The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-28
n. Y. UNIONS ARE
FOR PLUMB PLAN
State Federation Also Demands
Wire Systems Be Ma
tiOnalized.
WOULD REVISE TREATY
Urges Minimum Wage Based
on Size Of Family-Smith
Attacks G.. o. P. Leaders.

SYRACUSE, Aug. 27.-The New York
State Federation of Labor went on
record in favor of the Plumb plan
for the naturalization Of the railroads
Of the United States. and at the same
time urged that the same or a similar
scheme bs spplisd to the telephone
and telegraph SYSTEMS. and advo-
Gated municipal ownership of all
public utilities.
Resolutions were adopted setting
forth the stand Of the federation on
these points, and no cognizance was
taken of the statement made in New
York yesterday by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
OF Labor, that the assertion by Glenn
e. Plumb that Mr.. Gompers favored
the Plumb plan was unauthorized.
The federation also adopted a report
OF the resolutions committee which
outlined in sixteen points the platform
of the organization for the coming
year.
Parts of Treaty Condemned.
Briefly. these points are as follows:
1-Ratifcation OF the peace treaty
and the League of Nations covenant as
a means OF upholdlng International law.
protecting the rights of small nations,
saving democracy from the assaults of
autocracy and putting an end to mill
tarism. The treaty was condemned
cause OF its failure to restrict arma-
ments, its ignoring of the freedom of
the seas, the exclusion OF half of Europe
from the league, the perpetuation of Sc
ret diplomacy. and the large scale par
elling out of territory without regard
to the principle OF self-determinatlon.
md the approval of existing domination.
The labor platform OF the treaty was
indorsed, and the federation pledged it.
self TO work for thorough revision on
lust lines" OF the parts to which OBJ
ection is taken.
2-Work toward solution of the un-
employment problem TO Danish for all
.ime the spectre OF involuntary unem-
'oyment and its brood of poverty and
| misery.
3-General adoption of a minimum
living wage. based not upon individual
,tandards but upon the size OF the
workers family, and equal pay for men
| and women who perform equivalent
work.
4-Reduction of working hours. The
x hour day was not named in this
-esolution, but a forty-four hour week
hat is. an eight hour day, a six day
week and a Saturday half holiday
/ were fixed as the maximum standards.
| Prohibition OF night work for minors
| and women was urged.
5-Improvement by the State OF the
| protection OF young people under the
| ,hild labor act. No employment of
| hildren under l6. Young persons be-
tween the ages of 16 and IS to work
only twenty-four hours week and to
! oe compelled to attend school at least
| twenty hours a week.
| "a voice and vote In industry. This
includes the right to form shoy COM
mittees to advise with the management
| on Industrial problems and policies and
| labor demands representation on every
public appointive board. Federal. State
| and local.
7-Government control over the prices
of food. clothing and shelter as means
of eliminating prohteering. waste, mall
| adjustment OF supply to demand and
| consequent excessive cost.
Stealth insurance, a subject treat
! ed at great length In the afternoon's s
joint conference as a right of the work.
ingman.
Against Universal Training.
e-Continuation of the National War
Labor Board as a means OF settling In
dustrial disputes.
| IO-Avoidance of militarism. Insist