The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-02-28
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF

LABOR.
A Few of Its Declarations Upon Which
It Appeals to All Working People
| To Organize, Unite, Federate, and
Cement the Bonds Of Fraternity.
voluntary Servitude, except as a pun
ishment for crime.
| 2. Free Schools, Free Textbooks,
and Compulsory education.
| 5 Unre]enting Protest Against the
| Issuance and Abuse of Injunction Pro
cess in Labor Disputes
T. A woreday of not more than
Eight Hours in the twenty-four hour
| day.
5. A strict recognition of not over
Eight Hours per day on all Federal
State or Municipal Work and at not
| less than the prevailing Per Diem
Wage Rate of the class of employ
ment in the vicinity where the work
| is performed
g. Release from employment One
Day in Seven.
Z. The Abolition of the Contract
| System on Public Work
8. The Municipal Ownership of Pub
lie Utilities
o. The Abolition of the Sweat Shop
System.
10. Sanitary Inspection of Factory,
Workshop. Mine, and Home
II. Liability of Employers, for in
jury to body CIR loss of life
81. The Naturalization of Tele-
graph and Telephone.
49, The. passage of Anti-Child Labor
Laws in States where they do not ex
list and rigid defense of them where
they have been enacted into law
A. Woman Suffrage coequal with
Man Suffrage.
Is The Initiative and Referendum
and the Imperative Mandate and Right
OF Recall.
IS. Suitable and Plentiful Play
grounds for Children in all cities.
IT, Continued agitation for the Pub
lie Bath System in all cities.
is. Qualifications in permits to build
of all cities and towns that there shall
be Bathrooms and Bathroom Attach
| ments in all houses or compartments
| used for habitation.
10. We favor a system Of finance
whereby money shall be issued exclu-
sively by the Government, with such
regulations and restrictions as will
protect it from manipulation by the
banking interests for their own pri-
vate gains.
The above Is partial statement of
| me demands which organized laboc,
in the interest OF the workers-aye.
of all the people of our country
makes Upon modern society.
Higher Wages, shorter workday.
letter labor conditions, better homes,
| better end safer workshops, factories,
mills, and mines. In a word, better,
higher. and nobler life.
Conscious of the Justice, wisdom an 1
nobility of our cause. the American
| Federation Of Labor appeals to all
men and women of labor to join with
| us in the great movement for it's
achievement
More than two million wage-earners
who have reaped the advantages of
organization and federation appeal to
their 6rothe-s AMI sisters OF toll to
participate in the glorious movement
| with its attendant benefits.
There are affiliated TO the Amer:
can Federation of Labor lis Interna-
tional Trades Unions with their a.,
coo Local Unions; SO State Fedora
tons; 537 City Central Bodies AMI
$50 Local Trade and Federal Labor
Unions having no Internationals.
We have nearly 1000 volunteer and
| special organizers as well as the Off
GERS of the unions and of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor itself always
willing and anxious to aid their fellow
workmen to organize and in every
other way better their conditions.
For information all are invited to
write to the American Federation of
Labor headquarters at Washington,
D.. C.