The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-09

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 Tn order to mitigate unemployment attending business depressions, we urge the enactment of legislation auth orizing that construction and repair of public works be initiated in periods of acute unemployment.
 ''In appreciation we urge adequate provision for the full rehabilitation of all injured in the service during the World War.
 We urge proper recognition of the work of those in the civilian service of the government with adequate com- pensation based upon equitable classi- hcation.
 "We favor the enactment of more comprehensive compensation laws to provide for all workers not covered by state compensation acts. We demand more liberal provision for those in capacitated by industrial accidents or occupational diseases.
 "We maintain that the Volstead act is contrary to the desire of the major ity of our citizens as well as the spirit of the eighteenth amendment, and we demand that it be modified to permit the manufacture and sale of beef con taining not more than 2.75 per cent. alcohol
 we declare for the maintenance of freedom of speech, press, assemblage and association. We oppose any reg 1ation to restrict these funda-:1e ota i rights, believing that individua $ and groups should be responsible for i q: acts and utterances.
 We oppose conscription except as military measure for defensive war and oppose all proposals to initiate com- pulsory labor under whatever guise.
 'EIn order to maintain representative government based upon the will of the people, we advocate a constitutional amendment enabling congress to re- enact by two-thirds vote any measure declared unconstitutional by the su- preme court of the United States.
 Labor favors graduated income and inheritance taxes and opposes the sales tax as well as all other attempts to place excessive burdens on those least able to pay.
 we demand that our nation ident1- fv itself with international agencies and conferences to promote world peace We urge membership Ill the League of Nations and participation in the world court.
 '"In addition in the executive council adopted the following declarttion on the selection of candidates for the offices of president and vice-president, which declaration was directed to the convention of both ma jor political par ties and to the conference camp hav- ling placed independent presidential and vice presidential candidates in the field.
 "Devoted to the cause of American principles of justice and freedom, and patriotically desirous of. contributing the efforts of the working people ot our republic in the furtherance ot true Americanism and of the improvement in, the life and of the standards and conditions of work of the to1l1ng masses of our country, the American Federation of Labor, through its ex- ecutive council enters the impending political campaign for the selection and Ie1ection of president and vice pres1- dent of the United States and ot sen ators and representatives, for the pur- pose of service to the people and in
 
 "In keeping with the traditional pol icv of the American Federation of La bor, the executive council III regular session assembled, considering our duties as American citizens, and our responsibilities as the representatives of Americas wage earners do hereby manifest and express to the conven- tions of the major political parties ot our country the earnest hope and pressing insistence that the declara- tion of intentions to be formulated by each of these political parties, con training pledges to be redeemed by con- gressional and executive action, shall embrace the full protection and pro- motion of the great mass of the people of the republic-the farmers and wage earners.
 Tt is the further hope and insistence of the American wage earners that founded upon a platform of honesty and progress. Candidates will be nom mated for president and vice-president of the United States who shall com mend themselves to the favorable con- sideration of the great mass of the citizenship of our country, and make selection of these candidates the hopes, | 1,.. of Arnarica'c