations which
Will protect the peace which has been
won
Issues statement and Platform.
The Labor party today issued
statement and platform. of which the
following is an abstract:
Labor is the primary and just basis
OF political responsibility and power
1t is not merely the right; but the duty
become political party
The Labor party is destined to usher
United Sta,ccs-frcedom from the grind
of poverty, freedom from the owner
shin of eoyernmssnt by big business;
workers by prohtccrs and freedom OF
the men and women who buy fooa
and clothing and pay, rent from ex.
ploitation at the hands OF the money
kings OF "kinglcSs' America
All worker. Arc Members.
Organized workers are members or
1t. unorEanizcd workers arc members
OF it, Clerks, house wives. newspaper
Keepers belong 10 ii. Such heads Of
are not eNploiters or ,prohteers belong
10 il. There is no place in the party
for those who are not WORKERS There
is room within i; for all who per-
form service 20 society.
The Labor party was organized 20
assemble into n now majority the men
and women who work. but who have
been scattered as helpless minorities IN
the old particse under the leadership of
tho confidence men OF big business
Hence the organization OF the Labor
party.
Enuncintese II, Principles.
The first convention OF The new stat.
itself, is members and its candidates:
gram OF issues. TO which j pledges
Democrats control OF industry and
commerce Tor the general good o: those
who work With hand and brain and The
elimination Q: auiocraiic domination
o: The forces q p'oauc;.on and dis
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