The wageworker., 1909-10-09
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR.


LABOR.
A Few Of Its Declarations Upon Which
Il Appeals to All Working People
To Organize, Unite, Federate, and
Cement the Bonds of Fraternity.
1. The Abolition of all Forms OF In
voluntary Servisude. except as pun
Ishmenr for crime.
2. Free Schools, Free Textbooks.
and Compulsory education.
8. Unrelenting Protest Against the
Issuance and Abuse Of Injunction Pro
cess in Labor Disputes.
A. A workday Of not more than
Eight Hours In the twenty-four hour
day.
s. A strict recognition of not ovei
Eight Hours per day on all Fedora
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.
6. Release from employment One
Day in Seven.
z. The Abolition Of the Contract
System on Public Work.
s. The Municipal Ownership OF Pub.
lie Utilities.
Q. The Abolition of the Sweat Shop
System.
10. Sanitary Inspection of Factory,
Workshop, Mine, and Home.
IL. 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.
Il. Woman Suffrage coequal with
Man Suffrage.
l5. The Initiative and Referendum
and the Imperative Mandate and Right
of Recall.
16. Suitable and Plentiful Play
grounds for Children in all cities.
II. 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 suct
regulations and restrictions as wi,
protect IL from manipulation by tho
banking interests for their own pri
vate gains.
The above is a partial statement o.
The demands which organized labor
in the interest of the workers-aye
of all the people Of our country
makes upon modern society.
Higher wages, shorter workday
better labor conditions, better homes
better and safer workshops, factories
mills, and mines. In word, better
higher, and nobler life.
Conscious vf the justice, wisdom an
nobility of our cause, the Araerical
Federation of Labor appeals to al
men and women of labor to join will
us in the great movement for it
achievement.
More than two million wage-earner
who have reaped the advantages o
organization and federation appeal t.
their brothers and sisters OF toll t.
participate in the glorious movemen
with it's attendant benefits.
There are arfiliated to the Amerl
can Federation of Labor 11S Interna
tional Trades Unions with their 81
600 Local Unions; 36 State Federa
tions; 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 off
GERS Of the uLsons and of the Amel
lean Federation OF Labor itself alway
willing and anxious to aid their fello'
workmen to organize and in ever
other way better their conditions.
For information all are invited t
= write to the American Federation G
Labor headquarters at Washington
DC.