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New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

secured child labor law and although it
has been declared unconstitutional. we are
again at work 10 secure a law for rne
protection Of our children. Better than
all we have established the concept in law
and in administration that the interest and
welfare of the workers are paramount, and
this not only IN the laws OF our republic,
but in the laws Of oar states and munich.
palities
There are other laws in the interest OF
labor which we have secured. more than
can mention offhand. but far above ali these
are the Improvements brought into the lives
and work of the toilers by their own actions
as organized workers We have established
unity of spirit; we have brought about the
extension of organization among the for%
merly unorganized, and our organized free
existence to function and to express ours
selves is now practically unquestioncd
Suppose in 1912 we had had a labor
party in existence; do You think for mos
ment that we could have gone as the Ameri-
can labor movement to the other political
parties and said We want you to inaus
gurate in your platform this and this decla-
ration? If one Of the parties had refused
and the other party consented and took its
chance, would the American Federation OF
Labor have been permitted 10 exercise that
independent political and economic course
if the labor party had .been in existence?
How long would we have had to wait for
the passage OF a law by Congress declaring
law, in practice and in principle, that the
labor of human being is not commodity
or an article of commerce the most far
reaching declaration ever made by any COWS
ernment in the history of the world ?"
In conclusion he voices his distinct aps
prehensions:
81 would be recreant to the great labos
movement and all it pretends now and for
the future if l did not take You into my
confidence, mon and women of labor. and
tell you what | have told you. | am appreA
hensive, justly so, justified by every event
in the whole history Of labor, that great
mistake may be made. a great injury IN
ficted upon our fellows. not for day, not
for year, not for decade. but perhaps
for many, many, many years to come
want to present that view to you so that
you may understand the situation clearly
81 have spoken calmly and without ccrc-
mony attempt to touch your feelings,
but simply to touch the innermost recesses
Of your minds and to lay before you the
responsibility which rests upon you'
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" american Labor PARTY

(2) The administration of local educa-
tlonal systems by elective and paid boards
of education.
go College and university training free
to all who qualified.
(4) Dcmocratization of education in
public schools and universities and public
Libraries through the tcipation of la
Dor and the organized teachers and libra
rians in the determination of new Methods
policies and programme in this fundamental
field. That extend the principle of
free public instruction and the furnishing
of free textbooks to colleges and univer-
stiles.
To avoid during the readjustment period
the national waste that would come from
the idlcness of millions of men we recon-
mend that the nation, the states and the
municipalities undertake at standard rate
of wages and hours engineering projects
Of national magnitude which would give
emp oyment to discharged soldiers and
displaced civilian labor, and thereby per-
mancntly enhance the productive capacity
of the nation, such projects as; Utiliza-
tion of water power; development of ir-
IlBdtIOl, cdndlS anu ports, ROAD DullulnRj
government housing; re-forestation, and
reclamation Of arid and desert land
We favor the universal enforcement of
an American minimum of living, which
is to secure to every member of the COM
munity in good time and bad alike and
not only to the strong and able, the we'll
born or the fortunatc), all the requisites
Of healthy life and worthy citizenship. And
as practical measures toward carrying
out this minimum we include the fol-
lowing:
lA) Minimum Wage Law. We hold that
cvery adult worker should be guaranteed
ii basis wage sufficient to provide all re
quircmcnts for n full devc clopment of body,
mind and character, and to aid in promot-
ing such just condition we demand that
in all industry n democratic board of adj
justment shall be created composed equal
y of representatives. of workers and en-
poycrs to (D establish standard wage
based upon the average cost of supporting
a Family Of five persons
(Bt The standard Working Week and
Working Day. standard working week
shnll not exceed forty-four hours, and n
standard work day Of eight hours, further
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to be reduced when necessary to mini
mize unemployment.
Co Right to Organize. The establish
ment by law of the unqualified right of the
workers whether in private or Federal,
state or municipal employ to organize and
to deal collectively with their employers
through such representatives of their
unions as they choose and the legal rec
ognitlon of the principle that the worker
has a property right to his job.
CD Social Insurance. To provide pro-
elton for the workers by state insurance
against accidents, disease, unemployment
and old age, and the continuation after the
war of soldiers and sailors insurance; ex-
tension Of such life insurance by the gov
ernment without profit, to all men and
women.
(E) Labor Laws The enforcement and
Improvement to uniform standard
throughout the states of all factory laws
child labor laws. laws protecting women
(5) The being over, we demand the
elimination of all military training from
all educational institutions except the
regularly established governmental mill
tary and naval schools.
Equal Rights for Men and Women
Complete equality of men and women in
government and industry, with fullest en-
franchisement of women and equal pay for
men and women doing equal work, limita-
ton OF hours for women employed in in
dustry, prevention of night work and the
establishment of proper standards for the
protection of their health and safety
throughout the Union.
(Sal In view of the fact that the de
cisions of the Supreme Court have re
tarded the progress of humanitarian legis-
laton in the United States, as is especially
evidenced by the recent Child Labor de-
cision, we favor the curbing of the power
of the Supreme Court to declare acts of
Congress unconstitutional.
(Sb). We oppose any form of prohbi-
ton, curtailing the personal liberty of
the individual.
Representation of Labor
Representation of labor in proportion TO
its voting strength in all departments
Of government and upon all government
commissions and agencies Of demobiliza-
ton and reconstruction.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

