Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-12
LABOR men WANT
DURLESON OUSTED
New Party Denounces Alleged
Reactionary Attitude OF
Postmaster General
NEW DAY OF FREEDOM"
Platform Promises It and Con-
demns the Money
Kings"
NEW DAY OF FREEDOM"
BY the Associated Press


Springfield, ILL.,, April 12.-Removal
from Office of Postmaster General Bur
leson because of his alleged reaction
ary attitude toward labor. free speech
and a free press" was demanded in
resolutions adopted todayby the con-
vention of the Labor party of Illinois
= The convention by resolution also
denounced Harold F. Mccormick, Of
the International Harvester Company.
who was accused Of employing con
valescing soldiers from Fort Sheridan on
i his Lake Forest estate to break strike
Of landscape gardeners. and asked for
nm 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
Other resolutions demanded restora
tion of standard time. employment Of
soldiers and sailors in road construc
tion, lifting of the Allied blockade
against the Central Powers. and that
public utilities taken over by the gov
ernment shall not be returned to private
ownership.
Secrecy at the Paris Peace Confer
ence was denounced.
n A note of thanks to the Nonpartisi l
League and to trades movements in
North Dakota for their interest in the
new Illinois party.
The convention voted in favor OF
forming a national labor party.
New Party Issues Statement
The new Labor party issued a state
ment, and platform of which tho foi-
lowing is an abstract:
Labor is the, primary and just basis
Of political responsibility and power.
Ii is not merely the right. but the duty
. OF the workers by hand or brain, to be-
come political party.
The Labor party is destined to usher
Z In the new day of freedom in the United
States-freedom from the grind OF pow
erty: freedom from the ownership of
eovernment by big business; freedom
from the slave driving of workers by
prositeers. and freedom of the men and
women who buy food and clothing and
nay rent from exploitation of the
hands of the money kings of 'kingless
America.
Room in Party for All Workers
Organized workers are members OF
II. Unorganized workers are members
Of it. Clerks. housewives. newspaper
men. farmers. school teachers, store
keepers belong to it. Such heads o
orranization and business concerns as
are not expIoiters or prot1teers belong tc
t. There is no place in the party fol
those who are not workers. There Is
room within it for all who perform serv-
ice to society.
The Labor party was organized to as
semble into a new majority the men and
women who work. but who have been
scattered as helpless minorities in the
old parties under the leadership of the
confidence men of big business.
Hence the organization of the labor
party. f..
Platform OF Principles 6
The first convention Of the new state
marty enunciates a program which in
ciudes the following:
Democratic control OF industry AM
commerce for tne genera, 80 W ~ l"v W.
who work with hand ana oraih ana u"
elimination of autocratic dominatlon
the forces Oh proauction anu 'l u.s'l ipa''o' -
either by selhsh private interest" ="
bureaucratic agents of government.
The freedom from economic hazar'
which comes with minimum was
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