The Connecticut labor news., 1924-09-27
Emily Newell Blair. Writing in League Bulletin, Points Out That Workers Are Protected Full y.

Ine principles of the Democratic party
 as opposed to the Republican party, are
 explained in the Democratic National
 Platform as follows:
 The Democratic Party believes in
 equal rights to all and special privileges
 to none The Republican Party holds
 that special privileges are essential to
 national prosperity. It believes that na-
 t1onal prosperity must originate with the
 spec1al interests, and seep down through
 the channels of trade to the less favored
 industries, to the wage earners and
 small salarled employees. It has accord
 ingly enthroned privileges and nurtured
 seltlshness. The Republican party is con- cerned chiefly with human rights The
 masses, burdened by discriminating laws and unjust adninistra ton, are demand ing relief. The favored special inter ests, represented by the republican par ty, contented with their unjust privi- leges, are demanding that no change be made. The Democratic Party stands for remedial legislation and progress. The Republican Party stands still Many labor leaders attending the New York convention were enthusiastic over this preamble, since 1t thoroughly ex- presses a progressive view of society," First of all, the Democratic Party pledges an honest government. When dishonesty, discrimina ton, extravaganza and ineficiency' exist in government it is the common people who must pay the bill. This is also true of unfair traiff the Democratic Party pledges itself faithfully to reform.
 More and more the farmer and the worker are recognizing that they have much in common, for if transportation rates are prohibitive the farmer cannot afford to ship his products, nor the la borer afford to buy them. If the in- dustrial balance of Europe Is upset, if we fail to cooperate with other coun- tries i'll the settlement of economic prob lems, 1t Is the worker and the farmer who suffer most because there is no market for the product of their labor. Cooperative marketing would afford great relief to both farmer and laborer as they both recognize | the farmer cannot have credit he must leave the farm and become one of the unenl- ployed in the city, In the earnest pro- mise of the Democratic Party to relieve 1~01 T +I7a al so perceives relief for him and his family
 Perhaps in the last four years noth- ing has contributed more to the dissatis- faction of Labor than the Esch-Cum- mins Transportation Act of 1920. h. stead of bettering labor conditions and promoting cooperation between employ CT and employee as promised 1t has done just the opposite. The Democra- tic Party promises the reform of this measure.
 The plans on reclamation, credits and currency, and conservation all promise 1 relief to both workers and farmers.
 The platform of a party must be judged, not by its so-called Labor Planks" alone, but by all its blanks, and whether these blanks taken as whole | promise relief and succor to all of the | people.
 Any one who reads carefully the pre- sent platform of the Democratic Party must be convinced that this platform does promise such relief and succor.
 It was the Sixty-thir a Democratic Congress, that passed the Clayton Re vision of the Antitrust Law which de i clared that the labor of human being | is not a commodity nor an article of commerce" and that principle the pre- 1 sent platform repeats. Twice have 1 Democratic Congress passed Child La bor laws These laws having been de clared unconstitutional, however, the last i session of Congress- i'll spite of the tact 1 that belief in States rights" IS one of the strongest convictions of a Democrat, was able, because of the votes of Demo- cratic members, to submit the Child La bor amendment for ratification The first state to ratify this amendment was the Democratic State of Arkansas
 In his speech of acceptance, John w.. Davis. Democratic nominee for Presi- dent, says:
 Concerning our sentiments toward la bor there is room for neither doubt nor cavil in the light of our past history. The right of labor to an adequate wage earned under heaIthful conditions, the right to organize in order to obtain 1t, and the right to bargain for ii collect lively, through agents and representa- uves of its own choosing, have been es- abolished after many years of weary These rights are conceded