The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1920-07-17

forth the further declaration:
1--WE urge cooperation with the
states for the protection of child life
through infancy and maternity care, in
the prohibition of child labor and by
adequate appropriations for the Chill
dren's Bureau and the Women's Bureau
in the Department of Labor"
LABOR'S DEMANDS
We demand that effective steps be
taken Immediately to relieve the people
of the burden imposed by the excessive
cost of living and to eradicate perman-
emily the underlying evils, recognizing
fully that no other issue is of deeper
interest to the masses of the American
people.
AS a comprehensive program of re-
lief and remedy we set forth these de-
mands:
1. Cooperation should be encour-
aged as an effective means of curbing
prohteering. To stimulate rapid de-
velopment of co-operatives the federal
farm loan act should be extended SO as
to give credit to all properly organized
co-operatives just as credit is now given
to individual farmers.
2. We urge that the United States
Department of Labor compile and issue
monthly statements of the cost of man.
ufacture of those staple articles which
form the basis of calculation in fixing
the cost of living.
3. AS a means of aiding anti-prof-
teering measures the federal govern
ment should promptly investigate pro-
fits and prices. All income and other
tax returns should be available for in
spection.
The platform paragraph on CO.
operation responds largely to labor's
proposal. In relation to the second
proposal the platform calls for publica-
ton of costs of production on farms
but does not call for publication of
costs of manufactured articles nor costs
caused by middlemen. The platform is
silent as to the third proposal and offers
no substitute dealing constructively
with prohteering but proposes the en-
actment and enforcement of such 1egis-
1ation as may be required to bring pro-
fiteerS before the bar of criminal JUS
tice.
this policy and the enforcement of the
laws enacted pursuant thereto of par
ticular concern, we pledge our sup
port"
~ LABOR'S DEMAND
1--WE demand the observance and en-
forcement of all the federal maximum
eight-hour laws and their extension to
comprehend all civil departments of
government"
The platform refers to the passage
of the eight-hour law under the Demo-
cratic administration and further says
Laws regulating hours of labor and
conditions under which labor is per-
formed, when passed in recognition of
the conditions under which life must
be lived to attain the highest develop
ment and happiness, are just assertions
of the national interest in the welfare
of the people"
LABOR'S DEMAND
1--WE demand the enactment of legis-
lation excluding from interstate COM
merce the products of convict labor"
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Silent.
The platform calls attention to the
fact that defects exist i'm the Cummins-
Esch law and pledges the democratic
party to their rectihcation. Inasmuch as
the railroads are now under private
ownership and operation and their en-
ployes no longer in government employ,
it will be observed that in the third
cratic platform declares that Gin pri-
VdtC IIdllSlI disputes VIC dl OpUOSC0
to compulsory arbitration as a method
plausible in theory but a failure in
fact"
LABOR'S DEMANDS
1--WE declare that the Congress of the
United States should take action to pre-
vent the federal courts from continuing
the usurpation of authority in declaring
unconstitutional ACTS passed by Con-
gress.
1--WE further urge that judges of all
federal courts shall be elected by the
people for terms not exceeding six
years"
| DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM
Silent
LABOR'S DEMANDS
1--WE declare our unalterable opposi-
ton to any exercise of force by the
United States in compelling the Mex
lean people to meet unwarranted and
unjust demands of those Americans
whose sole interest is the exploitation
of the people and the natural resources
of the Mexican nation"
CONCLUSION
In summarizing it is but fair to say
| that the Democratic platform marks
measure of progress not found in the
platform of the Republican party. In
| relation to Labor's proposals the planks
| written into the Democratic platform
more nearly approximate the desired
declarations of human rights than do
the planks found in the Republican plat
| form. ,
The delegation of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor which appeared before
the platform committee of the Republi
can party convention in Chicago, pre-
sented to the convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in Montreal,
the labor proposals which it submitted,
and analysed and compared these with
| the declarations contained in the Re-
publican party platform. The conven-
| ton by a unanimous vote adopted and
approved that report. The convention
| authorized and directed a committee
to appear before the Democratic ma
tional platform committee at San Fran
cisco and to present the identical pro-
posals to that committee with the in