The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-12-19
Conference Passes
Labor Resolutions

vidual and collective conduct every
where.
6. We regard with the greatest sat
isfaction the effort of those employers
individual and corporate, who have
shown in the conduct of their business
fraternal spirit and a disposition to
deal justly and humanely with their
employees as to wages, profit-sharing,
welfare work, protection against acci-
dents, sanitary conditions of toll, and
readiness to submit differences to ar
bitration. We record our admiration
for such labor organizations as have
under wise leadership throughout
many years, by patient cultivation of
just feelings and temperate views
among their members, raised the eff
ficiency of service, set the example
of calmness and self-restraint in con-
ference with employers, and promoted
the welfare not only of the men of
their own craft, but of the entire body
of workingmen.
Z. In such organizations is the proof
that the fundamental purposes of the
labor movement are ethical. In them
great numbers of men of all nationali-
ties and origins are being compacted
in fellowship, trained in mutual re-
spect, and disciplined in virtues which
belong to right character and are at
the basis of good citizenship. By them
society at large is benefited in the
security of better conditions of work,
in the Americanization of our immi-
grant population, and in the educa-
tional influence of the multitudes who
in the labor unions find their chief,
sometimes their only, intellectual stim-
ulus.
8. We note as omens of Industrial
peace and good will, the growth of
spirit of conciliation and of the prac-
tice of conference and arbitration in
settling trade disputes. We trust pro-
foundly that these methods may sup
plant those of the strike and the lock-
out, the boycott and the black list.
Lawlessness and violence on either
side of labor controversies are an in
vasion of the rights of the people and
must be condemned and resisted. We
believe no better opportunity could be
afforded to Christian men, employers
and wage-earners alike, to rebuke the
superciliousness of power and the OBJ
stinacy of opinion, than by asserting
and illustrating before their fellows in
labor contests, the gospel which deals
with men as men and has for it's basis
of fraternity the Golden Rule.
We commned most heartily the So
cieties and leagues in which employ
ers and workingmen come together up
on common platform to consider the
problems of each in the interest of
both and we urge Christian men more
| freely to participate in such move
\ ments of conciliation. We express
! our gratitude for the evidences that
in ever widening circles the influence
of the churches is distinctly modify
ing the attitude of the workingmen
and the church toward each other.
8. We deem it the duty of all Chris
tian people to concern themselves di-
rectly with certain practical indus
trial problems. To use it seems that
the churches must stand
For equal rights and complete jus.
tice for all men in all stations of life
For the rights of all men to the op
portunity for self-maintenance, right
ever to be wisely and strongly safe
l guarded against encroachments OF
! every kind
For the right of workers to some
resulting from the swift crisis of in
dustrial change.
/ For the principle of conciliatiQn anG
: arbitration in industrial dissensions.
" For the protection of the worker
e from dangerous machinery, occupa
u tional disease, injuries and mortality
For the abolition of child labor.
It For such regulation of the condi
u tions of toll for women as shall safe
e guard the physical and moral healtl
of the community.
It For the suppression of the sweating
n system
ei For the gradual and reasonable re
II duction of the hours of labor to tn
1t lowest practicable point, and for tha
:; degree of leisure for all which is
E. condition of the highest human life.
j. For release from employment on
st day in seven.
al For living wage as minimum i
e every industry and for the highes
,r wage that each industry can ult
rs mately be devised.
H. For suitable provision for the oil