%RANE dangers confront the fut-
n w ure of the American work.
~ man, President Gompers, O.
the American Federation (
Labor, believes, if labor men pers;s" in
considering the present an opre tune
moment for the formation Ct d new
political labor party. He ced the
weight of his advice, base, IN his ex-
perience and observation, .th the oppo-
siton to any such NOV rent in an ad-
dress delivered in N y York recently
before a represe>lt| We group of labor
men and women, l4ce published in The
American Fede4 'ationalist."
After reviewing past attempts of
American labor to take a definite stand
in politics, and drawing examples from
the labor situation in France, England
and Germany, he arrives at the following
conclusion:
THE fact is that an independent politicar
labor party becomes either radical, So
called or else reactionary, but it is pr-
marily devoted to one thing and that is
vote getting. Every sail is trimmed to the
getting of votes. The question of the con-
ditons OF labor, the question of the stand
ards of labor, the question of the struggles
and the sacrifices of labor to bring light
into the lives and the work of the toilers
all that is subordinated to the one consd-
Grafton of votes for the party
81 have read the fourteen points which
have been formulated for the proposed
Labor party here. Is there one of them of
an essential character to the interests and
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

and other trades who will be discharged
long before most Of the army can be dis
banded, and to accomplish this we demand
that the Federal government agencies un-
dertake the scientific replacement of sol
diers and workers back to their iobs
Public Ownership of Public Utilities
The public utilities taken over by the
government necessity should be
permanently retained, other public utli-
ties which are the foundation of the sue
cessful reorganization of industry to be
taken out Of the hands of private owners.
We, therefore, favor the municipal, state
and national ownership Of all public utili-
ties, such as railways, telcgraphs, tele-
phones, mines, stock yards grain elevators
irrigation dams and water power plants,
unused lands, and the War Emergency
Fleet Corporation to rccstablish mer-
chant marine, and that it be dcmocratically
managed by the workers.
Reduction of the Cost of Living
Reduction Of the cost of living to a Just
level Immediately, and as "A permanent
policy, by the development Of cooperation
and the elimination Of wastcfu methods
parasitical middlemcn and all protitcering
in the creation and distribution Of the
products Of industry and agriculture, in
order that the actual producers may enjoy
the fruits Of their toll, and the systematic
stimulation and encouragement by the gov
ernment OF agriculture and stock raising.
Democratic Control OF Industry
Democratic control of industry and COM
mercc for the general good by those who
work with hand and brain, and the clmina-
tion Of autocratic domination of the forces
Of production either by selfish private
interests or bureaucratic agents Of govern
mcnt. The equitable sharing of the pro
cceds among all who participate in any
capacity, and only among these, and the
adoption in particular services and
cupations Of those systems and methods Of
administration and control that may be
found in practice best to promote. not
profitccring, but public interest
Democratic Control Of Education
Educntion being the keynote to dcmoc-
racy, favor the following;
% The creation of "A department Of
member Of the President's Cabinet.
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War Referendum


