The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1915-07-23
SHORTENED THE DAY OF TOIL

Through the Efforts of Organized La
Dor the Condition of the Wage Earn
er Has Been Improved Morally and
PhysicalIy-Libertya and Justice Have
Superseded Wrong.
Men all agree that happiness is the
final goal, and to aid in bringing that
much sought for ideal the trade un-
ions are playing greater part than
al other forces combined, says G.. o.
Young in the Photo Engraver Let me
present these facts: The labor move
ment has redeemed from worse than
slavery millions of struggling working
people; giving them hope, sunlight,
health, education and happiness; short
sning their hours of toll that they
might have time to recuperate, to
strengthen vitality; giving time to as
sociate with friends and family re-
gaining vitality to bring forth vigor-
Gus generation; gaining time to proper
ly direct inquiry into the PHILOSOPHERS
of life for future citizenship and in
many other ways aiding society as a
whole to make strides toward higher
and better living.
Besides shortening the working day
and giving relief from arduous toll, the
trade unions have forced better COM
pensation for labor performed, so that
men and women and children have
IL tn1 al oil In
ed and better housed. The result of
this plan is better health, better morals
and better citizenship. the greatest
requisites toward higher civilization.
Trade unions have made better condi-
tions in which people must work. They
are taking the children from the fac
tory and the shop, giving them little
sunlight and opportunity for education
and development. You ask. rs it labor
that is forcing the recognition of those
principles" | say yes, most emphat-
ically. Every concession that has been
accorded to the toiler, every law of
state and municipality in the interest
of those who labor. are there as di-
rect result Of organized labor's efforts
and demands
The trade union is making an effort
to give to women who are compelled tc
enter industry wage consistent with
respectable, healthful living and as
fast as possible organized labor intends
to gain for women equal pay with men
for equal work. Do you know that to-
day women get less than half the pay
that men receive for the same work
Can you figure out how it takes less
food, clothing and shelter for Il woman
than ii does for Il man? Then why the
difference? The answer is, the old
custom of making women the burden
bearers ana drudges, with the only rec
ompense that Of her keep.
/ ask that you Judge the workers by
their ideals and not by their faults
Organizations are composed of human
beings with all the fraities and weak
nesses of the human family. | have
only this excuse to offer for the mis-
takes of labor: Who has greater right
to make mistakes than he who by op
preston for generations, with bended
back, with no opportunity for under
standing, has been compelled TO toi
necessarily for barely an existence
AS we are permitted to enjoy little
more of daylight and to revel in the
sunshine and the flowers we become
better equipped to know right from
wrong and TO apply the Golden Rule
AS our efforts have been rewarded
by the elimination of wrong and oul
burdens have been lightened, the peo
pie have grown in moral stature an(
in the understanding of right living
There is nothing so eleyating as lib
erty, as justice; nothing more humili
ating than poverty, than charity. Fol
justice we shall continue to strive K
the end that happiness shall be uni
versal, that poverty shall be driver
from the land, that man shall be mag
nified in industry and that American
woman shall not be robbed Of her nat
ural right to be the queen of the home
and mother of the greatest race th'
world shall ever see.