SOCIALIST PARTY NATIONAL FLAPFORM ADOPTED AT MILWAUKEE
SOCIALIST PARTY NATIONAL FLAPFORM ADOPTED AT MILWAUKEE For Plenty, Peace and Freedom, to be Achieved Through Socialist Reconstruction **v Socialist Party Platform "Vk/T- AUE facing a breakdown...
...Men and women are discharged...
...The Socialist party is today the one democratic party of the workers whose program would remove the causes of Class struggles, class antagonisms and social evils inherent in the capitalist system...
...In this crisis, their chief purpose and desire has been to help the railroads, banks and insurance companies...
...7. The enactment and enforcement of drastic anti-lynching laws...
...5. Modification of the immigration laws to permit the reuniting of families and to offer a refuge to those fleeing from political or religious persecution...
...Unemployment and poverty are inevitable products of the present system...
...The Republican and Democratic parties, both controlled by the great industrialists and financiers, have no plan or program to rescue us from the present collapse...
...The many in the factories, mines, shops, offices and farms obtain but a scanty income and are able to buy back only a part of the goods that can be produced in such abundance by 6ur mass industries...
...Millions of wage-earners and salaried workers are hunting In vain for jobs, while other millions are only partly employed...
...upbuilding, we propose: by a shift from taxes on iritances, excess profits and tidies to road building and communities...
...our public utilities dealing with light and power, transportation and communication and our basic industries...
...3. The cancellation of war debts due from the allied governments as part of a program for wiping out war debts and reparations, provided that such cancellation docs not release money for armaments, but promotes disarmament...
...It proposes the following demands: Unemployment and Labor legislation 1. "A federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for immediate relief for those in need to supplement state and local appropriations...
...It proposes to transfer the principal industries of the country from private ownership and autocratic and cruelly inefficient management to...
...5. The entrance of the United States into the League of Nations under conditions which will make it a more effective instrument for world peace and renewed cooperation with the working class parties abroad to the end that the League may be transformed from a league of imperialist powers to a democratic assemblage representative of the aspirations of the common people of the world...
...7. Old age pensions for men and women sixty years of age and over...
...8. The Socialist party favors the repeal of the 18th Amendment and the taking over of the liquor industry under government ownership and control, with the right of local option for each state to maintain prohibition within its borders...
...4. An amendment to the constitution to make constitutional amendments less cumbersome...
...6. The creation of international economic organizations on which labor is adequately represented, to deal wkh problems of raw material, investments, money, credit, tariffs and living standards from the viewpoint of the welfare of the masses throughout th" world...
...Prohibition of the sales of munitions to foreign powets...
...m 7. The creation.of national, tion boards for the purpose of i farming land of the country, fall culture, industry, recreation, watt to prepare the way, for agricultun timately, on a world scale...
...This *W breakdown the Socialist party lurs long predicted...
...Today, in every city of the United States, jobless men and women by the thousands are fighting the grim battle against want and starvation, while factories stand idle and food rots'on the ground...
...Government aid to farmers and small home-owners to protect them against foreclosures and sales for non-payment of taxes...
...The abolition of conscription, of military training amps and the R. O. T. C. 2. The recognition of Soviet Russia and the encouragement of trade and industrial relations with that country...
...5. Abolition of the power of the Supreme Court to pass upon the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress...
...Civil Liberties 1. Federal legislation to enforce the First Amendment to the Constitution so as to guarantee freedom of spetch, press and assembly, anoNio penalize any official who interferes with the civil rights of any citizen...
...Minimum wage laws...
...The wage-earners and farmers are compelled to give a large part of the product of their labor to the few...
...2. A federal appropriation of $5,000,000,000 for public works and roads, reforestation, slum clearance and-decent homes for the workers, by the federal government, states and cities...
...6. The enforcement of Constitutional guarantees of economic, political and legal equality for the Negro...
...8. The withdrawal of United States military and naval forces from China and the relinquishment of American extra-territorial privileges...
...Under capitalism the few own our industries...
...4. Legislation protecting aliens from being excluded from this country or from citizenship or from being deported on account of their political, social or economic beliefs, or on account of activities engaged in by them which are not illegal for citizens...
...The abolition of child labor...
...the recognition in each industry of the principle of collective bargaining...
...Capitalism spells not only widespread economic disaster, but class strife...
...Kagency for the pur1 (operative societies and by itors, stockyards, packing if these services on a nonMrs' cooperative societies ities, with a view of dimit banks and the extension •farmers at low rates of ^lue to adverse weather pal, and state land utiliza•ring trie best uses of the • the joint needs of agriI k reforestation, etc...
...It likewise carries with it an ever present threat of International war...
...2. The abolition of injunctions in labor disputes, the outlawing of yellow dog contracts and the passing of laws enforcing the lights of workers to organize into unions...
...8. Health and maternity insurance...
...The immediate withdrawal of military forces from Haiti and Nicaragua...
...The many do the work...
