The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-13
surplus that shall be sufficient for

! a surplus that shall be sufficient for
adequate savings.
Approve social insurance against
illness. invalidity, unemployment,
and old age, the funds to be provided.
as far as possible, by a levy on in
dustry, as In accident compensation.
Favor continuance of life insur-
lance extended to soldiers by the gov
ernment.
Approve policies Of war labor
hoard, emphasize right OF laborers to
organize, recognize justice of collec-
tive bargaining principle, and ask
that the war labor boards activities
lbe continued in peacetime.
Indorse movement of labor TO oD-
tain voice in management of indus
tries, commonly called Industrial
democracy"
| Approve vocational training, but
not any system of education that
would tend to deprive children of
workingmen Of their opportunities
for purely cultural training.
Deplore child labor. and approve
plan to tax 1t out of existence
The foregoing are the chief fea-
lures of that portion of the program
(which It's trainers believe immediate
ily practical. The pronouncement
also discusses reforms that should
be accomplished as a part of pro-
gram projected farther into the
future. 1t says
"The full possibilities Of Increased
production will not be realized so
long as the majority Of the workers
remain mere wage-earners. the ma
iority must somehow become owners,
or at least in part, Of the instruments
of production. They can be enabled
to reach this stage gradually through
Ico-operative productive societies and
co-partnership arrangements. In the
former. the workers own and manage
the industries themselves; In the lat
tier they own substantial part Of the
corporate stock and exercise reas-
enable share in the management.
However slow the attainment of
4 these ends, they will have to be
reached before we can have a thor
ioughly efficient system of production,
lor an Industrial and social order that
will be secure from the danger OF
revolution 1t is to be noted that
this particular modification of the
existing order, though farreaching
and involving to a great extent the
abolition Of the wage system, would
mot mean uic apoiit'oh VI r.
Ownership"
Big business is handed this bit Of
flood for thought:
"Fror excessive gains by small
minority of privileged capitalists, the
tmatn remedies are prevention of
mopopolistic control of comm ODDITIES,
ADEQUATE government regulation of
such public service monopolies as
will remain under private operation,
and heavy taxation of incomes, ex-
cess profits and inheritanceS. The
precise methods by which genuine
competition may be restored and
maintained among businesses that are
naturally competitive, cannot be dis
cussed here; but the principle is
clear that human beings cannot be
trusted with the immense opportuni-
ties for oppression and extortion that
go with the possession of monopoly
power
And again:
Our immense war debt constitutes
a particular reason why Incomes and
excess profits should continue to be
Heavily taxed In this way two i'm
portant ends Will be obtained; the
Ipoor will be relieved of injurious tax
burdens, and the small class of
specially privileged capitalists will be
compelled to return part Of their
r Iunearned gains to society"
J. BY way of final advice to the CAPT
ltalist, the pronouncement says OF
= him:
, above and before all, he must cul
l. Itivate and strengthen within his
/ lmfnd the truth which many of his
iclass have begun to grasp for the