Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-01-27

management of business and industry.
Abolition of detective and strike
breaking agencies.
Protection of workers from the COM
petition of ''convict-made. sweat shop
or child-l la Dor products or goods
brought from other Countries that are
produced by cheap labor for the purpose
of underseling the American product
a maximum working day of eight
hours and forty four hour week.
Abolition of unemployment by various
methods
Continuation of wartime soldiers and
sailors insurance and the extension of
such life insurance by the government,
without profit. TO all men and women
All government work to be done di
reCtly. not by contract
Union label on all federal. state or To-
cal government supplies and materials.
Full political rights for railroad and
civil service employees.
Home rule for municipalities.
Amendments to the United States
Constitution to be submitted to the di-
rect vote of the people
Initiative, referendum and recall.
Here are thirty two planks-a mixture
Of political. economic. social and tinan-
:Ial retorms-"epresentin big and little
ide as from every source and intended to
attract all groups of revolt.
No Large Vision Revealed.
And yet. although it welcomes TO it's
ranks workers of both hand and brain
II support OF the principles of political,
focial and Industrial democracy" it re
Neals no large VisiOn--as do both the
British and Frercil labor movements
Of broad public and national needs Take
the single matter of large and efficient
production, which is today for the pub
lies, of all nations becoming a CRYING is
sue: in both England and France i'm
! mediate and large production is being
recognized as truly the concern of labor
as we'll as of other elements of the popu-
latlon. Here. for example. are some
sentences from the resolutions of the
British labor party:
| What the nation needs is undoubt-
eddy Il great bound onward in its
agsre gate productivity. But this can
NOT be secured merely by pressing the
manual workers to more strenuous
toll or even by encouraging the cap
tains of industry TO a less wasteful
organization of their several enter
prises on profit-making basis. What
the labor party looks to is 4 genuine
ly scientific reorganization of the ma :
ton industry. the equitable Sharin 9
of the proceeds among all who par
ticipate in any capacity and the adop-
ton of those systems and methods OF
administration and control that may
be found best to promote. not prof
iteering. but the public interest"
The French Confederation of Labor
at it's congress at Lyon in Septem bel
also shows that it sees clearly the
need of greater production. especially
since the war. Its&re solution says:
TO continue production in order to
satisfy the needs of men. to increa Sc
| it in order to put at the disposal OF
all greater total of consumab BILE
weaith-these are questions to which
the world situation resulting from the
war has given a formidable impor-
tance
The labor movement affirms that
it should and can answer to this APP
peal. but it also. declares that any eff
fort in this direction is irreconcilab BILE
with the maintenance of the present
s.ime. That appeal to labor to hicf
all laborers are ready to respond must
henceforth rest upon the complete
recognition of the rights of labor"
Problem Greater Here.
1t is probably unfair to compare
this young labor party with the much
older and more experienced move
mentS of Europe: but we must try
to see exactly where it stands. 1t
faces a much greater problem in other
ways than the British labor party.
Here the new party has not even the
support of it's own group, as in Eng
| land. for the powerful following of
Gompers is in opposition. 1t thus
represents only one wing of the labor
movement
| America is also huge country with
far more diversified interests than