United labor bulletin., 1911-04-20
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.

/. The abolition of all forms of invol-
untary servitude, except as punish
ment for crime
2. Free schools, free textbooks, and
compulsory education.
3. Unrelenting protest against the is
suance and abuse of Injunction process
in labor disputes.
4. workday of not more than eight
hours in the 24-hour day
s. 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 employment in the vicinity
where the work is performed.
6. Release from employment one day
in seven
Z. The abolition of the contract sys-
TEN On public work.
$. The municipal ownership of public
utilities.
g. The abolition of the sweat-shop
10. Sanitary inspection of factory.
workshop. mine and home.
IL. Liability of employers for injury
to body or loss of life.
u. The naturalization of telegraph
and telephone.
IS. The passage of anti-child labor
laws in states where they do not exist
anu I4Blu ueleuSe OIL lHem WQeTe luey
have been enacted into law.
H. Woman suffrage coequal with man
suffrage.
10. Suitable and plentiful play
grounds for children in all cities.
16 The initiative and referendum and
the imperative mandate and right of re
call
H. Continued agitation for the public
bath system in all cities.
49, Qualifications in permits to build,
of all cities and towns that there shall
be bathrooms and bathroom attachments
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 pro-
tect ID from manipulation by the banking
interests for their own private gain.
90. We favor system of United
States government postal savings bank
The above is a partial statement of
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. bet
ter labor conditions, better homes. better
and safer workshops. factories, mills and
mines In a word. a better, higher and
noble life.
Conscious of the justice, wisdom and
nobility of our cause. the American Fed
Grafton of Labor appeals to all men and
women OF labor to join with us in the
great movement for its achievement.
More than two million wage-earners
who have reaped the advantages of or
ganization and federation appeal to their
brothers and sisters of toll. to unite with
them and participate in the glorious
movement with its attendant benefits.
There are affiliated TO the American
Federation of Labor l20 International
trade unions with their $1,000 local
unions. 80 state declarations. 6S2 city
central bodies and 66S local trade and
federal labor unions having no interna-
tiouals.
We have 1.45s volunteer and special
organizers as well as the officers of the
unions and OF the American Federation
of labor itself always willing and anN-
ious TO aid their fellow-workingmen 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.
wage-earners of America. unite,