The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-04
DEGREE INCREASING
 WAGES OF IABoRERs.
Tho ssE7rst GhaeR'' of Mexico Orders Increased Wages for Day-L.aI0or- CTS of Spinndng-HfIIIs and
 Weaving FacboFies.

ervenustiano Carranzay first chief the Constitutionalfst army, in charge Of the executive power of the nation of the revolution, making use of the faculty with which I am invested, and considering:
 T That, in accordance with Ar-ti- c1e of the federal constitution, mo- body, can be compelled to lend his personal services without his full con- sent and without a just remuneration; and that, with regard to workmen who live on the product of their per sona1 work, a remuneration which does not suffice to cover the medium cost of living cannot be considered equitable, seeing that the first right of all men is the right to live; SU
 g That the considerable raise which articles of first necessity have suffered in all the cities of the repup- lie, and especially in industrial and manufacturing cer1ters. have correla- lively raised the medium cost of liv- ing of industrial ana manufacturing workmen, in such a manner, that they cannot obtain in sufficient quantities, with the days wages winch they are now awarded, the articles which they require to repair their own forces and for the wants Of their fanailies; @ z 3. That this situation of the worknen has become more marked and painful for those who work inf1le textile industry, because, due to the
 
 of the organization of that industry the workmen dispose of fewer e1e-e nents which may assist them to bear the difficulties and hardships of the general situation;
 4. That. according to data secured by the department of work, the sell ing prices of the products elaborated In those factories have been all along considerably increasing, without a correlative increase having been made in the workers wages, which increase would have been, mot. only equitable, but strictly just, considering the con ditions which mark the general sit1- ation Of the country and the special circumstances which mark that of the men who work in those factories; v
 B. That several contractors, who have received requests from the work men employed by them for increases in wages, have stated that they would have no inconvenfent in granting same, within reasonable limits, if the measure was made extensive to all similar factories; and
 6. That, the requests of spinners and weavers being fair, and it being impossible under the present circunl- stances, due to the urgency of the matter, to call a conference of con- tractors so as to arrive promptly at the definite result, the intervention Of the government becomes indispens- able to establish, if only in a proyf- sfonaI manner, a rule of common oE5- servance on the subject, resorting5 to that effect, to the ample facu1ti es with which it is invested. I have been pleased to decree the following:
 Article 1. An increase f35 per cent (thirty- five per cent) in the daily wages paid out at the present time to workers in the departments and oth- CT dependencies of spinning-nail1s and weaving factories of cotton, wool jute and agave fibre which are now estab- lished in the republic or which may hereafter be established; and an. in crease of 40 per cent (forty. per cent) in. the payments made in said fac tories for need1e-work or job work.
 Article 2. These increases will be maintained until a definite agreement is reached as to the minimum wages or salaries to be established by law for the remuneration of personal work in the republic.
 Article 3. The increases in remun- erai ons, deereed by this law, will be- come effective beginning with the first of April of the present year
 Article 4 .Workmen employed in the factories referred to in article 1, will be authorized to claim from con tractors or managers in whose charge they may be, the integral payment of current days wages plus the stfpu1at- ed increase, and they will be entitled to an -indeInnification by said con- tractors managers in case any of the latter refuse to pay accordingly.
 V. CARRANZA. Veracruz, March 22nd, 1915.