Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-15
Labor Party Is
Formed at Convention
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An embryo stampede and a forty
Ave minute demonstration for the
senator resulted from the rejection
~ this issue. but the well laid plans
were nullifed by labor leaders who
blocked demands for immediate
consideration Of a platform said TO
be satisfactory to LaFollette and
which It was claimed had been con-
ceaIed by committee intrigue.
The laborites got their platform
before the convention first and also
a minority report, drawn along the
lines said to be acceptable to the
Wisconsin senator, was presented.
The majority faction won.
Rumblings heard behind the
scenes for two days burst upon n
convention during the heated plat
form discussion with forty-eighters
charging the fusion party with being
boss-ridden by a clique. Secret ol-
plomacy was al work, they said.
With LaFollette removed as po-
tential candidate for presidential
nomination no well organized boom
was left. AS a result the delegates
were soon provided with an assort-
ment from which to choose. The
list of names placed in nomination
Included besides Christensen, Dud-
ley Field Malone, New YORK; Eu-
gene Debbs, the socialist nominee;
Henry Ford; Louis Post, assistant
secretary of labor; Governor Lynn
J. Frazier, of North Dakota; Jane
Adams. Of Hull House, and several
Others After one ballot the con-
vention voted to eliminate all ex-
cept Christen and Malone and nom
nations came on the second ballot.
The platform as adopted by the
labor-farmer group contains nine
planks, as follows: =.
Americanization.-The mans right
of free speech, amnesty o pol1tical
prisoners, repeal Of espionage, sedl-
ton and "criminal syndicalist laws.
referendum and recall for federal
Judges and equal suffrage for all.
Demands withdrawal of the United
States from participation under the
Versailles treaty in the rejection OF
reduction Of conquered peoples TO
economic or political subJugation,
recognition of the rebublic of Ireland
and the new Russian government,
abolition of secret treaty and with
drawal of the United States from the
dictatorship we exercise over the
Philippines. Cuba, Porto Rica, Guam
md Hawaii.
Demands QcLlOCTdllC COilblOA Va
Industries, laying down the right OF
labor for an increasing share in the
responsibility and management II In
dustry." .
Calls for public ownership of all
public utilities and natural resources
and immediate repeal of the Esch-
Cummins railroad Law.
Favors justice to soldiers of the
war as a matter of right and not
as tariff, recommending payment of
sum SUFFICIENT to make their war
pay not less than peace time earn
ings.
Favors bill of rights which in
cludes declarations for theaunqual-
flied right of all workers, including
government workers to strike.
Freedom from compulsory arbi-
tration.
day and forty-four-hour week.
Old age unemployment payments
and workmen's compensation to in
sure workers against accident and
disease.
Abolition of employment OF chill
dren under sixteen years, complete
and effective protection of women
in industries with equal pay for
equal work.
Abolition of private employment
detective agencies used against
strikes and exclusion of interstate
commerce of convict labor.
Demands favorable laws for far
mers, establishment of public mar
kets, extension Of federal farm loan
systems, organization of state and
national service to guide applicants
for farms and farmers, already on
land, and promotion of farmers
benefit organizations.
Advocates government economy
to replace extravaganza that has
run riot under the present admin
~istration, denouncing the system
that has created one war million
aire for every three American sol
diers killed in France.
Urges reduction of the cost OF
living by sterilization of currency,
federal control of meat packing in
dustries and enforcement of present
laws against profteers especially
the big ones.