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Newspaper
The Evening News
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1887
Page
3
The document outlines the Sate Platform of the Union Labor Party of Ohio. It presents policy positions, strategy for organizing labor groups, economic reform goals, and proposed measures to improve workers' rights and living standards across the state.
Delegates of the Union Labor Party of Mesa Ohio convene to condemn syndicate control over production and demand reform. They endorse the Cincinnati platform of February 22, 1887, urging abolition of the fee system, salary reform, and stronger anti bribery laws, plus measures affecting corporations, banks, schools and railroads.
The platform calls for a graduated land tax on large estates to curb speculation and open unoccupied lands for homesteads, public control of irrigation and waterways, people owned or controlled transportation, a low interest federal credit program, a silver standard, and public work programs backed by national or state authority.
The text outlines demands for soldier justice, equal value of depreciated money to gold, a graduated income tax, constitutional amendment on direct popular vote, exclusion of Chinese and Asiatic labor, armed private security concerns, voting rights irrespective of sex, and temperance. It notes that Transitions Money Income Tax and Chinese planks form the party platform with room for state additions.
Reverend Thos B Warwick of Scott Town Ohio writes that after four years of asthma he found relief from the Good’s Mexican Syrup after using three bottles and hopes the letter may help others avoid a premature death.
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