Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-07-03

the ending of the current year,
!awaiting a final decision of the
highest court on the validity of the
contested act. carrying to every
farmer in every section of the
country. through the medium of
trained experts and by demonstra-
tion farms, the practical knowledge
acquired by the federal agricultur-
al department in all things relat-
ing 10 agriculture, horticulture and
animal life; ii established the bu-
lreau of markets, the bureau Of
farm management and passed the
cotton futures act. the grain grades
bill. the cooperative farm adminis-
tration act and the federal ware
house act.
The democratic party has vastly
improved the rural mail system
and has built up the parcels post
system to such an extent as to
render its activities and its prac-
tical service Indispensable to the
farming community. 1t was this
wise encouragements and this ef-
fectiVe concern of the democratic
party for the farmers of the United
States that enabled this great in
terest to render such essential SER
lyice in feeding the armies of Amer
lea and the allied nations of the
war and succoring starving popu-
lations since Armistice Gay.
Meanwhile. the republican lead
ers at Washington have failed ut
terly to propose one single measure
to make rural Ire more tolerable.
They have signalized their fifteen
months of congressional power by
urging schemes which would strip
the farms of labor by assailing the
principle of the farm loan system
and seeking to impair its efficiency,
lby covertly attempting to destroy
the great nitrogen plant at Mussel
Shoals upon which the government
thas expended 100000 to supply
American farmers with fertilizers
at reasonable cost; by ruthlessly
stripping nearly every branch of
agricultural endeavor, literally
Gripping the productive mediums
through which the people must be
fled.
We favor such legislation as will
confirm to the primary producers
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tive bargaining, and the right of
cooperative handling and market
ing of the products of the work.
shop and the farm and such legis-
lation as will facilitate the eXpor-
tation of our farm products.
We favor comprehensive studies
of farm production costs and the
uncensored publication of facts
found in such studies.
Labor and Industry.
| The democratic party Is now, as
ever, the firm friend of honest
labor and the promoter of progress
sive industry. 1t established the
department of labor at Washington
and a democratic president called
to his official council board the
first practical working man who
ever held a cabinet portfolio. I'm
der this administration have been
Established employment bureaus to
bring the man and the job togeth-
er; have peaceably determined
many bitter disputes between capt.
tai and labor; were passed the
child labor act, the workingman's
compensation act. (the extension
of which we advocate so as to in
clude laborers engaged in loading
and unloading ships and in inter-
state commerce); the eight hour
| law, the act for vocational train
ing and a code of other wholesome
laws effecting the liberties and
lettering the condition of the la
boring classes. In the department
of labor the democratic adminis-
Itration established a woman's bu-
reau, which a republican congress
destroyed by Withholding appropri-
ations.
Labor Is not a commodity; 1t is
human. Those who labor have
rights and the national security
and safety depend upon a just rec
ognition of those rights and the
conservation Of the strength of the
workers and their families in the
interest of sound hearted and
sound headed men, women and
! children. Laws regulating hours
| of labor and conditions under
which labor is performed, when
passed in recognition of the condi-
tions under which life must be
! lived to attain the highest devel-
opment and happiness. are just as
sertions of the national interest in
the welfare of the people.
At the same time. the nation
depends upon the prooucts of la
Dor: n cessation of production
means loss. and, II long continued,
disaster. The whole people, there
fore, have a right to insist that
Justice shall be done to those who
work and in turn that those whose
labor creates the necessities upon
which the life Of the nation de-
pends must recognize the reeipro-
cal obligation between the worker
and the state. They should par
ticipate in the formulation OF
sound laws and regulations govern
ing the conditions under which Ia
Dor is performed, recognize and
obey the laws so formulated ana
seek their amendment when neces-
sary by the processes ordinarily
addressed to the laws and regula-
tions affecting the other relations
of life.
Labor, as we'll as capital. is en-
titled to adequate compensatioA.
Each has the indefeasible right OF
organization, of collective bargain
ing and of speaking through rep
resentatives of their own selection.
Neither class. however, should at
any time nor in any circumstances
take action that will put in jeopar-
dy the public welfare. Resort toI
strikes and lockouts which en-
danger the health or lives Of the
people, is an unsatisfactory device
for determining disputes, and the
democratic party pledges itself tol
contrive. if possible. and put into
effective operation fair and COM
prehensive method of composing
differences of this nature.
In, private Individual disputes,
we are opposed to compulsory ar
bitration as a method plausible In
the ordinary but a failure In fact.
With respect to government SER
vice, we hold distinctly that the
rights of the people are paramount