Title | Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916 |
Alternative Title | Socialist handbook, for president, Allen L. Benson; for vice-president, George R. Kirkpatrick; the workers' candidates, not backed by Wall street or the war trust |
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Publisher | Socialist Party |
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Date | 1916 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 63 pages; 17 cm. |
Original Item Location | HX89.S62 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304531~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 10 |
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Transcript | WORKING PROGRAM As general measures calculated to strengthen the working class in its fight for the realization of its ultimate aim, the Co-operative Commonwealth, and to increase its power of resistance against capitalist oppression, we advocate and pledge ourselves and our elected officers to the following program: Political Demands 1. Unrestricted and equal suffrage for men and women. 2. The immediate adoption of the so-called "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" to the constitution of the United States, granting the suffrage to women on equal terms with men. 3. The adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall and of proportional representation, nationally as well as locally. 4. The abolition of the Senate and of the veto power of the President. 5. The election of the President and the Vice-President by direct vote of the people. 6. The abolition of the present restriction upon the amendment of the constitution so that that instrument may be made amendable by a majority of the voters in the country. 7. The calling of a convention for the revision of the constitution of the United States. 8. The abolition of the power usurped by the Supreme Court of the United States to pass upon the constitutionality of legislation enacted by Congress. National laws to be repealed only by act of Congress or by a referendum vote of the whole people. 9. The immediate curbing of the power of the courts to issue injunctions. 10. The election of all judges of the United States Courts for short terms. 11. The free administration of the law. 12. The granting of the right o. - a IT rage in the District 8 |