No war shall be declared by the govern
ment prior to referendum vote of all
voters of the country.
Universal Military Training
We are unequivocaly opposed to any
form of universal compulsory military
training in time of peace
Taxation for Government Activities
To provide sufficient revenue to iquidate
the public debt arising out of the war. to
carry on all public works and improve
ments and to render financial assistance to
certain projects upon which the economic
future of the country and the wellbeing
of the people viii necessarily depend, we
favor az 100 per cent tax on all annual
individual incomes above 100000. and in
addition, taxation to eliminate excessive
lnhertanccs, (b) a progressive increase in
taxes upon all profits, unearned incre-
ments and incomes, g the use Of public
profits from nationally owned utilities and
resources and the use Of revenue derived
from a system OF taxation on land values
which Will stimulate rather than retard
production
World Peace and International League
We indorse the programme Of peace aims
and guarantees for world democracy con-
tanned in the fourteen points enunciated
by our President, Woodrow Wilson. In ac
cordance with these principles, we demand
the application Of the principle of self
determination to Ireland We further de-
mand that our government refrain from
interfering in the internal affairs of Rus
sia or any other country, and the immedi-
ate Withdrawal of the armed forces of the
United States from Russia. We favor the
efforts to make the peace Of the world per
manent by the establishing Of league of
nations.
Supplementing the league of nations.
and to make that instrument of interna
tional democracy vitally effective for hu-
manlty, we favor league Of the workers
Of all nations pledged and organized 10
enforce the destruction of autocracy. mil
itarsm and economic Imperialism through
out the world and TO establish an inter-
national labor standard to bring about
Worldwide disarmament and open dplo-
macy, to the end that there shall be no
more kings and more wars.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Fourteen Points
of British Labor

/. Speedy rehabilitation and no more con-
scripton.
,. Generous treatment for discharged sol
diers and sailors, giving justice not
charity.
}. League of free and peaceable peoples,
with open diplomacy.
4. Repeal of d. 0. R. A. regulations. free
speech in the country, and free men in
Parliament.
5. Taxation for those best able to pay, and
no taxes on articles of food
g. Land reform, including naturalization,
with taxation of publicly improved values
and extended powers of purchase for the
local authorities
7. Public ownership of mines RAILWAYS
canals, shipping and other vital monop-
olics.
s. Home Rule for Ireland, and devolution
for England, Scotland and Wales. and
gradual extension of powers for the
people of India with a view to Home
Rule
8. Adequate houses for the people, with bet
ter security for tenants in their homes.
10. Workshop control by the workers. short
cr hours and employment or mainten
ancc, with complete restoration of trade
union rights
II Full and free education for all chill
dren, and a definite raising of the status
of teachers.
II. Free choice and fair opportunity for
women IN all careers, with equal pay for
equal work.
13 Full control of sale of liquor by vote
of the people in their respective dis
trictS.
IA. country with such standard of
social life and economic freedom as Will
make it worthy of democracy and its
many sacrifices.
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before the citizens of the cour-
try is as follows:
If we, the workers, are to enjoy freedom
and embrace our full opportunities in the
new nation about to emerge out Of the suf-
fering and sacrifice of the great world con-
f1ict now closed, it behooves labor to form
ulate its own programme Of fundamental, go
cial, economic and political change and es
tabish an Independent American Labor
party to carry out that programme. If we are
10 escape from the decay Of civilization we
must insure that what is presently to be
built is a social order based not fight
ing, but on fraternity; not on competitive
struggle for the means Of bare life, but on
deliberately planned cooperation in pro
ducton and distribution by and for the
benefit Of all who partici pate with hand
or brain; not on the inequality Of riches,
but on a systematic approach toward a
healthy equality Of material circumstances
for every person born in the world. There
should be no subject nations, subject races,
subject colonies, subject classes sub
ject sex; but in industry as well as in gov
ernmcnt we propose to build on that equal
freedom, that general consciousness Of
consent, and that widest possible parti-
cipation in power, both economic and polit-
ical which is Characteristic Of democracy.
We, therefore, favor the tentative
platform of the Labor party the following
programme: 4Jitaasv
Restoration Of Free Speech
Tho immediate restoration Of all funda-
mental political rights free speech, free
press, free assemblage, and free worship;
the removal Of all wartime restraints
upon the interchange Of ideas and the
movement Of people among communities
and nations, and the liberation Of all per
sons held IN prison indicted under
charges due TO their championship Of the
rights Of labor or their patriotic nsistcnce
upon the rights guaranteed TO them by the
Constitution, and the restoration to them
Of thcir political and civil rights.
Public Works to Prevent Unemployment
T. is imperative that suitable provislons
against being suddenly turned ndrift with
out resourcc1 should be mndc, not only
for soldiers and sailors, but also for the
millions Of workers in munition works
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after the President, to whom the party is
looking. This effect defective has often
been commented upon. in connection with
Mr. Wilson'S leading Of his party. He has
not, as rule, surrounded himself with
strong men. He does not appear to have
had keen eye for rising talents N his
party. Some of the young men whom he
seemingly picked out to ego far" have,
on the contrary, quickly fallen by the way.
Never too sound judge Of men, the Pres
ldent has had some misfits and large
number of mediocritics at his side The
result was inevitable, as soon as the party
tell on evil days. 1t could not but feel that
1T was in danger Of being left leaderless and
disorganizcd."
AS a Rehabilitation, however, "The
Evening Post" deferentally touches it's
cap to Mr.. Wilson, and, after paying its
respects to the Republicans present ma
tlonal committee chairman, concludes:
with Woodrow Wilson in command Of
the opposing army they VIII at least know
that they have had fight
The Washington Post" SAYS:
"A political chairman, like the CAPTAIN Of
d p"icoall team, Is either d hero or the
opposite, according to the result Of the
contest. The Democrats won and McCor-
mick was heralded as political leader. He
deserved it, for had his party lost he would
nave been obliged to shoulder the greater
part of the blame for it, The Democratic
party did we'll in making Mccormick its
chairman, and it will do we'll to select as
ms successor man of his type High ideals.
1t has been shown, arc not incompatible with
practical results"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

