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Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit 

 Association; to adopt the St. Louis platform as a common basis, and 

 pledge our orders to work faithfully and earnestly for the election of 

 legislators, State and national, who will enact the laws to carry out the 

 demands of said platform, and to more effectually carry it into effect, 

 recommend the selection of five men from each national body, two of 

 whom shall be the president and secretary, respectively, who shall, with 

 similar committees from other labor organizations, form a Supreme Exec- 

 utive Board, who shall meet as often as may be deemed necessary, and 

 upon the joint call of a majority of the presidents of the bodies joining 

 the confederation, and when so assembled, after electing a chairman and 

 secretary, shall be empowered to do such things for the mutual benefit 

 of the various orders they represent, as shall be deemed expedient ; and 

 shall, when officiallly promulgated to the national officers, be binding 

 upon their bodies until reversed by the action of the national assemblies 

 themselves political, educational, and commercial ; and hereby pledge 

 ourselves to stand faithfully by each other in the great battle for the 

 enfranchisement of labor and the laborers, from the control of corporate 

 and political rings. Each order to bear its own members' expense on 

 the Supreme Council, and be entitled to as many votes as they have legal 

 voters in their organization. We recommend and urge that equal facili- 

 ties, educational, commercial, and political, be demanded for colored 

 and white Alliance men alike, competency considered, and that a free 

 ballot and a fair count will be insisted upon and had for colored and 

 white alike, by every true Alliance man in America. We further recom- 

 mend that a plan "of District Alliances, to conform to District Alliances 

 provided for in this body, be adopted by every order in confederation, 

 with a district lecturer and County Alliances organized in erery county 

 possible, and that the lecturers and officers of said district and counties 

 co-operate with each other in conventional, business, educational, com- 

 mercial, and political matters. 



Adopted, with understanding that joint Committee on Confederation 

 should act for this order. 



SIXTH DAY. 



Report of the Committee on Demands : 



SECTION i. We demand the abolition of national banks, and that the 

 government shall establish sub-treasuries, or depositories, in the several 

 States ; which sub-treasuries shall loan money to the people on approved 

 security at a low rate of interest, not to exceed two per cent per annum : 

 Provided, That real estate and non-perishable farm products shall be 



