The labor standard., 1919-05-15
Gil DELEGATES ATTEND LABOR
 PARTY CONVENTION
Platform Contains Planks of Vital Importance to Workers
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OAAICu OIdCCS LlSC III OpIluSllSlu, 1ll., April 1O-12. Fifty-six trades sent delegates from ninety-three cities. The committee on credentials reported ell delegates present.
 Duncan Mcdonald, president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, was elected president of the new organization. A national convention will be called at some future date to organize a National Labor Party.
 The platform adopted covers all essential requirements of the working class at the present time.
 The committee on platform pre- sented the following report, which was unanimously adopted:
 1. Democratic control of industry and commerce for the general good of those who work with hand and brain, and the elimination of autocratic domination of the forces of produc- tion and distribution, either by selfish private interests or bureaucratic agents of government.
 2. The unqualified right of work CTS to organize and to deal collectively with employers through such repre- sentatives of their organizations as they choose.
 8. The freedom from economic hazard which comes with a minimum wage based upon the cost of living, and the right of the workers to main tain, without the labor of mothers and health and comfort, with ample pro- vision for recreation and good citizen ship.
 4. Leisure in which to enjoy hap piness and improve the mind and body by the institution of a maximum working day of eight hours, and a maximum working week of forty eight hours, both for men and women.
 5. Abolition of unemployment by reducing the hours of work still fur ther, as necessary, to permit all who are able to work to find occupation and full pay for those who, for time, are unemployed because of illness, accident or temporary loss of work.
 Complete Suffrage for Women
 6. Equality of men and women in government and industry, with com plete enfranchisement of women and equal pay for men and wo7fleL doing similar work. l.
 7. Reduction of the cost of living to just level, immediate and as a permanent policy, by the development of cooperation and the elimination of wasteful methods, middlemen and all proiteering in the creation and dis and agriculture, in order that the actual producers may enjoy the fruits of their toll.
 8. Complete revision of the state constitution to reclaim it for the peo- pie, so that instead of it's being, as at present, the fortress of reactionaries and the backbone of the big business organizations that grip the state, it will become the bulwark of the work CTS, built upon the theory of guaran- teeing human rights instead of exalt- ing property rights. Now the work ers' measures are unconstitutional. It must be rewritten so that the propos- als of crooked big business will be unconstitutional.
 1t must be made easy of amend ment. 1t must give the state new and just revenue system. It must guarantee the initiative, referendum and recall. It must release the bond ing power of communities, so that public ownership and operation are made possible.
 9. Taxation of inheritances and in comes at graduated rate progress ing with their size and taxation of land values, but not of improvements.
 Favor Public Ownership
 10. Public ownership and opera tion of all public utilities, including grain elevators, warehouses, stock yards, abattoirs, insurance and banks. Development under public ownership of the water power sites of Illinois. Public ownership, preferably federal, of the mines of Illinois, and in the meantime state regulation which will prevent wasteful, competitive meth ods of mining.
 Il. State aid to provide land and homes for Illinois residents in town or country.
 12. Abolition of employment of all children under the age of 16 years.
 13. A democratic system of public education from kindergarten to un1- versity, with free textbooks and with tional education for every child. Re-education of disabled soldiers and the application of the same restora- tive treatment to disabled industrial workers.
 IA. Old age and health insurance, an adequate workmen's compensatlonl law and mothers pension that will put an end to child poverty and per init the full development of every child under it's mothers care.
 Union Label School Books
 15. Use by the state of only such supplies and materials as bear the union label, including school text books.
 16. Full political rights for civil service employees.
 IT. Abolition of private employ ment, detective and strike employ ment services to make these agencies for finding jobs for workers, instead of merely finding workers for jobs, and to prevent them from placing workers in positions that do not pay living wage.
 Would Abolish State Senate
 IS. Abolition of the state senate.
 19. Abolition of the power of judges to. issue and enforce injunc- tions to deprive citizens of their rights in industrial disputes, and enactment into law of the rights of