%HE platform on which the recent
ly organized Labor party will go
| before the citizens of the cour-
tr,r ic ac f0llnu,c.
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Are Scandinavian
Kings TO Go?

n y HE revolution in Germany has
81 had repercussion in Sweden.
u adding greatly to the Bolshe.
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visit agitation that already in
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Representation of Labor

Representation of labor in proportion TO
it's voting strength in all departments
of government and upon all government
commissions and agencies of demobiliza-
tion and reconstruction.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

az wv ANI r h<bIl 90
Nance e. Mccormick, Of Pennsylvania,
guided the committee through the campaign
Of that year 19ls), which resulted in Mr.
Whom reelection, and also in The contest
i'r Congress Lass fall, in which, despite
Fref'dent Wilson'S personal appeals, gen
sfsl and specific, the Democratic party was
s'Ondiy beaten. Mr. Mccormick has now
resigned, preparatory, it is unofficially as-
serted, to accepting the Ambassadorship to
france, which, again unofficially, it is de
s'ared William &. Sharp ~ to quit Mr..
mccormick IL the chairman Of the War
Trade Board. II il certain that the Ambaz-
sanor 10 France will be an offcial Of high
Importance during the period of rcconstruc.
lion. and II Mr. Mccormick assumes the
duties ne viii scrge in Il period Of vital
moment 70 the two republics"
Whereupon. without further comment,
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U. 6. TO SELL $500
TONS OF FROZEN MEAT

Washington, Sept. Five million
pounds of frozen meats, now in cold
storage in New York and Chicago,
were offered by the war department
yesterday to municipalities for resale.
The offer will remain in effect until
September -. at which time other
mthods of marketing such portion of
the stock as remain will be resorted TO.
Meats in storage included about
] 10000 pounds of frozen poultry at
New York and more than 100000
pounds in the Chicago zone. This will
be sold at u cents a pound. Large
quantities of frozen mutton and pork
shoulders and loins will also be offer
ed at 10 to IL cents. Since these prod
ucts can only be transported in re-
cars, no order for less than
a carload will be accepted.
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CARRANZA TOLD By FRIEND
TO CLEAN UP HIS COUNTRY
General Aivarado Says That Interven-
ton by the United States Is lmmi-
nent.-1OO Die Daily in Futile War