...4. The six-hour day and the five-day week without a reduction of wages...
...6. Social insurance against conditions...
...Only by these means win n or possioie 10 organize our iiiuumiisi iiic oh a uasis of planned and steady operation without periodic breakdowns and disastrous crises...
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...and ling on a national and, ul• and vice-president...
...SOCIALIST PARTY NATIONAL FLAPFORM ADOPTED AT MILWAUKEE For Plenty, Peace and Freedom, to be Achieved Through Socialist Reconstruction **v Socialist Party Platform "Vk/T- AUE facing a breakdown of the capitalist system...
...Tsxaj 1. Steeply increased inherits the higher incomes and estates of k 2. A constitutional amending government securities...
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...Internationa] Relations While the Socialist party is opposed to all war, it believes that there can be no permanent peace until Socialism is established internationally...
...7. Repeal the 18th amendment and taj^e over the liquor industry under government ownership and control with the right of local option for each state to maintain prohibition within its borders...
...6. A compulsory system of unemployment compensation with adequate benefits, based on contributions by the government and by employers...
...3. Legislation providing for the acquirement of land, buildings and equipment necessary to put the unemployed to work producing food, fuel and clothing and for the erection of bouses for their own use and consumption...
...Soldiers, sailors, and workers unemployed by reason of disarmament to be absorbed, where desired, in a program of public works, to be financed in part by the savings due to disarmament...
...The encouragement I and of consumers' cooperatives it inating the middle-man...
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...houses and warehouses and the on profit basis...
...6. The passage of the Socialist party's, proposed Workers' Rights' amendment to the Constitution empowering Congress to establish national systems of unemployment, health and accident insurance and old age pensions, to abolish child labor, establish arid take over enterprises in manufacture', commerce, transportation, banking, public utilities and other business and industries tc be owned and operated by the government, and generally for the social and economic welfare of the workers of the United States...
...5. The socialization of feda by "these banks of long-term cm interest...
...Constituting 1. Proportional representatk 2. Direct election of the pn 3. The initiative and refera E>RM ADOPTED AT M I L W A f l l lP ueveH Through Socialist Reconstruction Lfti, beginning with the p Federal Reserve Banks I Postal Savings Banks to ptwss ami the transference I government-owned bank• net and income taxes on gporations and individuals, homing the taxation of all par socializing the power, log Irving standards among lent labor...
...From the poverty, insecurity, unemployment, the economic collapse, the wastes and the wars of our present capitalistic order, only the united efforts of workers and farmers, organized in unions and cooperatives and, above all, in a political party of their own, tan save the nation...
...In the last campaign, it warned the people of the increasing insecurity in American life and urged a program of action which, if adopted, P/ould have saved millions from their present tragic plight...
...9. Improved systems of workmeff*s compensation and accident insurance...
...4. The entrance of the United States into the World Court...
...In a countrjr'with national resources, machinery and trained labor sufficient to provide securityand plenty for all...
...social ownership and democratic control...
...The nation is thrown into a panic...
...foregoing dean...
...The struggle of the capitalist class to find world markets and investment areas for their surplus goods and capital was a prime cause of the world war...
...millions face want and destitution...
...5. A comprehensive and efficient system of free public employment agencies...
...other forms of taxation...
...9. The complete independence of the Philippines and1'the negotiation oT treaties with other nations safeguarding the'sovereignty of these islands...
...It is today fostering those policies of militarism and imperialism which, if unchecked, will make another war inevitable...
...Only after the socialization of these resources will it be possible to have planned production on the basis of the full use of our economic and financial resources for the common good...
...3. The immediate repeal of the Espionage Law and other repressive legislation, and the restoration of civil and political rights to those unjustly convicted under wartime laws...
...Social Ownership 1. Socialization of our mines, forests, oil and power re-rources...
...7. The abandonment of every degree of military intervention by the United States in the affairs of other countries...
...2. The operation of these industries by boards of administration on which the wage-earner, the consumer and the technician' are adequately represented...
...In the meanwhile, we will support all measure* that promise to promote good will and friendship among the nations of the world including: 1. The reduction of armaments, leading to the goal of total disarmament by international agreement, if possible, but, if that is not possible, by setting an example ourselves...
...banking and other industries, fori the city workers, etc., would greatly As special measures of arris 1. The reduction of tax bar farm property to taxes on income...
...t 2. Increased federal and stab educational and social services fof i 3. The creation.of a federal chase and marketing of agricultan 4. The acquisition by boot I governmental agencies of grain...
...Factories close...
...Committed to this constructive "program the Socialist party calls upon the nation's workers and upon all fair-minded and progressive citizens to unite with it in a mighty movement against the present drift into social disaster and in behalf of sanity, justice, peace arid freedom...
...Banking 1. Socialization of our credit ahd currency system and the establishment of a unified banli complete governmental acquisition] and the extension of the services« cover all departments of the bankta, of this department of the post offiq mg corporation...
...Goods pile up...
Vol. 13 • May 1932 • No. 22
