[Vision2020] Fwd: Re: request

[Tom Trail]

>Visionaries:   There has been much debate over minimum and living wage issues

and these will be even more fully discussed in the campaign ahead.  I did a
bit of research on these issues, and it is interesting that the great 
progressive/Republican President Teddy Roosevelt called for both a 
minimum
wage and living wage in the Platform of the Progressive Party in 1912.
Teddy has consistently been ranked among the top five outstanding U.S.
Presidents by historians.   Read on.

Rep. Tom Trail

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>Platform of the Progressive Party
>August 7, 1912
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>Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party
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>. . . . . .
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>Social and Industrial Strength
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>The supreme duty of the Nation is the conservation of human 
>resources through an enlightened measure of social and industrial 
>justice. We pledge ourselves to work unceasingly in State and Nation 
>for:--
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>Effective legislation looking to the prevention of industrial 
>accidents, occupational diseases, overwork, involuntary 
>unemployment, and other injurious effects incident to modern 
>industry;
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>The fixing of minimum safety and health standards for the various 
>occupations, and the exercise of the public authority of State and 
>Nation, including the Federal control over inter-State commerce and 
>the taxing power, to maintain such standards;
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>The prohibition of child labor;
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>Minimum wage standards for working women, to provide a living scale 
>in all industrial occupations;
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>The prohibition of night work for women and the establishment of an 
>eight hour day for women and young persons;
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>One day's rest in seven for all wage-workers;
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>The abolition of the convict contract labor system; substituting a 
>system of prison production for governmental consumption only; and 
>the application of prisoners' earnings to the support of their 
>dependent families;
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>Publicity as to wages, hours and conditions and labor; full reports 
>upon industrial accidents and diseases, and the opening to public 
>inspection of all tallies, weights, measures and check systems on 
>labor products;
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>Standards of compensation for death by industrial accident and 
>injury and trade diseases which will transfer the burden of lost 
>earnings from the families of working people to the industry, and 
>thus to the community;
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>The protection of home life against the hazards of sickness, 
>irregular employment and old age through the adoption of a system of 
>social insurance adapted to American use;
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>The development of the creative labor power of America by lifting 
>the last load of illiteracy from American youth and establishing 
>continuation schools for industrial education under public control 
>and encouraging agricultural education and demonstration in rural 
>schools;
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>The establishment of industrial research laboratories to put the 
>methods and discoveries of science at the service of American 
>producers.
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>We favor the organization of the workers, men and women as a means 
>of protecting their interests and of promoting their progress.
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>Teddy Roosevelt
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Dr. Tom Trail
International Trails
1375 Mt. View Rd.
Moscow, Id. 83843
Tel:  (208) 882-6077
Fax:  (208) 882-0896
e mail ttrail at moscow.com
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