Washington, Sept 6.-Warning Mex
leans that intervention by the United
States is imminent. General Salvador
Alvarado, one of the leaders in the
Carranza movement throughout its
course, has addressed an open letter
TO Carranza himself and General Obre-
gon and Gonzales in which he discusses
conditions in Mexico.
Alvarado, who attracted attention Of
all Pan-Americans by his administra-
tion in Yucatan. estimates that the
present death list with scattered fight
ing between federal troops and rebels
is 100 per day. In Mexico City alone.
he says, 5000 children die each year
for want of proper food, clothing and
for want of proper food, clothing and
shelter.
Alvadaro, after trying to make the
radical theories of the new Mexican
constitution work in actual practice,
declares the system must be changed.
He declares Mexico passes from one
extreme of irresponsible, obstruction
list campaign to the other-a despotic
corrupting and ultra personal presi-
Dental regime without responsibility
or legal restraint. He excoriates the
administration of justice, charging that
justice is sold to the highest bidder.
The full text of Alvarado's remark
able communication has just reached
the state department where officials
regard it as n sign that members of
Carranza's inner circle realize danger.
Alvarado urges Carranza, ObregOn
and Gonzales to drop personal politics
and unite with the revolutionary ele-
ment in one great party to solve ma
fionaI problems which he enumerates
rs follows:
Pacifcation of the country. organ
cation of an army, settlement of in
-ernational and foreign debts, settle
nent of claims for damages caused
~ the revolution. the petroleum prob
EN-. Organization of the national rail-
ways and settlement of the banking |
question.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL SUED
FOR $3.50, 600 DAMAGES
New Jersey Wooden Mill Company OBJ
jects to Writings Concerning Its
Ownership and Operation

New York. Sept attorney Gen
todian Caravan We're named as defen-
dants in four libel suits filed in fed
eral court here yesterday by Julius
Forstmann and the Forstmann 4
Huffman company of Passaic. \. j..
Damages aggregating SS5O,OO0 are de-
manded. The suits are based on ar
ticles written by Mr.. Palmer for the
Saturday Evening Post and Munseys
magazine and by Mr.. Caravan for the
New York Tribune. The three publi-
cations also are made defendants.
These articles, the compliments al
lege, charge the defendants with
disloyalty during the war and with
being enemy owned and operated in
the interest Of Germany. In the Mum
sey article, written by Mr.. Palmer. it
was stated, the complaint alleges. that
the wooden plant of the Forstmann &
Huffman company had actually been
taken over as enemy property by the
alien property custodian. These
charges. the complainant alleges. are
wholly false q large majority of the
stock of the wooden company having
been for many years owned by Aineri-
can citizens who conducted it with
regard to American inter
ests. The plant. it is alleged, has never
been taken over by the government as
an enemy property or otherwise.
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FAMOUS FIRST DIVISION,
ALL HEROES, COMES HOME
Four Thousand Officers and Men
Comprise Unit Which Took Part
in BIoodiest Victories of War

New York, Sept. 4-Four thousand
officers and men of the famous First
division of the regular army, veterans
of some of the bIoodiest victories that
ever crowned American arms, return
ed home yesterday on the transport
Amphion, Suwanee and Mobile.
The little strips of vari-cOlored rib
bons that decorated the TUNES of hum
dreds of the returning soldiers bore
silent testimony to the deeds which
have made the division historic
AS far as individual decorations
We're concerned. the palm was borne by
the 18th infantry. every man of which
wore the fourraigere of the Legion of
Honor conferred by the French gov
eminent just before the unit boarded
the Mobile at Brest. But the 18th had
little to boast of over their comrades,
the Second machine gun
battalion, 40 per cent of whom had
been decorated.
Incidentally this battalion. which
returned under the command of Major
s. Warren of Gainesville, Fla, suf-
fered heavy casualties.