The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-04-08

1. The abolition of all forms of in
voluntary servitude, except as a pun
ishment of crime.
2. Free schools. free textbooks,
and compulsory education.
3. Unrelenting 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.
s.. 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 employment
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.
8. The municipa1 ownership of
public utilities.
8. 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.
II. The naturalization of tele-
graph and telephone.
IL. The passage of anti-child labor
laws in states where they do not
exist and rigid defense of them where
they have been enacted into law
IA. Woman suffrage coequal with
man suffrage.
Is. Suitable and plentiful play
grounds for children in all cities.
16. The initiative and referendum
and the imperative mandate and right
of recall.
II. Continued agitation for the
public bath system in all cities.
Is. Qualifications in permits to
build, of all cities and towns that
there shall be bathrooms and bath
room attachments in all houses or
compartments used for habitation.
10. We favor 8 system of finance
whereby money shall be issued ex-
clusively by the government, with
such regulations and restrictions as
Will protect it from manipulation by
the banking interests for their own
private gain.
20. We favor a system of United
States government postal savings
bank.
The above is a. partial statement
of the demands which organized la
Dor, 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, fac
tories, mills. and mines. In a word,
better, higher, and noble life
Conscious of the justice, wisdom,
and nobility of our cause, the Amer
lean 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 advan-
tages of organization and federation
appeal to their brothers and sisters
of toll to unite with them and parti-
cipate in the glorious movement with
its attendant benefits.
There are affiliated with the Amer
lean Federation of Labor 100 Inter-
national Trade unions with their g.
900 local unions; 80 state declarations;
632 city central bodies and 68S local
trade and federal labor unions having
no internationals.
We have 1,456 volunteer and spe-
cial organizers as we'll as the officers
of the unions and of the American
Federation of Labor itself always will
ing 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. G..
Wage-workers of America, unite!
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF
LABOR.