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Allied People's Party at Louisville Launched with Ceremony.

Declaration of Principles Is Practically a Reiteration of Former People's Party Faith-"First Political Home for Organized Labor."

Louisville, Ky., April 5.-Chairman J. A. Parker, of the allied people's party, yesterday appointed J. H. Cook and Dr. Joseph E. Chambers, of Missouri, as members of the national committee and J. H. Burrus, of Kansas City, and S. A. Wright, of Springfield, as members of the central committee from Missouri. The other vacancies will be filled as nearly as possible in conformity with the selections of organized labor in St. Louis. Referring to the new movement, Dr. Chambers, of St. Louis, said yesterday: "We have builded the first political home for organized labor."

The platform committee's report sustains the platform adopted by the Missouri people's party convention at Kansas City last September and made the demand for the initiative and referendum the chief point at issue, holding that if this point be carried the remainder of the principles desired would follow as a matter of course. The platform favors the public ownership of all public utilities; demands that land including all natural resources, the heritage of the people, shall not be monopolized for speculative purposes and that alien ownership shall be prohibited; that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their needs or by aliens shall be reclaimed and held for actual settlers only; that money shall be based upon the entire wealth of the people of the nation and not redeemable in any specific commodity, but shall be full legal tender for all debts, private and public, to be issued by the government only and without the intervention of individuals or corporations, sufficient in quantity to meet the requirements of commerce; that the president, vice president, federal judges and senators be elected by the people; that a cabinet office of the department of Labor and equitable arbitration be established; that postal savings banks be established and that such constitutional amendments be passed as may put the above laws in effect.