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 11 |
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File Name | uhlib_11666601_010.jpg |
Transcript | of Columbia with representation in Congress and a democratic form of municipal government for purely local affairs. 13. The extension of democratic government to all United States territory. 14. The freedom of press, speech and assemblage. 15. The increase of the rates of the present income tax and corporation tax and the extension of inheritance taxes, graduated in proportion to the value of the estate and to nearness of kin—the proceeds of these taxes to be employed in the socialization of industry. 16. The enactment of further measures for general education and particularly for vocational education in useful pursuits. The Bureau of Education to be made a department. 17. The enactment of further measures for the conservation of health and the creation of an independent department of health. 18. The abolition of the monopoly ownership of patents and the substitution of collective ownership, with direct rewards to inventors by premiums or royalties. Collective Ownership 1. The collective ownership and democratic management of railroads, telegraphs and telephones, express service, steamboat lines and all other social means of transportation and communication and of all large-scale industries. 2. The immediate acquirement by the municipalities, the states or the federal government of all grain elevators, stock yards, storage warehouses and other distributing agencies in order to relieve the farmer from the extortionate charges of the middlemen and to reduce the present high cost of living. 3. The extension of the public domain to include mines, quarries, oil wells, forests and water power. 4. The further conservation and development of natural resources for the use and benefit of all the people: (a) By scientific forestation and timber protection. (b) By the reclamation of arid and swamp tracts. 9 |