Platform of Principles 1. Free compulsory education. 2. Legal working day of six hours, and six days to a week. 3. Government inspection of all industries. 4. The abolition of the contract system on all public works. 5. A minimum living wage, based on local conditions. 6. Public ownership of all franchises, such as railways, telegraphs, telephones, water-works, lighting, etc. 7. Tax reform, by lessening taxation on industry and increasing it on land values. 8. Abolition of the Dominion Senate. 9. Exclusion of all Asiatics. 10. The Union Label to be placed on all manufactured goods, where practicable, and all government and municipal supplies. 11. Abolition of child labor for children under sixteen years, and the establishing of equal pay for equal work for men and women. 12. Abolition of property qualification for all public offices. 13. Voluntary arbitration of labor disputes. 14. Compulsory vote and proportional representation with grouped constituencies and abolition of municipal wards. 15. Direct legislation through the initiative and referendum. 16. Prohibition of prison labor in competition with free labor. 17. Equal suffrage for men and women over 21 years of age. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF TRADES AND LABOR CANADA HELD AT THE CITY OF HAMILTON, ONT. The Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Alberta and British Columbia have organized Provincial Federations of Labor, which are chartered by the Congress to deal with legislative matters previously dealt with by the Provincial Executive Committees. FRATERNAL DELEGATE TO THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR J. A. MCCLELLAND.. |