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of the Executive Committee. Brother C. W. Macune was 

 elected chairman of said committee for the term of three 

 years; Brother Alonzo Wardall, for the term of two 

 years; Brother J. F. Tillman, for one year. 



Committee on Demands reported as follows: 



u i. We, the Committee 011 Demands, hereby recom- 

 mend that this National Farmers' and Laborers' Union 

 of America appoint a National Legislative Committee of 

 two to act in concert with a like committee of the Knights 

 of Labor, to the end of securing industrial freedom. 



U 2. That we recommend to the different State 

 organizations that they discuss the Australian system of 

 voting, and press upon their State Legislatures to enact 

 the same or some similar system. 



"3. Resolved, That this committee recommend that 

 we press to the front as the most important the three prob- 

 lems of finance, land and transportation. 



"4. Resolved, That all internal revenue tax on 

 tabacco be repealed. 



"5. Resolved, That we condemn the purchase of 

 Government bonds at a premium, and demand that they 

 be redeemed and called in according to the law, as pro- 

 vided in section 3,693 of the Statutes "of the United 

 States." 



For want of space and lack of general interest, 

 much of the proceedings of the St. Louis convention are 

 necessarily omitted. On account of some complications, 

 efforts to consolidate with the Farmers' Alliance of the 

 Northwest and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association, 

 were unsuccessful. The State organizations of Kansas 

 and South Dakota, however, ratified the National Con- 

 stitution, and were admitted into the organization. It is 

 to be hoped that in the near future all the agricultural 

 organizations will be united in one solid and compact 

 organization. 



