The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-09-11
NEW BODY PLEDGES SUPPORT TIC. FARM
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FRAZIER FOR PRESIDENT

1NOitn DdkOIa, met IN Fargo August 81 and
organized the Working Peoples Nonpartisan al
lance Of North Dakota.
Plans and rules governing the new organiza-
ton were adopted, officers and a state central
committee to have charge of the organization
work and the other affairs Of the organization
were elected, a campaign was launched to bring
the 10000 organized workers in the state into
the Alliance and plans were laid to make no1min-
atoms and enter the campaign in cooperation
with the organized farmers early next year.
platform, which is one of the most ad-
vanced ever adopted by any labor body in Am
erica and which is in accord with the Nonparti-
san League and Labor Party platforms, was
adopted section by section by almost unanimous
vote after mature elaboration on every plank.
For Cooperative Commonwealth
q preamble says.
Tive, the workers, are to enjoy freedom
and embrace our full opportunities in the new
nation which is emerging out of the suffering
and sacrifice of the great world conflict, now
closed, and if we are to solve the grave indus
trial and political problems which confront us
today, it behooves labor to formulate it's own
program Of fundamental, social, economical anil
political change and form a political organiza-
ton. Ii we are to escape from the decay Of
civilization, we must insure that the system
which is presently to be built is a social order
not based on fighting, but on fraternity; not
on competitive struggle for the means Of bare
life, but on deliberately planned cooperation in
production and distribution by and for the bene-
mt OF ALL who participate with ham OF. brain:
not on the inequalityfof riches, but on q sys-
tematic approach toward a healthy equality Of
material circumstances for every person born
The legal right to organize, an eight hour day
and 9 A hour week, support Of the compensa-
ton law passed last winter, extensive state and
government work during tines of unemployment
and the working of the Ignite mines by the
state, raising of public revenues and taxes on
inheritances and privately owned industries
and q land tax that will help rather than retard
production, general governmental assurances,
establishment of a national department of edu-
cation, are among the planks of the platform.
The demand for public ownership and indus
trial democracy is clear and sweeping. Plank
6 demands the public ownership of railways,
steamships, stockyards, packing plants, grain
elevators, terminal markets, telegraphs, tele-
phones and all other public utilities, basic natur-
al resources and. water power.
Urge Industrial Democracy.
Plank 10 demands the democratic control Of
industry and commerce for the general good by
those who work by hand and brain, and the ell
limitation Of the autocratic domination Of the
forces of production and distribution, whether
by selfish private interests or by bureaucratic
agents of the government"
Flank y demands complete equality OF men
and women in government and industry, with
the fullest enfranchisement Of women and equal
g Tor men and women doing similar work"
The platform concludes by demanding ''com-
plete restoration at the earliest possible moment
ct All fundamental political rights-fres press,
free speech and free acknowledgement the re-
noval Of all war time restraintes upon the in
terchange of ideas; the liberation 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 guar
anteed them by the constitution. We are unal-
terably opposed, also to universal military train
ing and transcription in peace time
The constitution of the new organization
states that Its object is to unite for independ-
ent political action in an American Labor party
all workers who believe in political, social and
industrial democracy"
Thamembership is to be composed Of all.
WoTkefssWho are American citizens, or who
have declared their intentions to become such
and obligate themselves to become naturalized,
and who enroll themselves iii the organization
and subscribe to its principles and platform and
supports its candidates
viii Start Paper
Every man AMI woman joining will be requir-
Sed To pay each year ia advance membership
feeeQualling 4 day. wage Of the person join
inor..s Wo.d dollars sof this amount is On apply to
thhezgubscription price of thu official pI&pper. of
thee 8Izabor Alliance. Such apaper WIN be AL
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