DRAFT OF SOCIALIST PLATFORM
DAFT OF SOCIALIST PLATFORM gfa fallowing is the first secfa sf the Stale Platform of the Mjfrjbt Party which vnU bo wZed to the State comcno not the final draft, convention will no...
...nothing divides them except ejlt'ane party is out of office and MB*)* to get in...
...Not only was the Washington eight-hour ocm ventlon ratified, but the government waa forced to introduce a bill for unemployment insurance...
...The average real wages of the skilled workers amount to only 80 percent of the pre-war level, the motal workers being worse off In this rtorftoete* Unskilled nwhees sss receiving'snout the same as before the war...
...During the year 3,224 workers were involved In strikes, of which BO percent were completely successful, 22 percent partly, successful, and 22 percent unsuccessful...
...Although during the year six small local organizations Withdrew from'the Federation, its membeakhip shows an increase of 1,702...
...whether In eOss, schoolroom or counting house...
...and the other party .possesalon of most of the offices to|sjsnts to retain them, and control mJh political power and access to ¦h pililli treasury that goes with It, p**lh, as the opportunity of service jijItrT employing, industrial and ex3fT*ag classes that both old parties aajajmgly serve...
...Is animated In pnbUc lite by an...
...In this day and generation poverty and war are wholly unnecessary...
...For decades every attempt of the workers to secure labor legislation waa beaten by bipartisan action of the reactionary Republicans and the crooked Democrats at Albany...
...The past year brought some victories to social legislation...
...i The Capitalist Parties .' . For years it was Tammany and upstate Republican opposition that defeated every attempt to curb the greed of the landlords who were preying upon the needs of the poorest elements of the State, and only when the housing situation became desperate did the two old parties prudglngly steal planks from the Socialist platform that they had united in burying when presented as bills in the Legislature, and, by emasculating them, by taking out those features to which their landlord friends most objected, and by presenting them as their own solution of a problem that has no solution % except the Socialist proposals, they were able to pretend that they had met the housing question, and at the same time they did not distress their landlord friends...
...Neither, has hope for the future, rttfiher deserves the support of selfiston ling working men and women...
...The Socialist Party again dedicates Itself to the struggle for bread...
...For years there has been, instead of a steady improvement In the labor laws of the State, a steady weakening of the legislation that took so many hard years of work to build up...
...1 last seventeen organisations with 12S branches and a total of 16,079 members...
...ijUMkMe the circumstance that the officials of one party to a cer¦Sipjjjteited extent is politically shrewd apssjjh to attempt an attitude of hujteteT there is neither in theory nor jsasttee the slightest difference bel|rsat the two...
...Until the growing strength of tha Socialist Party and of the militant labor movement made it politically wise to seek labor support, the workers had no more bitter, no more savage, no more unfair enemies than that Tammany Hall that today pretends to be so friendly to tbe workers...
...The Socialist Ideal ,-;*¦» aeclallst Party alone has abiding principles, haa a platform that , IMS as something...
...The membership of the dissident (Communist) unions shows a decline to 3.009...
...Without issues, the jjlsto— Party of the State of New but the local machine of the ty and often corrupt national ^jrtjroftne plutocracy...
...Tba Congxngp considered the bill In detail and ds~ c la red its agreement with the pi spiSMB to combine unemployment...
...Insurants* with the existing sickness Insurance scheme...
...If we suffer from them the fault la with ourselves and our institutions...
...According to the report on activities tbe Federation had affiliated with It on Jan...
...It again reiterates the conviction that the economic basis of a happy and peaceful world lies In the collective ownership and democratic management of the land, natural resources and principal means of productionInspired by this faith the Socialist Party enters the campaign of 1926 for the election of a United States Senator and the State officials of...
...ideal higher than the quest '."of Jobs to reward its members and the serrioe of these Interests' that prey jw^g****-" ^y^Wr t*** on'x 11,0 men and aaniu wh£ do useful work, whether •Ja 8*W, factory, workshop, mill, railroad and other utilities...
...Both poverty and war are rooted in the exploitation of the great masses of productive workers in farm and factory, school and office...
...After a dte» cusslon on apprenticeships, the cota> gress demanded the Introduction, sf up-to-date legislation and tbe fin — tion of central and local councils to deal with the question...
...Democratic and Republican parStt «• completely bankrupt morally 2f psBUcally...
...A tssiilirthni was paased condemning tbe recent increase in import duties...
...New York with the following program of Immediate demands: Latvian Unions' Membership Increases NINETY-FIVE^ delegates from fourteen affiliated unions attended the fifth convention of the Latvian Federation, of Trade Unions held to Riga, April 17 and 18...
...Sto employers of labor, the exploiters *¦ wen,, women and children...
...For decades police under Tammany control brutally clubbed and arrested strikers on the picket line, openly allying themselves wtthfthe employers, while Tammany judges applied laws which Tammany lawmakers had concurred in, issuing injunctions against striking and picketing, and Illegally jailing these who participated In the struggle for better human conditions...
...While the minds of the people have been distracted by minor Issues, the employing class has used both parties in defeating attempt after attempt to make our body ot labor legislation more efficient, or even to keep it up to Its present state of Imperfect efficiency...
...It waa agreed to...
...build up a central strike fund to which all sfflHata* unions should contribute...
...specu,*•*•*» in the labor, the homes, the •tordth and the Uvea of those who do |to-useful work of the world...
...1, The Latvian workers- showed) tbsjsr spirit, of internationalism in a i ¦mhs...
...am entitled to consideration...
...jSeneral Principles ||0 gocttllit Party of the State K|#f New York enters the campaign St^af 192* more (Irmly convinced Ester of the necessity for the tanSite entry Into tbe political arena Ktoe men and women who do the SJh work of the world, In their own gijs/aad opposed to the two old par82T' Until tbe masses of those who jjffifer VBnd and brain become conjSps of their Identity of interest and BE,-* that their common welfare deSLg# their common political action in jfeewn party progress is impossible...
...tion of sympathy for the Italian is Ins movement in the difficult times thransfa which it is passing...
...It was da> elded that in order to offer stronger resistance to the increasing attaaks of the employers, every member of that affiliated unions should give two hoots* wages to the defense fund of the Federation during the year...
...DAFT OF SOCIALIST PLATFORM gfa fallowing is the first secfa sf the Stale Platform of the Mjfrjbt Party which vnU bo wZed to the State comcno not the final draft, convention will no doubt jfe tome changes...
...peaos and f i eedoin...
...Neither haa any mlapM...
...Without prlnJJJssj, the .Democratic Party rises 'Sim its historic mission of plunderhSt tha 9**"c treasury for jobs and *f«Skasia-for its faithful henchmen ^gay atos It appropriates planks from jhs-gtoetHst platform and converts Sjjjkts its own uses for the' sole purses* af winning popular support for SajisjiMates Neither of the two old aarto* even pretends to have abiding aatojpies...
...A* *> result of the economic crisis in Latvia wages have fallen still further...
...the **ahjrs and industrialists, the holders rf pwbUc tftOity sjsas»Mas ami francbtoee, the men who see*, mysok of tbs police aa» the jndletory to tka¥ war upon tba —rrtrra sra slsrt sjssssjp to snbsidlae tha two old parties and «•»*»*—«nd racalsa thafa- iorsi SespPOTt» , \ ' It is idle to maintain that the eld parties axe neutral as between the workers and their employers...
...Several amendments wars p so posed...
...the SooJsBst Party boldly proclaims Itself the •nJWeal expression of these elements...
...The secij section, which considers bgtojrcf o/ immediate impormfa, will appear next week...
Vol. 3 • June 1926 • No. 24
