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Socialist Party (U.S.). Socialist Handbook, Campaign 1916 - Image 34. 1916. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 28, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/260/show/225.

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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
Creator (LCNAF)	Socialist Party (U.S.)
Publisher	Socialist Party
Place of Creation (TGN)	Chicago, Illinois
Date	1916
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Socialism
Subject.Topical (Local)	Campaign literature
Subject.Name (LCNAF)	Socialist Party (U.S.)
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
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

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Title	Image 34
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_11666601_033.jpg
Transcript	SOME FINDINGS OF THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION Unjust Distribution of Wealth The wealth of the country and the income which is produced through the toil of the workers is distributed without regard to any standard of justice. The day laborer has less than enough to feed his family, while others who have done nothing live at ease.—24, M. Unemployment and Denial of Opportunity to Earn a Living In our basic industries the workers are unemployed for an average of at least one-fifth of the year, and at all times during any normal year there is an army of men, who can be numbered only by hundreds of thousands, who are unable to find work, or have so far degenerated that they cannot or will not work.—33, 34, M. Denial of Justice Laws necessary for the protection of the workers against the most grievous wrongs cannot be passed except after long and exhausting struggles; such benevolent measures as become laws are largely nullified by the unwarranted decisions of the courts; the laws which stand upon the statute books are not equally administered and the whole machinery of government has frequently been placed at the disposal of the employers for the oppression of the workers. The constitution itself has been ignored in the interest of the employers; and the constitutional guarantees erected for the protection of the workers have been denied to them and used as a cloak for the misdeeds of corporations.—38, 39, M. Denial of the Right of Organization The Commission has held public hearings and made thorough investigations in such industrial communities as Paterson, N. J., Los Angeles, Calif., Lead, S. Dakota, and Colorado where the right of collective bargaining on the part of employees is denied 32