The labor standard., 1919-05-15
HARTFORD BRANCH AM. LABOR PARTY
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EQuCdClOndl OyuOuS or GrOupS HARTFORD - The Organization Committee of Hartford Branch No. { of the American Labor Party rendered the following report at a regular meeting of the branch, which was unanimously adopted:
 Preliminary Report No. l of the Organization
 Committee of the Hartford Branch of the American Labor Party Your Organization Committee begs leave te submit the following as its Preliminary Report No. l. it being the intention of your Commit tee to make additional reports from time tc time as its work progresses.
 The work of The American Labor Party during the next few months lies in three fields, to wit;
 CD Finance.
 (2) Membership.
 (3) Education.
 The relative importance at the present time of these three fields is in the inverse order in which they are mentioned. As time goes on it may be that this will change and if so your Committee will alter its activities to meet the new demands.
 In view of the opinion just expressed, your Committee will make no recommendations in the field of Finance believing that the other two fields should have the immediate and exclusive attention not only of your Committee but of The American Labor Party at large. Your Committees recommendations in the fields of Membership and Education follow :
 Membership
 CD A regular campaign should be carried on to procure the endorsement of The Ameri- can Labor Party by every Union in the City of Hartford whether such Union is affiliated with the c. L. U. not. This should be done by sending speakers to every such Union which has not thus endorsed and by Missionary work performed by individual mem bers of the Party. Your Committee feels that every member of the Party should con- slider it to be his personal duty to carry on this missionary work to the full extent of his ability and is sure that such individual initia- tive will have wonderful results.
 CD The American Labor Party should appoint Campaign Committee of three for each Union which endorses the Party, the membership of such Committee to be limited to the members of such Union as it is to serve and its activities to be confined to the ranks of its own Union. The duties of such Campaign Committees shall be the following {: (a) In general to look after the best inter
 ests of The American Labor Party
 within the ranks of the Union con-
 cerned. (b) To endeavor to procure a one hundred
 per cent. enrolment in the Party from
 among the Union members.
 (c) To that every man within the Union
 is naturalized and voter.
 (d) To get out every American Labor Party
 vote on election day within the Union
 and to assist at the polls.
 (e) To get in touch with every member of
 the Union who is not resident of
 Hartford and see that Local Branch
 of The American Labor Party is started
 in such members home town.
 (3) The members of The American Labor Party should see to it that their wives and women relatives become members of the Party and made voters and that they get out and vote on Election day. Women are now entitled to vote on school and library matters. If the Presidential Suffrage Bill becomes law in this State, they will be able to vote for President in 1920. If the Susan B. Anthony Amendment passes the next Congress and is ratified, as in all human probability it will be, they will be able to vote on equal terms with men. In this it is interesting to note that if every who voted The American Labor Party ticket on election day had taken the trouble to get his wife and women relatives to vote, would probably have elected our candidates the High School Committee and on the Board of Education. Such result would have been not alone a wonder full exhibition of the solidarity of Labor but it also would have constituted magnificent of Labor's fundamental and practical faith in actual democracy. Your Committee firmly believes that the woman voter will be of the greatest assistance to The American Labor Party and her assist ance and cooperation must be actively sought. The stay-at-home-woman-vote must not be tolerated within the ranks of Labor and its friends. There will probably be plenty of them outside those ranks which will only to increase the relative voting strength of Labor.
 (4) The problem of how to get hold of the voter is difficult one. For the present your Committee has no recommends tions to make but would request that it be empowered to add to its numbers from time lieves could assist it in working out this problem. It is the firm conviction of your Committee that through con- tact with organized workers by mutual membership in The American Labor Party such sunorganized workers will soon enter the ranks of the unorganized. In fact your Com- mittee ventures the prophecy that The Ameri- can Labor Party will be a tremendous feeder into the various Trade Unions provided that the present problem is handled tactfully and 
 Education Most Important
 Your Committee enters upon the field of Education which to it seems to be for the present at least the most important of all three fields. It will not suffice to have the workers represented in office. It is necessary to go a step further and to ascertain before hand just what it is that the workers want and just how they propose to go after it. It will not do simply to complain of pres ent conditions. Labor must have other and better conditions to substitute therefor. The method of trial and error can be econom- cally used in a laboratory but it is too waste full, too dangerous a method if relied upon to any great extent in government. Labor must have an ultimate goal and, leading to- wards such goal, series of next steps. Labor uust have some basic philosophy of life and