The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-10-10
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR

LABOR.
A Few of Its Declarations Upon Which
1t Appeals to All Working People
To Organize, Unite, Federate, and
Cement the Bonds Of Fraternity.
1. The Abolition Of all Forms of In
voluntary Servltude, except as pun
ishmenu 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
4. A workday 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
Day in Seven.
&. 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 or loss of life
81. The Naturalization of Tele
graph and Telephone.
| Is. 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
| ii. Woman Suffrage coequal will
Man Suffrage
10. The Initiative and Referendum
anu the Imperative Mandate and RICH
of Recall.
Is. Suitable and Plentiful Play
grounds for Children in ali cities
II. Continued agitation for the Pull
| lie Bath System in all cities
| Is. Qualifications in permits to bull,
of all cities and towns that there sbal
be Bathrooms and Bathroom Attach
ments in all houses or compartment
used for habitation.
10. We favor a system of inanc
whereby money shall be issued exclu
sively by the Government, with sucl
regulations and restrictions as wi,
protect it from manipulation by tn
banking interests for their own pr
vate gains.
The above is a partial statement o
the demands which organized labol
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 word, better
higher, and nob1er life.
Conscious of the justice, wisdom an
nobility of our cause, the America
Federation of Labor appeals to al
| ItSIt s1uu NctHSn VI IdUOI " JUN WI
us in the great movement for it
achievement
More than two million wage learner
, who have reaped the advantages c
, organization and federation appeal t
their brothers and sisters of toll t
participate in the glorious movemen
with its attendant benefits
There are a1filiated to the Amer
can Federation of Labor lis Inferno
tional Trades Unions with their 81
600 Local Unions; So State FEEDER;
tons; 537 City Central Bodies an
$50 Local Trade and Federal Labo
Unions having no Internationals.
We have nearly 1000 volunteer an
special organizers as well as the of
GERS of the ul.kons and of the Anne
. lean Federation of Labor itself Away
. willing and an ious to aid their fello'
workmen to rganize and in ever
: other way better their conditions.
For informa lon all are invited I
write to the American Federation {
!. Labor headquarters at Washington
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