INDUSTRIAL AND SOCIAL. 1. Take over business vitally essential to the existence and welfare of the people, such as banks, mines, oil wells, mills, factories, storage facilities, railroads, and administer them jointly with representatives of the workers, not for revenue or profit, but to secure just compensation and humane conditions for the workers and efficient and reasonably-priced service for the public. 2. Take over the business of insurance and provide for insurance against accident, sickness, invalidity, old age and unemployment, without contribution from the worker. 3. Have all state work done by the State. 4. Use State funds to provide for the erection of large numbers of dwelling houses, to be rented at cost. 5. Promote education by increasing the pay and consideration of teachers to that of a dignified profession, permit freedom of expression, maintain industrial training departments under labor union supervision, and offer a comprehensive program of after-work educational courses. 6. Encourage the farmer to raise sufficient foods to be sold at reasonable prices, by reducing the profits on agricultural implements, fertilizer and seed, insuring adequate storing and distributing facilities, and accepting farm property as security for government loans. 7. Assist the workers to build their unions into the closest solidarity, so that they may use their united class power for their immediate political and industrial advantage, and to emancipate themselves from wage-slavery. 8. Safeguard in every way the masses who toil against their exploiters. THE SOCIALIST GOAL. The Socialist Party points out that the evils which the people suffer in Pennsyl vania are similar to those in other states and nations, and that they will not be removed entirely until the world is carried for Socialism. Socialism is that higher form of civilization wherein the means of subsistence necessary to us all, which are now owned and operated by the capitalist class, shall belong to and be controlled by the people, so that there will not be antagonistic classes and class struggles, so that goods will be made for use and enjoyment instead of for private profit, so that labor will no longer be treated as a commodity, but instead shall be compensated as the creator of human happiness. We, the Socialist party of Pennsylvania, therefore reaffirm our loyalty and devotion to the principles of International Socialism, as set forth in the platform of the Socialist party of America, and pledge ourselves to work unceasingly to win the powers of government in order to close the reign of the money lords, and bring about the world-wide Socialist republic and the brotherhood of man. ELECTION STATISTICS. Date of Next Election for President. By act of Congress, March 1, 1792, amended January 23, 1845, a uniform day of election for electors of President and Vice-President is fixed for all the States-being the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, every fourth year after a President has been elected. The next election for President occurs Tuesday, November 4, 1924. *Congressional Elections-Dates of Next, in the Several States. Nov. 7, 1922 | New Jersey, Nov. 7, 1922 North Carolina, Nov. 7, 1922 Oklahoma, Nov. 7, 1922 l'ennsylvania, Alaska, Philippine Islands, *By art of March 3, 1875, elections of Representatives In Congress are required to be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1876, and every second year thereafter. Subsequent special acts enable states whose constitutions fix a different date to elect earlier, until they amend their constitutions. Dates of Next Elections in Pennsylvania for State and County Officers. OFFICES TO BE FILLED AT GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 7, 1922. United States Senator (to succeed William E. Crow, appointed by Governor Sproul on October 17, 1921, vice Philander Chase Knox, who died October 12, 1921), for the term of office expiring on the third day of March, 1923. United States Senator for the full term beginning the fourth day of March, 1923. United States Senator (to succeed George Wharton Pepper, appointed by Governor Sproul on January 10, 1922, vice Boies Penrose, who died December 31, 1921, for the term of office expiring on the third day of March, 1927. Governor. Lieutenant-Governor. Secretary of Internal Affairs. One Judge of the Superior Court (to succeed Robert S. Gawthrop, appointed by Governor Sproul April 12, 1922, vice John B. Head, who resigned April 12, 1922.) Congressmen. Senators from even-numbered districts; and to fill vacancies in the Twenty-seventh and the Forty-fifth Districts. Members of the House of Representatives. OFFICES TO BE FILLED AT MUNICIPAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 6, 1923. One Judge of the Superior Court (to succeed John J. Henderson, whose term expires the first Monday of January, 1924). Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and of Orphans' Courts, whose terms commence on the first Monday in January, 1924. County Officers, whose terms commence on the first Monday in January, 1924. City, Ward, Borough, Township and Election Division Officers, whose terms commence on the first Monday in January, 1924. *In 1872 there was a scattering vote of 35,016, of which 29,408 were cast for Charles O'Connor, "Democratic," and 5,608 for James Black, "Temperance.' The †The vote in Florida, as officially announced by the returning board, is given in the table. Democrats claimed a majority for the Tilden electors in that State on the face of the returns. The vote in Louisiana is given as announced by the Wells returning board, and as it was accepted by the Electoral Commission. The McEnery returning board, after a canvass of the returns from all the counties of the State, gave Tilden, 83,723; Hayes, 77,174. In 1876 there was a scattering vote of 93,898, of which 81,740 were cast for Peter Cooper, "Greenback;" 9,522 for Green Clay Smith, "Prohibition,' and 2,636 for other persons. Hayes-Rep. Tilden-Dem. |