The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-30

amliate with the Retail Clerks National
Protective association of the United
States, the declaration Of whose princi
pies are:
Fifst-we declare # the duty OF retail
clerks to use their influence to secure the
amelioration of the retail clerks gener-
ally, and to accomplish this we believe
that q national organization should exist
whereby all organized clerks may be rep
> resented and matters pertaining to their
conditions be discussed and improved.
| Second-We hereby pledge ourselves to
assist each other In securing a fair COM
| pensation for services rendered, and to
use our influence with other organized
bodies to assist us in accomplishing our
object.
Third-We especially denounce the sys-
tenn Of slavery perpetrated upon our fell
low clerks by being compelled to labor
fourteen and sixteen hours daily 10 ac-
complish that which could be done in ten
and we will work increasingly until this
inhuman and unnecessary evil is remedied
To educate the masses to daylight" pur-
chasing shall be our chief aim.
Fourth-We believe In enforcing the
tecting the statesmen of this organization
from the competition of cheap labor
Fifth-To endeavor to the best Of our
ability. to disseminate useful information
by means of lectures, pamphlets and in
dustrial literature among our co-workers.
and to develop the intelligence which ex-
lists among our people.
Sixth-WhIle we are opposed to enter
ing any political party as a body, we de-
clare 1t to be our duty to use our influ-
ence with the law-making power to Sc
cure the enactment of laws beneficial to
our interests, and those OF the wage
workers in general
Seventh-We demand the use of COM
Portable seats behind sales counters by
all firms employing lady clerks, in obedi-
ence to both state and hygienic laws: and
We further demand equal pay for equal
work. regardless OF sex.
Eighth-To secure and retain employ
ment for our members, to protect them
from oppression, and to place ourselves
on a foundation sufficiently strong to re-
sist any further encroachments on our
rights
Ninth-we denounce the dissertation of
NAN'NS " NpNiOAo COul- |
Polling clerks to forfeit their freedom by |
working on that day; and we declare that |
this abuse shall be abolished. Where |
laws exist pertaining to said dissertation |
they should be rigidly enforced, and |
where they do not exist they should be |
framed at once and put into effect, and |
We pledge ourselves to do all in our power |
to have them enforced.
Tenth-It shall be the duty of the MEM
bers Of every local union. individually and
collectively, to do all in their power to
reform the convict labor systems Of their
particular states, where that labor oper-
ates injuriously against free labor. Also
to abolish the prison contract system by
the substitution of prison labor system
that shall be reformatory and instruction
al to the convicts, and not injurious to
free labor.
Eleventh-we declare It our duty to
abolish child-labor in the retail stores and
workshops. The schoolhouse and not the
workshop being the proper place for chill
dren.
Twelfth-To provide a benefit fund for
sick. aged and INDECENT members, to bury
the dead, and to provide such other pro-
lection as we may be able to give our
members.