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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1887
Page
4
A young cadet nicknamed Baby Beeston shows remarkable courage aboard a training ship. While rigging work nears completion, a topmast near mishap endangers sailors. Beeston lunges to save them, loses his hand in the process, and is later treated ashore, hailed as a hero.
The Ohio Union Labor Party convention denounces monopolistic control and calls for reforms. It endorses Cincinnati platform of 1887 and seeks prohibition of bribery, state printing of school books, mortgage taxation, bank security, and limits on corporate charters and railroad assessments. It urges equal salaries, anti discrimination measures, and criminalizes coercive election practices. The text advocates toiling masses uniting beyond party lines to secure workers’ rights.
The platform calls for a graduated land tax on large estates and opening Oklahoma to homesteads. It demands public control of irrigation, workers’ rights, arbitration replacing strikes, restrictions on convict labor, and equitable pay. It supports national monetary reform, free silver coinage, postal savings banks, and prompt debt payment.
The document outlines a reform agenda blaming income tax fairness, depreciation of wartime money, and bond-holder losses. It calls for direct popular election of U.S. Senators, exclusion of Asiatic labor,禁止 armed corporate guards, voting rights regardless of sex, and temperance linked to economic policy. Col Winston endorses platform planks on Land Transportation Money and Chinese Labor.
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