The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
| hird Party Formulates
Platform on 100 Per -.
Cent Americanism
Declared
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
People to Control All
Public Utilities and
Natural Resources
BY Universal Service

CHlCAGO.-RecOns of De-
mocracy is the keynote Of the plat
form of the labor group adopted by
the F,armer-Labor national conven-
tion at Garments Hall Wednesday
night after a minority platform re-
Port, presented by leaders of the
Committee of Forty-eight had been
rejected.
Public ownership and operation
with democratic control of all public
utilities and natural resources, recog-
milton of the Irish Republic, the
new Russian government, fuller JUS
tice in soldiers compensation, cleo
tive federal judges, withdrawal of
the United States from further par
ticipation under the treaty of Ver-
sailies and immediate repeal of the
Esch-Cummins law, are some of the
important planks in the party s
platform.
Some of the chief planks in the
platform to which the new party is
pledged are as follows:
One hundred per cent American
ism; restoration of civil liberties and
American doctrines and their pre-
servation inyiolate; including free
speech, free press, free assemblage,
right Of asylum, equal opportunity,
and trial by jury; the return of the
department of justice to the func-
,r,hi nI, t0 hn
end that laws may be enforced with
out favor and without discrimination;
amnesty for all persons imprisoned
because of their patriotic insistence
upon their constitutional guarantee,
industrial activities or religious be-
liefs; repeal of all so-called espion-
age, sedition and criminal syndicalist
laws; protection of the, right Of all
workers to strike and stripping from
the courts of powers unlawfully
usurped by them and used to defeat
the people and foster big business,
especially the power to issue anti
labor injunctions and to declare un-
constitutional laws passed by con-
gress.
Abolish imperialism at home and
abroad; withdrawal of the United
States from further participation
(unter the treaty of Versailles) in
the reduction of conquered peoples
to economic or political subsection
to the small groups of men who man
I'M, 1af hn hull of ri n 'c
wealth; refusal to permit our gov
ernment to aid in the exploitation of
the weaker peoples of the earth by
these men; refusal to permit use of
the agencies of our government
thru dollar diplomacy or other
means) by the financial interests of
our country to exploit other peoples,
including emphatic refusal to go to
war with Mexico at the behest of
Wall street; recognition of the
elected government of the Republic
of ireland and of the government
established by the Russian people;
denial of assistance, financial, mill
tary, or otherwise, for foreign armies
invading these countries, and an en-
barge on the shipment of arms and
ammunition to be used against the
Russian or Irish peoples; instant lift
ing of the blockade against Russia;
recognition Of every government set
up by peoples who wrest their SOW
ereignty from oppressors in accord
ance with the right of self-deter-
mination for all peoples; abolition of
secret treaties and prompt publica-
ton of all diplomatic documents re-
ceived by the state department; with
drawal from imperialistic enterprises
upon which we already have en-
barked.