Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-28

the other speeches it was sho
through with a spirit of revolt: anc
there was ammunition a-plenty Al
hand for every speaker. They
denounced the government injunc.
ton against the miners; thu
threatened anti strike provisions il
the Cummins railroad bill; the de-
portation; the treatment Of striker.
in the steel centers; the profiteers.
E. Mission Of Party.
The mission OF the Labor party
, was thus set forth in the resolutions
"Ihe Labor party was organized
to assemble into new majority the
men and women who work but who
have. been scattered as helpless
minorities in the old parties under
the leadership of the confidence men
Of big business.
These confidence men, by ex-
ploitation, rob the workers of the
product of their activities and use
the huge profits thus gained to fin.
ance the old political parties, by
which they gain and keep control OF
the government. They withhold
money from the worker and use it
to make him pay for his own defeat.
Labor is aware OF this, and
throughout the world the workers
have reached the determinat ton to
reverse this condition and take con-
troll of their own lives and their
own government.
"In this country this can and
must be achieved peacefully by the
workers uniting and marching in un-
broken phalanx to the ballot boxes.
1t is the mission of the Labor party
to bring this to pass"
But when the delegates who, like
Fitzpatrick, expressed their sense
Of the injustices and wrongs that la
Dor suffers came to the forging of
a PLATFORM constructive policy
they exhibited the greatest possible
contrast to the British Labor party.
Nothing had been thought out or
worked out. Instead of careful,
studied plan Of social reconstruc-
ton such as British labor adopted,
their platform represents a niscel-
laneous collection of remedies sug-
gested more or less extemporan-
eously, by various delegates. Ap-
parently they put in every reform
that any delegate wanted-from the
naturalization of unused land to
the abolition of the United States
senate. Other provisions aim to
reach the radical farmers group,
for example:
Credits for Farmers.
Credits for farmers "as cheap and
available as those afforded any 9th
er legitimate and responsible in
dustry." .
Women's organizations are favor
ed in these planks:
Single standards Of morals in en-
forcement of laws affecting divorce
and the sexual relation, with age OF
consent for both sexes at 18 years.
A wage BASED upon the cost of
living and the right to maintain a
family in health and comfort with
out labor of mothers and children"
Prohibition of labor of children
under 16 years.
Among the other p1anks are tega-
cies from the old Populist party,
the Bull Moose" movement, and
planks aimed to satisfy the more
advanced Socialists and other radi-
cal groups, the municipal reformers
and the trade unionists, as follows:
Repeal of the espionage act.
Freedom of speech and assem-
blage. >E
A league of nations based upon
the IA points. I
"A1l basic industries which re-
quire large scale production and
are in reality upon non-competi-
tive basis"-railways, mines and
forests-to be nationalized.
Endorsement of the Plumb plan
for railroad control
Heavier income and inheritance
taxes.
THE banking business ''to be
placed in the hands of the federal
government"
An executive budget in congress.
Abolition or curtailment of the su-
preme courts right of veto over ma
tional legislation.
Popular election OF federal judges.
Guaranteed right of workers to
bargain collectively.
State or federal aid to provide
land and homes for residents of
town and country.
To Protect Workers.
Workers to have a real voice i'll
the management of business and in
dustry
Abolition of detective and strike
breaking agencies.
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