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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Visionaries: There has been
much debate over minimum and living wage issues</blockquote>
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<div>and these will be even more fully discussed in the campaign
ahead. I did a</div>
<div>bit of research on these issues, and it is interesting that the
great progressive/Republican President Teddy Roosevelt called for both
a minimum</div>
<div>wage and living wage in the Platform of the Progressive Party in
1912.</div>
<div>Teddy has consistently been ranked among the top five outstanding
U.S.</div>
<div>Presidents by historians. Read on.</div>
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<div>Rep. Tom Trail</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> <br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Platform of the Progressive
Party</b><br>
August 7, 1912<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Declaration of Principles of the
Progressive Party</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>. . . . . .</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>Social and Industrial Strength</b><br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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:--<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Effective legislation looking to the
prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases, overwork,
involuntary unemployment, and other injurious effects incident to
modern industry;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The prohibition of child labor;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Minimum wage standards for working women,
to provide a living scale in all industrial occupations;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The prohibition of night work for women
and the establishment of an eight hour day for women and young
persons;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>One day's rest in seven for all
wage-workers;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>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;<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The establishment of industrial research
laboratories to put the methods and discoveries of science at the
service of American producers.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We favor the organization of the workers,
men and women as a means of protecting their interests and of
promoting their progress.<br>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Teddy Roosevelt</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote>
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<div>Dr. Tom Trail<br>
International Trails<br>
1375 Mt. View Rd.<br>
Moscow, Id. 83843<br>
Tel: (208) 882-6077<br>
Fax: (208) 882-0896<br>
e mail ttrail@moscow.com</div>
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